PPC and paid media: what managing Google Ads and Meta campaigns involves
Paid search and paid social buy attention by the click. The difference between a campaign that returns money and one that burns it is structure, tracking and the discipline of cutting what does not convert. What PPC management includes and what to expect from it.
Pay-per-click is the fastest way to put an offer in front of someone who is looking for it, and the fastest way to spend a budget on people who are not. Google Ads captures search intent; Meta, LinkedIn and TikTok build demand by audience; shopping and performance campaigns sell products directly. Managing them well is less about clever bidding and more about three disciplines: a campaign structure that isolates what works, conversion tracking that tells the truth, and weekly decisions to move budget toward what converts.
What PPC management includes
- Account audit and strategy — which channels and campaign types fit the product, the budget split, the target cost per acquisition.
- Campaign build — keyword and audience research, ad groups and assets, product feeds for shopping, negative lists, landing pages that match the ad.
- Tracking — conversions measured server-side with consent handled correctly, so optimisation runs on real leads and sales, not on clicks.
- Optimisation — weekly review of search terms, audiences, creatives, bids and budgets; A/B tests on ads and landing pages; scaling what works.
- Reporting — cost per lead and per sale, return on ad spend, by campaign, in a dashboard you can read without us.
What to expect
The first month is learning: small budgets across variants, data collected, losers cut. From the second month, scaling on the winners. Our fee is separate from media spend and agreed in advance; the media budget is yours and stays in your accounts.
What to prepare
- Access to existing ad accounts and analytics.
- Margins and the cost per acquisition the business can afford.
- Landing pages, or the willingness to build them.
- Markets, languages and seasonality.
Details on the PPC and paid media page.
