Flooring Warehouse PPC

Flooring Warehouse specialises in providing a wide range of high-quality flooring solutions for homes and commercial spaces, offering an extensive selection of laminates, vinyls, SPC flooring, carpets, wood, bamboo, and Novilon to suit diverse tastes and budgets. Partnering with trusted brands such as Krono Original, Egger, Belgotex, and Floorworx, the company ensures customers receive products that combine style, durability, and value. In addition to supplying premium flooring, Flooring Warehouse provides professional delivery and installation services, making the process seamless from selection to finished space. Committed to transforming spaces, the company delivers flooring solutions that enhance both the look and functionality of any property.

+169.23%

increase in overall conversions

+408.12%

increase in Google Maps direction clicks from Google Ads

+82.30%

increase in return on ad spend

Brief & Objectives

Flooring Warehouse partnered with Ruby Digital to strengthen its digital advertising presence, focusing primarily on Google Ads to drive measurable business outcomes. The primary objective was to increase total conversions month-over-month, with a target of at least a 5% rise each month. Secondary goals included improving brand awareness to support foot traffic and maintain a competitive edge in the flooring market. Starting from a baseline with ongoing campaigns already in place, Ruby Digital leveraged historical performance data and seasonal trends to optimise campaigns, refine targeting, and enhance cost efficiency.

Challenges

Shopping Campaign Limitations

A key challenge encountered was the inability to run Google Shopping campaigns due to the absence of an online checkout process on the Flooring Warehouse website.

This limitation reduced available ad placement opportunities and constrained competitiveness against other flooring retailers actively leveraging Shopping campaigns to capture high-intent search demand.

Our Solutions

Foundation and Data Collection

Keyword and demand insights were expanded using performance data to analyse how real users interacted with ads and navigated their purchase journey. This approach focused on identifying genuine, in-market search behaviour to inform strategic decision-making and account design.

Through this analysis, clear intent-based themes emerged, reflecting how users move through different stages of consideration and purchase. These included variations in product exploration, brand familiarity, price sensitivity, location-driven intent, and comparison behaviour. Together, these patterns provided a clearer understanding of how users naturally search within the category and how intent evolves over time.

These insights were then used to guide the overall account and campaign architecture. The structure was designed to align closely with observed user intent, ensuring that different demand types were addressed in a controlled and measurable way. Campaign segmentation reflected distinct intent groups rather than a one-size-fits-all approach, allowing for more precise targeting and performance management across the funnel.

At a granular level, this structure was reinforced by aligning targeting, messaging, and landing destinations with the dominant intent signals identified in the data. This ensured stronger relevance between user intent, ad delivery, and on-site experience, while maintaining flexibility for ongoing optimisation.

Through grounding the account structure in real user behaviour rather than assumptions, the strategy improved relevance, reporting clarity, and performance control. This approach enabled more effective optimisation over time while ensuring that product categories and intent types were aligned with how users actively search, evaluate, and convert within the category.

Capturing Demand and Nurturing Interest

To support the objective of increasing in-store foot traffic, a dedicated Performance Max Store Goals campaign was implemented. This campaign was designed to prioritise high-intent local actions, including directions, calls, and other store engagement signals. These actions are strong proxies for in-store visits, reinforcing the role of the Store Goals campaign in driving qualified foot traffic to Flooring Warehouse locations.

Expansion and Refinement

The Performance Max Campaign was deployed to generate broader awareness, provide additional touchpoints, and support conversion activity from search campaigns. These campaigns allowed the brand to reach high-intent audiences efficiently and with lower reliance on competitive keyword bidding.

Optimisation and Scaling

With sufficient performance data, campaign budgets, bidding strategies, and targeting were refined to maximise cost-efficient conversions. Negative keyword research, competitor analysis, and monthly reporting informed continuous improvements, leading to stronger ROI and stable month-over-month growth.

Results

Over a six-month period, strategic optimisations and data-driven adjustments led to significant improvements in performance. Comparing 01 July 2025 – 31 December 2025 vs. 01 January 2025 – 30 June 2025, the campaigns achieved:

  • +169.23% increase in overall conversions
    From the overall conversions, there has been a +183.55% increase in Contact Form Submissions.
  • +408.12% increase in Google Maps direction clicks from Google Ads.
    This directly supports the Brief & Objectives of driving foot traffic to physical store locations. This metric is a strong indicator of high-intent users seeking in-store engagement.
    Notably, the client has indicated that approximately 80% of walk-in customers convert, meaning the uplift in direction clicks is likely contributing significantly to offline sales and overall business growth.
  • +82.30% increase in return on ad spend
    This reflects a significant improvement in overall campaign efficiency, indicating that the account is generating substantially more revenue for every rand invested in advertising.
    The uplift demonstrates that budget allocation and ongoing optimisation efforts are driving stronger commercial outcomes rather than just increased traffic or volume.

The campaign performance shows sustained improvement over time, with strong month-on-month growth in conversions from July through December. Strategic use of first-party data, refined targeting, and optimised bidding contributed to higher-value conversions while maintaining cost efficiency.

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