Google Ads agency Melbourne

Google Ads that helps Melbourne businesses spend less per customer.

Firewire is a specialist search agency that runs Google Ads for established Melbourne businesses whose budget has to produce qualified leads and sales, not just website traffic.

Our Google Ads management covers account structure, search campaigns, Shopping and Performance Max, conversion tracking, ad copy, landing pages and budgets, run by the specialists who build the strategy and work in the account.

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Recent 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.

2×
Paid conversion valueGoogle Ads · Jun 2025 to Aug 2026 vs prior 15 months
+47%
Paid spendSame period
View Hobbies Direct case study

What a Google Ads engagement covers

The work behind the result.

Demand and intent

What Melbourne buyers search, which search terms carry commercial intent and what each one is worth to you.

A wall of product on pegboard, the category demand is measured against

Account structure

Campaigns, ad groups and match types organised around how customers buy, so spend goes where it can return.

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Ads and landing pages

Ad copy that earns the right click and pages that keep the promise the ad made.

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Bidding and budget

Bid strategies and budgets matched to margin, not to whatever the platform recommends this quarter.

Bourke Street in Melbourne in the rain

Measurement

Conversion tracking that counts real leads and sales, measured against the commercial target.

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Full detail on the Paid search & media page

Google Ads services

Google Ads management and campaign management for Melbourne businesses.

Melbourne is one of the two biggest paid search markets in Australia. Retail, ecommerce, professional services, health and education brands all compete for the same searches, and many businesses run national accounts from here. That makes structure, conversion data and budget discipline matter more than the size of the ad spend.

The right mix of ads campaigns depends on what you sell, how customers search for it 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

Search campaigns

Search ads put you in the search results at the moment potential customers are looking for what you sell. For lead generation and considered purchases, it is usually where the budget should start.

Our search campaigns are built on:

  • search terms 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
  • location targeting set to where customers actually convert
02

Performance Max & Google Shopping

For Melbourne retailers and ecommerce brands, Performance Max and Shopping usually carry most of the revenue. We treat the product feed as a commercial asset and run Performance Max with brand exclusions, clean conversion data and spend we can account for, so it does not take credit for sales you would have won anyway.

03

YouTube, display & remarketing

YouTube, display and Demand Gen campaigns increase visibility with the right audience before they search, and remarketing brings back people who visited and left. We use them where they serve the search programme, not as a separate advertising channel to fill the budget.

04

Conversion tracking

Proper conversion tracking is the foundation every other decision rests on. We audit and fix conversion actions, Google Analytics 4 and Google Tag Manager, and connect 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: the page has to keep the promise the ad made. We write and test ad copy to lift click through rate and send qualified traffic, and either improve the landing pages directly or brief your team on what lifts conversion rates. Ad relevance and page experience feed Quality Score, so a weak page makes every click cost more.

06

Bidding & budgets

This is where most accounts leak. We choose bid strategies campaign by campaign, set them against target cost per lead or return on ad spend, move budget toward campaigns that return it, and cut the ones that buy traffic without producing sales.

How an engagement works

How a Melbourne Google Ads engagement works.

  1. 01

    Audit the account

    We review structure, search terms, conversion tracking, bidding and landing pages against what the business is trying to grow, and show you where spend is being lost.

  2. 02

    Fix the foundations

    Conversion tracking, negative keywords and campaign structure come first, because every bid decision after that depends on them.

  3. 03

    Build and launch

    We rebuild or extend the campaigns, write the ads and brief the pages, then launch with clear targets for each campaign.

  4. 04

    Optimise and report

    We work in the account every week and report monthly on cost per lead, sales and what we will change next.

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Why Melbourne companies work with us

The people making the recommendation stay close to the account.

Most Melbourne 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 digital marketing agency, so the specialist 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 PPC depth they do not need to build internally.

Commercial measurement

Clicks and online visibility 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.

Melbourne context

Google Ads in Melbourne 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.

  • 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 German: cost per lead fell from about €147 to €17, then spend scaled fourfold.

    208
    Form leads, peak month
    Read the case study
  • 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
    Read the case study

Client voice

The Springs premises

I went in expecting another agency pitch deck. What I got was a P&L conversation, a clear ROAS target, and a paid search engine that delivered against it. 34:1 ROAS is not something I thought possible from Google Ads.

Jill SeckoldGeneral Manager, The Springs34:1 ROAS · +1,142% event revenue

Before you brief us

Google Ads agency Melbourne,
practically.

01

What does Google Ads management cost in Melbourne?

There are two costs: your ad spend, paid to Google, and our management fees. Our management starts from $1,200 per month as a flat fee, not a percentage of what you 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 Melbourne?

Enough for the campaigns to gather conversion data quickly, which depends on your category's cost per click and how many conversions you need each month. In contested categories, a small budget spread across many keywords rarely learns anything. We model a starting budget from your conversion value before you commit.

03

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, but judge any agency on its case studies and reporting, not its badge.

04

Should we choose a PPC agency or a full-service digital marketing agency?

It depends on what you need. A full-service agency spreads its attention across many channels and platforms. A specialist PPC agency goes deeper on Google Ads: account structure, conversion data and the weekly work that cuts waste. If PPC is a large part of your advertising spend, depth usually matters more than breadth.

05

Is Google Ads worth it for Melbourne businesses?

If the unit economics work, yes. Google Ads reaches buyers 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.

06

Can you take over and audit our existing Google Ads account?

Yes. Most engagements start with an audit of the account you already have: 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 in it with access you grant, and every change is visible to you.

08

How long before Google Ads 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 months rather than weeks.

09

Can SEO and Google Ads build online visibility together?

Yes, through our SEO & search performance capability. Google Ads buys visibility now while organic builds, and the search-term data from each sharpens the other. A paid-only engagement is just as normal.

10

Do you run Meta or other paid social?

Not as a standalone service. Where paid social helps the search programme, for example remarketing people who arrived through search, we run it as part of the search programme.

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.

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