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What an audit usually finds

Most PPC Accounts Aren't Broken — They're Unmanaged

These are the specific situations a business asking about PPC is usually already living with. Naming them is more useful than describing what good account management looks like, because the gap is nearly always one of these.

Set up once, never revisited

Campaigns built for a market that has since changed. Costs rise, competitors enter and exit, and the structure underneath stays exactly as it was on launch day.

Broad match with no negative discipline

Budget spread across terms nobody chose, because nothing was ever excluded. The search terms report usually shows exactly where it went.

Conversion tracking that was never verified

The single most common thing an audit finds broken. When tracking is wrong, every "result" reported on top of it is a guess presented as a number.

Landing pages that don't match ad intent

The ad promises one thing and the page delivers another. That mismatch quietly inflates cost-per-click long before anyone notices the spend.

Reports that count clicks, not customers

Spend and clicks get reported because they are easy to report, not because they answer the question the business actually has: what did a qualified lead cost?

Only ever the last 30 days

A monthly snapshot with no trend behind it, so a slow decline over two quarters looks like a normal month every single month.

PPC doesn't fail because the platforms don't work. It fails when nobody is accountable for what happens after the campaign goes live.
What changes

What Changes When Someone Is Actually Accountable

  • Qualified traffic faster than organic search alone can deliver it
  • Budget spent on buyers rather than browsers, because the targeting was chosen rather than inherited
  • Clear cost-per-lead visibility, so the number you compare against is a real one
  • Landing pages matched to the intent of the ad that sent the click
  • Campaigns that improve month over month instead of running set-and-forget
  • A second opinion on an existing account before you commit further spend to it
What we manage

Full-Funnel Paid Search & Paid Social Management

Which of these belong in your mix is an outcome of the audit, not a menu to pick from. Running all of them badly is the most expensive option available.

Google Search Ads

Keyword research, ad copy, bid strategy and Smart Bidding configuration for the high-intent searches where someone is already looking for what you sell.

Google Shopping & Performance Max

Product feed setup and Performance Max campaigns spanning Search, Shopping, Display, YouTube and Gmail from one structure — configured with per-channel reporting, so spend by channel stays visible instead of disappearing into a single blended number.

Google Display & Remarketing

Visual campaigns and remarketing sequences that stay in front of the visitors who didn't convert the first time, which on most sites is nearly all of them.

YouTube Ads

Video campaign strategy and setup for awareness and demand generation, where the goal is being known before the search happens rather than winning the click today.

Meta Ads (Facebook & Instagram)

Audience targeting, creative testing and budget management across Meta's platforms, for demand you have to create rather than capture. The organic side of those same platforms — content, cadence and community — is social media marketing.

LinkedIn Ads

B2B lead generation, recruitment and account-based targeting — recommended where the value of the audience genuinely justifies LinkedIn's higher cost per click, and not by default.

Microsoft (Bing) Ads

Often lower-competition, lower-cost coverage of search traffic Google Ads alone never sees. Rarely the main channel, frequently the cheapest incremental one.

Landing Page Alignment

Every campaign is reviewed against where its traffic actually lands. A mismatched destination is treated as a campaign problem, not somebody else's project — and when the page itself is the bottleneck, that is landing page development.

Our approach

Strategy Before Spend

Before any campaign goes live, these get defined. Not as a formality — every one of them is a decision that costs money later if it is made by default instead of on purpose.

Target audience

Who you are actually trying to reach, described specifically enough that a targeting decision follows from it.

Search and platform intent

What someone is doing when they see your ad. Intent on a search result and intent mid-scroll are not the same buyer, and the same creative will not work on both.

Competitive landscape

Who else is bidding, on what, and how that shapes what your budget can realistically buy in this market.

Budget-to-goal ratio

Whether the budget can gather enough data to reach the stated goal. If it cannot, we say so before the campaign runs, not after the money is gone.

Conversion definition

What counts as a conversion, agreed in advance. Half of PPC disagreements are really disagreements about this.

Tracking plan

How each of those conversions will be measured, and how we will know the measurement is right.

Landing page fit

Whether the destination page can convert the traffic being sent to it — assessed before spend, because the click is the part you pay for either way.

Account-first, not campaign-first

A new campaign is only as good as the account structure underneath it. Existing accounts get audited for structure, wasted spend and tracking accuracy before anything new is built on top of them.

The free audit

What We Check Before Touching Your Budget

This is the actual scope of the free PPC audit — a genuine account review, not a sales pitch dressed as one. You can take the findings and act on them yourself.
  • Account and campaign structure
  • Conversion tracking accuracy — the single most common thing found broken
  • The search terms report: what is actually triggering your ads
  • Negative keyword coverage
  • Quality Score and ad relevance
  • Whether the bidding strategy fits the goal it was set for
  • Budget pacing, plus geographic and device targeting
  • Landing page-to-ad message match
  • Historical performance trend, not just the last 30 days
Where we stand

We Use Automation. We Don't Outsource Judgement to It.

Smart Bidding and AI-driven campaign types — Performance Max, and now Google's AI Max for Search — are how these campaigns are configured today, not an optional extra bolted on top. That has genuinely changed the job: less manual bid-tweaking, far more work on the inputs the automation depends on.

Clean conversion data

Automated bidding optimises toward whatever you told it a conversion is. Tell it wrong and it will optimise toward the wrong thing with great efficiency.

The right audience signals

Automation needs a starting point. Which audiences, which first-party data, which exclusions — those are still decisions somebody has to make.

Creative variety

Automated campaign types test combinations rather than versions. They can only test what they were given, so the range of assets supplied is now part of the strategy.

Account structure

How campaigns are split determines what the algorithm can learn separately and what it blends together. Structure is a lever automation does not touch.

Fewer manual levers, not fewer decisions

Automated bidding can improve results, and it also removes controls managers used to rely on. That makes strategy, tracking quality and creative testing matter more now, not less.

Which is why the audit exists

Automation is only ever as good as what it is given to work with. Checking what it has been given is the first thing worth doing on any account.

Measurement

If It's Not Tracked Correctly, the Rest Doesn't Matter

What gets reported, and how far down the funnel it goes. Each row is only as trustworthy as the tracking underneath it, which is why the tracking is verified first.

Campaign spend

What went out, by campaign and by platform, reconciled against what the platform billed.

Impressions and clicks

The base layer. Useful for diagnosing reach and relevance, and close to useless on its own as a measure of success.

Conversion rate

How much of the traffic you paid for did the thing you defined as a conversion — the first number that says something about the landing page rather than the ad.

Cost per lead

The figure most businesses actually manage against, and the one that only means something once tracking has been validated.

Cost per qualified lead

The more honest version. A campaign generating cheap leads that never qualify is not a cheap campaign, and separating the two changes what you optimise toward.

Lead-to-customer and return on ad spend

Reported where attribution genuinely allows it and where revenue data exists — and left out, rather than estimated, where it does not.

Conversion tracking is checked and validated before it is trusted. A pixel firing is not evidence that it is firing on the right thing, once, for the right reason.
Transparency

No Dashboards You Can't Question

What you will not find on this page: certification badges, campaign result percentages or client counts. We publish what we can evidence, and none of those are evidenced here yet. What we can commit to is what the monthly report contains — plain language, showing what changed, why, and what is planned next:
  • What changed in the account this month, and the reasoning behind each change
  • What a lead cost, against the goal agreed at the strategy stage rather than a moving target
  • Which campaigns and search terms earned their spend, and which wasted it
  • What is not working, stated as plainly as what is
  • What is planned next, and what it is expected to change
  • The underlying platform data, whenever you want to check any of the above yourself
Post-click

The Click Is Only Half the Job

A high cost-per-click is often a landing-page problem wearing a PPC costume. Every proposal includes an honest assessment of whether the destination page can convert the traffic being sent to it — and if it cannot, more budget makes the problem more expensive rather than smaller.

The page is the bottleneck

Right traffic, wrong destination. A campaign-specific landing page built around one ad's promise usually beats sending paid traffic to a general page that has to serve everyone.

The whole site is the bottleneck

When every page converts poorly rather than one, that is not a campaign fix. A website redesign is the honest recommendation, even though it is the slower answer.

There is no real site yet

Ads pointing at a thin or unfinished site burn budget teaching you something you could have known first. Business website development comes before the campaign, not after it.

The store is the bottleneck

For Shopping and Performance Max, the product feed and the checkout matter as much as the bid. That work sits with ecommerce website development, and we would rather fix it than bid around it.

Who this fits

PPC That Fits How You Actually Sell

What differs between these is not the platform — it is what counts as a conversion, and how long the gap is between the click and the money.

Local service businesses

Where the conversion is a call or an enquiry, geography does most of the targeting work, and a wasted click is a click from outside your service area.

B2B companies

Long consideration cycles, small qualified audiences and a real gap between a form fill and a signed deal — which is exactly why cost per qualified lead matters more here than cost per lead.

Ecommerce stores

Shopping and Performance Max campaigns, where the product feed is half the campaign and return on ad spend is measurable rather than inferred.

Healthcare and appointment-based businesses

Where the conversion is a booking, not a sale. We built Medix, our own hospital appointment platform — so what happens after the click, and whether it can be tracked at all, is a conversation we have with specifics rather than optimism.

SaaS and software companies

Demo requests and trial signups, where the tracked conversion sits early in a funnel that keeps going long after the ad platform stops watching.

Not sure which of these you are

Then the audit is the right starting point rather than a proposal. Defining the conversion properly changes more about a campaign than choosing the platform does.

Our process

From Audit to Accountable Campaign

1

Audit

Review the existing account, or the starting position if there isn't one, against the checklist above.

Output: a written audit with specific findings.
2

Strategy

Define goals, budget allocation across platforms, targeting and what counts as a conversion.

Output: a campaign plan.
3

Tracking Setup

Verify or build conversion tracking before any spend increases on top of it.

Output: validated tracking.
4

Build

Construct campaigns, ad groups, creative and audiences against the agreed plan.

Output: live, structured campaigns.
5

Launch

Go live with the agreed budget and monitoring already in place.

Output: active campaigns.
6

Optimize

Ongoing bid, budget, creative and targeting refinement based on real performance data.

Output: month-over-month improvement.
7

Report

Transparent reporting against the goals set in step two, not a generic template.

Output: a report you can act on.
What you get

What a PPC Engagement Delivers

Depending on scope:
  • An account and campaign audit with specific findings
  • A strategy document covering goals, platforms and budget allocation
  • Campaign build across the agreed platforms
  • Conversion tracking setup and validation
  • Creative and ad copy direction
  • Landing page recommendations, whether or not we build them
  • Ongoing bid and budget management
  • Monthly reporting in plain language
  • A quarterly strategy review
Why LeafyWings

We Manage PPC the Way We'd Want It Managed for Us

Auditing before spend recommendations

Nobody gets a budget proposal from us before the account has been looked at. Recommending spend on a structure you have not examined is guessing with someone else's money.

Honest reporting, including the bad months

A report that only ever contains good news is not a report. When something is not working, that goes at the top rather than in a footnote.

Landing pages, SEO and tracking under one roof

Not outsourced. When the audit finds the page rather than the campaign is the problem, the fix does not have to wait behind another company's ticket queue.

Tracking verified before it is trusted

Every number in every report rests on the tracking underneath it. Validating that first is the cheapest thing on this page and the most commonly skipped.

We will say when PPC is not the gap

Sometimes the honest answer is that the site cannot convert paid traffic yet, or the budget cannot gather enough data to learn anything. Taking it anyway would be the easier call.

Plain language over jargon dashboards

Impression share and Quality Score matter, and they are not what you asked for. The report answers the question you actually have, then shows the working.

Be honest about it

Is Paid Search the Right Move Right Now?

PPC tends to make sense when these are true. When they are not, it usually converts budget into data you already had.

You need traffic now, not in three to six months

Paid search buys visibility immediately. That is the one thing it does that no amount of good organic work can do quickly.

You have a clear, trackable conversion goal

A call, a form, a booking, a sale. If nobody can say what a success looks like, no bidding strategy can optimise toward it.

Your site can actually convert paid traffic

The click is the part you pay for regardless of what happens next. A page that converts poorly makes every click more expensive, not fewer.

You can sustain a real test

Enough budget over enough time to gather meaningful data. A few days of spend produces noise, and decisions made on noise are worse than no decisions.

The honest alternative: if the website itself is not ready to convert, or the budget is too small to gather meaningful data, that is worth saying upfront rather than taking the budget anyway. A website redesign fixes the first. For the second, SEO and content marketing compound slowly instead of costing per click, and the wider mix is on our digital marketing page.
How management fees work

PPC Management Built Around Your Budget, Not Ours

PPC management is sold in one of three shapes. Most buyers have never seen them laid out plainly, which makes quotes hard to compare — so here they are, including which situation each one actually suits:
  • Flat monthly fee — a fixed management fee regardless of what you spend on ads. Predictable, easy to budget for, and common on smaller or newer accounts where a percentage would be too small to cover the work.
  • Percentage of ad spend — the fee is calculated as a percentage of your monthly ad budget, so it scales with the account. Common once spend is substantial. Worth knowing that it aligns the agency's revenue with your spend rather than your results, which is a reason to ask what happens when the right recommendation is to spend less.
  • Hybrid — a lower flat base plus a smaller percentage of spend. Often the best fit for a growing account, because it covers the fixed work at low spend without scaling punitively as the account grows.
In all three, ad spend is paid directly to the platform — Google, Meta, LinkedIn or Microsoft — and is entirely separate from the management fee. That distinction matters more than it sounds: a single monthly figure from another agency can quietly mean either, and the two are not comparable. Our own management fee is proposal-based and follows account complexity, platform count and how much needs rebuilding rather than maintaining. Indicative bands for our other services are on the pricing page.

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Frequently Asked Questions

It depends on your industry, how competitive the auction is for your terms, and what you need a campaign to achieve. Part of the free audit is giving you a realistic budget range for your specific market rather than a generic number — and if the honest answer is that the budget available cannot gather enough data to learn anything, that is part of the audit too.
Unlike SEO, paid search can generate traffic and leads within days of launch — that immediacy is the main thing you are buying. Bringing cost-per-lead down to an efficient level is the slower part, because it needs enough real conversion data to optimise against. We would generally not judge an account's cost-per-lead on its first few weeks, and we will tell you what we are seeing before then rather than waiting for a verdict.
Ad spend is paid directly to the platform by you — Google, Meta, LinkedIn or Microsoft. Our fee covers strategy, setup and ongoing management, and the two are kept separate so you always see exactly where the budget goes and what the management of it costs.
Yes. A standalone account audit is available without committing to ongoing management, specifically for this situation. You get the findings whether or not anything else follows.
Read access to the ad account and, ideally, to your analytics — enough to see structure, search terms, tracking and historical trend. Nothing gets changed, nothing gets paused, and no campaign is touched. What comes back is the checklist above worked through against your account, written down, with the specific findings named. If you take that and fix it yourself, the audit has still done its job.
Yes, and it is verified before any budget or targeting decisions are made on top of it. Tracking accuracy is treated as a prerequisite rather than an afterthought, because a bidding strategy optimising toward a mismeasured conversion will pursue the wrong outcome very efficiently.
Yes, and they inform each other. PPC delivers traffic immediately while SEO compounds over months, so the two are commonly run in parallel. The useful part is the data crossing over: PPC shows you which keywords actually convert rather than which ones merely get searched, which is a far better basis for SEO priorities than a keyword tool's volume column.
Google Ads across Search, Shopping, Display, YouTube and Performance Max, plus Meta Ads, LinkedIn Ads and Microsoft Ads. Which of those belong in your mix comes out of the audit — running every platform at once is the most expensive way to find out which one worked.

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