Spending on Google Ads with little to show for it?
Most accounts aren't short of budget. They're short of negative keywords, and nobody's checked the search terms report in months.
Free 30 minutes. No pitch, no obligation.
The first thing we do is open the search terms report. It shows what people actually typed, not what you bid on. It's routinely uncomfortable: most accounts we inherit pay for job seekers, students and competitors checking prices.
£2.22
Cost per booking
33%
Of ad clicks convert
Pennine Gymnastics, Google Ads, first three months of us running the account. Search click-through rate over the same period was 10.2%, against a 3 to 6% average.
Fixing that isn't clever work. It's an afternoon. It often improves results more than anything else we do in the first quarter. The budget stops being spread across searches that couldn't convert.
After that it becomes about the page rather than the ad. A click you paid for, landing somewhere that doesn't answer the question, is the most expensive way to lose a customer. It's where most accounts lose money.
Setup is £600 and management is £300 a month after that, plus VAT. Your ad spend is separate and goes straight to Google in your own account.
This is probably you if
- You can't say what an enquiry currently costs you.
- Nobody has looked at the search terms report this year.
- Your ads point at the home page rather than at an answer.
- Your fee moves with your budget rather than with your results.
Sound familiar? We'll tell you honestly whether we can help.
Tell us what's going on
What that involves
Search terms and negatives
Reading what people actually typed and excluding what can't buy. The least glamorous work in paid search and reliably the highest return.
Account structure
Campaigns grouped so budget can be moved towards what converts, rather than one campaign where the good and the useless share a pot.
Landing pages
We design and build them in house, so a page that isn't converting changes this week rather than going onto somebody else's list.
Conversion tracking that's right
Getting this right first is the difference between optimising and guessing. Until it is, every other number in the account is measuring the wrong thing.
Bidding and budget
Enough spend in one place to learn from, rather than a little everywhere. Small budgets fail more often from being spread than from being small.
Knowing when to stop
Some products don't work on paid search. We'd rather tell you in month two than keep billing a retainer against it.
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Design and engineering, one team
The people who name it and draw it sit with the people who build it. No handover between two suppliers, and no gap in the middle for you to manage.
We'll tell you not to spend
If a tidy-up solves it, we'll say so rather than sell you a rebuild. We'd rather lose the bigger job than take money for something that won't pay back.
You talk to the people building it
Founder-led, so there's no account manager relaying your question to someone you never meet. Decisions get made in the same conversation.
A fixed price before we start
You get the number up front, after a free call. No day rate quietly ticking over and no invoice that surprises you at the end.
You own all of it
Code, designs, hosting, repositories. No proprietary platform you can't leave and no licence that grows every time you hire someone.
Offices you can actually visit
Leicester and Huddersfield. Happy to sit down with you and map the thing out in person, happy to keep it to a call if that's easier.
Questions, answered.
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Luke Jagger
Co-Founder & Lead Designer