What Google Ads management actually includes
Management is not just switching campaigns on. A working engagement covers account structure, keyword and search-term hygiene, ad copy testing, bidding strategy, landing page feedback and measurement. If any one of those is broken, the others cannot compensate.
- Account and competitor research before anything is built
- Campaign structure by intent — brand, category, competitor, remarketing
- Keyword sets with exact/phrase discipline and an active negative list
- Responsive search ads tested against a control, not rewritten randomly
- Conversion actions in Google Ads and GA4, with values where they exist
- Weekly search-term review, bid and budget reallocation
How I structure a Pune Google Ads account
For a Pune-based service business, I usually start with a tight Search campaign around high-intent commercial terms, radius targeting around the areas you actually serve, and call plus location assets enabled. Broad, city-wide targeting on a small budget is the single most common way accounts here waste money.
For e-commerce, the starting point is a clean Merchant Center feed and Shopping before Performance Max — PMax with a weak feed just hides where the spend went.
Reducing cost per lead without losing lead quality
Cutting CPL by turning off everything expensive usually cuts good leads too. The order I work in: fix tracking so you know which leads are real, exclude irrelevant search terms, tighten geography and schedule, then improve the landing page's conversion rate. Bid changes come last, because they only matter once the inputs are honest.
Where a client can pass back offline outcomes — a lead that became a site visit or a sale — I import those as conversions so Google optimises towards revenue rather than form fills.
Working with a freelance Google Ads expert instead of an agency
You talk to the person running the account. There is no account manager relaying questions, no shared junior executive splitting attention across fifteen accounts, and no bundled retainer for services you didn't ask for. You get direct access, a shared dashboard, and a monthly call where I explain what changed and why.
What the first 30 days look like
- Week 1 — audit, tracking verification, keyword and competitor research
- Week 2 — campaign build or restructure, ad copy, assets, landing page notes
- Week 3 — launch, daily search-term and placement cleanup
- Week 4 — first optimisation round and a documented plan for the next 60 days
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I work directly with founders and marketing owners — no account layers, no handoffs. Send me your account access or ad spend numbers and I'll tell you honestly whether I can improve them.
