Google Ads agency Australia
Google Ads management for Australian businesses that need the spend to show up in revenue.
Firewire is a specialist search agency that runs Google Ads for established Australian businesses whose ad spend has to produce qualified leads and sales, not just clicks.
As a Google Ads agency, our Google Ads management services cover the Google Ads strategy, account structure, Google Search ads, Google Shopping ads, Performance Max, YouTube ads, conversion tracking, ad copy, landing pages and budgets, run by the Google Ads specialists who build the strategy and work in the account.
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Hobbies Direct
We rebuilt the account around product margin and intent, separated brand from non-brand, and scaled spend only where the economics justified it.
- +96%
- Paid revenueYear on year, 2026 · published case study
- 2×
- Spend scaled at constant ROASPublished case study

What a Google Ads engagement covers
The work behind the result.
Demand and intent
Keyword research into what your customers search, which searches carry commercial intent and what each one is worth to you.
Account structure
Campaigns, ad groups and match types organised around how customers buy, so ad spend goes where it can return.
Ads and landing pages
Ad copy that earns the right click and a landing page that keeps the promise the ad made.
Bidding and budget
Bid strategies and budgets matched to margin, not to whatever the platform recommends this quarter.
Measurement
Conversion tracking that counts real leads and sales, measured against the commercial target.
Google Ads services
Google Ads management services and Google Ads campaigns for Australian businesses.
Google Ads is not one lever, and the Google Ads platform is not one campaign type. Google Search ads capture people already looking, Google Shopping ads put products in front of ready-to-buy customers, Performance Max, YouTube ads and other video ads reach people earlier in the customer journey, and remarketing brings back people who visited and left. Each does a different job, and most accounts only need some of them.
The right mix depends on what you sell, where your customers are and what a conversion is worth. We start with your business goals and the economics of each campaign, then build the Google Ads account around them. Most businesses we take on already have an account; the work is usually restructuring it rather than starting again, so existing Google Ads performance improves before anything new is added.
01 Google Search ads
Google Search ads put your text ads in the Google search results at the moment high intent customers are searching for what you sell. Search campaigns built on strategic keyword targeting are where most paid advertising returns its money. For lead generation and considered purchases, it is usually where the budget should start.
Our search campaigns are built on:
- keyword research valued against what a lead or sale is worth
- campaign structure and ad groups organised by search intent
- match types chosen deliberately, not left on broad by default
- negative keywords maintained every week to cut wasted spend
- ad variations tested to lift ad relevance, click through rate and conversion rate
02 Google Shopping ads
Google Shopping ads show your products, price and store directly in the search results. For ecommerce brands chasing online sales, they live or die on the product feed and on margin, so we treat the feed as a commercial asset: titles, attributes and product segmentation built around what sells and what makes money.
03 Performance Max, with guardrails
Performance Max campaigns can scale an account quickly, but left alone they can absorb brand searches and hide where the money goes. We run them with brand exclusions, clean conversion data, separate asset groups and spend we can account for, and only where they earn their place.
04 YouTube ads, display & Demand Gen
YouTube ads, video campaigns, image ads on partner websites and Demand Gen reach people before they search. We use them where they serve the search programme and your wider digital strategy, usually once search is profitable, to build demand that search then converts.
05 Remarketing
Most website visitors do not convert the first time. Remarketing, with smart audience segmentation, brings the warmest of them back with a message that matches what they looked at, and is often among the cheapest conversions in the account.
06 Conversion tracking
Conversion tracking is the foundation every other decision rests on. We set up and audit Google Ads conversion actions, GA4 and Google Tag Manager, server-side tagging where it helps, and offline conversions from your CRM, so bidding optimises toward real customers instead of form fills that never become sales.
07 Ad copy & landing page experience
Ads and landing pages work as one system. We write ads and test them, and either improve the landing page directly or brief your team on what to change. Ad relevance and landing page experience feed Quality Score and ad rank, so even the best ads cost more when the landing page performance is weak.
08 Bidding & budgets
This is where most accounts leak and wasted spend builds up. We manage campaigns individually, choose bid strategies campaign by campaign, set them against target cost per lead or return on ad spend, give each campaign its own ad budget, and cut the campaigns that buy traffic without producing sales.
How an engagement works
How our Google Ads agency runs an engagement.
- 01
Audit the account
We review your current Google Ads account: structure, search terms, conversion tracking, bidding and landing pages, against what the business is trying to grow, and show you where ad spend is being lost.
- 02
Fix the foundations
Conversion tracking, negative keywords and campaign structure come first, because every bid decision after that depends on them.
- 03
Build and launch
We rebuild existing Google Ads campaigns or build new ones, write the ads and brief the landing pages, then launch with clear targets for each campaign.
- 04
Optimise and report
Our Google Ads team works in the account every week and reports monthly on cost per lead, revenue and what we will change next, with transparent reporting tied to your numbers rather than platform metrics.
Why Australian businesses work with us
The people making the recommendation stay close to the account.
Most marketing teams choosing a Google Ads agency need paid search depth, not another layer between them and the people doing the work. We are a specialist search agency, not a full-service marketing agency, so the Google Ads specialist you meet is the person working in your account.
Specialist team
Paid search, search engine optimisation, measurement and content sit together, so search-term data from your Google Ads campaigns sharpens the rest of your search programme and your SEO strategy.
Direct specialist access
You speak with the people analysing and working in the account, not an account layer translating between you.
Works with internal teams
We work closely with established marketing teams, adding Google Ads depth they do not need to build internally.
Commercial measurement
Clicks and impressions matter, but they are evidence on the way to the outcome. Reporting stays connected to cost per lead, revenue and the commercial target, not vanity metrics.
Australian context
Google Ads in Australia usually becomes complicated in three places.
Selected clients
In practice
One national brand. Ten local lead markets.
We rebuilt The Good Feet Store's paid search around 10 store catchments, each with its own economics: paid leads +133%, cost per lead −35%.
Read the case study
More paid search work
Clicks are evidence. Leads and revenue are the result.
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JettProof
The product was specific. The media couldn't be generic.
We rebuilt JettProof's paid search around three different buyers across Australia and New Zealand: Google Ads revenue +102%, cost per conversion −50%.
- +102%
- Google Ads revenue
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Time To Backpack
One language. Four very different travel markets.
We separated Time To Backpack's paid search into four markets and made every touchpoint consistently German: paid leads +196% year on year, cost per lead −53%.
- +196%
- Paid leads, YoY
Client voice
Before you brief us
Google Ads agency Australia,
practically.
01 What does Google Ads management cost?
There are two costs: your ad spend, which you pay Google directly, and our management fee. Our Google Ads management starts from $1,200 per month as a flat fee, not a percentage of ad spend, and is scoped to the size of the account and the work involved. A fee that grows when you spend more pays the agency for spending your money, which is the wrong incentive. For a fuller picture of what Google Ads costs, read our guide to Google Ads costs in Australia.
02 How much ad spend do we need?
Enough for each campaign to gather conversion data, which depends on your category's cost per click and how many conversions you need each month. A small ad budget spread across many keywords rarely learns anything, and at very low spend a management fee can take too much of the budget. We model a starting budget from your conversion value before you commit, and tell you if Google Ads is not the right move yet.
03 Is Google Ads worth it for Australian businesses?
If the unit economics work, yes. Google advertising is one of the few channels that puts your business in front of potential customers at the moment they search for what you sell. Whether it is worth it is a maths question: what a customer is worth, what it costs to win one and how well the landing page converts. We work that out before you spend.
04 What makes a good Google Ads agency?
A good Google Ads agency can explain where your current account is losing money before it proposes anything, tracks conversions properly and reports on leads and revenue rather than clicks. Ask who will work in the account, how often, and what they will change first, and be wary of anyone who guarantees results. We are a Google Partner agency with certified Google Ads specialists, but judge any Google advertising agency on its case studies and reporting, not its badge.
05 What does Google Partner or Google Premier Partner status tell me?
That an agency meets Google's spend and performance thresholds across its managed accounts and that its team holds current Google Ads certifications. Google Premier Partner status is the higher tier and reflects spend scale as much as anything. Neither tells you how your account will perform, so judge an agency on its results and how it reports them.
06 Can you take over and audit our current Google Ads account?
Yes. Most engagements start with an audit of the account you already have, including any structure left over from the Google AdWords era: campaign structure, search terms, conversion tracking, bidding and landing pages. You keep the account and its history, and we show you what we would change and why before we change it.
07 Do we own the Google Ads account?
Yes. The account, its data and its history are yours. We work inside your account with access you grant, never a holding account, and every change is visible to you.
08 When is Google Ads not the right move?
When there is no proven demand for what you sell, when the unit economics do not stack up, or when the landing page cannot convert the click. Paid search amplifies what already works; it does not fix the offer. A good Google Ads agency would rather tell you that than take an engagement that cannot work, and Google Ads success depends on getting this right first.
09 Do you also run SEO alongside Google Ads?
Yes, through our SEO & search performance capability. Paid search captures demand in the Google search results now while organic search builds, which is what makes Google Ads work harder, and the search-term data from each sharpens the other. A Google Ads-only engagement is just as normal.
10 Do you run Google Ads in our city?
Yes. We run Google Ads for businesses across Australia, with pages for Newcastle, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra, the Gold Coast and Hobart below.
11 Do you use lock-in contracts?
Google Ads management starts with a 3-month minimum term, then continues month to month. The account is yours, so if you leave, the campaigns, data and history stay with you.
Ready when you are.
Be found first. Be chosen naturally.
Send us the account and the commercial target. We will tell you where your Google Ads spend is working, where it is leaking and what we would change first.



