Digital Marketing

Paid Search That's Judged on Profit, Not Clicks

We manage Google, Shopping and Microsoft Ads against the numbers that decide whether the channel is worth running: cost per acquisition, return on ad spend, and revenue.

  • Free account audit
  • Your account, your billing, your data
  • Weekly search term review
  • No long-term contract

Is this you?

Four Signs Your Ad Budget Is Leaking

Every one of these is fixable, and every one of them is costing you money this month.

  • Your cost per lead keeps climbing

    Same budget, fewer conversions, and no clear explanation from whoever is running it.

  • You're getting clicks but not customers

    Traffic arrives, bounces, and the sales team never hears about it.

  • Nobody can tell you your ROAS

    Conversion tracking was set up once, by someone who's gone, and nobody trusts the numbers.

  • Google's recommendations are running the account

    Auto-applied changes, broad match everywhere, and spend drifting into terms you'd never choose.

Overview

Paid Search, Managed for Return

Measurement first, structure second, creative third — in that order, because each depends on the one before it.

Paid search is the fastest channel to results and the fastest to waste money, and the difference between the two is almost never the ad copy. It's whether the tracking is trustworthy, whether the keywords match real buying intent, and whether the page the click lands on was built to convert. Get those three right and the account becomes predictable. Get them wrong and you're paying Google to send you tyre-kickers.

We start with measurement, because every decision after it depends on the numbers being real. Conversion actions get defined and de-duplicated, values get attached to them, and offline conversions get imported where the sale closes on a call rather than a form. Only when we trust the data do we touch the campaigns — restructuring around intent, building negative keyword lists that keep spend on-target, and setting bidding strategies to the goal you actually care about.

From there it's disciplined iteration: test ad variants, prune what's expensive and unproductive, expand what's working, and keep pressure on the post-click experience, because a great campaign pointed at a bad landing page is still a bad campaign. You get a monthly report with spend, conversions, cost per acquisition and ROAS on the front page — and if the channel isn't returning, we'll tell you that rather than reframing it.

Capabilities

What's Included

Nine parts of a paid search programme. The unglamorous ones are where the returns are.

  • Google Ads Management

    Search, Display, Video and Performance Max campaigns structured around intent, with bidding aligned to your actual conversion goal.

  • Shopping & Feed Optimisation

    Merchant Center health, feed titles and attributes, and campaign structures that push budget toward the products with margin.

  • Microsoft Ads

    The same rigour on Bing, where cost per click is frequently lower and the audience often skews to higher-value B2B.

  • Keyword & Intent Research

    High-intent terms identified, low-intent terms excluded, and match types chosen deliberately rather than left to defaults.

  • Negative Keyword Management

    Ongoing search term review with negatives applied weekly. This is the least glamorous work in the account and the most profitable.

  • Ad Copywriting & Testing

    Responsive search assets written to qualify as well as attract, tested continuously and rotated on evidence rather than instinct.

  • Conversion Tracking & Attribution

    Clean conversion actions, values, offline import and consent-mode configuration, so reported ROAS matches what the finance team sees.

  • Landing Page Optimisation

    Message match, form friction and page speed addressed on the pages your ads point at, because click-to-conversion is where most budget is lost.

  • Remarketing & Audience Strategy

    Sequenced re-engagement for people who visited, viewed a product or abandoned a cart, with frequency caps that stop you annoying them.

Deliverables

What You Receive

  • Account audit documenting structure, waste and quick wins
  • Rebuilt campaign structure with naming conventions you can navigate
  • Conversion tracking configured, tested and documented
  • Keyword and negative keyword lists, maintained weekly
  • Ad copy variants with a live testing schedule
  • Landing page recommendations prioritised by expected lift
  • Monthly report leading with spend, CPA, ROAS and revenue
  • Full account ownership — the account stays in your name

Stack

Platforms & Tooling

Everything runs in your accounts, under your billing, with us as a managed user.

Platforms

  • Google Ads
  • Microsoft Ads
  • Google Merchant Center
  • Meta Ads Manager

Measurement

  • GA4
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Server-side tagging
  • Consent Mode

Optimisation

  • Google Ads Editor
  • Optmyzr
  • Microsoft Clarity
  • Hotjar

Reporting

  • Looker Studio
  • GA4
  • Google Sheets

Our Process

How We Take Over an Ad Account

Six phases. Nothing gets optimised until the numbers can be trusted.

  • 01

    Account Audit

    We review structure, spend distribution, search terms, tracking integrity and landing pages, then quantify what's being wasted and where the opportunity is.

    Deliverables: Audit document, waste analysis, opportunity sizing

    1 week
  • 02

    Tracking & Measurement

    Conversion actions defined, values attached, tags verified and offline conversions imported, so every later decision rests on numbers you can trust.

    Deliverables: Tracking implementation, verification report, measurement plan

    1–2 weeks
  • 03

    Strategy & Structure

    Campaign architecture, budget allocation across campaign types, bidding strategy and forecast targets, agreed before anything goes live.

    Deliverables: Account blueprint, budget plan, target CPA and ROAS

    1–2 weeks
  • 04

    Build & Launch

    Campaigns, ad groups, keywords, negatives, assets and extensions built to the blueprint, then launched in a controlled ramp rather than all at once.

    Deliverables: Live campaigns, launch QA checklist, baseline dashboard

    1–2 weeks
  • 05

    Optimisation

    Weekly search term review, bid and budget adjustments, creative testing, and landing page iteration.

    Deliverables: Weekly change log, test results, optimisation notes

    Ongoing
  • 06

    Reporting & Scaling

    Monthly performance review against CPA and ROAS, with scaling decisions made from it rather than from instinct.

    Deliverables: Monthly report, scaling recommendations, quarterly strategy review

    Ongoing

Engagement

How We Work Together

Three ways in, depending on whether you need the account fixed or the account run.

  • Ongoing management with weekly optimisation and monthly reporting. Priced on a percentage of spend or a flat fee, whichever suits your budget shape.

Fit

Who This Is For

And, just as usefully, who it isn't for.

Ideal for

  • E-commerce businesses with margin to protect and a product feed to exploit
  • Lead generation businesses where a lead has a known, trackable value
  • Local service businesses competing on urgent, high-intent searches
  • SaaS companies driving demo and trial signups
  • Businesses that need revenue this quarter, not next year
  • Anyone inheriting an account nobody has audited in twelve months

Not the right fit if

Why DM Solutions

How We Manage Accounts Differently

Four habits that separate a managed account from a monitored one.

  • Measurement Before Money

    We don't optimise against numbers we don't trust. Tracking gets fixed in week one, every time, even when it delays the launch.

  • Negatives Are a Weekly Habit

    Search term review happens every week, not every quarter. It's the highest-return hour in account management and most agencies skip it.

  • We Argue With the Landing Page

    If the click is fine and the page is losing it, we'll say so and fix it rather than quietly buying more clicks.

  • Your Account, Your Data

    Campaigns live in your Google Ads account under your billing. History, audiences and learning stay with you if we part ways.

Proof of work

Paid Campaigns That Paid Back

Accounts where the change showed up in cost per acquisition, not just in the dashboard.

Testimonials

What Clients Say About Working With Us

  • DM Solutions feels less like an agency and more like an extension of our own team. They challenge our assumptions, bring data to every debate, and genuinely care whether the numbers move.

    Elena Vasquez

    Head of Demand Gen, Cortex Software

  • What stood out was that they treated our budget like it was their own money. Every channel was measured, the underperformers got cut fast, and the winners got scaled. Refreshingly honest.

    Hannah Brooks

    VP Marketing, FreshCart

  • The campaign strategy paid for itself within the first quarter. Qualified leads went up, cost per acquisition came down, and for once the reporting actually made sense to our leadership team.

    Aisha Demir

    CMO, Verde Wellness

Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

The six that come up in almost every paid search conversation.

  • Enough for the account to learn — below roughly £/$1,500 a month most campaigns can't gather enough conversion data to optimise properly. Beyond that, budget follows return: once cost per acquisition is stable and profitable, scaling is a maths problem rather than a leap of faith.

Find Out What Your Ad Budget Is Actually Buying

Send us access to your account. We'll come back with where the waste is, what it's costing you monthly, and what we'd change first.

Audit within 48 hours. No contract, no obligation.