Keywords are what you bid on; search terms are what people actually typed. The gap between the two is where most wasted spend hides, and closing it is ordinary, repetitive work that pays every month.
Job seekers, students, DIY researchers and competitors all click ads. Negatives keep them from doing it on your budget twice.
Converting terms you were never bidding on get promoted into keywords of their own, often with better economics than what you started with.
Search language shifts constantly, and Google keeps widening what counts as a match. This is never finished work.
Broad match and close variants mean you are paying for queries you never chose. Reviewing them regularly is unglamorous, repetitive, and one of the most reliable ways to cut waste in an account.
Nothing exotic. The workflow is built around how your business already handles inquiries, and every part of it produces something measurable.
We review search terms against your services, locations, budget, and lead quality goals.
We add negative keywords and exclusions where searches are irrelevant, too broad, or commercially weak.
Strong search patterns can guide new keywords, ads, landing pages, and budget decisions.
What this looks like day to day on a managed account.
The rest of what sits behind the management.
Send us what you have running and we will tell you what we would change, before you commit to anything.