Paid search captures demand that already exists — buyers actively typing in what you sell, at the bottom of the funnel where intent is highest. Run well, it’s the single most accountable line item in the entire marketing budget. Run badly, it quietly spends a large share of its budget paying for your own branded traffic that would have converted for free anyway, while the dashboard reports a triumphant ROAS.
Where Most Accounts Leak
The two most common forms of waste we find in audits are Performance Max campaigns that blend cold prospecting with branded search into one untouchable black box, and bidding optimised toward platform-reported ROAS rather than actual contribution margin. Both make the account look efficient while it’s structurally bleeding money on traffic it never needed to pay for. The fix isn’t more budget or a new bid strategy — it’s separating intent so you can see, and control, what you’re actually buying.
What We Do
Margin-tiered campaigns with prospecting, branded, and shopping intent properly segmented — no blended asset groups hiding where the money really goes. Structure is what makes everything downstream measurable.
Bids move against contribution margin, not ROAS theatre. A campaign at 4x ROAS on low-margin SKUs can lose money while one at 2x on high-margin SKUs prints it; we bid to the number that actually matters.
Continuous search-term and negative-keyword work so spend stays on genuine intent instead of drifting into broad, expensive, low-converting queries the match types quietly opened up.
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