Case study · Branded search · Furniture retail

Branded search returned 26x for Haynes Furniture in one week

People who search for your store by name are your warmest shoppers, and competitors bid on them too. For Haynes Furniture and its sister brand The Dump, Woods Marketing ran branded search as its own layer, tested a broad-match campaign alongside exact and phrase, and reported every market weekly.

ClientsHaynes Furniture, The DumpChannelGoogle SearchPeriodMarch 9–15, 2026
The results
26.42x
Haynes branded search
return on ad spend
$6.34
Haynes cost per conversion
15.6%
Haynes conversion rate
12.98x
best Dump market:
Richmond

Haynes: two branded campaigns, $1,772 spend, 279.67 conversions, $46,825 conversion value. The Dump: seven branded campaigns returned 7.68x on $9,917.

The test

Exact and phrase for scale, broad as a test

Haynes’ branded traffic ran in two campaigns. Exact and phrase match carried most of the volume, while a separate Broad Test campaign checked whether looser matching could find more branded shoppers without wasting spend.

Haynes return on ad spend

Branded campaigns, March 9–15, 2026
Broad Test27.79x
Exact/Phrase26.09x

Haynes cost per conversion

Lower is better
Broad Test$4.95
Exact/Phrase$6.80
Across The Dump’s markets

Seven markets, one weekly view

The Dump branded search by market

Seven branded campaigns, March 9–15, 2026
MarketSpendConversionsCPAROAS
Richmond$82823.35$35.4512.98x
Dallas$1,92751.62$37.338.62x
Chicago$1,87052.78$35.438.37x
Atlanta$1,20032.35$37.098.09x
Norfolk$1,07223.49$45.636.57x
Phoenix$1,46729.82$49.186.10x
Houston$1,55427.75$56.024.78x
Test

Broad match earned its place

Broad Test converted at 28.4% for $4.95, the most efficient campaign in the set, so it stayed on as an efficiency layer with close search-term checks.

Scale

Exact and phrase still do the heavy lifting

Exact and phrase drove 86% of clicks and 75% of conversions for Haynes.

Non-branded

Watch the head term

In late March, the single broad keyword “furniture” took 75% of The Dump’s non-branded spend. The next step: give it its own ad group and budget.

Haynes: Virginia’s #1 furniture store
Offer creative
The Dump: save the sales tax

Source: Haynes Furniture branded search executive brief and The Dump brand search executive brief, March 9–15, 2026; The Dump non-branded keyword analysis, March 23–29, 2026. All figures from uploaded Google Ads campaign reports.

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