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Fix Google Ads Performance Max

This is real work, not a feature someone invented — it comes from real job ads and real questions people asked. Below are four ready AI prompts: get it done, make it easy for the next person to say yes to, work out the right move when you are stuck, and stop it coming back.

4prompts

The same task, four prompts

today's deadline · the next reviewer · the stuck moment · the pattern
AExecute — do the immediate taskFor the 'Eco-Friendly Home Goods' Performance Max campaign, upload the new product images and…+
For the 'Eco-Friendly Home Goods' Performance Max campaign, upload the new product images and the updated promotional video. Ensure the new headlines highlight the 'free shipping over $50' offer and are live by tomorrow morning.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
BImprove — make it easier to acceptThe 'Eco-Friendly Home Goods' Performance Max campaign isn't hitting its conversion target.…+
The 'Eco-Friendly Home Goods' Performance Max campaign isn't hitting its conversion target. Before I increase the budget, tell me if the assets are actually resonating. Are we showing up in front of the right people, or are our creatives just not compelling enough? Flag any underperforming asset groups and suggest improvements to boost conversions.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
CDecide — diagnose the stuck momentMy 'Local Artisan Crafts' Performance Max campaign is spending its full daily budget, but the…+
The 'Local Artisan Crafts' Performance Max campaign is spending its budget but generating zero conversions, and I feel helpless.
My 'Local Artisan Crafts' Performance Max campaign is spending its full daily budget, but the conversion count is stuck at zero. I'm afraid I've set it up wrong, or the audience targeting is completely off. The client is expecting sales by end of week, and I can't tell them why it's failing. Is this typical for PMax, or is there a common misconfiguration I should look for? What's the quickest way to diagnose if it's an asset issue, a targeting problem, or something else entirely?
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
DBecome — change the patternI keep launching Performance Max campaigns that spend money but don't convert, and I'm not sure…+
I struggle to understand why some Performance Max campaigns fail to convert, despite seemingly good setups.
I keep launching Performance Max campaigns that spend money but don't convert, and I'm not sure how to reliably troubleshoot them. This wastes client budget and erodes my confidence. What's a better habit for setting up or diagnosing underperforming PMax campaigns to ensure they actually drive sales, especially when the 'black box' nature makes it hard to see what's going wrong?
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?

Questions people actually ask

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Every task here was seen in the real world. Someone doing the job named it, a real job ad asked for it, or a lot of people asked about it online.

If nothing real showed a task, it is not on the page. That is the whole rule.

They are the same job approached four ways, because what you need depends on where you are.

Get it done today. Make it easy for the next person to say yes to. Work out the right move when you are stuck. Learn the pattern so the job stops coming back.

For most of these jobs it can carry the heavy thinking - draft it, sort it, check it, rehearse it with you.

It cannot sit in your chair, take the blame when a number is wrong, or notice what nobody wrote down. Let it do the first 80%. Keep the last 20% that is truly yours.

No. Copy any prompt and paste it into the AI you already use. No account, no score, no wall in the way.

Any of them. The prompts describe the work rather than naming a product, so they are not tied to one assistant.

That is also why they keep working when you switch.

Change it freely. Every prompt is a starting line, not a rule.

Put in your real numbers, your real names and your real deadline. The more you make it yours, the better the answer comes back.

The tasks come from real job ads, published job data and the questions people ask in public forums.

The steps come from Google Ads's own documentation, with practitioner sources for the traps the manual does not mention.

Push once. Ask it to sharpen the weakest part and to say what it assumed.

Most wrong answers come from a missing detail rather than a bad prompt - tell it the thing it could not know.