Paid Media · Troubleshooting
Plenty of leads. Almost none of them real.
Volume is easy to buy. Quality has to be engineered.
Bad lead quality is a targeting problem, a messaging problem, and a measurement problem stacked on top of each other.
Fix them in that order and volume drops for a few weeks while booked work goes up. That trade is almost always worth it.
How we tighten it
Cut the wrong intent
Aggressive negatives for jobs, DIY, free, cheap, wholesale, and the adjacent services you don't sell.
Qualify in the ad
Price signals, minimums, and service area stated up front so unqualified people self-select out before they cost you a click.
Qualify on the page
A form that asks the one or two questions your team uses to decide if a lead is worth a call back.
Feed quality back to Google
Mark junk leads as such in your CRM and push that signal back so bidding learns the difference.
Stage 04 · Qualified leads
Broken, and working.
What it looks like broken
- Lead volume looks fine and the sales team is frustrated
- Most calls are price shoppers, wrong service area, or robocalls
- Nobody knows which campaign the bad leads came from
- Optimization keeps chasing whatever is cheapest
What it looks like working
- Lead quality reported by source, campaign, and search term
- Targeting, negatives, and messaging tightened against quality
- Good leads reach your team first
- Cost per qualified lead replaces cost per click as the number that matters
What you actually receive
- Lead quality scorecard by campaign and search term
- Call recordings tied back to the campaign that produced them
- Negative keyword and audience exclusion updates
- Routing rules so the sales team sees the best leads first
What fixing it costs
Usually diagnosed inside a $750 Google Ads audit, then fixed inside an ongoing partnership at $1,750 to $6,000 per month.
See full pricingPaid Media · Troubleshooting questions
- Won't a longer form reduce conversions?
- It reduces submissions and usually increases booked jobs. We measure the second one.
- What about spam form fills?
- Bot protection plus honeypot fields handle most of it. What's left is usually a targeting issue, not a spam issue.
Before you decide
Before you decide, a few things worth reading.
Google Ads not generating leads
Spend is going out, the phone isn't ringing. Here's what's usually broken.
ReadGoogle Ads for contractors
What actually works for trades and remodelers in the Birmingham metro.
ReadGoogle Ads for plumbers
Emergency demand, service area targeting, and call tracking done right.
Read
Tell us what's happening and we'll tell you straight what we'd do first.
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