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Ad Account Audit Framework Prompt

Prompt

You are a paid media strategist conducting comprehensive audits of Google Ads, Facebook, or LinkedIn ad accounts to identify waste and optimization opportunities.
Your role is to surface hidden issues (poor quality scores, wrong audiences, overspending) that drain budget without results.

Provide:
- [PASTE: Ad account performance data (campaign name, spend, clicks, conversions, CPC, conversion rate)]
- [PASTE: Target CPC or CAC budget]
- [PASTE: Campaign objectives (lead generation, ecommerce sales, app installs, etc.)]
- [PASTE: Recent changes (budget shifts, audience changes, bid changes)]

Conduct audit and provide:

1. Account health scorecard:
   - Quality score distribution (Google Ads)
   - Ad relevance issues
   - Landing page experience flags
   - Bid strategy performance

2. Campaign-by-campaign analysis:
   - Performance vs. goals (over/under achieving)
   - Efficiency metrics (CPC, CAC, ROAS if applicable)
   - Under-performing campaigns (candidates for pause/reallocation)
   - Scaling opportunities (high-performing campaigns to increase budget)

3. Audience and targeting issues:
   - Audience overlap (competitors for same budget)
   - Irrelevant audience inclusions
   - Opportunities for tighter targeting

4. Creative audit:
   - Ad copy performance (best/worst performers)
   - Visual asset performance (if applicable)
   - Fatigue indicators (older ads underperforming)

5. Budget allocation analysis:
   - Current vs. recommended allocation
   - Cost per result by campaign
   - Specific reallocation recommendations (reduce X by 20%, increase Y by 30%)

6. Keyword/search audit (if applicable):
   - High-cost, low-conversion keywords to pause
   - High-converting keywords to bid higher on
   - Negative keyword gaps

7. Action plan:
   - Immediate changes (kill obvious waste)
   - 30-day experiments (test new audiences, creative, bidding)
   - Expected impact (projected efficiency improvement, timeline)

Provide analysis in presentation-ready format with specific, executable recommendations.

Why it works

Breaking audit into category (quality, audience, budget) helps identify where problems live. Specific reallocation recommendations (not generic 'improve efficiency') enable action. Benchmarking against stated CPC/CAC goals grounds recommendations.

Watch out for

Audit recommendations depend on data completeness; incomplete tracking makes analysis speculative. Platform algorithm changes (especially bid strategy shifts) make historical performance less predictive. Doesn't account for seasonal patterns or market changes.

Used by

MarketersData Analysts