Google Ads
Ad spend on the
products that pay
Strong products get the budget, and weak ones are fixed or paused. We work on the feed, the price and the page as well as the account, so the clicks you pay for turn into orders.
- Average client ROAS
- 10.7x
- Running Google Ads since
- 2004
- Long-term contracts
- 0
- Never a % of ad spend
- Fixed
How we deliver growth
Custom scripts sort every product by performance, so automated bidding only spends where it pays.
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Hero
Sells at a high ROAS.
What we do
Budget uncapped, top of the auction.
Spend 100% -
Sidekick
Sells, but needs help.
What we do
Supported bids, bundled with heroes.
Spend 68% -
Villain
Clicks, rarely converts.
What we do
Bids cut, feed and price checked.
Spend 28% -
Zombie
No clicks, no sales.
What we do
Paused or reworked, then retested.
Spend 8%
Buckets update daily with Google Ads Labels, our own Shopify app.
Beyond the account
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Targeting
Shopify customer segments synced to Google Ads with our Audiences app, so Google finds more buyers like yours.
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Shopping feed
Titles and attributes written for maximum keyword coverage and traffic.
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Merchant Centre
Managed daily, so there are no disapproved items or missing barcodes.
Why PPC
Google Ads sends targeted customers.
Our strategy is built on growth. We send traffic that is ready to buy, then make sure the listing and the page close the sale. On-site and off-site work pull in the same direction, and every conversion has to be profitable.
- Typical agency: A % of your ad spend Day Marketing: A fixed monthly fee
- Typical agency: 12-month contract Day Marketing: No contracts
- Typical agency: Top 10 hits in the report Day Marketing: Revenue, margin and cost of sales
- Typical agency: The ads account only Day Marketing: Feed, listings and site
- Typical agency: PPC on its own Day Marketing: Organic and PPC working together
Frequently asked questions
Something else? Ask us directly.
How does reporting work?
We report weekly and monthly, and usually speak to clients most days. Reports are easy to read and show the numbers that decide the next round of tests.
We don’t fill them with the "top 10 best hits". Every change we make is in the Google Ads change history.
Do you use Performance Max?
Yes, but not for everything. The best sellers run in standard Shopping campaigns, where we can add negative keywords, read the search terms and hold a tighter ROAS.
Performance Max picks up the slower products, where it finds cheaper clicks on a small budget. When one of them starts selling, it moves up into Shopping automatically.
Why not one ROAS target for every product?
Because margins differ. If one brand makes 40% and another makes 7%, the ROAS target that works for the first loses money on the second.
We group products by margin and performance, so each group gets a target it can afford.
What makes a good Shopping feed?
Titles of 75 to 150 characters that lead with the words people search for, then the attributes that matter, like size, thickness and pack. A consistent product type four or five levels deep, such as Hikoki > Power Tools > Drills > SDS Drills. And every product with an image, a brand and a GTIN.
For a large catalogue that changes often, the feed is built automatically from your stock system, so new products and stock levels are always right.
Which is better: Google Ads or SEO?
They work best together. Ads sit above the organic results, work faster, unlock Shopping ads and can be targeted far more tightly. Google also shares lots of data on paid ads and almost none on SEO.
SEO builds traffic over the mid to long term with no cost per click, but it isn’t free. You are in an arms race with competitors just to hold your rankings.
What is the difference between remarketing and retargeting?
Remarketing usually means emailing people who have already bought or signed up, based on what they did.
Retargeting means showing ads to people who visited your site and left without buying. Both keep your brand in front of buyers, through different channels.
Google Ads pricing
From £500/mo
A fixed monthly fee with no long-term contract, and never a % of ad spend. Want the whole shop run for you? Managed ecommerce is from £2,500/mo.
Our team turned to Seb to solve our web issues and it has been such a pleasure. The growth in the first 6 months has been exceptional.
Ready to grow?
Think we can help?
We'll review your store, feed and ads before we talk, so the first call is useful. No obligation.