Google Ads Brisbane
Google Ads that keeps Brisbane businesses' cost per lead under control.
Firewire is a specialist search agency that runs Google Ads for established Brisbane and South East Queensland businesses whose budget has to produce qualified leads and sales, not just clicks.
Our Google Ads management covers account structure, Google Search ads, Google Shopping ads and Performance Max, conversion tracking, ad copy, landing pages and budgets, run by the specialists who build the strategy and work in the account.
Talk to a Google Ads specialistRecent work
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
What Brisbane buyers 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 spend goes where it can return.
Ads and landing pages
Ad copy that earns the right click and pages that convert it.
Bidding and budget
Bid strategies and budget allocation 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
Brisbane Google Ads management, campaign by campaign.
Brisbane is one of the fastest-growing markets in the country, and South East Queensland now behaves like one region stretching from the Gold Coast to the Sunshine Coast. Trades and home services, professional services, health, education and ecommerce all compete for the same searches, and new competitors keep arriving.
The right campaigns depend 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 account around them.
01 Google Search ads
Google Search ads put you in the Google search results at the moment ready-to-buy customers are looking for what you sell. For lead generation and service based businesses, 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
- ad groups organised by intent, with the right keywords in each
- match types chosen deliberately, not left on broad by default
- negative keywords maintained every week to reduce wasted spend
- location targeting set to where your customers actually convert
02 Google Shopping ads & Performance Max
For ecommerce businesses, Shopping ads and Performance Max usually carry most of the revenue, and Google Shopping ads reach ready to buy customers comparing products. We manage the Google Merchant Centre feed as a commercial asset and run Performance Max with brand exclusions, clean conversion data and spend we can account for.
03 Google Display Network & remarketing
The Google Display Network, YouTube and Demand Gen reach your target audience before they search, and Google remarketing brings back people who visited and left with retargeting ads. We use them where they serve the search programme, not as a separate channel to fill the budget.
04 Conversion tracking
Proper conversion tracking is the foundation every other decision rests on. Our conversion tracking setup covers Google Ads conversion actions, GA4 and Google Tag Manager, plus offline conversions from your CRM where we can, so bidding optimises toward real customers instead of form fills that never become sales.
05 Ad copy & landing pages
Ads and landing pages work as one system. We write and test ad copy, and either improve the page directly or brief your team on what to change. Ad relevance and page experience feed Quality Score, so a weak page makes every click cost more.
06 Bidding & budget allocation
This is where most accounts leak. We choose bid strategies campaign by campaign, give each campaign its own budget and target, move spend toward campaigns that return it, and cut the ones that buy traffic without producing sales.
Why Brisbane companies work with us
The people making the recommendation stay close to the account.
Most Brisbane business 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, so the person you meet is the person working in your account.
Specialist team
Paid search, SEO, measurement and content sit together, so search-term data from your ads sharpens the rest of your search programme.
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 paid search 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, sales and the commercial target, not vanity metrics.
Brisbane context
Google Ads in Brisbane usually becomes complicated in three places.
Selected clients
In practice
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 lead growth, YoY
- −53%
- Cost per lead, YoY

More paid search work
Clicks are evidence. Leads and revenue are the result.
-
The Good Feet Store
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%.
- +133%
- Paid leads
-
Leah Jay
A new website made an established brand harder to find.
We repaired the technical damage a website rebuild left behind, rebuilt discovery around property investors, then added paid search for the two buyer profiles most likely to become leads.
- −38%
- Google Ads cost per lead
Client voice
Before you brief us
Google Ads in Brisbane,
practically.
01 What is the Google Ads management cost in Brisbane?
There are two costs: your ad spend, paid to Google, and our management fee. Our 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. For a fuller picture, read our guide to Google Ads costs in Australia.
02 How much ad spend do we need in Brisbane?
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 budget spread across many keywords rarely learns anything. We model a starting budget from your conversion value before you commit, and give each campaign its own budget rather than one shared pot.
03 Is Google Ads cheaper in Brisbane than in Sydney?
Sometimes, but not reliably. Costs are set by the auction in each category, not by the city. Some Brisbane categories are cheaper than their Sydney equivalents and some are just as expensive. What makes Google Ads cheaper in practice is relevance, structure and less wasted spend, not the postcode.
04 When does it make sense to run Google Ads?
When people already search for what you sell, a customer is worth more than it costs to win one, and the landing page can convert the click. Run Google Ads to capture that demand now. If nobody searches for your category yet, other channels usually have to create the demand first.
05 Should we hire a Google Ads manager in-house or use an agency?
An in-house Google Ads manager makes sense when the account is large enough to fill a full-time role. Below that, an agency gives you specialist depth and a team that has seen the same problems across many accounts. Many clients do both: an internal owner who sets the right strategy, with us as the specialist layer that builds campaigns and manages Google Ads campaigns week to week.
06 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 sales rather than clicks. Ask who will work in the account, how often, and what they will change first. We are a Google Partner agency, but judge any agency on its case studies and reporting, not its badge.
07 Can you take over our existing Google Ads campaigns?
Yes. Most engagements start with an audit of the account you already have: campaign structure, search terms, conversion tracking, bidding and pages. You keep the account and its history, and we show you what we would change and why before we change it.
08 Do we own the Google Ads account?
Yes. Account ownership stays with you: the account, its data and its history are yours. We work in it with access you grant, and every change is visible to you.
09 How long before campaigns perform?
Ads can show the day they launch, but campaigns usually need four to eight weeks of conversion data before bidding settles and results can be judged fairly. Account rebuilds and new Performance Max campaigns can take longer.
10 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 builds, and the search-term data from each sharpens the other. A paid-only engagement is just as normal.
11 Are you a digital marketing agency? Do you run Meta ads?
We are a specialist search agency, not a full-service digital marketing agency. Where paid social helps the search programme, for example remarketing people who arrived through search, we run it as part of paid search, not as a standalone service.
12 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.



