Nova Scotia PPC Agency

Our Nova Scotia Paid Ads Management Services

The act of creating and optimizing Nova Scotia paid advertising campaigns is known as PPC ads management. That is an incredibly simple explanation though, so let's dive a little deeper.

A paid advertising firm for Nova Scotia often begins by getting to know your company and its business model before providing expert PPC ads management. Since the way you approach paid advertising for a local area Nova Scotia small business is much different than how you would for an ecommerce brand, this information helps determine the next steps.

Service providers in Nova Scotia, for example, are often only looking for quality leads. To accomplish this, PPC advertising can boost traffic to a landing page or sales funnel that is optimized. If those digital assets don't yet exist, or need substantial improvement, then you could start with Google Local Service Ads or Facebook Lead Forms.

Alternatively, ecommerce brands are most often interested in online sales. Using paid ads, you can drive traffic to a page optimized for products or categories. In some cases, it might even make sense to include Google Shopping Campaigns. Our team has even used sales funnels to help sell products and subscriptions.

The next step in Nova Scotia PPC ads management is understanding the metrics that will be used to optimize and scale. Most Nova Scotia paid advertising agencies will implement email collection tactics through squeeze pages or lead magnets to help increase the value of paid advertising. To better understand ad attribution and reporting, it makes sense to integrate with Wicked Reports, Triple Whale, or Northbeam. For that to make sense though, your ad spend should be over $1,000/month.

Your Nova Scotia business should use a variety of advertising tactics and marketing tools to be successful with paid ads. Pay-per-click campaigns in Nova Scotia should include strategies like:

• Promote your digital assets (websites, sales funnels, etc.) via search engines, social channels, and third parties.
• Increase revenue for your Nova Scotia organization through qualified leads or online sales.
• Better understand ad attribution through the integration of third-party attribution software.
• Present social proof through case studies, white papers, and video testimonials.
• Build and nurture relationships through user generated content, story creation, and email address collection.
• Place ad creatives across various ad placements and media formats to see which performs best.

Pricing for Nova Scotia Paid Ads Management

Our PPC management service fees are determined by the amount of time you wish us to spend on your campaigns every month. Our PPC management services start at the price listed below, however, we are open to discussing an increased budget if your ad spend or service requirements are higher.

How Paid Advertising Helps Nova Scotia Small Businesses

The most obvious benefit of Nova Scotia paid ads is the near instant increase in traffic it provides.

Whether a traffic increase results in higher conversions depends on your ads, landing pages, and business model.

If you are interested in running paid advertising in Nova Scotia, we recommend that you start slowly.

Make sure you have realistic goals, a working sales funnel, and the ability to gather actionable data before diving into PPC advertising or scaling your ad campaigns.

If you're not getting conversions, don't blame Facebook or Google. It is usually the creatives, campaign settings, or sales process that is the problem.

When everything comes together, paid advertising can be an invaluable addition to the internet advertising service of your Nova Scotia company. Just keep in mind increased traffic doesn't always result in more conversions!

How We Manage Nova Scotia PPC

We are a team of paid advertising experts with extensive knowledge in the latest PPC trends for Nova Scotia nearby organizations. Take advantage of our experience across dozens of business industries to help improve traffic and conversions to your Nova Scotia digital assets.

Keyword Research

In the context of paid advertising, keyword research largely relates to Google Ads and Bing Ads search campaigns. After all, Bing and Google only show ads based on what people search for.

A search for "Nova Scotia Roofer" on a search engine, for example, might lead someone to a roofing company in Nova Scotia. As a paid advertising manager for that Nova Scotia roofing company, targeting that exact phrase wouldn't require in-depth keyword research.

However, what if that exact match keyword wasn't producing enough search volume and the Nova Scotia roofing company needed to increase their advertising reach? To solve the problem, keyword research would be required.

The next steps might involve the PPC advertising manager discussing with the Nova Scotia roofing company what types of services they want to target more often and within what geographic areas. There may also be a need to broaden the keyword targeting.

For instance, the paid ads manager might discover high search volume for "Nova Scotia roofing companies" or even "Nova Scotia roof repair." The first phrase is targeting a plural of the service in Nova Scotia. If the repair work is extensive, the second phrase might result in a more lucrative roof replacement project.

Negative keyword lists can also benefit from keyword research. You can use them to prevent your paid ads from showing up in search queries that you know are not likely to result in a lead or sale.

An individual searching for "free roof repair services" or "when to advertise to roofers" is unlikely to buy a new roof. However, they might see your PPC advertising if you are using broad keyword targeting without any negative keywords like "free" or "advertise".

As you can see, no matter how obvious your keyword research needs might be at the start of building out your campaign, they become more complicated as you begin to scale your ads and reduce wasted ad spend.

Audience Research

When you hear audience research talked about in Nova Scotia paid advertising campaigns, it is often within the scope of scaling social ads on Facebook and Instagram. Google Ads and Bing Ads also offer audience targeting options.

Let's go over a little history on audience research and targeting within the Facebook Ads platform.

In years past, Nova Scotia paid advertising managers relied heavily on building out their own custom audiences within Facebook. As a matter of fact, one of the most appealing features of Facebook Ads was its ability to collect data on users, which advertisers in Nova Scotia flocked to take advantage of.

The rise of data privacy and machine learning had a significant impact on custom audiences over time.

In the iOS 14.5 update, Apple included a pop-up message that allowed users to opt out of tracking for personalized ads. The change negatively affected Facebook's ability to track user behavior across Nova Scotia and beyond. In fact, it even affected the accuracy of ad attribution reporting.

Then came improvements to their machine learning algorithms, which greatly diminished the need for custom audiences and lookalike audiences for most Nova Scotia ad agencies. With such sophisticated algorithms, it's often more harmful to choose your own interests compared to letting Facebook figure it out for you.

While there will still be plenty of Nova Scotia paid advertising firms relying on custom audiences, the trend is moving toward broad targeting. You can see it for yourself. Every few months Facebook rolls out updates that gradually remove lesser-used interest-based targeting options. They even keep changing out "Advantage Detailed Targeting" is pushed in the ad set creation.

This blog article from Social Media Examiner does a good job of talking about recent changes to audience targeting, if you'd like a second opinion.

This isn't to say audience research and targeting is going away. Nova Scotia ad campaigns will likely always have targeting options that can be manipulated for extra performance.

Optimizing Landing Pages

It is important to focus on a high quality landing page when running paid advertisements in Nova Scotia.

We begin by examining the landing pages on any PPC advertising campaign in Nova Scotia to make sure they follow best practices. Here are some of the factors we look for in this review:

• Is there a benefit-focused headline?
• Is there an image above the fold?
• Is the content written in a compelling manner?
• Do I have immediate access to a lead form?
• Are the call to actions easily noticeable?
• Does the page load quickly?
• Does social proof exist?
• Can I load the page on a mobile device?

Quality landing pages are the result of many factors.

Until you have a landing page that follows best practices, don't spend money on Nova Scotia paid advertising.

Ideally, you should never consider your landing page to be finished. Try running A/B testing every few months to continue refining your Nova Scotia sales pitch.

Building a Revenue Funnel

As an alternative to a landing page, you might want to consider building out one or more sales funnels. To generate leads, build email audiences, and even make online purchases, we rely on sales funnels.

For example, we have a client that promotes an online fitness challenge that you could even join from Nova Scotia. While managing their website marketing we built multiple sales funnels within Click Funnels. Here are some of the funnels we made:

• We used squeeze pages to help capture email addresses while building awareness for the program.
• We used lead magnets to provide people with healthy eating tips, fitness tips, webinars, and sneak peaks in exchange for an email address.
• We used application funnels to push people toward the idea of wanting to apply to participate in exclusive programs.
• We used sales letter funnels to serve as the registration system for the online program.

There are many different types of funnels, so your Nova Scotia small business isn't limited to only these options. Just keep in mind these can be incredibly helpful for gauging interest in a product or service, building out an email subscriber base, and selling a product or service online.

If you do decide to implement a funnel, take your time at it. Doing this type of work yourself can take weeks of training, whether you learn it at home by yourself or at a technical school in Nova Scotia. It can take years of experience to master funnels, however. You can save yourself some time by searching for a PPC management company, like WebCitz, to handle the heavy lifting!

CRO

Having a clear understanding of your conversion rate is critical to making informed advertising decisions. The average conversion rate is between 1-3%, but that varies greatly between industries, products, and services throughout Nova Scotia.

Let's run through a basic scenario to help illustrate the impact of conversion rates.

1. You sell a $100 sweatshirt in Nova Scotia on your website.
2. You have a 1% conversion rate, meaning for every 100 Nova Scotia residents that visit your website you sell 1 sweatshirt.
3. You have a $0.50 average cost per click (CPC), meaning for each person in Nova Scotia that visits your website you spend 50 cents.
4. To sell 1 sweatshirt, you need 100 clicks from PPC advertising, which would cost you $50. This is known as your cost per acquisition (CPA).
5. Your return on ad spend (ROAS) would be 2x, meaning for every dollar spent in paid advertising you get two dollars in return.

For most Nova Scotia organizations, this return on ad spend wouldn't be acceptable unless the margins were great.

To improve the situation, you hire a paid advertising company to modify your campaign settings, ad creatives, and landing page experience.

Let's assume those improvements bring your conversion rate up from 1% to 2%. That means for every 100 visits to your site you now sell 2 sweatshirts. This is twice the return on ad spend! You might be profitable now selling those sweatshirts.

Understanding your conversion rate, and knowing how to improve it, can be crucial to the management of your Nova Scotia paid ads.

Ad Creation

This is potentially one of the most important aspects of a Facebook Ads account.

When you run Facebook Ads or Instagram Ads in Nova Scotia, you are mostly targeting a cold audience that is more interested in quickly scrolling by advertisements in favor of seeing what their friends and family are up to online.

You should develop an understanding of how to capture someone's attention in a split second.

To do this, you need to build out amazing ad creatives that make someone stop for a second and say to themselves, "wait a second, what...?"

This doesn't happen by running the same ad creative over and over and over again. Even if it is a good ad, it will eventually become stale. You should change things up frequently, even if you are just targeting people in Nova Scotia.

If you don't change out your ad creatives and test new ideas, you'll suffer from what is called "ad fatigue." This is the state in which your target audience (in Nova Scotia and beyond) has already seen your ad so many times that they instinctively scroll by it without ever interacting with your brand.

Don't be caught in this situation. You should understand when to pause an ad because it isn't performing as well as it once did. You should understand when to test new ideas, especially if you are emotionally attached to an ad that you spent a lot of time making.

This is one of the benefits of working with a PPC ads management company that helps Nova Scotia organizations, since we are proponents of testing new ad creatives regularly.

Ad Attribution Consulting

Knowing your ad attribution is important. If you don't know what ad attribution is, it is the process of determining which advertisement resulted in the conversion you experienced on your Nova Scotia website or funnel.

You might be suffering from ad attribution problems and not even know it.

Do you rely on Facebook Ads or Google Ads to tell you which campaigns, ad sets, and ads are performing the best?

If so, you are relying on incomplete data to form critical decisions about when to turn off or scale an ad.

For Nova Scotia ecommerce businesses running on Shopify, we recommend you look at ad attribution companies like Triple Whale or Northbeam to get a much clearer picture of your ad attribution.

For Nova Scotia content-based websites, or ecommerce websites in platforms other than Shopify, check out ad attribution companies like Wicked Reports or Hyros to get a better idea for how well each of your paid advertising campaigns are doing.

Types of Paid Ads for Nova Scotia PPC Campaigns

There are numerous ways to run paid ads for your Nova Scotia small business. Let's discuss some of the most common paid advertising being run within various business industries in Nova Scotia.

Local Advertising within Nova Scotia

Local ads for your Nova Scotia organization can be run through nearly any advertising platform. One platform may be more effective for your local business in Nova Scotia than another. To find out which option works best for you, you should try all of the options available. Let's talk about a few nearby advertising choices.

There are going to be two options from Google.

As a first step, you can run traditional Google Adwords, possibly using their newer Performance Max campaign type. This is a very dynamic ad campaign type which utilizes multiple headlines, images, videos, and service locations to allow the Google algorithm to find the best combination of assets to bring you customers in Nova Scotia. Nova Scotia professionals such as accountants, lawyers, dentists, and physicians frequently use Performance Max campaigns.

The second option from Google, if you are in a qualifying business industry, is to check out their Local Service Ads. The Google Local Service Ads offers a pay-per-lead model, which means you get charged a flat fee for each lead the platform provides you. Plumbers, electricians, roofers, and heating installers in Nova Scotia often use Google Local Service Ads.

Facebook Ads can also be used to target people in Nova Scotia. The process is a little simpler since it just requires setting up a campaign with ad sets with geographic restrictions to ZIP codes in Nova Scotia. Local Facebook Ads are often used by Nova Scotia businesses of all types.

Social Ads for Nova Scotia Companies

Pretty much any online ad you see on a social network website is going to qualify as a social ad.

Maintaining fresh ad creatives is key to social ads. If you don't rotate out ad creatives every few weeks your campaign performance will slowly decrease. It might be necessary to look at weekly ad creative changes for campaigns with higher spending.

The best part of social media ads is you can target audiences that have never thought of your product or service, or perhaps just aren't thinking about it now. When running search advertising, that is quite the opposite since your ads are only going to show when someone is actively looking for what your Nova Scotia small business offers.

It can also be a curse, as conversion rates often drop when people aren't closer to making an immediate purchase.

Search Ads throughout Nova Scotia

You'll want to invest in search engine ads if you know people are looking online for the products you offer.

In some circles, this is referred to as Nova Scotia Search Engine Marketing, or SEM. This is just a different way of explaining search ads, which are advertisements placed on the search results page of a search engine.

If you've been running search engine advertising on Google for a while and have been successful at it, we suggest considering copying the campaigns over to the Bing Ads platform. In an October 2022 study from StatCounter, Bing was the primary search engine used by approximately 3.57% of online users.

Display Ads for Nova Scotia Businesses

There are display ads on message boards, chat rooms, game lounges, news websites (sometimes even nearby Nova Scotia news stations), gossip websites, and more.

These are commonly used within the Google Ads and Bing Ads platforms.

To get started with display ads, you just need a set of ad creatives in different image sizes. Additionally, you should have a general idea of your target audience, but both ad platforms have algorithms that help you produce results.

Retargeting Ads throughout Nova Scotia

There is a good chance that not everyone will convert during their first experience with your Nova Scotia website, landing page, or sales funnel.

To help people return to your site after they've thought through various options, retargeting ads are almost always recommended.

You can run retargeting ads on any ad platform, too.

Shopping Ads for Nova Scotia Ecommerce Businesses

It was Google Shopping Campaigns that popularized this form of search advertising.

To get started with Google Shopping, you just need an ecommerce website, a product feed (CSV or TXT), a Google Merchant Center account, and a Google Ads account for your Nova Scotia storefront.

By using these tools, you can provide Google Ads with accurate product data, including title, SKU, image, price, and availability. From there, they will be able to find the right types of search queries to display your products at the top of the search results page.

Video Ads for Nova Scotia Small Businesses

Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and other social networking sites allow you to run video ads.

Using YouTube Ads is as easy as setting up a video ad campaign in Google Ads.

Facebook Ads is required if you want to run video ads on Facebook or Instagram.

Video is an excellent ad creative in terms of conversion opportunities. We frequently use video ads to showcase product launches, custom services, personal introductions, and more!

If you have the budget to support ad creatives in video format, look to implement them into your Nova Scotia paid advertising campaigns.

Free Paid Ads Calculators for Nova Scotia PPC Managers

Our internet advertisers are so excited about managing Nova Scotia paid advertising campaigns, they worked with our web development team to build out some helpful paid ads calculators that you might be interested in trying!

• ROAS Calculator
• CPA Calculator
• Calculate Churn Rate

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Why Choose WebCitz to Manage Your Nova Scotia Paid Ads Strategies

We want to be your Nova Scotia team's paid advertising partner! As a comprehensive PPC management agency targeting Nova Scotia, we have multiple internal teams focused on search engine marketing, social ads, sales funnel development, and ad creative testing. In most Nova Scotia paid ads agencies, only one person handles all duties, but this is not the case for us! You might not get the results you want from Nova Scotia PPC agencies if you don't test campaign optimization and innovative ideas often enough.

Choosing a paid ad firm for your Nova Scotia business is not an easy task. The PPC plans and strategies we suggest for your Nova Scotia small business are backed by more than 18 years of experience. These are often the same PPC strategies we use for our own lead generation.

More importantly, you should choose our PPC advertising firm because you feel confident we are the right team to help your Nova Scotia business grow. Our PPC professionals are a good option for numerous reasons:

• We have been in business since 2004, which means we have more than 18 years of experience.
• We rely heavily on PPC advertising to bring in traffic from keywords we don't yet rank for organically.
• We do not outsource Nova Scotia website advertising packages, including PPC management, sales funnel development, or ad creative services since we have our own internal advertising team.
• If you call us during normal business hours, you will likely get an answer from one of our teammates within a few rings.

Let's talk about what our paid ads consultants can do for your Nova Scotia business! Nova Scotia small businesses often hire us for paid ads management plans, but larger corporations can also hire us to augment their marketing departments.

We hope you consider our company when looking for a PPC advertising company for your Nova Scotia organization. We would be happy to talk to you about your follow-up questions via email or phone if you have any.

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