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Setup is the part that decides everything afterwards: conversion tracking that records the enquiries you care about, campaign structure that separates terms you can judge independently, and landing pages that match what the ad promised. Agencies that skip straight to launching campaigns leave the business unable to tell what worked, which is convenient for the agency and expensive for you.

Running the account is a weekly discipline rather than a monthly report. Search terms are reviewed and irrelevant ones excluded, ad variations are tested, bidding strategies are adjusted as data accumulates, and landing pages are revised when the traffic arrives but the enquiries do not. Because the auction depends on the quality of ads and landing pages and not only on the bid, improvement usually comes from relevance work rather than from spending more.

On LokalMatch you describe what you sell, the areas you serve and what a useful enquiry looks like for you, and PPC agencies covering your area contact you with their own proposals and terms. LokalMatch does not run advertising accounts, does not rank agencies and takes no part in what anyone charges; agencies pay for the requests they receive, so a business can talk to several without cost. Ask each of them what they would track before they tell you what they would bid on.

Every ad is a representation. Under the Competition Act, representations that are false or misleading in a material respect are prohibited, and courts weigh the general impression an ad conveys alongside its literal meaning — which matters in a format where the headline is a handful of words and the qualification sits on the landing page. The Competition Bureau also targets drip pricing: advertising a low price when mandatory fees are added later, so the advertised price is not attainable. The exception is for charges imposed by government on purchasers, such as sales tax. If your ads quote a price, the customer has to be able to buy at it.

Sale advertising has its own rule. Ordinary price claims — crossing out a former price to show a saving — are supportable only where the reference price meets the Bureau's volume test, a substantial volume sold at or above that price within a reasonable period, or its time test, offered in good faith at or above that price for a substantial period. An agency writing promotional ad copy for your business should be asking you for that history rather than inventing a strike-through price.

Platforms enforce separately. Google's advertising policies cover prohibited content, prohibited practices including abusing the ad network and misusing personal data, restricted content, and editorial and technical standards; Google states it may disapprove violating ads and suspend accounts for repeat or egregious violations. Meanwhile tracking is personal information: the Privacy Commissioner's guidance on online behavioural advertising sets conditions for opt-out consent, expects express consent where sensitive information is involved, recommends avoiding tracking children and on sites aimed at children, and expects collected information to be destroyed or effectively de-identified as soon as possible. Remarketing audiences and conversion tracking fall squarely inside that.

Create the advertising accounts under your own business and grant the agency administrative access. The same applies to the tag container holding your tracking code, your analytics property and any call tracking. An agency running your campaigns from an account it owns can end the relationship by revoking your access to years of performance data, and the loss is real: bidding systems rely on accumulated conversion history, so starting again in a fresh account is a genuine setback.

Write down what happens at the end: the notice period, the transfer of account access, who keeps the ad creative and product feeds, and what becomes of remarketing audiences built from your visitors. Ask also for a record of which conversion actions are counted and how they are defined, because two agencies counting different things will report very different results for the same campaigns.

Paid and organic answer different needs. Paid advertising is a tap: it delivers volume quickly, allows a claim or offer to be tested within days, and can be turned off when capacity is full. Organic visibility is an asset that takes months to build and keeps returning traffic without a per-click cost. Businesses with an urgent need and no existing visibility usually start with paid; businesses already found in search often use paid selectively, for new products, competitive terms or seasonal pushes.

Running both should change how you read the numbers. Paid campaigns can cannibalize clicks the site would have earned anyway, and a rise in total enquiries matters more than a rise in either channel alone. Ask your agency to report paid results against the background of overall enquiries, so you can see what the advertising added rather than what it merely relabelled.