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We're a UK Leading Pay Per Click Agency

Most agencies are still obsessed with ROAS. It looks good in reports. But it tells you nothing about what actually matters — profit.

We’ve seen this first-hand. We were celebrating ROAS figures. On paper, performance looked impressive — until we dug into the balance sheets. The actual business impact was minimal after shipping, payment fees, returns, and discounts.

There had to be a shift.

That’s when we doubled down on POAS (Profit On Ad Spend). Because what’s the point of great-looking metrics if the bank balance keeps shrinking?

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Are we the Best PPC Agency?

Depends what you’re measuring.

If you want pretty reports and cheap clicks, we’re not for you.
We care about one thing: profit.

Most agencies chase ROAS, a shiny number that ignores your costs. It looks great in a report, even if it means you’re losing money. We don’t playthat game. Our POAS-first approach focuses on real profit. Every ad
decision we make ties back to your bottom line.

Just clear results that actually help your business grow.

If “best” means the most profitable, then yes – we are.


How our PPC services help your business.

At Salience, we build PPC campaigns that reflect reality, the one with suppliers, overheads, and paper-thin margins in the current UK economic climate.

We optimise for POAS, not just ROAS. We factor in product margins, fulfilment costs, discounting, and more, so your ads drive bottom-line profit.

You own everything: your ad accounts, data, and strategy docs. There is zero red tape, and nothing is held hostage.

We act like an extension of your team. No vague dashboards. Just clear, periodic insights show what’s working, what isn't and what’s next.

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The 3 Pillars Of Our PPC Service

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Profit-First PPC Management

ROAS (Return on Ad Spend) shows how much revenue your ads generate. It sounds good on paper, but it ignores the real business costs.

POAS (Profit on Ad Spend) factors in shipping, fees, discounts, and margins, so you know whether you’re making money.

We optimise for POAS because your stakeholders don’t care about pretty numbers - they care about profit.

"Salience have transformed our online search marketing programme. Their technical expertise and knowledge in this area are impressive, and they are a pleasure to work with."

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Richard Moody

Head of Supporter Engagement

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Full-Funnel Paid Media Commercial Insight

We work with you to map out all the hidden costs, product margins, fulfilment, payment processing, returns, and anything else that reduces real profit.

We use this to map out a mutually agreed profit floor for the campaign.

If we miss the agreed-upon floor for just 1 month, you can leave our relationship.

"The Salience are great to work with. We were previously doing everything inhouse but felt we won't getting the results we were expecting. Now that we're using Salience, we have a proactive team behind us that's not delivering good results but great results!"

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Ravi Kotecha

Managing Director

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Human-First PPC Account Management

We don’t sugar-coat the numbers.

We’re profit-first, strategy-led, and radically transparent.

No hidden fees, no black box reporting, no fluff metrics.

Just intelligent humans doing commercially sound work. We act as a bolt-on to your team, not a black hole agency that hides behind jargon and dashboards.

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"The team at Salience have helped us to refine our PPC strategy to get the absolute most out of our ads. Their knowledge has enabled us to create campaigns that are focused and performing better than ever."

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Jay Broughton

Managing Director

  • Google Ads

    We don’t run Google Ads for clicks. We run them for profit. By feeding real revenue data into your Search and Performance Max campaigns, we ensure your budget flows toward products and customers that earn you money. No guesswork. No vanity metrics. Just a ruthless focus on your bottom line.

  • Google Shopping

    Google Shopping is powerful — if you know how to use it. We optimise your product feed with margin data so your best products get the spotlight. The high-margin winners get pushed. The low-margin laggards get out of the way. No more wasted spend. Just a lean, mean profit machine.

  • Microsoft Advertising (Bing Ads)

    Most agencies sleep on Microsoft Ads. That’s a mistake. Bing users are different — often older, wealthier, and cheaper to reach. We use it to find customers your competitors miss and plug those gaps into your wider PPC strategy. Less noise, more ROI. It’s not sexy, but it works.

  • Display Ads

    Display advertising shouldn’t feel like setting fire to your budget. We bring discipline to the process. We turn brand awareness into actual results by targeting the right people and measuring real outcomes, not just impressions. Clear goals, smart data, and no more fuzzy marketing speak.

  • Paid Social

    Forget vanity metrics. We don’t care about likes or shares unless they lead to sales. Our social campaigns (Meta, LinkedIn, and beyond) surround cold, hard profit. We find audiences who convert, not just scroll. Then we prove it with data that links ad spend directly to your revenue.

  • PPC for E-commerce

    This is our bread and butter. E-commerce is brutal. Tight margins, endless competition, and razor-thin mistakes. We use our POAS method (profit on ad spend) to turn paid search into a revenue driver, not a cost centre. From feed management to remarketing, every click we chase is worth it.

  • Remarketing

    Not all past visitors are created equal. Some bounce, some browse, and others buy again and again. We build smart remarketing lists that target users based on their potential value, not just their last click. That means fewer wasted impressions and more repeat customers who grow your business.

  • Ad Copywriting

    Our copy is clear, direct, and written to convert. No fluff. No filler. We write ads that pre-qualify your audience before they even click. The result? More relevant traffic, fewer time-wasters, and better results from the same budget. Tested, tweaked, and proven to sell, not just impress.

  • Landing Page Optimisation

    A strong ad can’t fix a weak landing page. We A/B test, refine, and rebuild your pages to ensure they work hard once someone clicks. That means smoother journeys, higher conversion rates, and more customers at a lower cost. Every ad deserves a landing page that pulls its weight.

  • Programmatic Display

    Display advertising shouldn’t feel like setting fire to your budget. We bring discipline to the process. We turn brand awareness into actual results by targeting the right people and measuring real outcomes, not just impressions.

    Clear goals, smart data, and no more fuzzy marketing speak.

  • Google Ads scripts

    Scripts aren’t just for automation. Ours unlock new insights and find wins that Google’s tools often miss. We use them to tweak bids, flag issues, and surface data that improves performance. Less manual work, more strategic thinking. While others push buttons, we push ahead.

  • International ppc

    Going global isn’t just translating keywords and crossing fingers. Every market has its margins, competitors, and customer behaviours. We build bespoke PPC strategies for each country, grounded in local insight and profit goals. It’s how we help businesses grow internationally without bleeding money.

"Working with Salience, we have developed a clear understanding of our online marketplace. They have helped develop an online strategy that continues to deliver sales, engage our audience and grow our business." Eric Cooper, Shake That Weight

OUR WORK IN PPC

Crisis

Optimising this homeless charity's paid search campaigns led to a huge increase in donations and revenue at their busiest period - Christmas.

Shake That Weight

Cutting through the noise of a saturated market with well-targeted campaign focused on return on investment.

SquareMeal

Redefining the paid search strategy, developing fresh approaches and focusing on capturing new opportunities which resulted in a greater share of the market.

Funktion Events

Maximising relevancy to the user through tightly themed strategies and relevant, location specific targeting, driving revenue and maintaining cost efficiency.

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  • Onboarding & Strategy Alignment

    Our audit process includes thorough assessments of account structures, bidding strategies, and conversion tracking while establishing your campaign’s North Star, which usually consists of POAS or ROAS targets. 

     

    Our process includes keyword analysis, competitor benchmarking, landing page assessment, and a quarterly sprint roadmap. We verify proper GA4 tracking and detect performance issues while building  dashboards that merge Google Ads data with CRM information and margin statistics for complete transparency starting from day one.

  • Continuous Communication

    You’ll never wonder what’s happening with your campaigns. Each client gets their dedicated account manager who becomes your go-to person for strategy, performance updates, and campaign planning. We schedule bi-weekly calls to walk through what’s working, what isn’t, and what we’re testing next. Your custom dashboard shows real-time POAS, conversion rates, and revenue figures, meaning no waiting for monthly reports to see how things are going. Every quarter, we sit down for a proper business review to evaluate everything against your original goals and plan the next phase.

  • Responsive Adjustments

    There’s more market volatility today than ever, with AI Overviews, SGE, and LLMs all bringing their challenges. This means our strategy is more volatile, too.

    Our sprint approach breaks optimisation work into focused chunks, usually quarterly cycles, where we tackle specific improvements like creative testing or audience refinement.

  • Comprehensive PPC Audits

    Our audits aren’t just “are ads running?” checks. We dissect your entire paid setup. 

     

    Campaign structure, conversion tracking, keyword targeting gaps, technical issues, competitor benchmarks, and landing page experiences.  

     

    All to find money left on the table.

  • Precision Keyword Strategies

    Keywords should be more about your users and their intent than click volume. We identify search terms that convert, not high-volume vanity metrics that look good but don’t drive sales.

     

    We analyse gaps, build negative keyword lists, and review the search queries triggering your ads.

    Find new opportunities. Spot problem areas. Stop wasting money on irrelevant searches.


    Match investment to commercial intent.

  • Advanced Bid Management

    We optimise for profit (POAS) rather than just revenue, which means factoring in your actual product costs and margins. Tools like Optmyzr handle the technical side of bid adjustments and budget pacing, but we maintain control over strategy.

    High-margin products can afford aggressive bidding for top positions, while lower-margin items need more careful management. Everything adjusts in real-time based on performance data.

  • Creative Ad Testing

    Ad creative is a science, not an art. Performance will stagnate without continuous testing and updating. Every creative must be backed by conversion data, which looks at which elements consistently deliver higher conversion rates and higher efficiency.

  • Profit-Centric Approach

    The agency PPC model is broken.

     

    The UK marketplace is becoming increasingly challenging to play in. Margins are getting thinner and thinner, and many businesses are at the breaking point. 

     

    ROAS has become a thinly veiled guise that agencies use to make stakeholders feel safer in their investments. They’re saying your ROAS is excellent, which may be true, yet the business’s actual profits can be next to nothing or even in the red. 

     

    • Shipping costs
    • Payment fees
    • Packaging & handling
    • Sales & discounts 

     

    All ignored. 

     

    Few in the industry are seriously considering fundamental business practicalities and calling it a day when AdWords gives them a healthy figure to share in QBRs. 

    The answer? POAS =  Profit On Ad Spend.

  • Informed by Competitor & Market Intelligence

    Before you go to war,  you need a map of the battlefield.

    We research the keywords your competitors target and understand their missed gaps. This tells us when to launch campaigns and where to move the budget. We also benchmark your performance against theirs, spotting the minor improvements that lead to big wins. The goal is to move away from defensive tweaks and problem-solving to an offensive strategy that hunts for opportunities and grabs market share before your competitors do. Think predator instead of prey.

  • Extracting Value from Data

    Data only matters if it drives better decisions. We build dashboards that pull from Google Ads, GA4, your CRM, and actual profit margins. 

    Automated monitoring through tools like Optmyzr spots opportunities before they turn into problems. We also analyse user behaviour to improve how you attract traffic and convert it.

    Your data becomes a tool to make decisions faster and better than your competition.

The PPC Model Is Broken. We’re Calling To Fix It.

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  • How soon will I see results from a PPC campaign?

    Ads live in hours.

    You’ll see clicks and traffic immediately, but meaningful data needs 2-4 weeks to accumulate. Google’s algorithms require time to learn your audience and optimise delivery.

    Early wins happen fast; we often spot quick conversion rate improvements or discover high-performing keywords within the first week. However, stable, profitable performance typically emerges after 30-60 days of testing and refinement.

    Budget matters here. Larger spends generate data faster, letting us optimise sooner. Smaller budgets need a longer runway to produce meaningful information.

  • What is Profit on Ad Spend (POAS), and how is it different from ROAS?

    POAS is the profit you earn for every pound/dollar spent on advertising. It’s revenue minus all direct costs, divided by ad spend.

    The POAS formula breakdown:

    POAS = (Revenue – COGS – Shipping – Fees – Discounts) / Ad Cost  

     

    Each component must be meticulously tracked to reveal true profitability.

     

    You’ve been told that a 5:1 ROAS is gold. It looks great on a deck, but it hides all the real costs that destroy your bottom line.

  • How involved will I be in campaign management?

    In short, you’re the pilot.

    Campaign management works best when you stay connected to the strategy while we handle the execution. We’ll need your input on business priorities, seasonal patterns, and product margins – insights only you possess about your market and customers.

    Weekly or bi-weekly check-ins keep you informed without drowning you in data. Beyond that, the depth of your involvement depends on your preference and expertise. Some clients want granular keyword reports and bid adjustment explanations. Others prefer high-level dashboards showing profit trends and growth trajectories. We adapt our communication style to match your needs and technical comfort level.

    The best campaigns emerge from this partnership – your business acumen combined with our technical expertise.

  • Can you integrate PPC with my existing marketing channels?

    Absolutely. Cross-channel alignment is built into our process from day one. During onboarding, we align strategy with your cross-channel teams and share insights to coordinate messaging and offer timing. Our Looker Studio dashboards combine data from GA4, Google Ads, and your CRM systems to give you a unified view of how PPC works alongside your other marketing efforts. We schedule regular sessions to understand how campaigns fit with product launches, promotional calendars, and seasonal opportunities. This ensures your paid search amplifies rather than competes with your existing marketing activities.

  • How do you use competitor insights to improve my campaign?

    We’re not trying to copy their bets. We’re studying their tells, understanding their strategy, and finding the opportunities they’ve overlooked or abandoned.

    Which keywords they bid on, how much they’re willing to spend, where they go aggressive and where they pull back.

    This reveals more than just their tactics. It shows their blind spots. Everyone can see the same data, but few people interpret it similarly.

    Your competitors might avoid specific keywords because they seem expensive.  But expensive to whom? If those keywords convert better for your business model, suddenly the “expensive” keywords become bargains.

    Markets are conversations between buyers and sellers. Keyword research is eavesdropping on those conversations.

    The goal isn’t to outspend competitors. It’s to outthink them, finding the valuable spaces they don’t understand, and claiming that territory while it’s still affordable.

  • Will you handle our creative and landing pages too?

    We’ll advise, improve, and collaborate, but we’re not a creative agency. We’ll work with your internal team (or bring in partners) to ensure that what’s downstream from the ad clicks is working just as hard. Creative and landing page performance is often where the real ROI lives.

  • Do you work with small budgets or just big spenders?

    We’re honest about what works. We’ll tell you if your paid media budget is too small to generate scalable returns. Most of our clients operate in the £5k–£100k/month range, but we’re more interested in your goals and margins than the size of your wallet.

  • What industries or sectors do you specialise in?

    Industries choose us because we speak their language.

    Retail, Lead Generation, Finance, and Charity are worlds we understand intimately. The seasonal rhythms of retail, the conversion psychology of lead generation, the compliance complexities of finance, and the emotional drivers of charity.

    We work with brands where every percentage point matters. Lindt, Carpetright, Dreams, Hancocks, Brita, The Entertainer. Companies that can’t afford campaigns built on hope and best guesses. They need profitable growth, not vanity metrics.

    Here’s what sector expertise means: furniture buyers research for months before purchasing, charity donors respond differently to urgency than retail customers do, and financial services require different trust signals than consumer goods.

    This isn’t knowledge you acquire from a textbook. It comes from years of watching what works, what fails, and why, and from understanding that a good conversion rate in finance looks nothing like a good conversion rate in retail.

    You need an agency that understands your world from the inside out.

  • Can you show us examples of client results?

    We get it, show, don’t tell. Luckily, we’ve got a lot to show. From helping the lights industry market leader, lights4fun, to increasing revenue by 187%, to achieving a 71% increase in donation revenue for the charity Crisis.

  • What does onboarding look like?

    Not pointless admin, not just paperwork for paperwork’s sake. The point of onboarding is to identify your North Star. We start with a proper audit, no cookie-cutter templates. Then we map your goals, set up tracking, fix the foundations, and build a campaign strategy designed around profit. You’ll get clear timelines and a setup process that doesn’t drag.

  • How do I get started?

    Let’s start with a question agencies rarely ask: Can we even help you? Get in touch, and we’ll chat about your problems, your dreams, and whether we believe ourselves to be the solution.

  • Do you do Paid Social

    Whether it’s Meta, TikTok or LinkedIn, we build Paid Social into your broader digital strategy, not as a bolt-on channel.

    The reality is that social platforms are becoming search engines. People discover products on Pinterest, research on TikTok, and make decisions across multiple touchpoints before they ever hit Google. 

    An omnipresent strategy isn’t optional anymore; it’s essential. Your customers expect to find you everywhere they look, and if you’re only visible on traditional search, you’re missing half the conversation.

    We believe in being where your audience spends time, not just where it’s convenient to advertise. Read More.

  • Do you do CRO and UX?

    Do you do CRO and UX?

    Yes. Driving the right traffic is only half the equation. CRO and UX are also important in building high-ROI campaigns. 

    There’s no point pouring excellently targeted traffic into a leaky bucket of an unoptimised landing page environment. 

    Campaigns with brilliant targeting and compelling ads fall flat because the site experience couldn’t close the deal. 

    It’s not just about more clicks; it’s about making every click count. All of it feeds back into delivering stronger POAS. Read more.

"Over the past five years, Salience have transformed our online search marketing programme. Their technical expertise and knowledge in this area are impressive, and they are a pleasure to work with." Richard Moody, Crisis