Paid search that pays — built for ROAS, not impressions
Most businesses don't have a Google Ads problem. They have a strategy problem. We architect PPC campaigns around margin, intent, and measurable growth — not vanity metrics that look good in a report but mean nothing to your bottom line.
Every pound and dollar you spend on paid search should have a job. We make sure it does — with conversion-first campaign structures, rigorous testing, and the kind of account management that compounds returns over time, not just the first month.
Intent is the most valuable signal in modern marketing
Google processes over 8.5 billion searches a day. A meaningful fraction of those searches are from people actively looking to buy, enquire, or evaluate exactly what you sell. No other channel gives you access to that level of declared purchase intent at scale.
But intent alone doesn't win campaigns — architecture does. The difference between a Google Ads account that haemorrhages budget and one that compounds return comes down to how the campaigns are built: match types, negative keyword strategy, bidding logic, ad group structure, landing page alignment, and conversion tracking accuracy.
We approach paid search as a revenue system, not a media buy. Every campaign we manage is designed from the ground up around a single principle: every click should have the highest possible chance of becoming a customer. That requires discipline, data, and a level of hands-on management that most agencies simply don't provide.
The numbers behind
properly managed paid search
8.5B
daily Google searches — the majority of high-intent commercial queries happen here, making search the most direct path to buyers actively ready to act.
200%+
average ROAS improvement seen within the first 90 days when a poorly structured account is rebuilt around conversion-first principles and proper tracking.
76%
of ad spend in underperforming accounts is wasted on irrelevant queries, broad-match cannibalism, or campaigns with no conversion data to guide bidding.
Full-funnel Google Ads management
built for measurable growth
We manage paid search across every campaign type Google offers — each one deployed at the right stage of the buying journey, with the right objective and the right creative logic behind it.
Search Campaigns
High-intent acquisition at the bottom of the funnel. We build tightly structured campaigns around the exact terms your most valuable customers use when they're ready to act — with match type discipline, granular negative keyword lists, and ad copy engineered to earn the click and set up the conversion.
Display & YouTube Ads
Brand-building and demand generation across Google's Display Network and YouTube. We use these channels strategically — for retargeting warm audiences, creating awareness among high-propensity prospects, and supporting search campaigns with visual reinforcement that shortens the decision cycle.
Google Shopping Campaigns
For ecommerce brands, Shopping is often the highest-ROAS channel available. We manage feed optimisation, bidding strategy, product segmentation, and competitive positioning to ensure your products show at the right price point to the right buyer — at maximum margin efficiency.
Remarketing & Audience Campaigns
The majority of first-time visitors don't convert. Remarketing brings them back with precisely timed, tailored messaging based on what they viewed, how far they progressed, and where they are in the buying cycle — recovering revenue that would otherwise be written off as bounce traffic.
Performance Max Campaigns
Google's most automated campaign type — but automation without oversight is how budget gets wasted. We manage PMax with structured asset groups, audience signals, and conversion data quality controls that ensure Google's machine learning is optimising toward outcomes that matter, not just volume.
Conversion Tracking & Attribution
None of the above is manageable without clean data. We audit and implement end-to-end conversion tracking via Google Tag Manager and GA4 — ensuring every lead, purchase, call, and form submission is captured accurately and attributed to the right campaign, so bidding decisions are made on facts, not estimates.
Conversion-first.
Data-led. No passengers.
The average Google Ads agency automates what they should be thinking about and ignores what they should be testing. We do the opposite.
Our PPC management model is built around four non-negotiables: decisions grounded in conversion data, not click volume; campaign architecture that reflects how your buyers actually behave; rigorous A/B testing across ads, landing pages, and bidding strategies; and obsessive budget efficiency measured against ROAS, CPA, and revenue — not impressions and CTR. You get a senior strategist working your account, not a junior optimiser checking boxes on a monthly SOP.
What properly managed PPC
actually does to your revenue
Google Ads is not a brand awareness play. It's a revenue lever — and when the account is built and managed correctly, the impact on pipeline and growth is direct, measurable, and scalable.
Qualified Lead Generation at Scale
Search campaigns built around purchase-intent keywords bring in leads who are actively evaluating your category — not passive browsers. The quality of traffic improves lead-to-close rates across your entire sales funnel.
Predictable, Scalable Revenue Growth
A well-structured PPC account is a growth lever you can dial up with confidence. Once the data is clean and the conversion economics are proven, scaling spend produces proportionally more revenue — without the unpredictability of organic channels.
Reduced Cost-Per-Acquisition Over Time
Continuous optimisation — tighter targeting, stronger Quality Scores, better ad-to-landing-page alignment — drives CPA down month over month. The same budget generates more conversions as the account matures under active management.
Faster Market Entry Than SEO
Paid search puts you on page one immediately — critical for new businesses, product launches, or competitive markets where organic rankings take months to build. It also provides the intent data that shapes your wider marketing strategy.
Budget Efficiency That Compounds
Wasted ad spend is the silent killer in most Google Ads accounts. Eliminating irrelevant clicks, duplicated campaigns, and cannibalising keywords often recovers 20–40% of existing budget — which gets reinvested in what's actually working.
Competitive Intelligence as a Byproduct
Running paid search generates first-party data on which messages convert, which audiences perform, and which keywords your competitors are bidding on — intelligence that sharpens your organic, content, and sales strategy simultaneously.
How we build Google Ads accounts that earn their keep
A strategic, phase-by-phase process designed to eliminate waste, establish conversion baselines, and build the data infrastructure that makes scaling predictable.
Market & Competitor Analysis
Before any campaign goes live, we map the competitive landscape — who is bidding, at what cost, with what messaging, and to what landing pages. This informs where the opportunities are and where your budget will face the stiffest resistance.
Keyword & Audience Research
We build keyword strategies around intent, not volume. High-CPC vanity terms rarely deliver the best CPA. We identify the search behaviour that indicates purchase readiness, layer in audience signals, and build negative keyword frameworks that protect budget from day one.
Conversion Tracking & Attribution Setup
We audit or implement end-to-end conversion tracking before spending a single pound. Without clean, accurate conversion data, every bidding decision is a guess. We make sure Google's algorithms are optimising toward actual revenue events, not proxy metrics.
Funnel-Based Campaign Architecture
Campaigns are structured to mirror how your buyers make decisions — top-of-funnel awareness, middle-funnel consideration, and bottom-funnel acquisition — each with its own bidding logic, creative, and conversion objective. No single-campaign-for-everything shortcuts.
Ad Copy & Creative Testing
We run structured A/B and multivariate tests across headlines, descriptions, CTAs, and extensions. Ad copy is treated as a hypothesis to be tested, not a creative exercise to be admired. Every variation has a clear success metric and a defined test window.
Ongoing Optimisation & Scaling
Weekly bid adjustments, search term reviews, audience performance analysis, Quality Score management, and landing page testing — all executed on a structured optimisation cadence. When the data supports scaling, we scale with confidence and a defined ROAS floor.
Enterprise-grade tools, applied with senior-level judgment
The tools don't make the strategist — but the right tools in the wrong hands are how budgets get wasted. We use industry-standard platforms with the experience to interpret what they're telling us correctly.
Google Ads Platform
Full campaign management across Search, Display, Shopping, YouTube, and Performance Max. We manage accounts natively — not through third-party automation tools that abstract away the strategic decisions that separate good accounts from great ones.
Google Analytics 4 (GA4)
Event-based conversion tracking, audience building, and multi-channel attribution. GA4 connects your paid campaigns to on-site behaviour and downstream revenue — giving us the full picture of what a click is actually worth to your business.
Google Tag Manager
Clean, auditable tag implementation for conversion events, remarketing pixels, and third-party tracking. GTM ensures every conversion is captured accurately, consistently, and without slowing your site — the technical foundation every well-run account depends on.
SEMrush & Ahrefs
Competitive intelligence, keyword research, and share-of-voice tracking across paid and organic. We use these platforms to understand the full search landscape — not just what you're bidding on, but what competitors are spending and where the market is moving.
Looker Studio Dashboards
Custom reporting dashboards that pull live data from Google Ads, GA4, and Search Console into a single, client-facing view. You see the metrics that matter to your business — not a standard platform export with sixty irrelevant columns.
Google Ads Experiments
Structured campaign-level A/B testing for bidding strategies, ad rotations, and landing page variants — run as controlled experiments within the platform so results are statistically valid, not coincidental. We test deliberately, not constantly.
PPC strategy shaped by how your market actually buys
Search behaviour varies significantly by industry. The keywords, bidding dynamics, buyer psychology, and conversion flows that work in one market won't necessarily work in another. We adjust the playbook accordingly.
Ecommerce & Retail
Shopping campaign management, feed optimisation, dynamic remarketing, and ROAS-led scaling — built to maximise revenue per ad pound across competitive product categories where margin discipline is non-negotiable.
Legal & Professional Services
High-CPC, high-stakes search categories where ad copy credibility, Quality Score management, and landing page trust signals are the difference between a profitable account and an expensive one. We manage both sides of the equation.
Healthcare & Medical
Policy-compliant campaign management for healthcare advertisers — balancing Google's strict content restrictions with the need to reach patients and practitioners actively searching for specific treatments, services, or referrals.
Real Estate & Property
Geo-targeted lead generation for developers, agents, and lettings businesses — combining high-intent search with remarketing to capture buyers and renters at different stages of a longer, research-heavy decision cycle.
B2B & SaaS
Longer sales cycles require a different campaign logic — top-of-funnel lead nurture, bottom-of-funnel comparison targeting, and LinkedIn audience layering in Google campaigns for account-based precision in competitive B2B markets.
Education & Online Courses
Enrolment-focused campaigns targeting prospective students at the moment of course research — with landing pages, lead magnets, and ad creative tested specifically for the education buyer's evaluation behaviour.
Real metrics.
Real accountability.
Impressions and CTR are not business results. We report on the numbers that connect directly to revenue — and we do it with the transparency that makes every decision traceable.
Every client receives a monthly performance review covering cost-per-acquisition, conversion volume, ROAS by campaign, search impression share, Quality Score trends, and budget utilisation. We present it on a call, walk through the decisions made in the month, explain what we're testing next, and flag any account risks before they become problems. No black boxes. No inflated metrics. No hiding behind industry benchmarks when the numbers need honest discussion.
Sharp questions
deserve sharp answers.
The questions serious business owners ask before committing budget to a PPC partner.
Let's build something
extraordinary together.
One strategic web partner. Faster delivery. Better performance. Less fragmentation. That's the Fig Crew difference.
