GOOGLE ADS FAQ

Google Ads offers highly targeted advertising, allowing you to reach your desired audience precisely when they’re searching for your product or service. With Google’s massive audience and flexibility in budget and messaging, it’s a powerful platform for generating leads and driving business growth.

North Shore Digital provides various types of Google Ads, including Search Ads for instant SEO domination, Display Ads for brand reach, YouTube Ads for engagement and informational campaigns, and Retargeting Ads to re-engage website visitors who didn’t convert.

North Shore Digital’s Google Ads program includes research and strategy development, account setup, full campaign configuration, ongoing management and optimization, detailed reporting and analytics, and a dedicated account manager for personalized support.

North Shore Digital is a 5-star rated Google Partner with certified Google Ads professionals boasting over 10 years of experience. We specialize in lead generation campaigns across various industries and offer comprehensive research, strategy, and ongoing optimization to maximize campaign performance.

There are several inputs that influence how much time it will take for your Google Ads campaigns to attain optimal ROI. Ultimately, your monthly ad spend divided by your average CPC (cost-per-click) will determine how much data is returned and how quickly campaigns can be optimized.

Ultimately, your ad spend should be determined by your overall marketing budget. However, we typically recommend a spending minimum that is related to average CPC for your service keywords which is based on thorough keyword and competitor analysis.

Depending on your business and services Google Ads & SEO can be quite complimentary. With Google Ads you pay to outrank organic search and, depending on your competition, can rank at the top of Google Search immediately. SEO is a longer term investment that may take months or even years to grow sizeable traffic and leads but clicks are ‘free’ in that you don’t pay Google or other search engines for them.

Don’t worry if you aren’t seeing your ads when you search for your product or service. There are 2 primary reasons why you aren’t:

1. There are other businesses bidding on these same keywords. If Google Ads is a profitable marketing channel for your type of service, then you can bet competitors are also using it to advertise, and that’s fine. You may be 1 of 2, or 1 of 5 or 1 of 100 similar businesses bidding on the same keywords in your service area. The chances that you’ll see your own ad for any given search depend a lot on your competition.
2. The more you search for your own ads, and then don’t click them (remember, clicking your own ads will cost you money, so please avoid this!) the less likely you are to see your own ads in the future. This is because Google’s algorithm “rewards” and wants to show ads to searches that have a higher likelihood of engagement.

North Shore Digital specializes in industries such as landscaping, home services, trades, health practices, and private schools for Google Ads campaigns. Our depth of industry knowledge ensures tailored strategies that resonate with target audiences and drive quality leads.

Yes, North Shore Digital offers audits of existing Google Ads accounts. Our expert team will review your campaigns, identify areas for improvement, and provide recommendations to enhance performance and achieve better results.

Yes, absolutely. We are big fans of client transparency. You will be included as a full administrator of your own Google Ads account and are able to access it any time you would like. If your engagement ever ends with us, we transfer full account access and you retain all your historical data.

Although you will have full access to do so, we strongly recommend not making any changes to campaigns we are managing. Our Google Ads experts have years of experience and training and making changes or micromanaging campaigns typically only serves to slow their process. We encourage you to leave it to the experts and evaluate us on performance – leads & revenue for your business!

If you don’t have a Google Ads account already we will set this up from scratch for you. This includes, but is not limited to:

• Administrative configuration, including setting up billing.
• Syncing Google Ads with all relevant Analytics & CRM platforms.
• If needed, setting up Google Analytics from scratch (essential for lead & conversion tracking).
• Custom conversion tracking code implementation.
• If required, advanced call tracking synced with Google Ads.
• And of course, your full Google Ads campaign configuration!

Whereas Account setup includes all the elements essential to supporting Google Ads campaigns, the full campaign configuration is the actual Google Ads magic. This includes:

• Keyword research, configuration, match types and negative keyword list development.
• Targeting configuration, including; location, audience, demographic, Ad scheduling and more.
• Ad Group configuration
  Ad copy research, Ad configuration, extension configuration, split testing and more.
• Bid strategy selection and ongoing management.
• Advanced tactics such as behavioural retargeting.

At North Shore Digital our mission is to “make data make sense”. Not only do your Google Ads campaigns come with an in-depth report that includes all your performance data, we also configure your Google Analytics to work in sync with your Google Ads account and set up custom coding and tracking for all your most important website leads. We’ll even set up with your 3rd party CRM so that we can track not only important website engagements and leads but also which of these leads converted to a client and the total return on investment for your campaigns.