E-commerce Ads
Product-focused ad management for your own e-commerce site: product feed, catalog campaigns and remarketing to cart abandoners.
We set up the ads that drive sales from your own online store and track which product sells how much.
What are E-Commerce Ads and where do they run?
E-commerce ads don't work on a single surface but across several channels fed by the product feed: Google Shopping, Meta catalog ads and remarketing networks. Feed accuracy directly determines campaign performance.
What we do
- Building, cleaning and regularly updating the product feed
- Merchant Center and Meta catalog setup
- Configuring Shopping and catalog campaigns
- Setting up cart-abandonment, product-view and purchase events
- Managing product groups separately by profit margin
AI support
We use AI-powered tools in campaign setup and daily optimization: audience breakdowns, creative variations, bid strategy and budget allocation are managed together with the platform's machine-learning signals. The decision stays with us; the execution and test volume go to the AI.
How we measure
- ROAS by product and product group
- Add-to-cart and purchase conversion rate
- Distribution of sales by channel
Budget and ad spend
The package fee is a management service; the ad budget paid to the platform is separate and spent directly from your own account. We set the ad budget together and show the spend line by line in the report.
Channel planning for e-commerce ads
On an e-commerce site, each channel has a different job; the budget is allocated according to these jobs.
- Google Shopping and Performance Max: Capture people searching for the product who are close to buying.
- Meta catalog ads: Show products to an audience that isn't searching for them yet but may be interested.
- Remarketing: Brings back visitors who viewed a product or added it to the cart without buying, with the product they looked at.
- Search ads: Protect visibility on your brand name and on category searches.
Product feed and margin for profitable growth
In e-commerce, profit can fall while revenue grows. To prevent this, we group products by profit margin, stock status and sales performance, and set a separate target for each group. We don't spend high ad costs on low-margin products; out-of-stock products are removed from ads via the feed.
Product titles, descriptions, images and price information in the feed are checked regularly. Disapproved products and warnings in Merchant Center are tracked and resolved; a single error in the feed can cause products to drop out of ads.
When calculating return, returned and canceled orders also need to be taken into account; looking only at the sales figure in the ad dashboard can be misleading.
What should an e-commerce site prepare before starting ads?
Before starting e-commerce advertising, you need to be sure that the purchase event is measured correctly together with its value, and that the product feed is approved by Merchant Center and the Meta catalogue. If these two foundations are missing, you cannot see which product or campaign is making money, even if the ads bring in sales.
Technical checklist
- Is the purchase event sent with the order value and currency, and is it counted only once per order?
- If the Meta Pixel and Conversions API send the same event, are the events matched with a shared event ID so they are not counted twice?
- Is there an unexplained gap between the number of sales in GA4 and your site’s order dashboard?
- Is the product ID in the feed the same as the product ID sent in Pixel events on the site? If not, dynamic retargeting will show the wrong product.
What Merchant Center expects
Google expects sites running product ads to have a clearly accessible return and refund policy, contact information and a secure checkout page. Shipping settings, and whether the price matches the price on the site, are also checked. If these pages are missing, you may see an account-level warning or suspension.
Having structured data on product pages that carries price, availability and product ID is also recommended. Merchant Center compares this information with the values in the feed; if there is a mismatch, the product may not be approved. That is why, when prices change during sale periods, the feed also needs to be updated the same day.
How do you plan an e-commerce ad budget?
An e-commerce budget is planned backwards from the product’s break-even point, not from a fixed monthly amount. Increasing the budget without knowing the most a sale can afford to spend on advertising can grow revenue while shrinking profit.
The calculation is simple: break-even ROAS is one divided by the contribution margin. Say the share left from a product’s selling price after product cost, shipping, payment fees and average returns is a quarter of the selling price. If this product does not bring in at least four lira of sales for every lira spent on advertising, it loses money. The target return is set above this break-even point.
- High-margin products go into more aggressive campaigns to win new customers.
- Low-margin products run with a tighter return target or only in retargeting.
- If customers go on to place a second or third order, staying slightly below break-even on the first order can be a deliberate choice; we decide this together by looking at your order history.
- Budget increases for sale periods and special days are planned together with stock and shipping capacity.
The calculated break-even point is also given to the platform as a target: on Google with the target ROAS bidding strategy, and on Meta with the ROAS goal bidding option. This way the platform’s automated bidding works within the return limit you set, instead of chasing unprofitable sales. If the target is set too tight, the campaign cannot spend; we find this balance gradually in the first few weeks.
The first 90 days of e-commerce ads management
In the first three months, the goal is to make measurement solid and see which product group sells profitably on which channel. Throughout this period, decisions are based on weekly trends, not on a single day’s sales.
First 30 days
The measurement and feed checklist is completed, and disapproved products are fixed. Shopping and catalogue campaigns are launched with a limited number of product groups, and retargeting audiences are set up.
Days 30–60
Product groups that bring in sales are separated from products that spend without selling. Product titles and images are updated in the feed based on search term data.
Days 60–90
Budget is moved to groups that exceed the break-even point, and sales from new customers and existing customers start to be tracked separately. The monthly report includes a profit table compared against the figures in your order dashboard, not the ads dashboard.
What is in the monthly report?
The report covers spend, sales and return on ad spend by channel; status against the break-even point by product group; the split between new and returning customers; disapproved products and warnings in the feed; and the difference between sales in the ads dashboard and your order dashboard. The final section sets out a proposed budget allocation for the following month and which product group is being prioritised and why.
Our work process
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Account and tracking setup
The ad account, pixel/tag and conversion events are set up. If tracking isn't accurate, optimization will be wrong too; this step is never skipped.
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Strategy and campaign structure
Target audience, budget allocation, campaign types and the creative plan are defined together.
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Launch and testing
Campaigns go live; audience and creative variations are tested against each other.
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Weekly optimization
Budget, bids, audiences and creatives are reviewed weekly; underperformers are paused.
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Monthly report
Spend, conversions and cost items are brought together in a single report, and next month's plan is written.
Our packages for this service
Prices include VAT. If your needs differ from the list, we'll build a custom package — just write to us.
E-commerce Ads — SME Package
Ad management on a single channel. AI-supported setup, weekly optimization and monthly reporting.
- One advertising channel
- Campaign setup and tracking (pixel/tag, conversion events)
- AI-assisted targeting and bid management
- Creative production and regular A/B testing
- Weekly optimization
- Monthly report and next month’s plan
E-commerce Ads — E-commerce Package
Product-focused ad management for e-commerce sites: product feed, catalog campaigns and remarketing to cart…
- Product feed setup and maintenance
- Catalog and shopping campaigns
- Remarketing to cart abandoners
- Per-product return (ROAS) report
- Campaign setup and tracking (pixel/tag, conversion events)
- AI-assisted targeting and bid management
E-commerce Ads — Healthcare Package
Ad management for healthcare institutions. Designed with the platforms' healthcare advertising rules and…
- Setup compliant with healthcare advertising rules
- Targeting built without sensitive data
- Tracking of appointment/form conversions
- Separate campaigns by branch and region
- Campaign setup and tracking (pixel/tag, conversion events)
- AI-assisted targeting and bid management
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