An oil-tank removal and environmental waste contractor. £127,000 of ad spend managed, and a steady 40 to 50 enquiries every month, six years on.
Google Ads management in Peterborough,
built to compete and convert.
We are a Google Ads agency thirty minutes from Peterborough, for businesses that want enquiries, not just clicks. You own your account, there is no long contract, and we will show you where your budget is leaking before you pay us a penny.
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Google Ads built to compete
in Peterborough.
Peterborough is a competitive market. Businesses here are bidding against each other and against national companies with large advertising budgets. Getting Google Ads right in a city takes more than switching a campaign on: it takes careful keyword selection, strong ad copy, and an account actively managed by a specialist who reviews performance regularly. We are based in Bourne, around thirty minutes from the city, running campaigns for Peterborough businesses that need their ads to compete and convert.
Our team is small, and that is an advantage. You work directly with the person managing your account. No account coordinators, no delay between raising a concern and seeing it dealt with. When something needs changing, it is changed quickly by someone who knows the full picture.
We manage every part of the campaign ourselves: keyword strategy, ad writing, conversion tracking, bid management and monthly reporting. No outsourcing, no subcontractors. A Bourne-based team, focused on your Peterborough account.

Busy ads,
quiet phone?
Businesses in Peterborough face a particular version of the Google Ads problem. The spend goes out, the clicks show up on the dashboard, but the quality of enquiries does not match the level of investment. In a competitive city market, poorly targeted ads cost more and deliver less, and the gap between a click and a customer gets expensive fast.
The usual causes: match types set too broad, so the campaign shows for searches well outside your market or service area; no negative keyword list to block irrelevant traffic; and no conversion tracking to show which keywords and ads produce real customer contact rather than simply cost. Decisions then get made on surface metrics instead of business results.
In a market like Peterborough, the difference between well-managed and poorly managed Google Ads compounds over time. Good management cuts wasted spend and works to bring quality scores up and cost per enquiry down over time. That is what consistent optimisation looks like in practice, and it is how we run every account we manage.
Campaign Audit
Common issues found
Keywords too broad
Budget wasted on irrelevant clicks
No negative keywords
Ads shown to the wrong audience
No conversion tracking
No data to make smart decisions
Bids not optimised
Paying too much per click
Weak landing pages
Clicks arrive but never convert
Poor location targeting
Budget spent outside your service area
Result without expert management
Budget wasted
Real clients.
Real results.
We would rather show you than tell you. A few results from accounts we run day to day, anonymised but real.
An acupuncture and Chinese medicine practitioner running his own clinic, and a client of ours for six years and counting.
A garden-building e-commerce brand. £39,000 in tracked sales from under £10,000 of spend. And that only counts the sales we can track.
Real Brilliant Digital clients. Figures cover the campaigns we built and run and are accurate as of July 2026. Individual results vary.
Everything your campaign
needs to perform.
Google Ads management is not a one-time job. Here is everything we handle.
Keyword Research
Finding the exact searches your customers use when they are ready to buy, so your budget only chases people who will convert.
Campaign Setup
Built with the right structure and the right campaign type for your goal, whether that is Search, Shopping, Display or Remarketing, so nothing is set up to waste money.
Ad Copywriting
Ads written to earn the click from the right people and quietly put off the wrong ones, so you pay for clicks worth having.
Negative Keywords
Filtering out the searches that will never become customers. The single most ignored job in Google Ads, and where most budget leaks.
Conversion Tracking
Tracking set up properly, so you see exactly what your money produced: calls, form fills and sales, not vanity clicks.
Campaign Monitoring
Performance watched closely, so problems are caught in days and opportunities are not missed.
Ongoing Optimisation
Bids, budgets and keywords refined month after month, so the account keeps improving instead of drifting.
Monthly Reporting
Clear, jargon-free reporting every month, so you always know where your budget went and what it produced.
Supercharged by AI.
Directed by people.
AI hasn't replaced how we work, it has supercharged it. We were always doing the research, the testing and the optimising. Now we can go far deeper, and that shows up in your results.
AI is a tool in our hands, not a replacement for us. The strategy, the decisions and the work on your account all stay with a real team that knows your business. You are hiring people who use every modern advantage, not a robot running your account.
Sharper insight across the whole account
A smarter strategy, and faster moves when the numbers shift.
Better, more persuasive ads
More of the right people click, less on the wrong ones.
Deeper keyword research
Tighter targeting on searches that actually convert.
More of the wasted searches caught
Less budget wasted on clicks that never buy.
Real landing-page insight, not guesswork
More of those clicks become enquiries.
It all adds up to a budget that works harder, every month. Most providers still don't work this way.
Your ads are only as good as
the page they land on.
You can run the sharpest campaign in your industry, but if the click lands on a slow, cluttered or unconvincing page, the money is gone. The waste happens after the click, not in the ad.
And this is not just our opinion. Your Google Ads account already grades the page your ad lands on. When a weak page is dragging your results down, Google itself flags it, right there in your account, before we say a word.
Then we go further. We run the page through an independent, AI-driven test that reads the design, the copy and the structure, and shows exactly where visitors are being lost. It is not a matter of taste or opinion. The data does the talking.
And here is the part worth knowing: the more enquiries your budget brings in, the longer you stay with us. Your results are our results, which is exactly the incentive you want the people running your ads to have.
The headline that earns the click
A tightly targeted ad brings the right visitor to your door.
Agency-grade Google Ads,
without the agency price.
We are a small team by choice. You always deal with us directly, we care about results over volume, and because we carry none of the overheads of a big agency, you get agency-level management at a fraction of the price.
Doing it yourself eats time you probably do not have, and a typical agency charges more than it should. We sit in between on purpose: agency-grade management, at a fair price, with nothing locking you in.
Ongoing management,
not a one-off setup.
Getting Google Ads right is a process, not a project. Here is how a Brilliant Digital campaign works from day one.
Free Consultation
We open with a direct conversation about your business, your goals and where you stand, with no obligation and no pressure, just clarity on what Google Ads can achieve in a competitive market.
Account Audit or Setup
For an existing account, we audit it to expose what performs, what wastes budget and what needs to change. For a new one, we build it correctly from the ground up.
Campaign Launch
Once everything is in place, we launch: keywords researched, ads written, conversion tracking installed and bids set for your budget and your goals.
Monitoring and Optimisation
Every month we review the numbers, adjust bids, test new ads and refine keyword lists based on the data, which matters even more where you are bidding against bigger budgets.
Reporting
A clear, jargon-free report reaches you each month, showing what was spent, what it produced and where our focus turns next.
Monthly Call
We go through it on a short monthly call, translate the figures into what they mean for your business and agree the priorities ahead. You are always kept in the loop.
Continuous improvement, not a one-off setup
Google Ads questions,
answered honestly.
01How much does Google Ads management cost in Peterborough?
Our management fee starts from £250 + VAT a month, depending on your ad spend and how complex the account is. In a city like Peterborough you may want a larger budget to compete, but our fee is separate from that spend, there is no long contract, and we are clear about both numbers upfront.
02How much should I spend on Google Ads?
There is no minimum we impose, though a competitive city market often rewards a slightly higher budget. For many businesses, somewhere between £500 and £1,000 a month is a realistic starting point, enough to gather real data and compete. That budget is separate from our fee and stays in your own account, and we will be honest about what your market needs before you commit.
03Do you only work with businesses in Peterborough?
No. We manage accounts for businesses across the region, and because Google Ads is run online, distance makes no difference: we can work with you wherever you are based. Being around thirty minutes from the city simply makes meeting in person straightforward if you would prefer.
04Is PPC the same as Google Ads?
For most businesses, yes. PPC stands for pay-per-click, the model where you only pay when someone clicks your ad. Google Ads is the largest PPC platform by a wide margin, so when a Peterborough business asks about PPC, it almost always means Google Ads, which is what we manage.
05I have spent a lot on Google Ads in a competitive market with little return. What would change?
In a city market, wasted spend adds up quickly, and it usually comes from a few fixable leaks: keywords too broad, no negative keywords, tracking that was never set up, and an account nobody actively manages. We find those leaks, close them, and keep closing the new ones, so more of your budget goes on searches that can actually become customers.
06Do I need a website or an existing account, and can you handle the landing page?
No. We can build a new Google Ads account or take over one you already run. You do need somewhere for the clicks to land, and being a web design agency helps: in a busy market a weak landing page is expensive, and we can build or improve it. That is a separate piece of work, priced on its own, but having your ads and your page from one team is an edge most agencies cannot offer.
07Do you use AI to run my ads?
We use AI as a tool, not a replacement for a person. It helps us process large volumes of search data, sharpen ad copy and test landing pages faster than we could by hand, which matters when you are up against bigger budgets. But a real person runs your account, and every decision that affects your budget is made by that person, not a machine.
08How soon will I see results, and how will I know it is working?
Google Ads can start bringing in traffic within days, though the first few weeks are mostly the account learning. Every campaign we run has proper conversion tracking, so you always see what your spend produced, calls, enquiries and sales, in a plain monthly report with a short call to talk it through.
09Do you guarantee results?
No, and be wary of anyone who does, especially in a competitive market. Your market, budget and offer all shape the result, so no honest agency can promise a set return. What we can promise is method: proper setup, real tracking and relentless optimisation that makes every pound work its hardest.
10Am I locked in, and do I own my account?
No lock-in, and the account is always yours. We work month to month with no long contract, so you stay because the account is performing, not because you are tied in. The account, its data and its history stay in your name, so if we ever part ways, you keep everything.
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Max M.
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