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PPC Management Services Built Around Better Leads

Your business can appear before interested users with paid search.

Not every click is worth it.

Grace Digital Co. Builds, manages, and optimizes PPC accounts. We direct relevance and value to our clients' ad spend by focusing on targeted traffic and quality leads.

No ambiguity reports. No false promises of overnight success. Just an organized methodology to manage Google Ads.

Connecting: ads, keywords, calls, form fills, landing pages, and business objectives.

Grace Digital Co. is based in Tarzana and helps businesses in Southern California.

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PPC management services for small businesses

Looking for PPC Management Services Near You?

An ideal local paid search agency should go beyond your ZIP code.

It should account for how far someone will travel or request a service, search areas, serve areas, and the most important services.

When looking for PPC management services near you, look for the following:

  1. Understanding of your target market?
  2. Explanation of budget allocation?
  3. Review of actual search terms?
  4. Blocking irrelevant searches?
  5. Tracking of calls and forms?
  6. Advert association with correct landing pages?
  7. Account activity changes documented?
  8. Guarantees that seem too good to be true?

Grace Digital Co. provides local expertise combined with a remote service model. We can manage campaigns approved service areas while maintaining clear communication, reporting, and responsibilities.

Why Google Ads Campaigns Waste Money

Google Ads can help generate valuable inquiries, and at the same time can deplete a budget in record time, due to lack of account and campaign structure.

Common issues include:

  1. Broad targeting
  2. Irrelevant search terms
  3. Missing negative keywords
  4. Weak advertisements
  5. Poor location settings
  6. Unclear offers
  7. Traffic directed to the homepage
  8. Landing pages that do not match the advertisement
  9. Broken conversion tracking
  10. Calls and forms counted incorrectly
  11. Budgets spent across many services
  12. Campaigns run without frequent, meaningful reviews

More traffic will not resolve these issues.

A strong campaign assigns tasks to each component. The keyword defines the intent. The ad entices the click. The landing page continues the message. The advertisement makes conversion easy. Tracking reflects the result.

Our PPC Management Services

Every campaign begins with your desired business results, audience, services, locations, competition, and estimated budget.

Your plan may include the following services.

PPC Account Audit

We assess existing accounts prior to major account changes.

During an audit we evaluate:

  • Account structure
  • Keyword bids
  • Match types
  • Search terms and queries
  • Negative keywords
  • Location targeting
  • Scheduling
  • Device performance
  • Creatives
  • Landing pages
  • Conversions, Goals, and Conversion Actions
  • Budgets
  • Account history and recent activity

Audits allow us to understand gaps and potential losses incursion and inform us on where that leak may be occurring.

Campaign Initial Strategy

Prior to launching a campaign, we determine the objectives of the campaign.

This may be:

  • Phone calls
  • Contact form submissions
  • Consultation requests
  • Audit requests
  • Quote requests
  • Proposal requests
  • Qualified website inquiries

We also determine the specific projects that will occupy the greatest share of the budget.

It is a waste of budget to attempt to promote all services at once. A focused approach improves the likelihood of success and clarifies the results we can expect.

Keyword research

A keyword that looks relevant can appeal to the wrong audience.

We research how potential clients look for a solution, what terms are calling for an immediate need, and if the term is representative of the service we are promoting.

Keywords can also be assessed for:

  • Commercial intent
  • Service keywords
  • Local search intent
  • Volume and competition
  • Expected cost
  • Relevance of landing pages
  • Potential negative keywords

The goal of the list should be what the business sells and not what just generates clicks.

Google Ads PPC keyword research and filtering process for selecting high-converting search terms and improving campaign performance.

Negative Keywords

Negative keywords allow us to hide ads from irrelevant search terms.

Searches about the following may be included:

  • Jobs
  • Training
  • Free tools
  • Templates
  • Definitions
  • Unrelated services
  • Unsupported locations
  • Do it yourself info
  • Low value requests
  • Services the business does not offer

Managing negative keywords is not a one time task. New exclusions are typically found based on actual search term data that is collected after the campaign has begun.

Campaign Structure

Campaign structure determines budget allocation, advertisement relevance, and reporting.

The level of detail in the campaign structure depends on the scope. We may group campaigns by:

  • Service
  • Audience
  • Location
  • Offer
  • Search intent
  • Landing page
  • Business priority

Separating campaigns by these criteria allows us to better allocate budget and determine which campaigns drive the most conversions.

Advertisement Copy

An ad only has a few seconds to capture attention, so it is critical to design advertisements with strong headlines to highlight the service or offer, as well as an effective description to communicate next steps.

This structure will help the ad copy communicate:

  • The service
  • Who it is for
  • The benefits
  • What makes it unique
  • An approved offer
  • The service area
  • A strong call to action

We do not mislead with unsupported claims, fake urgency, or guarantees the business cannot honor.

Landing Page Alignment

The experience after the click is just as critical as the advertisement.

If a potential customer is directed to a general homepage from a search for a specific service, the customer is then required to work to find the information they were expecting.

A campaign landing page must have the following:

  • A relevant headline
  • A good service match
  • Concise benefits
  • Supporting information
  • Trust signals
  • Frequently asked questions
  • A phone number
  • A contact form with focused questions
  • A strong call to action

Depending on the website, we may modify an existing page, or we may recommend a dedicated landing page.

Web design or development work will be listed separately in the proposal if needed.

Geo-Targeting

Local businesses need careful geographic targeting.

We configure campaigns around the approved service areas and business model. This may include selected cities, regional boundaries, or appropriate radius targeting.

We also check whether the location of the campaign may show ads to users who are not in the targeted area.

Grace Digital Co. operates as a service area business and understands that campaign coverage must reflect where the company can serve customers.

Conversion Tracking

Clicks do not convey everything.

We determine the actions that matter and helped configure tracking for agreed conversions, which may include the following:

  • Phone calls
  • Contact forms
  • Consultation bookings
  • Audit requests
  • Quote requests
  • Proposal requests

Reporting tracking is of importance. A page view should not be considered a lead just to make the dashboard better.

Budget Control

Your budget should give priority to your adverts.

We look at how the budget allocation varies in terms of campaigns, services, keywords, locations, devices, and various time intervals. We may recommend relocating the budget to more effective services with strong potential, and reducing budget allocation for underperforming services.

The ad budget is different from Grace Digital Co.’s management budget, unless the proposal states otherwise.

Search Term Reviews

Targeted keywords vs actual search terms identify how people think about what they’re searching for.

Irrelevant searches may never be discovered without the search term review.

These reviews may uncover poor match type decisions and keywords that identify the wrong audience.

Search term reviews become much more useful as they remove irrelevant searches and poor match type decisions.

They allow you to find new negative keywords, new keyword opportunities, and to identify customer language that is unexpected.

They help you zero in on your audience.

Regular review of search terms helps you zero in on your audience and reduce wasteful spending.

Search Match Types, Modifiers, and Negative Keywords

Paid search requires regular checking.

Depending on campaign activity and available data, optimization may include:

  • Category keyword changes
  • Negative keyword additions
  • Bid or budget changes
  • Ad text changes
  • Location changes
  • Time of day changes
  • Different device changes
  • Better landing page suggestions
  • Conversion tracking changes

We do not make changes solely to create the illusion of work.

Each change must have a reason.

Transparent PPC Reporting

A PPC Report must answer clear questions.

  • How much was the spend?
  • Which campaigns consumed the budget?
  • How many tracked inquiries occurred?
  • What was the cost of a conversion?
  • Which services were noticed?
  • Which search terms were money wasters?
  • How did things change from the prior report?
  • What changes will be done next?

We provide context to the numbers showing actual account activity, and explain your account so you don't need to decode advertising terms.

Our PPC Management Process

  1. Request a Free Website and Marketing Audit

    We evaluate your website, offers, conversion paths, and any advertising accounts you share with us.

    The audit helps determine if your business will profitably send paid website traffic.

  2. Receive Your Audit Report Within 24 to 48 Hours

    An audit report is provided to you within 24 to 48 hours.

    The report may include:

    • Account structure
    • Keyword friction
    • Search term wastage
    • Landing page friction
    • Tracking friction
    • Offer friction
    • Conversion friction
    • Priorities

    You receive some interesting insights prior to agreeing to ongoing PPC management.

  3. Take a Discovery Call

    After the audit is complete, we discuss the following:

    • Goals
    • Required services
    • Preferred clients
    • Service areas
    • Lead source
    • Marketing budget
    • Typical project value
    • Lead qualification
    • Sales capacity
    • Follow up

    Understanding these challenges helps us distinguish between a ‘conversion’ that is considered valuable in Google Ads and an ‘inquiry’ that is actually valuable to your business.

  4. Review Your Custom Proposal

    If we decide paid search is the right way to go, we will prepare a custom proposal.

    The proposal will address the following elements:

    1. Campaign scope
    2. Management responsibilities
    3. Landing page requirements
    4. Tracking
    5. Budget recommendation
    6. Reporting
    7. Schedule
    8. Management fee

    Grace Digital Co. provides custom pricing and monthly retainers.

  5. Build or Restructure the Campaign

    The approved campaign structure, keywords, negative keywords, advertisements, location settings, conversion actions, and landing page suggestions are constructed after onboarding.

    In cases where a campaign needs major changes, we may restructure it before increasing spending.

  6. Review Before Launch

    Prior to the campaign launch we verify the following:

    1. Services
    2. Locations
    3. Advertisements
    4. Keywords
    5. Negative keywords
    6. Website Destination URLs
    7. Phone Numbers
    8. Forms
    9. Conversion tracking
    10. Daily budgets

    Advertisement, offer, and landing page claims may require client approval.

  7. Launch and Monitor

    After the launch we monitor tracking and ensure settled queries are not serving your advertisements. We monitor budget and early performance as well.

    Early performance data can show patterns, but may not tell the whole story. We avoid making significant conclusions based on a small number of clicks.

  8. Optimize and Report

    We use the information to adjust the campaign and provide a report on the campaign, as well as perform ad account optimization.

    Your business can provide information on the quality of leads that come from the campaign. This information helps us determine whether the converted goals we track are worthwhile.

How Quickly Can Google Ads Produce Results?

Google Ads can generate traffic and display advertisements quickly once the campaign is launched, but lacks the potential to produce immediate leads.

Campaign activity is required for a new campaign to determine what performs better: searches, ads, audiences, and landing pages. This campaign will take the following factors into consideration:

  • Search demand
  • Competition
  • Advertising budget
  • Click costs
  • Offer quality
  • Website experience
  • Landing page relevance
  • Brand credibility
  • Conversion tracking
  • Response time
  • Sales follow up

Of the two, paid search can provide feedback faster than SEO, but don't mistake faster visibility for profitability.

Grace Digital Co. will explain what early data shows without presenting every click as progress.

Google Ads campaign journey from keyword to qualified inquiry

PPC Management Services for Small Businesses

Small businesses need greater control over spending.

Large companies can sustain an inefficient campaign for a while. Local businesses generally can't.

Our focus is on:

  1. Clear service selection
  2. Practical geographic targeting
  3. Relevant commercial searches
  4. Strong negative keyword controls
  5. Focused landing pages
  6. Accurate conversion tracking
  7. Understandable budget reporting

We would recommend starting with lower volume but high priority services, rather than dividing the budget across all offered services.

PPC and SEO differ.

They both utilize the search engines, but they have different methods.

PPC

Paid ads present the opportunity to gain visibility more quickly in relevant search results.

Visibility is lost when the advertisements are no longer being run.

SEO

The method focused on visibility in unpaid search results is more gradual and focuses improvements in technical aspects, content, relevance, and authority.

Using Both

Paid search can provide early market feedback while SEO develops. Search term data can reveal how customers describe their needs.

The two channels should be able to cooperate to share insights without one channel claiming ownership or competing for reporting credit.

Our SEO Services page provides additional detail on organic search.

PPC Management and Lead Generation

PPC management covers the paid advertising channel.

Lead generation offers a systematic approach to converting attention to business opportunity.

This may include SEO, content, offers, landing pages, calls, forms, and sales follow-up.

A paid campaign can support lead generation, but the two services are not a substitute for each other.

What Makes Grace Digital Co. Different?

We Look Beyond Clicks

Traffic is important but inquiries and lead quality are more important.

We Explain the Spending

You should know how much was spent, where it was spent, and what result was achieved.

We Connect Ads With Landing Pages

An advertisement cannot overcome a landing page that is confusing to visitors or fails to make the next step clear.

We Set Realistic Expectations

While Paid search can be relatively quick, no agency can or should guarantee instant leads or sales.

We Customize the Campaign

Your services, locations, goals, budgets, and sales capacity inform the strategy.

We Listen to Business Feedback

Conversion data provides information on who contacted you. Your staff should be able to inform us if these inquiries were valuable.

PPC Management Prices

Pricing for PPC management is determined by:

  1. The number of campaigns
  2. Services offered
  3. Advertised locations
  4. Advertising budget
  5. The state of the account at the time of management
  6. Tracking requirements
  7. Needs for landing pages
  8. The requested level of reporting
  9. The degree of complexity in the campaigns

Grace Digital Co. offers custom pricing and monthly retainers.

Your Google Ads budget is generally charged directly to the advertising platform and is kept entirely separate from the management fee.

After the audit and discovery call, you receive a proposal that outlines the recommended scope of work and cost of management.

Request a Custom PPC Management Proposal

PPC Management for Southern California

Grace Digital Co. is based in Tarzana and functions as a service-area business.

We provide PPC management for businesses in:

  • Irvine
  • Pasadena
  • Thousand Oaks
  • Glendale
  • Burbank
  • Westlake Village
  • Culver City
  • El Segundo

Campaign targeting is set based on a client's actual service coverage and is not limited by Grace Digital Co.

PPC advertising budget management and allocation

Frequently Asked Questions

What is PPC management?

PPC management refers to the planning and administration of paid advertising.

The tasks may include: account audits, keyword research, negative keyword insertion, campaign structure, ad copy, location-based ad targeting, budget optimization, conversion tracking, recommendations for landing page creation, and reports.

Is PPC the same as Google Ads?

PPC stands for pay per click, which is one type of advertising model. Google Ads is one of the platforms that businesses can use to engage in PPC advertising.

This page primarily addresses paid search management for Google Ads.

How much should I spend on Google Ads?

This depends on your service offerings, your locations, the volume of search activity, your competition, the estimated cost for a single click, and what you hope to achieve with your business.

Is advertising spend listed under management fee?

This is not common practice.

The management fee is used to take care of strategy, setup, monitoring, optimization, and reporting. The ad spend is used to pay Google and is shown in your proposal.

Do you take responsibility for meeting lead or sales quotas?

No.

With Google Ads, there is no way to guarantee a certain amount of leads or sales of a specific value. The factors that influence Google Ads results are demand, competition, budget, target selection, ad quality, the website, and your sales process.

How long does it take for PPC to provide results?

Ads can be approved and implemented to start driving traffic in a relatively short time. Substantive optimization requires time and the development of reliable data.

Optimization based on reliable data in PPC campaigns varies, based largely on market conditions and budget.

Can Grace Digital Co. manage an existing Google Ads account for us?

Yes. We can do an audit for the existing account to see current tracking, spending, performance, campaign structure, keywords, search terms, and results.

From the audit, we can tell if we should keep the current campaigns or modify the structure.

Will ownership of the account remain with the client?

Yes.

The business data and advertising account should remain with the client.

Grace Digital Co. should have the account access for the approved management work.

Is the creation of a landing page within your scope?

This can be added as a custom scope.

We first see if a page can be used in support of the campaign.

Are you local to me?

Grace Digital is able to offer PPC management for companies located in Southern California. Grace Digital's office location is Tarzana, with additional coverage for Irvine, Pasadena, Thousand Oaks, Glendale, Burbank, Westlake Village, Culver City, and El Segundo.

What happens once I request the audit?

Upon access to your website and existing advertising account, we conduct an audit.

You will receive the audit report within 24 to 48 hours. The report will be followed by a discovery call to determine your advertising budget as well as outline your advertising goals and provide direction on the next step.

Put Your Advertising Budget to Use

Paid advertisements, particularly Google Ads campaigns, that lack proper targeting, tracking, and landing pages can be financially draining, as they can yield results that have limited or no value to the company.

Grace Digital Co. will help you create a more effective paid search campaign pertaining to your targeted customer segments and business objectives.

Get started with a free website and marketing audit. Report will be sent within 24 to 48 hours, giving you ample opportunity for strategy prior to the discovery call to assess if PPC is a viable option for your business.

Get Your Free Website and Marketing Audit Book a Free Strategy Call

phone (323) 709-4456
email team@gracedigitalco.com

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