Search that intercepts intent.

Google and Bing campaigns structured for intent, Quality Score, and a CPA that actually pencils out.

What we solve

How much spend is leaking to bad clicks?

$8,800

a month — about $105,600/yr — going to clicks that never convert.

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Who we are

Modern platforms reward clean signals and starve everything else.

Smart bidding is only as smart as the data you feed it. Fragmented conversions and messy account structure leave the algorithms guessing — and your budget pays for the guesses.

We structure, launch, and manage search, social, and algorithmic campaigns around clean signals, so the machines scale your spend toward profit instead of waste.

  • Signal-first account architecture
  • Search & social managed by operators
  • Performance Max with the leaks closed

How we run search.

Intent-led structure

Accounts built around the queries that convert, not the ones that just spend.

Quality Score discipline

Ad-to-page relevance managed relentlessly to lower CPCs and raise position.

Search-term hygiene

Constant query mining and negatives so you stop paying for the wrong clicks.

Search maturity model

Score your search program.

Set your current SEM health, then switch on the engines and watch efficiency and profitable reach climb.

Your module today
Impression share35%
Quality Score5/10
Negative-keyword hygiene45
Feed / structure quality50
Maturity engines2/5 live
Projected impactStrong
Search Efficiency Index
4967/ 100
Impression share
35%49%
Quality Score
5/106/10
Negative-keyword hygiene
4564
Feed / structure quality
5067

Illustrative model — a PPC Snobs audit sets your real baseline across every lens.

How it works

How a search engagement runs.

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Audit

We review structure, Quality Score, and wasted spend.

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Rebuild

We restructure around intent and clean conversion signals.

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Manage

We mine queries, tune bids, and test ad copy continuously.

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Scale

We expand into the terms that prove profitable.

Who we serve

Built for teams that live on performance.

Lead Generation & SaaS

Pipelines where a tracked lead and a closed deal are very different numbers — and the gap is where budget gets wasted.

eCommerce & Marketplaces

Catalogs and feeds where margin lives or dies on ROAS accuracy and page speed at scale.

Agencies & Teams

In-house and agency teams that need a measurement and media layer they can actually trust and report on.

Ready to scale

Capture demand at the moment it appears.

The Search Agent is $2,500/mo per campaign plus ad spend. Let’s scope it.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

We feed the algorithms clean, deduplicated conversion signals and structure campaigns so data consolidates instead of fragmenting. Clean signals are what let automated bidding actually perform.

Case study · Lead gen

Cutting wasted spend funded the scale-up.

Before
$118

Cost per qualified lead

After
$71

Cost per qualified lead after restructure

They didn’t just lower our CPA — they showed us which third of the budget was never going to work.Head of Marketing, services co.
From the founder

Why this matters.

Richard Castello on the thinking behind it.

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Richard Castello
CEO & Founder

Smart bidding isn’t dumb — it’s obedient. It scales exactly what you tell it is valuable, so defining “valuable” is the whole game.

RC
Richard Castello
CEO & Founder · PPC Snobs

Feed the algorithm clean, profit-weighted signals and it finds margin you’d never spot by hand. Feed it junk and it scales the junk.

RC
Richard Castello
CEO & Founder · PPC Snobs

Performance Max isn’t out of control. It’s doing precisely what your structure and your feed told it to do.

RC
Richard Castello
CEO & Founder · PPC Snobs
Pricing

Investment scales with ambition.

Two ways to engage. Both transparent — no SDR follow-ups, no proposal theatre.

Self-serve

Build your own retainer

Pick the modules you need. See exact one-time and monthly investment before you commit to anything.

Live total calculator
Modular pricing — no bundles
AI-enable, then scale on agents
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Request a custom quote

For complex stacks, multi-brand portfolios, or projects above $50K/mo. Scoped on a call, priced on a doc.

Architecture audit included
Quarterly business review
Dedicated account manager