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Google Ads Management in Madrid

Capturing the demand that already exists in Spanish search, starting with a Merchant Center feed that is actually fit to compete.

Delivered remotely for brands across Madrid and Spain.

Grow · Madrid

Why Madrid brands come to us for this

  • Feed titles rewritten in searched Spanish, not catalogue Spanish, with variety, format and origin terms buyers type
  • EAN and GTIN gaps closed across perfumery, cosmetics and equipment catalogues to restore eligibility
  • Shipping annotations set per destination so peninsula, islands and EU orders are not priced from one flat rate
  • Brand isolated from non-brand so press-driven and founder-driven demand stops flattering the whole account
  • Merchant promotions and sale annotations scheduled around the rebajas and the run to Reyes on 6 January

The demand you capture in Spain is already in a comparison mindset before it reaches you. Spanish shoppers are heavy marketplace users, so a Shopping result sits in a grid next to Amazon.es and El Corte Inglés on the same query. That does not make the channel unwinnable — it makes the feed the whole game, because the feed is what decides which queries you appear on and what you look like when you get there.

So the work starts in Merchant Center rather than the campaign builder. Titles rewritten in the Spanish a buyer actually types, which is frequently not the Spanish on your product page. EAN and GTIN gaps closed, which is where perfumery and cosmetics catalogues tend to be weakest and where the absence quietly kills your eligibility. Product types and custom labels built around margin, stock cover and season. Disapprovals cleared at source instead of appealed one by one — cosmetics and supplement catalogues generate policy flags in bulk and the fix is nearly always in the data, not the appeal.

Then structure. Brand separated from non-brand, because in a category where a Madrid brand has built a following through press or a founder profile, branded search will flatter the whole account until you split it out. The catalogue sits in Shopping and Performance Max, with asset groups cut by margin band rather than one blanket group. Search handles the intent a catalogue feed has no way to answer. Bid targets are the final adjustment, and every change to one comes with a written reason.

Feed firstMerchant Center rebuilt before any bidding or campaign change is made
Weeklysearch term and PMax category review with a maintained shared negative list
Margin-bandedasset groups split by contribution margin rather than one catch-all
Local context

Feed, shipping and season, in that order

Three things make a Spanish feed behave differently from the one you would build elsewhere. First, shipping and returns annotations do real work here because domestic delivery expectations are quick and buyers screen on them in the Shopping grid — and because a feed that quotes one national rate while your Canaries, Balearics, Ceuta and Melilla orders cost something entirely different will attract clicks you lose money on. We set shipping in the feed by destination rather than one flat national figure. Second, the calendar hits Shopping harder than any other channel: auction pressure and price competitiveness swing sharply through the January and summer rebajas, and the gifting run extends to 6 January, so a Reyes promotion window needs merchant promotions and sale price annotations live before Christmas budget is exhausted, not after. Third, August. Search volume in a city that empties does not justify a flat monthly budget, and we would rather bank the money for the autumn ramp than spend it into an audience that is at the coast.

Scope

What Google Ads includes

The same standard of work we run for every client — applied to a Madrid brand’s realities.

Full service detail
01

Merchant Center & Feed Rebuild

Disapprovals cleared at source, GTIN, MPN and attribute gaps closed, and titles rewritten to lead with searched terms. Custom labels for margin, stock cover and seasonality.

02

Brand, Non-Brand & Conquesting

Branded demand isolated into its own campaign, budget and target so non-brand performance becomes visible. Competitor conquesting runs as a separate line, judged separately.

03

Shopping & Performance Max Structure

Asset groups split by margin band and product type instead of one catch-all, with listing-group bids, product exclusions and brand-term controls applied wherever PMax still allows them.

04

Query Mining & Negative Hygiene

A weekly pass over search terms and PMax category reports, with a maintained shared negative library so budget stops leaking into research, DIY and job-seeker queries.

05

Promotions & Merchant Programs

Merchant promotions, sale price annotations, shipping and returns policy setup, product ratings, and local inventory ads where you have stores worth feeding.

06

tROAS Bidding to Contribution Margin

Targets set from margin per product group rather than a platform default, moved in controlled increments, with a written reason attached to every bid and budget change.

Scoped and quoted for your Madrid store

We do not work off a rate card. Every Madrid engagement starts with a fixed statement of work — named deliverables, named dates, one number — written after we have looked at your store, not before. If a smaller first step would serve you better, we will say so.

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How it runs

From kickoff to results

01

Feed & Account Audit

Merchant Center diagnostics, attribute coverage, campaign overlap and wasted spend scored against ninety days of search terms. You get the findings whether you hire us or not.

02

Fix the Feed

Titles, attributes, product types and custom labels rebuilt before any campaign work. A perfectly structured account on a bad feed still shows the wrong products to the wrong queries.

03

Restructure

Brand, non-brand, Shopping, PMax and Search rebuilt with hard budget boundaries and a shared negative library, so each line answers a different commercial question.

04

Bid to Margin

tROAS targets derived from contribution margin by product group and applied gradually, so the account keeps its learning instead of resetting it every Monday.

05

Mine & Expand

Weekly query mining, monthly feed reviews, then expansion into the categories the search data says you can profitably win. Nothing scales before the query set is clean.

Proof

Google Ads results

Anonymised under NDA. Figures pulled from the client’s own analytics.

Performance Apparel (DTC)

~$6M/yr DTC, 900+ SKUs across size and colour variants, US · Shopify Plus

Returns ran at 31% and refund cost consumed the entire paid media margin. One size chart image served 40 different fits, and 62% of add-to-carts started on a collection page that never showed variant availability. The named constraint: no new product photography budget, so every fix had to come out of the existing asset library and the review corpus.

+29%sitewide conversion rate1.71% to 2.21%, five-month average
+14%average order value$84 to $96 once the threshold bar and cross-sell shipped
31% → 22%return ratenine-point drop, roughly $310k/yr in recovered margin
1.9x → 2.4xblended MERwith paid spend held flat throughout
Engagement Conversion-led rebuild + paid mediaTimeframe 5 months

Consumer Electronics & Accessories

~$9M/yr, 210 SKUs, US + AU · Shopify Plus (migrated from BigCommerce)

Meta ROAS had slid from 3.6x to 1.9x in a year and the team had spent twelve months buying new creative to fix it. The real cause was measurement: the BigCommerce checkout dropped 22% of purchase events and the Conversions API had never been installed, so both ad platforms were optimising on incomplete data. The named constraint: peak season was 14 weeks out, and the replatform had to be live and stable well before Black Friday traffic arrived.

1.9x → 3.4xMeta ROAS, once the 22% event gap closed60 days after server-side tracking went live, spend up 18%. Most of that is signal we recovered, not performance we invented — the honest number is the blended CAC below, which is measured against Shopify orders
-32%customer acquisition cost$44 to $30 blended across Meta and Google
4.1s → 1.7smobile LCPdesktop went 2.9s to 1.2s over the same window
+47%peak-season revenueBlack Friday through Cyber Monday, year over year
Engagement Paid growth audit → migration → paid media retainerTimeframe 6 months
In their words

Clients on this work

Non-brand search revenue ~2x at flat spend

“Six thousand products and a Shopping feed nobody had touched since it was first generated — a third of it was disapproved and we had no idea. They rebuilt the feed off our real product data, fixed the GTIN and size attributes, and split brand off from non-brand so I could finally see what we were actually paying to acquire. They also cut the broad 'baby clothes' terms that were eating a quarter of the budget on people who were nowhere near buying. Spend is roughly flat and non-brand search revenue has close to doubled.”

Director of OperationsKids & baby brand, ~$5M/yr · Atlanta, GA
Verified via Shopify Partner referral
FAQ

Google Ads in Madrid — your questions

It is, but only on the parts of the catalogue where you have an advantage, and identifying those is the first job. On identical products where a marketplace can undercut you, the honest answer is often to stop bidding and put the budget on non-brand terms for products they do not carry, on bundles and gift formats that do not exist as a marketplace SKU, and on brand defence. Feed and structure work is what makes that distinction visible rather than a guess.

As separate campaigns with their own feeds and their own economics, not as one campaign with extra countries ticked. Shipping cost, delivery time, competitive pressure and price expectations differ enough by country that a blended target hides a market losing money inside one that is winning. It also means the feed for each country needs correct currency, tax treatment and shipping — the operational side has to be right before the media side can be judged.

Usually both, for different reasons. Spanish brand queries are your defensive line against resellers and marketplace listings outbidding you on your own name. English brand queries, for an export-minded Madrid brand, are often cheap and indicate an international buyer who found you through press or an assistant answer. Either way we report them separately from non-brand so nobody mistakes owned demand for acquisition.

Rarely pause, usually reduce. Some categories keep trading through August — gifting, replacement purchases, anything bought by people who did not leave the city — and going to zero throws away learning and lets competitors take share cheaply. What we do is cut budget to match the demand curve rather than the calendar month, keep brand defence and the highest-margin product groups funded, and redirect the saving into the September ramp when search volume returns.

Yes, once the feed and the exclusions are right. PMax on a clean feed with margin-segmented asset groups and brand controls is the strongest Shopping vehicle Google has shipped. PMax on a neglected feed is an expensive way to sell bestsellers to people who were buying anyway.

Because Shopping never sees your keywords, only your feed. Title, product type, GTIN and attributes decide which queries you are even eligible for. We routinely find a quarter of a catalogue disapproved or serving on the wrong terms, and fixing that moves revenue before a single bid changes.

Where the category tolerates it, and always as its own line item. Conquesting converts worse and costs more than your own brand terms, so it has to be judged on new customers acquired rather than on the blended ROAS it quietly drags down.
Next step

Google Ads for your Madrid brand.

Thirty minutes with the strategist who would actually run your account. We screen-share your store, read your data live, and tell you the three highest-value things we can see from the outside.

Shopify or Shopify Plus stores doing $150k/mo or moreFounder, CEO or eCommerce lead on the callNo deck and no pitch — we open your store instead

Prefer to write it out? [email protected] gets a real reply the same business day, Mon-Fri, 9am-6pm MT.