Calgary Google Ads
that pay back.
[ CALGARY · PPC ]
FIXED FEE · WEEKLY READOUTS · NO LONG CONTRACTS
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Calgary · Google Ads
We're the Google Ads agency that rebuilds Calgary accounts that leak.
Audit, rebuild, tune weekly. Fixed monthly fee. Your ad spend stays with Google, never us. Search is one channel, so the same team runs Meta ads and Calgary SEO when paid search is not the whole answer.
Get a free auditYou probably landed here from a Google ad.
Now let us run yours.
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Method
How Google Ads and PPC actually work in Calgary.
Paid search is not one setting you get right. It is a stack of them, and most of the wasted money drains through three or four before a single ad gets written. Here is the mechanical version of what we check, in the order we check it.
Keywords are what you bid on. Search terms are what people typed.
Those are two different lists, and the gap between them is where most Calgary budgets go. You bid on a keyword, Google matches it to live searches, and on broad match it matches loosely. A plumbing account bidding on emergency plumber calgary ends up paying for plumber salary and how to fix a leaking tap. The search terms report shows every query that actually triggered an ad. First pass, we read it line by line and build the negative keyword list out of your real queries instead of a template someone else's account produced. Then it gets read again every week, because that list is never finished. New junk shows up for as long as the account runs.
The Calgary targeting setting most accounts get wrong
Google Ads gives you two location options and defaults to the looser one. Presence or interest serves your ads to people in Calgary and to people anywhere who have shown interest in Calgary. For a contractor who only services the city, a slice of that budget is going to people who will never book. Presence limits delivery to people in or regularly in the area you targeted. We set presence on almost every local account, exclude the areas the business will not drive to, and then read the geographic report to see which quadrants and surrounding towns are converting, because Calgary does not behave like one market. Whether Airdrie, Okotoks, and Chestermere behave like the inner city for your offer is a question your own geographic report answers, and it answers it long before instinct does.
Conversion tracking decides what Smart Bidding chases
Smart Bidding buys exactly what you told it a conversion is. If a form page load counts, it buys form page loads. If every phone tap on mobile counts whether or not anyone picked up, it buys taps. So tracking gets rebuilt before we touch a bid: one primary conversion action tied to actual revenue, everything softer demoted to secondary so it still reports but no longer steers bidding, deduplication so one lead is not counted three times, and call tracking with a minimum call length so a two-second misdial is not scored as a customer. An account with clean tracking and average ads beats an account with sharp ads and dirty tracking. It is not close.
Quality Score is three parts, and one of them is not the ad
Google scores expected click-through rate, ad relevance, and landing page experience. Two of those three live in the account. The third lives on your site, which is why a page that loads slowly, buries the offer, or never repeats the words the searcher just typed quietly raises what you pay for every click. That is the reason we treat landing pages as part of paid search work instead of a separate project, and why ad groups get split tight enough that each one can point at a page written for that exact search. Structure moves the score in a way that raising bids cannot.
What sets the price of a Calgary click
The agency does not set your cost per click. The auction does. Google ranks ads on your bid, ad quality at auction time, the Ad Rank thresholds, the context of the search, and the expected impact of your assets, the sitelinks and callouts hanging off the ad. Two of those are craft rather than budget, and that is the part worth paying someone for. It also means the honest answer to what PPC in Calgary costs depends on which auction you are standing in, and that varies by category. So we pull your own account and category data during the audit and quote from that, not from a rate card written before we knew anything about you.
What lands in your inbox every week
A written readout, not a dashboard link you never open. What changed and why, the queries added to the negative list, which ad groups gained or lost, spend measured against pace for the month, and the one thing we want to test next. If a week was quiet, the readout says the week was quiet. The bar we hold it to is simple: you can forward it to whoever signs off on the budget and they can follow it without booking a call.
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How we work.
Free 24h audit.
Send your account. Wasted spend back in writing, plus a 90 day plan.
Rebuild week 1.
New structure, conversion tracking, RSAs, landing pages.
Weekly tuning.
Search terms cleaned. Bids tuned. Ads tested. Weekly readouts.
Scale what works.
Once Smart Bidding has 15+ conversions, ramp budget on winners.
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Free Google Ads audit.
Wasted spend identified, 90 day plan written, reply within one business day.