The problem is that you may still be struggling to make it work. After several tries and a significant financial investment, you may be nowhere close to the leads and sales you want and need.
You know (or at least have a well-informed “gut instinct”) that PPC can deliver better results. Unfortunately, you don’t have the time and expertise to figure everything out independently.
Now, you probably think PPC is just a waste of hard-earned dollars if you and your current agency can’t help your case.
But hear us out before you decide to ditch this advertising option altogether: the problem is not PPC itself but how many agencies implement it.
We’re here to show you that we can turn things around for the better with our unique approach, tools, and strategies.
Unlike other agencies, our paid team comprises maths pros who solve problems involving PPC ads, such as Google Ads, Bing Ads, and social media ads, through advanced statistical analysis, nonstop testing, and tweaking to achieve maximum returns for minimum ad spend.
We also work differently.
Before you decide on your advertising budget, we conduct a thorough health check, look at your previous campaigns’ data, find growth opportunities, and give you actionable insights so you know what you’ll get from our PPC services before you partner with us.
Whether you’re a small business that wants to achieve quick leads and sales without breaking the bank or a large corporation willing to spend based on performance, we can help you achieve your PPC goals.
Australia’s Most Trusted PPC Service Agency
“We’re the most trusted agency” is an oft-repeated line most advertising companies in Australia would rather use in their sales pitches than demonstrate.
In your search for the most effective PPC services, you’ve likely worked with many advertisers who overpromise and underdeliver.
Understandably, the words “trustworthy”, “credible”, and “reputable” mean nothing to you now unless facts and real-world case studies back them.
So, we’ll let the numbers speak for us. Over the last 15 years, we’ve worked with 1,812 businesses across 355 niches and managed over 2,103 campaigns. Did they value our partnership with them? Yes! We wouldn’t have a 95.67% client retention rate if they didn’t.
Reputable organisations have also recognised our exceptional contribution to the digital advertising and marketing industry. We’ve won multiple awards and special recognitions, including:
- 3x BRW (Business Review Weekly) Fast Starter: BRW’s Fast Starters list honours Australia’s fastest-growing, young companies.
- 2x BRW Fast 100: This list acknowledges Australia’s fastest-growing, established companies.
- 2x Deloitte Technology 500 company: This award is given only to the world’s fastest-growing technology companies.
Ash, our CEO (chief executive officer), explains how we became and remained a top agency not only in Australia but also worldwide:
“[W]e’ve worked with hundreds of clients in over 7 countries… Based on our testing, experience and access, we’ve gained some insights that have helped our clients beat their competitors and dominate their niche. As a result of what we’ve been able to do for clients, we’ve won multiple awards, including Deloitte’s top 500 fastest tech companies two years in a row.”
Accelerate Your Revenue Growth With Unparalleled Pay-per-Click Performance
PPC ads aim to provide a quick boost in leads and sales. While there are many other metrics to track, they won’t matter much if they don’t help improve your bottom line.
We’re all about delivering high-impact results. Our unique, maths-based approach has helped skyrocket clients’ major leads and sales by 83% (sometimes 4x sales).
We’ve achieved this remarkable feat while reducing (on average) clients’ ad spend by 33% and COA (cost of acquisition) by 23%.
You’d be hard-pressed to find a PPC performance that is this good elsewhere. If you want PPC to work the same wonders for your business, we can help you.
Drive Leads and Conversions With PPC
Leads and conversions are crucial to determining your campaign performance. That’s why conversion tracking is foundational to our PPC strategy. It helps us in the following ways:
- Identifying the origins of a lead (for example, form submissions, calls, or subscriptions) or a purchase
- Determining if we’re achieving the client’s campaign goals
- Calculating the cost per lead (CPL) or your return on ad spend (ROAS)
- Making data-driven decisions on when to scale, stop, or optimise
- Changing campaign strategies based on actual data and not on the mere opinion of what “sounds good” or “possibly profitable”
This systematic tracking process has helped us develop lead- and conversion-generating campaigns for our clients.
For example, our comprehensive PPC solutions have helped PropertyMe, a leading property management software provider in Australia, increase its conversions by 21,900% while cutting the cost per conversion (CPC) by 96.42%.
What Is Pay-per-Click Advertising?
Simply put, pay-per-click (PPC) advertising is a digital advertising option where you pay an agreed-upon amount whenever users click on one of your ads.
As a PPC ad model, Google Ads offers four products:
- Google Search
- Google Remarketing
- Google Shopping
- Google Display (+ YouTube)
Depending on where your target audience sees your business, they’ll see different ads.
Paid Text Ads
Generally, a text ad has a clickable title linking to a webpage, one or two lines of text, and a URL (uniform resource locator), which functions as a web address.
These ads appear above and below Google SERPs (search engine results pages).
However, the SERP is not the only digital space where you can see paid text ads. Google also has partner websites (for example, Amazon.com, Ask.com, and NYTimes.com) that can feature Google Search ads.
We use paid text ads to help you reach your target audience, make them consider your offers and convert (take action, for example, submit a form or schedule a consultation with you).
Here’s an example: in just one year, we’ve helped Twomey Dispute Lawyers (TDL), an Australian legal practice specialising in disputes and commercial litigations, increase its conversion by 1,571.43% while reducing CPC (cost per conversion) by 82.03%.
Display Ads
GDN (Google Display Network) is like a sprawling metropolis where advertisers can showcase their brands across a myriad of digital billboards. Just how vast is GDN, exactly? GDN is expansive enough to display ads on over 2 million apps, videos, and websites, reaching 90% of internet users worldwide.
No wonder many businesses think of it as the cure-all advertising elixir. After all, more reach equals more customers and sales, right?
But before you say, “Eureka!” consider this: the “90% reach” can be a blessing or a curse, depending on how your PPC strategy plays out.
The rewards are high, but so are the risks. You could torch your budget faster than a raging bushfire if you’re not careful.
Our Google-trained paid ads specialists can optimise your campaigns with the laser-sharp precision only maths pros can offer. We can help your business generate qualified leads at the lowest cost per click.
Shopping Ads
The road to eCommerce success is littered with the remains of brick-and-mortar favourites that failed to translate their offline popularity into online prominence.
These once-household names spent millions of dollars and still got left behind.
Why? Because they hired retailers to build their online shopping platforms. And you know who didn’t? Google and Amazon. These two tech giants worked with engineers — people who speak maths.
So do we. We’re a team of maths specialists who do the same mathematical legwork as these engineers, including segmentation, multi-variant testing, and advanced statistical modelling.
We use these numbers-heavy techniques to help online shops dominate their niches.
Want proof? Our first Google Shopping client came to us for help with their advertising returns. They had a 2× ROAS that they couldn’t improve, even after four years of trying.
What could our maths-adept agency do to accomplish what our go-getting client couldn’t? As it turns out, much. We doubled their ROAS within months.
Here’s how we approached their problem:
- Model out the Google feed data and launch campaigns that enable advanced and ongoing testing
- Leverage the sophisticated insights we get through the Google Premier Partners program
- Optimise the client’s campaign using the computational logic that Google values in Google Shopping
Retargeting
Did you know? Only 1% to 4% of first-time website visitors will enquire about or buy your products or services. That’s right. 96% to 99% of that hard-earned site traffic doesn’t have time to commit right now or is still unsure what purchasing decision to make next.
Fortunately, we can help you re-engage casual site visitors after they leave your page.
Do you want the following?
- High-level insights regarding those who don’t take action on your website
- Data-informed, cost-effective campaigns that bring back visitors to your site when they’re ready to buy or take action
You can have these benefits through our Google Remarketing service.
Google Remarketing technology lets us tag visitors on your site using a code whenever they visit your app or website.
Then, we use the “tags” to target potential customers and show them highly relevant ads whenever they go to any of the hundreds of millions of sites in Google’s vast network.
Google Remarketing is all about segmentation — and no one can segment data into profitable categories better than mathematicians.
Say you want to display the right message before the right audience on the right site. In that case, you’ll need to test these three variables multiple times to know their ideal combination and develop the most effective campaign version.
If it sounds like a job for people well-versed in maths and research, that’s because it is. So, who better to consult than a maths-oriented agency like us?
As Google-trained pros, our paid ads specialists can do the following:
- Analyse website traffic and search for clues, enabling us to profile various users and their buying signals
- Create laser-targeted campaigns for each of those audiences
- Distribute these campaigns to carefully selected websites in the GDN
The result? You’ll get:
- Reduced average CPC (cost per click)
- Increased traffic, quality leads, and sales
Here’s an example: Pension Boost, a financial service provider for Aussie seniors, came to us with only six conversions acquired at a high cost ($417.64 cost per conversion).
Through our remarketing service, we increased their conversions by 3,983.33% while slashing the cost per conversion by 94.98%.
Video Ads
You probably already know this, but many prefer videos to written content today. But do you know that this trend also affects consumers’ purchasing decisions?
Some even say that customers today prefer watching a product video to reading about the product four times.
Needless to say, video marketing is a viable strategy if you want to capture more potential customers.
You’ll be glad we’re here. We can help you run video ads across the colossal GDN network, including YouTube.
Here are four video types that we offer in our PPC service:
- In-stream: Visual content that appears before, during, or after a video. Viewers may skip these video ads (usually after five seconds).
- Discovery: These ads only appear on YouTube and reach online users in digital spaces where they search for content. When a viewer clicks your discovery ad’s thumbnail, the video will play on its channel page or YouTube watch.
- Non-skippable: As its name suggests, viewers can’t skip this video marketing material. Thus, you can use these ads to communicate your entire message. Note: Non-skippable ads typically last 15 seconds or less.
- Bumper: Like non-skippable video ads, viewers can’t skip bumper ads. However, these ads are short videos that usually last six seconds or less.
Social Media Ads
Consider these statistics:
- Approximately 62% of the world’s population today uses social media.
- The average time users spend daily on social media is 2 hours and 23 minutes.
- In Australia, there are 20.80 million active social media users, with Australians aged 16 to 64 spending nearly two hours on social media daily.
The point? Given these trends in online behaviour, social media platforms can be impactful digital advertising channels.
For instance, Facebook has billions of active users to whom you can advertise your services and products.
We can help you reach and engage potential buyers on Facebook (and other social platforms). Here’s how:
- Use diverse ad formats, including video, image, and carousel ads, to showcase your business creatively
- Target your audience precisely using info regarding demographics, consumer behaviour, interests, and location
- Retarget users who are interested in what you offer to increase your site’s conversion rate
Read how we revamped a losing Facebook ad campaign and drove $102,580.47 worth of extra sales in two months for free.
Optimise Your PPC Campaigns
PPC is numbers and data all the way, up and down. An effective campaign requires careful optimisation based on accurate measurement of impactful metrics.
That’s why you need advertising pros like us who think and speak like maths experts and engineers do (in numbers and data).
As an agency founded by high-calibre mathematicians, our PPC practice involves much testing, tracking, and optimisation. We take this approach to heart.
Here are the crucial metrics we monitor and evaluate when fine-tuning your campaigns:
- Conversions: We can measure this factor in two ways:
- Clicks x conversion rate (the ratio of people who converted or performed a specific action to the number of people who went to your site through your ad)
- Impression (the number of people who saw your ads) x CTR (click-through rate or the rate of people who clicked vs. saw the ad) x conversion rate
- Cost per conversion: We calculate CPC via this formula: average cost per click (Avg CPC) ÷ conversion rate
- Return on ad spend (ROAS): We determine the ROAS using these three formulas:
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- Conversion value (also known as revenue) ÷ cost (total amount we’ve paid)
- (Clicks x conversion rate x average order value) ÷ (clicks x average CPC)
Note: Average order value (Avg order value) = conversion value ÷ conversions
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- (Conversion x Avg order value) ÷ Avg CPC
- Search IS (impression share or the percentage of impressions your ad receives relative to the total number of impressions your ad could get)
Laser-Focused Campaigns That Deliver
Many advertisers, especially amateurs, rely on their gut feeling, thinking they know what ads will sell and what won’t.
In reality, no one knows which advertising dollars generate the best return on investment (ROI) until someone has tracked, collected, and analysed complex data.
Our paid team measures and evaluates all impactful metrics with laser-focused precision. Then, we use this info to deliver the highest ROI possible on your paid traffic through ongoing, data-informed testing and optimisation.
This unique, metric-driven, and data-heavy approach has helped us achieve remarkable outcomes for many clients.
Here’s one example: within less than a year of working with us, Pure Chiropractic, a certified Gonstead chiropractic clinic in Australia, improved its conversion rate by 304.35% while slashing the cost per conversion by 59.42%.
Why PPC Matters
Pay-per-click ads offer many benefits. However, businesses likely value this advertising option because it can generate returns and enhance businesses’ online presence quickly.
Still, PPC ads’ overall impact depends on your unique objectives, situation, and time horizon. That’s why we seek to understand where you’re coming from, how your current strategy is doing, and what you intend to get from a PPC campaign.
Here’s Cate Carpenter, a certified practising marketer, expressing her deep appreciation for our work on NSW Wildlife Information Rescue and Education Service Incorporated:
“I can’t speak highly enough about Digital Spotlight. [The] team’s dedication to delivering results [is] exceptional. Their communication, transparency, and commitment to client success make them [stand out]. I highly recommend Digital Spotlight to any business looking for a top-notch digital marketing partner. Kudos to the entire team for exceeding expectations!”
Research Keywords
We can help place your ad on the coveted top spots of SERP (search engine results page) for the right keywords, matched to the right ad copy and landing page.
But our job doesn’t end when we get you several clicks that convert. Our paid ads specialists use the same statistical analysis Google uses to scale your PPC campaign.
This high-level modelling and customer segmentation can skyrocket conversion rates while slashing acquisition costs.
Here’s what Newcastle Carpet and Flooring, a flooring solutions provider based in Belmont North, says about partnering with us:
“Met with [the Digital Spotlight] team — great advice and fabulous service. Google Ads specialists [that] really get the ads pumping. You won’t regret it.”
Conduct Split Tests
Our agency is committed to optimising your ads. We track, test, and fine-tune campaigns nonstop. Fortunately, A/B split testing enables us to deliver optimal results, allowing us to develop different ad variations and refine your succeeding PPC advertising campaigns.
Select Channels
Where your PPC ads appear ultimately hinges on the advertising product you’re using. For example, PPC ads on Google Ads will be displayed on Google’s advertising network. Meanwhile, PPC ads on Facebook will appear on the social media platform.
These multiple PPC channels provide you with a range of advertising options to choose from.
Optimise Bidding
Google Ads “hosts” an auction whenever a vacant ad slot is on a search result, news site, blog, or other partner websites.
Each auction determines whether your ad will appear on the available ad space. Advertisers like us join the auction by placing bids.
Depending on the campaign type, we can focus your bids on these factors:
- Clicks
- Impressions
- Conversions
- Views
- Engagements
Here’s where you’ll need us. As a pioneer and leader in the PPC industry, we’ve developed a field-tested, systematic approach to optimising bids. We know from first-hand experience when to increase and decrease bids to maximise return on ad spend.
Create Copy
Your ad copy should hit right where a prospective client’s “pain points” or urgent needs lie. To do so, you must know the user’s current queries and why they’re “Google-ing” them. In short, pinpoint where they are on their online buying journey.
Someone who types in “top dental clinic Australia” on Google’s search engine is likely not doing pure research. They’re likely comparing options online, wanting the best dental service they can get.
If the searcher experiences persistent toothache, you know they want to get treated ASAP.
Say you are a local dentist. In that case, our Google Ads services — including developing well-written, data-informed ad copies — could help you get prospective clients to book an appointment with you.
We develop our keyword-optimised content to target people who are more likely to act in response to an ad campaign.
How? Our keyword research focuses on searchers who are already “in the market” (ITM) and those about to “enter the market” (ETM):
- ITM: Searchers at this level are deep in the buying cycle. They are ready to buy. If you do not get them to buy from you, your competitor will. This population is the ideal source of sales-generating traffic.
- ETM: Searchers want a product or service like yours at this stage. ETM consumers are unsure whether to convert yet (take action) but are very interested.
With the help of our content specialists and strategists, you can capture both ETM and ITM searchers.
Analyse Campaign Performance
PPC products, like Google Ads, are all about metrics. For example, Google measures these five variables when giving ad slots to a bidder (businesses and advertisers):
- Bid: The “bid” is the highest amount PPC users are ready to pay for every click on their ads.
- Ad quality: An ad’s usefulness and relevance to searchers significantly matter. Google’s quality score (which you can track on your Google Ads account) summarises an ad’s overall quality.
- The projected impact from ad assets and other formats: An ad asset is info, like a phone number and a link to a specific web page, that Google Ads users can include in their ads.
Google estimates the impact of the ad assets and formats on an ad’s overall performance.
- Ad rank: To ensure high-quality ads, Google implements the minimum requirements for an ad to appear in a given slot.
- The ad’s context: Context matters in ad auctions. When measuring ad rank, Google examines:
- The user’s search terms, time and location of the search, and the searcher’s device type, such as mobile or desktop
- The nature of the search terms
- Other search results, including advertisements, displayed on the page
We track these metrics meticulously to evaluate your ad campaign’s performance. Then, we analyse the data gathered to uncover what works and what doesn’t.
How PPC Works at Digital Spotlight
Not all PPC strategies can add value to your business. Many agencies claim a foolproof approach but couldn’t deliver the results they guaranteed. And if they do, they won’t likely be able to sustain them.
What about us? We’d rather let real-world results speak for us than make pie-in-the-sky promises.
Here are six reasons you’ll prefer our PPC services over others:
- Absolute commitment to your unique goals: We’ve been active participants in the ongoing development of the digital marketing industry for over a decade.
We develop our strategies based on hard-won insights from our extensive experience in the school of hard knocks.
So, if you’re looking for PPC specialists who really know what they’re doing, we’re them.
That said, we don’t impose our templated plans on clients. In fact, we achieved incredible success in PPC because we listen to business owners.
That’s why we ensure we understand your objectives and situation before selling anything.
When you partner with us, you won’t get half-baked advice and one-trick pony solutions.
Instead, we’ll develop campaign strategies to suit your unique problems, targets, and goals.
- Loyal client base: As a top agency, we have clients who have been with us for over 10 years.
Why do they stick with us? Because we can get them impressive and sustained ROIs.
Read what Diana Norris, the marketing and web assistant from Dural Irrigation, an Australian online irrigation mega shop, says about our work with them:
“We have used DS for over 15 years for all our SEO, remarketing adwords, analytics and much, much more! Their customer service is impeccable and is always quick to respond to any issue or enquiry we may have. Our business has grown at an incredible rate thanks to [this] team. We will never use anyone else, highly recommend.”
- Google Premier Partner: Our Google-trained specialists can access insider info that most ad agencies don’t have.
How? We’ve got a dedicated Google agency team that provides exclusive training, nonpublic data about competitors, and early access to Google’s newest tools and features.
- Confident approach: We don’t lock in clients through long-term contracts. We’re confident in our ability to deliver ROIs you can’t get elsewhere. Results, or we’re out.
- Industry leader and pioneer: Highly regarded publications like Anthill and Financial Review have interviewed us multiple times.
Start-ups and multi-billion dollar businesses have also sought our advice regarding search patterns and idea validation. Why?
We don’t just keep pace with the innovations of search platforms. We help drive the digital marketing industry forward.
- One-of-a-kind marketing agency: We don’t know you (yet), and you’ve yet to hear from us what makes us the ideal choice for all your PPC needs. But we know this: we’re likely different from agencies you’ve worked with.
Our agency’s founders aren’t just accomplished business people. They’re also exceptional mathematicians with an in-depth understanding of data patterns.
That’s why our PPC specialists don’t operate on a hunch when developing campaigns. We follow the numbers and data where they lead.
You Are Our First Priority
“Client-first” policy isn’t just a slogan we repeat as part of our sales pitch. It is foundational to our entire PPC approach.
That’s why we don’t dwell on past accomplishments. We know that strategies that worked for one client might not be as effective for another.
After all, each business has unique goals and situations.
Instead of imposing a “set” strategy, we strive to understand our client’s POV (point of view) first and ours second.
When you work with us, you can be confident that we’ll only devise and implement a PPC marketing game plan tailored to your case.
Diversity in PPC Services
Your business might benefit from using additional or other PPC platforms. Fortunately, we’re an agency with time-tested expertise in managing diverse PPC products, including Meta Ads, Google Ads, Bing Ads, and their respective partner networks (for example, the New York Times, YouTube, and Amazon).
Real-Time Automation
While effectiveness (getting things right) matters to us more than efficiency (getting things done quickly), our PPC approach aims to achieve both.
For example, we might use automated bidding to maximise results based on your set campaign objectives.
Automated bidding lets us set bid amounts automatically based on your ad’s likelihood of generating a click or conversion.
For Shopping campaigns, this strategy responds in real time based on your campaign’s historical performance (for example, past clicks) or conversion data.
Automation can be a great way to save time while leveraging algorithms to optimise an account. That said, we only use automation after carefully evaluating your situation.
Live and Dynamic Pricing
This pricing strategy lets businesses adjust product prices based on real-time market demands.
PPC platforms, like Google, may use dynamic pricing algorithms to offer advertisers flexible options and expand their advertising network.
That’s why PPC campaigns almost always have fluctuating prices per click for an entire campaign.
Product and Inventory Intelligence
Google uses product data (product info that Google’s Merchant Center records) to display dynamic ads, free product listings, and Shopping ads whenever advertisers run a Google Ads campaign.
Google’s Merchant Center offers customised insights regarding your best-selling items and pricing dynamics to gauge user demand, streamline inventory management, and improve sales.
The bottom line is that product data optimisation is essential to an effective campaign. Do you want to optimise your products for better returns?
Work with us. We’re paid ads specialists who offer high-level optimisation for your product.
Performance Guaranteed
We don’t make grand promises to convince clients to partner with us. But if we’re going to make any guarantee, it’s this: we won’t stop until we achieve sustainable results.
Here are three things to expect when you work with seasoned PPC specialists like us:
- Use of a state-of-the-art, multi-million dollar data model we’ve developed over decades of investing in clients across multiple industries
- Monthly influx of actionable data based on results from our work with clients in various niches
- The ideal campaign mix, budget, and structure to help you hit your targets
You can fire us anytime you want if we can’t improve your campaign’s performance — no hard feelings. We don’t use long-term contracts to force clients to stay with us. They stick with us for the results other agencies can’t give them.
High Retention and Proven Success
When we say clients love working with us, we’re not talking ourselves up. We’re merely stating facts.
We’ve got a 95.67% client retention rate. Given that we’ve managed over 2,000 campaigns, that figure speaks volumes about our PPC services’ effectiveness.
Here’s what Iris Lever, PropertyMe’s chief marketing officer, says about us:
“We have been working with the team at Digital Spotlight for over five years. Their expertise, timeliness, and attention to detail have been instrumental to the success of our digital marketing… It has been an absolute pleasure to work with the Digital Spotlight team over the years, and I would highly recommend their digital services.”
PropertyMe is a leading property management software company in Australia. It is just one among many Australian businesses we’ve helped to win their niche. Contact us today, and we’ll help you rise to heights you never imagined possible.
Clearer Data, Smarter Decisions
Our advanced analytics and custom reporting simplify data and deliver actionable insights to help you make smarter moves and drive leads and sales.
How? We employ the same statistical analysis Google uses to improve your campaigns.
This sophisticated modelling and customer segmentation can improve conversion rates while slashing acquisition costs.
Want to target users with high-buying intent? Our maths-driven, algorithm-based PPC strategy can help you.