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PPC SERVICES

Every Click Costs Money. Most Accounts Cannot Say Which Ones Earn It Back

PPC is the one channel where the arithmetic is knowable. What a customer is worth, what you can afford to pay for one, and which campaigns clear that bar – all of it is measurable. Accounts lose money when nobody has done that arithmetic, and the campaigns are judged on clicks instead.

Account review
against target CPA
Brand - exact match
Cheap conversions, but most would have found you anyway
QUESTION IT
High-intent service terms
Comfortably inside target cost per acquisition
SCALE
Competitor terms
Expensive, converts poorly, occasionally worth it defensively
HOLD
Broad match - no negatives
Paying for searches unrelated to what you sell
FIX FIRST
Display - audience expansion
Impressions and clicks, no traceable revenue
PAUSE
Generic category terms
Above target CPA, but feeds the remarketing pool
WATCH
Illustrative example - the first row is the awkward one. Brand campaigns look like the best performers in every account and often are not
WHAT PPC MANAGEMENT IS

Buying customers at a price that works

Stripped of jargon, PPC is arithmetic. A customer is worth a certain amount to you. A proportion of visitors become customers. Those two numbers decide what you can pay for a click, and everything else – match types, bid strategies, ad copy – is in service of staying under that figure while buying as much volume as possible.

Which is why our first question is never about budget. It is what a customer is worth and how many you can handle, because an account optimised without those answers is optimising towards nothing in particular.

This page covers campaign strategy and management. The wider paid landscape sits on Google Ads and PPC, and the page people land on matters as much as the ad – see CRO and analytics.

What we will not do

The last one matters. For some businesses the maths simply does not close at current auction prices, and the honest answer is to spend the money elsewhere.
THE ARITHMETIC

Six numbers decide whether PPC works for you

This chain runs downwards from what a customer is worth to what you can bid. Every account we take on starts here, because until these numbers exist there is no way to tell a good campaign from an expensive one.

01

Value of a customer

you tell us
What one customer is worth over the whole relationship, not just the first order. Businesses with repeat purchase can afford to pay far more than they think.
02

Gross margin

you tell us
What is left after cost of goods and delivery. Advertising is paid out of margin, never out of revenue - a common and expensive confusion.
03

Close rate

your sales data
For lead generation, the proportion of enquiries that become customers. Without it, cost per lead is a number with no meaning attached.
04

Maximum cost per acquisition

we calculate
Margin multiplied by what proportion of it you are willing to spend on growth. The single most important figure in the account.
05

Conversion rate

we measure
How many visitors act. This is a landing page number, not an ads number - which is why fixing the page often beats fixing the bids.
06

Maximum cost per click

we calculate
Target acquisition cost multiplied by conversion rate. Everything the account does afterwards is an attempt to stay under this.

Notice that only two of the six come from the ads platform. Most of what determines whether paid advertising succeeds sits inside your business, which is why an agency that never asks about margin is guessing.

CAMPAIGN TYPES

Six campaign types, and they are not equally useful to you

Most accounts should not run all six. Search almost always comes first because it captures existing demand; the rest either create demand or recapture it, and both are harder to justify until search is working.

Search Campaigns

where nearly every account should start

Remarketing

the cheapest conversions in most accounts

Shopping Ads

feed quality decides everything

Performance Max

powerful, and opaque by design

Display and Video

demand creation, judged accordingly

Ongoing Optimisation

the actual monthly work

Performance Max deserves a warning. It often performs well and it also absorbs brand and remarketing traffic that would have converted anyway, then reports those conversions as its own. We separate what can be separated and tell you what cannot.

THE AUDIT FINDS THESE

Six places budget leaks in almost every account

These are what a free audit actually looks for. None of them are exotic – they are the same six problems in account after account, and most were introduced by a default setting nobody revisited.

94

Unmanaged match types

Broad match with a thin negative list buys searches with no relationship to what you sell. The single largest source of waste there is.
Typical share of wasted spend
Web Designer
Fix: weekly search term review
88

Untrustworthy conversion tracking

Duplicate conversions, form views counted as leads, or offline sales never fed back. The bidding then optimises towards the wrong thing.
Typical share of wasted spend
Web Designer
Fix: audit and rebuild tracking
72

Brand and generic in one campaign

Cheap brand conversions average out with expensive generic ones, and the blended figure hides both. Nothing can be judged properly.
Typical share of wasted spend
Web Designer
Fix: separate and report apart
68

Ads pointing at the wrong page

Sending every ad to the homepage, or to a page that does not mention what the ad promised. The click is paid for and then wasted.
Typical share of wasted spend
Web Designer
Fix: page per ad group intent
54

Location and schedule defaults

Presence versus interest targeting left on default, showing ads to people merely searching about your area, not in it.
Typical share of wasted spend
Web Designer
Fix: tighten targeting settings
46

No device or audience adjustment

Mobile and desktop rarely convert alike, and returning visitors rarely convert like new ones. Treating them identically overpays for both.
Typical share of wasted spend
Web Designer
Fix: segment and adjust

The second one is the one to fix first. Every automated bid strategy learns from your conversion data – if that data is wrong, the platform will spend your budget efficiently pursuing the wrong outcome, and it will look like it is working.

BIDDING

Smart bidding needs data before it is smart

Automated bidding beats manual management in most mature accounts. In a new account with forty conversions a year it has nothing to learn from, and switching it on early is one of the most reliable ways to waste a launch budget.

Manual CPC
New accounts, or where conversion volume is genuinely low.
Slow and labour intensive. Fine as a starting point, poor as a destination.
Data needed
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STARTING
Maximise clicks
Launch phase only, to gather data quickly on what converts.
Buys traffic, not customers. Dangerous if left running past its purpose.
Data needed
Web Designer
TEMPORARY
Enhanced CPC
A middle step while conversion data accumulates.
Limited effect either way. Useful mainly as a transition.
Data needed
Web Designer
TRANSITION
Maximise conversions
Steady conversion volume and a budget you are willing to spend fully.
Will spend the entire budget regardless of what the conversions cost.
Data needed
Web Designer
VOLUME
Target CPA
Lead generation where every lead is worth roughly the same.
Set the target too low and delivery collapses to almost nothing.
Data needed
Web Designer
LEAD GEN
Target ROAS
Ecommerce with reliable revenue values passed back per transaction.
Requires accurate revenue tracking. Wrong values produce confident nonsense.
Data needed
Web Designer
ECOMMERCE
Portfolio strategies
Several campaigns pursuing the same commercial goal together.
Shared learning helps, but it obscures which campaign did the work.
Data needed
Web Designer
ADVANCED
Seasonality and rules
Known demand spikes, sales periods, or budget pacing.
Automation applied to the wrong week does damage quickly.
Data needed
Web Designer
SITUATIONAL

Every strategy here optimises towards whatever your conversion tracking tells it to value. That is the whole reason tracking is fixed before anything else – the automation is only ever as good as the definition of success you hand it.

AUDIENCE TARGETING

Layered, not stacked until nobody is left

Each layer narrows who sees the ad. Applied thoughtfully that raises efficiency; applied enthusiastically it produces a campaign so tightly defined that it barely delivers, and there is no data to learn from.

Your own customer data is the most valuable input here and the most consistently unused. It also powers exclusions – stopping you paying to reach people who already bought.

Your customer lists

HIGHEST
Uploaded and matched. Powers both lookalike reach and exclusions, and costs nothing to use.

Remarketing segments

HIGHEST
Segmented by depth of engagement. A cart abandoner and a homepage bounce are not the same person.

In-market audiences

STRONG
People the platform believes are actively shopping in your category. Broad, but genuinely intent-based.

Location targeting

STRONG
Where they are, not merely where they searched about. The default setting here quietly costs a lot.

Similar audiences

MODERATE
Modelled on your converters. Useful for expansion once the source list is large enough to be meaningful.

Device and schedule

MODERATE
Adjustments where the data supports them. Frequently significant, and frequently never checked.

Affinity and interests

LIMITED
Lifestyle categories. Weak intent signal - better for display reach than for search.

Demographics

LIMITED
Age, gender, household income. Occasionally decisive, often a way to exclude buyers you did not expect.
REPORTING

Four numbers, and two of them are not from the ads platform

Cost per acquisition and return on ad spend are the report. Impressions, clicks and click-through rate are diagnostics – useful for working out why a number moved, useless as the headline.

Where you can pass back what happened after the lead – which enquiries became customers, at what value – the account can finally optimise for revenue rather than for form fills. That single change usually outperforms months of bid tuning.

Monthly report
per campaign
COST PER ACQUISITION
on target
the headline number
Against target
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RETURN ON AD SPEND
tracked
revenue against spend
Against target
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CONVERSION RATE
measured
a landing page signal
Against target
Web Designer
IMPRESSION SHARE
monitored
headroom left to grow
Against target
Web Designer
Spend on campaigns inside target CPA
Web Designer
Spend on campaigns above target, kept deliberately
Web Designer
Spend under review or being cut
Web Designer
Illustrative example - the amber slice is intentional. Some campaigns run above target because they feed the ones that do not
HOW WE RUN AN ACCOUNT

Three phases, nine stages, then it repeats

The first phase produces no advertising at all, which occasionally surprises people. Launching before the arithmetic and the tracking are settled is how accounts end up unmeasurable three months later.

Foundations

before a single ad runs
01

Business Discovery

Margin, customer value, close rate and capacity. What a lead is worth and how many you can actually service.
02

Competitor Analysis

Who is bidding, what they promise, and where the auction is realistically winnable at your price.
03

Tracking Verification

Conversions checked end to end and de-duplicated. Nothing launches until these numbers can be trusted.

Build and launch

the first few weeks
04

Keyword and Audience Research

Terms grouped by intent and filtered by whether the maths clears. Volume without commercial relevance is dropped.
05

Account Structure

Campaigns split so results can be read - brand apart from generic, and budgets that cannot cannibalise each other.
06

Ads and Landing Alignment

Ad copy matched to the query and to the page it lands on. A mismatch anywhere costs the click twice.

Run and scale

continuous
07

Search Term Review

Weekly. What you actually paid for, negatives added, and new intent found in the queries themselves.
08

Testing and Bid Management

Ad variants, landing pages and bid targets tested one change at a time so the result is attributable.
09

Reporting and Reallocation

Monthly. Budget moved toward what clears target, and an honest account of what did not.
WHAT CHANGES

Benefits, with the caveats attached

PPC is the fastest channel to switch on and the fastest to switch off. That is its real advantage – not that it is cheap, because it usually is not.

Demand you can reach this week

No other channel puts you in front of people actively searching within days of starting.

A known cost per customer

Once the arithmetic exists, growth becomes a budget decision rather than a hopeful one.

A testing ground for everything else

Which messages convert, which terms buyers use, which pages work – all learnable in weeks and useful across SEO too.

A tap you can turn down

Overwhelmed with work? Reduce spend today. Try that with any other acquisition channel.

Waste removed before growth added

Most accounts gain more in the first month from cutting bad spend than from any increase in budget.

Cheap conversions from remarketing

People who already visited convert at a fraction of the cost of finding new ones.

Clarity about what actually sells

Search term data is the closest thing to hearing your customers describe their own problem in their words.

Defence on your own name

Modest brand spend keeps competitors from buying attention you already earned – sized deliberately, not by default.

WHY RIGHT ADVERTISE

The account stays yours

We work in your Google Ads account, under your billing, with your name on it. If you leave, the history, the conversion data and the audience lists go with you – because they were never ours to keep.

Agencies that run clients inside their own manager account are holding something hostage. It is worth asking any agency this question before signing anything.

You own the account and the data

Your billing, your history, your audience lists. No transfer negotiation if you decide to leave.

Flat management fee, not a share of spend

Percentage-of-spend pricing rewards us for increasing your budget. We would rather be paid the same whether the answer is spend more or spend less.

We start from your margin

Before touching the account we work out what a customer is worth and what you can afford to pay. Everything after that has a benchmark.

Tracking verified before launch

No campaign goes live on conversion data we have not tested end to end. Bidding automation trained on bad data spends efficiently in the wrong direction.

We cut waste before asking for budget

The first month is usually about removing spend that was never going to work. It is a smaller invoice and a better result.

We will say when PPC is wrong for you

If the numbers do not close at current auction prices, we will tell you and suggest where the money would do better.

INDUSTRIES

What differs is what a customer is worth

A sector where one customer is worth a great deal can tolerate expensive clicks that would ruin a low-margin business. That single difference determines almost everything about how an account should be built.

Ecommerce

Shopping and Performance Max lead. Feed quality and margin-based structure matter more than clever ad copy.

SaaS

Long trial-to-paid journeys. Optimising to signups rather than paid conversions is the standard expensive mistake.

Healthcare

Restricted categories and tight ad policy. Certain conditions and terms simply cannot be advertised as written.

Finance

High customer value, high click prices, and verification requirements before certain ads can run at all.

Education

Long enrolment cycles and strong seasonality. Budget pacing around intake dates matters more than daily tuning.

Real Estate

Local, high value per lead, and heavily aggregator-dominated. Geographic precision is decisive.

Hospitality

Booking sites bid on your own name. Direct booking campaigns must justify skipping the aggregator.

Manufacturing

Very low volume, very high value. Ten enquiries a month can be an excellent result at almost any click price.

Local Businesses

Small radius, high intent, and call tracking usually matters more than the website conversion rate. See local SEO.

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Reliable process, clear communication.

Timely Support

We're here when you need us.

Customized Solutions

Tailored to your business goa

Quality & Transparency

Reliable process, clear communication.

Timely Support

We're here when you need us.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Everything businesses ask us before starting pay per click advertisement.

What are PPC services?

Planning, building and managing paid advertising campaigns where you pay per click. In practice that means working out what you can afford to pay for a customer, structuring campaigns so results are readable, and continuously removing spend that does not clear that bar.

You bid on searches or audiences. Which ad shows and what it costs is decided by an auction that weighs your bid against the relevance and quality of your ad and landing page – which is why a better page can genuinely lower your click price.

Google Ads across search, shopping, display, video and Performance Max, and Microsoft Ads for search. Microsoft is smaller but often noticeably cheaper per click, and worth testing in most B2B and older-demographic markets.

Traffic within hours of going live. Reliable conclusions take longer – usually four to eight weeks before there is enough conversion data to judge campaigns fairly, and longer for low-volume, high-value businesses.

By making the three things it measures genuinely better: ad relevance to the query, expected click-through rate, and landing page experience. Tightly grouped keywords with ads and pages that match them. There is no configuration trick for this.

PPC buys placement immediately and stops when you stop paying. SEO earns it slowly and keeps working. They complement each other – paid search data reveals which terms convert, which is exactly what SEO should target.

No. Auction prices, competitor behaviour and demand all move independently of us. We commit to the arithmetic, the structure and the optimisation, and we report honestly – including when a campaign has not worked.

From your target cost per acquisition and how many customers you can service. Budget follows the maths rather than the other way around, and we move it toward whatever is clearing target rather than spreading it evenly.

You do. We work inside your account under your billing, so the history, conversion data and audience lists stay with you if we ever part ways. This is worth confirming with any agency you speak to.

Flat management fee rather than a percentage of spend, so we are not paid more for spending more. We verify tracking before launching, start from your margin, and will tell you if the numbers say paid search is the wrong channel for your business.

Know what a customer costs you.

Give us read access to your account and tell us what a customer is worth. We will come back with where the budget is leaking, which campaigns are genuinely inside a workable cost per customer, and what we would change in the first month. Free, no obligation, findings yours either way.

The businesses that win aren’t just found – they’re found first. We make that happen, from local search to your entire digital presence.