Google Ads for Dropshipping: What Reddit Really Says (2026)

A correction we owe you

Three fixes, all of which made our old page more flattering than the truth.

One: we put our own sales pitch in Reddit's mouth. We wrote that Reddit's honest answer, "from threads like r/dropship's 'Should i start doing google ads for my dropshipping store,' is not immediately. Get your Merchant Center feed and conversion tracking sorted first." Nobody in that thread mentions a Merchant Center feed. Nobody mentions conversion tracking. Feed and tracking first is what we believe and what we sell. It isn't what that thread says.

Two: we treated a 0-upvote self-promo post as a data point. The "$500k/Month" post has 1 comment and links to the poster's own YouTube video. We hedged the number and stayed quiet about the fact that Reddit ignored the post entirely.

Three: "Bing comes up a lot in these threads for one plain reason: cheaper clicks and less catalog competition." Bing appears once, in one sentence, with no reason attached. We made up the reason. It's deleted.

And one more: we wrote "None of the four posters above checked their feed or their tracking before turning the budget on." We have no way of knowing that about any of them. Deleted.

Four threads, honestly labelled

The beginner at the door

"Should i start doing google ads for my dropshipping store" (r/dropship, 3 November 2025, 14 upvotes, 29 comments). A one-week-old Shopify store, zero sales, asking if ads will bring 5 or 10 sales a month.

The room does not agree with itself:

• u/mjcponce (4 upvotes, top): "I'd make sure your product pages, pricing, and site speed are solid before spending on ads because even good ads can't fix a slow or confusing checkout."
• u/VillageHomeF: "Google Shopping ads are great. we pay just 15 cents a click. if you are priced competitively it should be good. Max Clicks, No Pmax."
• u/Samade20: "GMC too will help a lot to get sales once you're approved. Google Ads plus High Converting Products plus GMC is a Combo that prints daily Income."
• u/Independent-Chain-83: "Meta ads are better."
• u/Alive_Plenty: "Meta ads work better."

That's the closest thing here to a feed argument, and it's u/Samade20 saying Merchant Center approval helps. That's not "fix your feed first." It's "Merchant Center is useful."

The 7-month write-up

"What actually worked for me after 7 months in dropshipping (Meta and Google strategy)" (r/dropshipping, 5 May 2026, 105 upvotes, 28 comments) is the most-read thread on this page, and its first lesson is "I'd start with Meta ads, not Google (if you're new)."

We previously said this poster "points to their first $3k day as the moment Google started pulling real weight alongside Meta" and that "Google Ads closed demand that Meta had already built." He writes neither sentence. He hit a $3k day and credits Meta creative, his website, and killing losers fast. We wrote a Google ending onto someone else's Meta story.

The one who made money on Google and Bing

"Do You make money with paid ads TIkok/Facebook? For dropshipping?" (r/dropship, 4 February 2024, 7 upvotes, 16 comments). Note the real title. We had been calling this "Do You make money with paid ads for dropshipping?", quietly dropping the "TIkok/Facebook" that tells you what the thread is actually about.

u/BasicVictory3822's opening line is real and it's good for us: "I have made money using google ads and bing ads (Shopping ads), but never had much success with social media ads such as FB and Tikok for drop shipping."

But that's his aside. His question is how anyone profits on TikTok at a $1+ CPC on a $25 margin. And the top reply (u/Hentai-Overlord, 6 upvotes) is bleaker than anything we quoted: "Any time iv spent ad money it was a waste of money... As many say. Try and get the money going without ads out first. Get some affiliates."

The best-voted answer in a thread we cite as pro-Google-Ads is "don't run ads yet."

The $500k claim Reddit ignored

"I Stopped Relying on Meta Ads - This SEO + Google Ads Setup Did $500k/Month" (r/dropshipping, 28 January 2026, 0 upvotes, 1 comment). u/Slyyl31 claims about $520k in 30 days, mostly from Google SEO and Shopping, and links to his own YouTube walkthrough.

We hedged the number correctly last time. What we left out is the context that matters: it's a promotional post that Reddit did not upvote. Zero score, one comment. Treat it as an advert, because that's what the room treated it as.

'Start with Meta, not Google'

105 upvotes

Beginner thread

14 upvotes

'Made money on Google + Bing'

7 upvotes

The $500k/month claim

0 upvotes

Where we actually stand, labelled as ours

Now the pitch, clearly fenced off from the reporting.

We fix the Merchant Center feed and conversion tracking before we touch bids. Feed means titles, images, and prices that match the live page. Tracking means Google can tell which clicks became orders. We do that because of what we see across 200+ ecom accounts and €200M+ in tracked sales since 2024, not because r/dropship told us to.

The honest version of our old "80/20" claim: that's our number from our accounts. We put it in a table labelled "What Reddit calls it." Reddit never called it anything. That table is gone.

What we'd actually take from these four threads:

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