What does a PPC conversion optimization agency actually do?+
A PPC conversion optimization agency runs paid search media buying and the landing pages that traffic lands on as one connected program, instead of splitting them across two vendors. That means Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, and Performance Max campaign strategy, bidding, and creative sit in the same room as landing page design, copy, and A/B testing — so every dollar of spend is judged on post-click conversion rate, not just click-through rate or cost-per-click.
How much does PPC management cost?+
In the US market, standalone PPC management typically runs $2,500–$8,000/month for accounts spending under $20K/month in media, and $8,000–$20,000+/month for larger accounts, often billed as a flat fee or 8–15% of ad spend. Add landing page CRO — design, dev, and a continuous testing program — and a fully connected PPC + CRO engagement usually runs $6,000–$25,000/month depending on account complexity, number of landing pages in test, and platforms covered. Conversion offers a pay-on-results structure tied to incremental ROAS for qualifying accounts. Get a fixed quote in 48 hours after a 30-minute call.
What's a good ROAS for a paid search campaign?+
It depends entirely on your margin structure, not a universal number. As a rough band: ecommerce brands with healthy margins typically target 4–6x blended ROAS across the account, with branded search often clearing 10x+ and cold prospecting campaigns running 2–3x while they build a remarketing pool. B2B and healthcare lead-gen accounts usually aren't judged on ROAS at all — cost-per-qualified-lead and lead-to-close rate matter more. We set your target off your actual contribution margin and CAC payback window in the first strategy call, not a generic benchmark.
Is there a minimum ad spend to work with your agency?+
Most of our PPC + CRO engagements start with accounts spending $15,000+/month in combined Google and Microsoft Ads media (separate from our management fee), since that's roughly the volume needed to run statistically meaningful landing page tests alongside the media program. We make exceptions for high-intent B2B and healthcare accounts where lead value is high even at lower click volume. Under that threshold, our Shopify Marketing Agency retainer is usually a better fit since paid search is one of several channels running in parallel.
How does landing page CRO actually improve paid media ROI?+
Paid search ROI is a function of two numbers: cost per click and post-click conversion rate. Most agencies only control the first one. A landing page built and continuously tested for the specific traffic segment it receives — matching ad copy to headline, cutting the form or checkout friction, reordering proof and objection-handling for that audience's intent — routinely lifts conversion rate 20–60% without touching bid strategy. That directly compounds ROAS, since you're converting more of the same clicks you're already paying for.
Should we build an in-house PPC team or hire an agency?+
In-house makes sense once you're spending $75K+/month in media and can justify a senior media buyer, a CRO/design resource, and an analytics hire as full-time roles — otherwise you're paying full salaries for part-time attention. An agency gives you senior-level media buying and landing page CRO from day one, cross-account pattern recognition across multiple advertisers, and no hiring risk. Many of our clients run a hybrid model: an in-house marketing lead who owns strategy and brand, with our team executing media buying, landing page builds, and testing.
Do you manage Microsoft Ads (Bing) as well as Google Ads?+
Yes. Microsoft Ads is underpriced traffic for most advertisers — lower CPCs, less competition, and an audience that skews older and higher-income in several verticals, especially B2B and healthcare. We run it as a standard part of the program, not an upsell, typically allocating 10–20% of search budget there once Google campaigns are stable, and scaling it further where the CPA data supports it.
How long until we see results?+
Conversion tracking and account audits are typically complete in week one. New or restructured Google/Microsoft campaigns start serving in weeks 2–3. The first landing page test usually goes live within 14 days of kickoff. Meaningful, statistically significant lift in ROAS and post-click conversion rate is usually visible by day 60–90, once we've cycled through 3–5 landing page test iterations and the account has enough conversion data to bid efficiently.
What's the difference between this and the Shopify Marketing Agency service?+
Our Shopify Marketing Agency service is a full-funnel program for Shopify and Shopify Plus DTC brands — Meta and TikTok ads, Klaviyo email/SMS, SEO, and CRO all running together, with paid search as one channel inside that bundle. This PPC Conversion Optimization service is for brands — on Shopify or any other platform, DTC or B2B or healthcare — who specifically need dedicated paid search management and landing page CRO as their own accountable program, not folded into a broader retainer. If you're Shopify and want everything under one roof, start with Shopify Marketing. If you need a focused PPC + landing page team, this is the right page.
Do you build the landing pages, or just tell us what to change?+
We build them. Our team includes designers and developers who ship landing pages directly — on Shopify, WordPress, Unbounce, Webflow, or a headless stack — not a slide deck of recommendations for your dev team to eventually get to. Every page ships with the testing infrastructure (variant framework, event tracking, statistical significance monitoring) wired in from day one.
How do you handle conversion tracking and attribution?+
Every engagement starts with a tracking audit and rebuild: GA4 configuration, server-side tagging via Google Tag Manager server container or a CAPI-style setup for Google and Microsoft, offline conversion imports for sales-assisted and B2B pipelines, and a documented attribution model everyone agrees on before we optimize a single campaign. Most accounts we inherit are undercounting conversions by 15–40% due to broken client-side tags, ITP/cookie loss, or missing offline conversion import — fixing that alone often changes which campaigns look profitable.
Do you work with B2B lead-gen accounts, or only ecommerce?+
Both. Roughly half our PPC book is ecommerce (Shopping, Performance Max, dynamic remarketing) and half is B2B and healthcare lead-gen (Search, call tracking, form and booking conversion optimization). The media buying principles are similar — the conversion event, sales cycle, and landing page psychology are very different, and we structure campaigns and pages around whichever one your business runs on.
What does enterprise PPC account governance include?+
For larger or multi-brand accounts, we set up naming conventions and campaign architecture that scale past 50+ campaigns without becoming unmanageable, budget pacing and alerting rules, change-log documentation for every structural edit, negative keyword list governance shared across campaigns, brand safety and placement exclusions, and role-based access control for internal stakeholders and finance. This matters most for accounts with multiple internal approvers or regulatory review (healthcare) where an untracked change can cause a compliance problem, not just a wasted budget.