Seven step-by-step guides for common Google Ads problems, each built from the playbooks in the free campaign troubleshooter, with the PaidSync tool that checks every cause in your own account. Pick the symptom you see. Each guide asks four questions, ranks the likely causes, and shows the fix and how to preview it before anything changes.
The same questions run interactively in the free campaign troubleshooter, which also covers Meta, LinkedIn and TikTok. Every statement about how Google Ads behaves is sourced to Google's own documentation, linked at the foot of each guide, or shown as arithmetic you can check.
Each guide names the PaidSync tool that checks every cause and the change you can preview before it runs. In the PaidSync workspace, by default, every write is approval-gated: it is held as a card before it runs, and an applied card gets a one-tap undo. On every path, Google Ads creates and most other creates are previewed with dry_run, destructive operations need confirm_destructive, and applied changes are logged, on a best-effort basis, with a 7-day before-and-after outcome. When your own assistant calls PaidSync over MCP, no card is written, so whether a person confirms first is set in your assistant.
Run this check in Claude, Claude Code, Cursor or ChatGPT. Connect Google Ads once, then paste the questions from any guide to your assistant.
Not sure which symptom fits? The free Google Ads audit tool scores wasted spend, structure, Quality Score and Performance Max. For Meta, LinkedIn and TikTok, the campaign troubleshooter runs the same kind of playbook.