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Unpopular opinion: most small e-commerce brands should NOT be running Google Search Ads yet.
If your website's checkout has friction, your product pages have no reviews, or your load speed is over 4 seconds, ads are just paying to expose a leaky bucket.
Fix the site first. Then scale the traffic.
Agree or disagree? let me know in the comment session
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