Google Ads Management
Search, Shopping, Performance Max, Demand Gen and YouTube - structured for margin, not just volume.
- Query mining & negative keyword hygiene
- Feed optimisation for Shopping/PMax
- Profit-based bidding with offline conversions
Credex Media runs paid advertising, SEO, AI search visibility, content, commerce and automation as one connected system - measured against one number that matters: profitable revenue. Not impressions. Not vanity dashboards.
Why an integrated programme beats a paid
Indexed revenue from month 0. Paid-only buys demand; integrated builds an asset that keeps producing.
Illustrative model based on Credex Media engagement data, 2023–2026. Individual results vary by category, margin and starting authority.
Trusted by teams in ecommerce, SaaS, healthcare, real estate, education & B2B services
Five vendors, five dashboards, five stories about who deserves credit. Meanwhile the customer experiences one brand and takes one journey. Here is what that disconnect actually costs.
Your Meta agency and your Google agency both claim the same conversion. Last-click says one thing, the platform says another, and you fund the wrong channel for two quarters.
Rankings improve, sessions climb, and the sales team feels nothing. Traffic without offer, page speed, proof and follow-up is a cost centre with a nice-looking graph.
A third of research now ends inside an AI answer. If your entity, schema and quotable facts aren't there, you are absent from the shortlist before the click ever existed.
Where buyers actually start product research in 2026
Search is still first - but it is no longer the only first. Respondents could select more than one starting point, so shares exceed 100%.
Every service below can be bought alone - but they are designed to feed each other. Ad creative becomes organic content. SEO keywords become ad copy. Lifecycle data becomes better targeting.
Search, Shopping, Performance Max, Demand Gen and YouTube - structured for margin, not just volume.
Advantage+ campaigns backed by a real creative testing engine - because on Meta, creative is the targeting.
Account-based media for long sales cycles - built to fill pipeline, not to buy the cheapest possible lead.
Technical, on-page, content and digital PR run as one programme - the channel that keeps paying after the invoice stops.
Get cited inside AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini answers - the new zero-click shortlist.
Research-backed content built around commercial intent and topical authority - not a blog that exists because someone said you need one.
Short-form that stops the scroll and long-form that sells. Shot lists, edits, captions, hooks and variants at ad-testing volume.
Brand systems and performance creative from the same studio, so your ads look like your brand and still convert.
Platform-native content, community management and a publishing engine that survives contact with reality.
The highest-margin channel you already own. Flows, segments and deliverability that turn a list into a revenue line.
Open rates print money when the channel is used with restraint. Official Business API, opt-in hygiene, real conversation flows.
Fast, accessible, schema-ready sites built to rank and convert - not templates dressed up with plugins.
Catalogue, pricing, promotions, inventory signals and channel mix - the unglamorous work that decides whether ads are profitable.
Amazon, Flipkart, Myntra, Nykaa, Etsy and more - titles, bullets, backend terms, A+ content and images engineered for rank and conversion.
A performance channel you only pay for on results - provided the tracking, terms and partner mix are set up properly.
Creator partnerships selected on audience fit and evidence, briefed properly, and measured on incremental sales.
Small percentage lifts on the pages that already get traffic beat any amount of new traffic to a page that doesn't convert.
If measurement is wrong, every decision downstream is wrong. GA4, GTM, server-side tagging, consent mode and CRM stitching.
Six stages, one measurement core. Every service we sell plugs into a stage, and every stage reports into the same analytics layer - so nobody has to argue about whose channel deserves the credit.
SEO and GEO capture people already searching. Paid social and video create demand from people who weren't. You need both; one is cheaper, one is scalable.
Comparison pages, buyer guides, video and social keep you present through a research cycle that can run weeks, not minutes.
Speed, proof, clarity of offer and a form that works on a phone. CRO is where 1% beats a 10% traffic increase.
Email sequences, WhatsApp nudges and retargeting for the 97% who weren't ready the first time.
Retention is where profit lives. Lifecycle flows, loyalty design and post-purchase content raise LTV so you can afford to outbid competitors.
Affiliates, creators and referral programmes turn happy customers and aligned partners into a distribution network.
The engine, drawn
Nothing runs in isolation. Every stage feeds data back into the measurement core, which reallocates budget.
You will always know what is happening this week, what is being tested, and what number it is meant to move. Here is the full sequence from first call to compounding.
We ask about unit economics before we ask about ad accounts. Then we take read access to everything: ads, analytics, CRM, store, search console.
Nothing gets optimised before it gets measured properly. We fix GA4, conversion events, server-side tagging and attribution first.
Channel mix modelled against your margins, a 90-day roadmap with owners and dates, and an honest forecast with a range — not a single flattering number.
Campaign structures, landing pages, creatives, content briefs, email and WhatsApp flows go live in a staged sequence, not all at once.
A standing weekly cycle: review, decide, ship. You get a Monday note with what changed, what it did, and what is next.
Every 90 days we re-forecast, retire what is not working, and shift budget toward the assets that keep producing without spend.
Ranges below are medians across live engagements. We show ranges rather than the single best account, because the best account is never the one you'd be.
Cost per acquisition, before vs after
Same budget, better structure, better creative, better measurement. Month 1 baseline vs month 9.
Median across Credex Media accounts with ≥9 months of continuous management, 2024–2026. Excludes accounts that changed offer or pricing mid-flight.
Where a healthy budget goes, by stage
Paid's share should fall over time. If it never does, you are renting demand forever.
Credex Media planning benchmark. Adjust for category competitiveness and gross margin.
Notice that none of these were solved by "spending more". Two of them involved spending less in the wrong place.
A profitable Shopping account was being throttled by a malformed product feed: 41% of SKUs disapproved or mis-categorised. We rebuilt the feed, split PMax by margin tier, and let bidding do its job.
| Metric | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Blended ROAS | 2.1× | 6.4× |
| SKUs serving | 59% | 98% |
| CPA | $62 | $27 |
Eight hundred thin pages were cannibalising each other. We consolidated to 140 genuinely useful pages, rebuilt internal linking around six clusters, and added answer blocks that started appearing in AI Overviews.
| Metric | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Non-brand clicks/mo | 4,100 | 16,900 |
| Indexed pages | 812 | 140 |
| Demo requests/month | 31 | 118 |
A marketplace-dependent brand with no list and no first-party data. We built WhatsApp opt-in at checkout, six email flows and a reorder engine - then used that data to make paid targeting cheaper.
| Metric | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Owned-channel revenue | 3% | 27% |
| Repeat purchase rate | 11% | 34% |
| Blended CAC | $44 | $19 |
Search is splitting into two surfaces. One returns links. The other returns an answer, cites three or four sources, and ends the journey. Ranking well on the first no longer guarantees presence on the second.
Generative Engine Optimization is the practice of structuring a website's content, data and entity signals so that large language models cite it when answering user questions. Where classic SEO competes for a ranked position, GEO competes for inclusion in a synthesised answer - which is won through extractable facts, verifiable statistics, clean structured data, and consistent entity identity across the web.
Research into generative-engine citation behaviour has consistently found that a handful of content properties raise the odds of being cited. Citing authoritative sources, adding statistics, including expert quotations and using precise technical terminology have each been measured as materially improving visibility inside AI answers.
llms.txt and AI-crawler accessSEO vs GEO vs AEO - what actually differs
They overlap heavily. The differences are in what wins, and how you know you won.
| SEO | GEO | AEO | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Goal | Rank a URL | Be cited in an AI answer | Own the featured/voice answer |
| Surface | Blue links | ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, AI Overviews | Snippets, PAA, voice assistants |
| Unit that wins | The page | The passage | The sentence |
| Key lever | Authority + relevance | Extractability + entity trust | Direct, concise phrasing |
| Schema weight | Helpful | Critical | Critical |
| Measured by | Rank, clicks | Citation share, mentions | Snippet ownership |
| Click behaviour | Click-through | Often zero-click | Often zero-click |
There are good reasons to hire in-house or to use a freelancer. Here is where each option genuinely wins - and where we do.
| Consideration | In-house hire | Freelancer | Typical agency | Credex Media |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breadth of channels | 1–2 done well | 1 done well | Wide, uneven depth | 20 services, senior owner per channel |
| Time to first value | 2–4 months (hire + ramp) | 1–2 weeks | 4–8 weeks | Audit in week 2, live in week 4 |
| Cost at 3 channels | Highest (3 salaries) | Low, but fragmented | Medium–high | One retainer, one team |
| Who does the work | The person you hired | The person you hired | Often a junior | The strategist on your calls |
| Account ownership | You | Usually you | Sometimes the agency | Always you |
| Attribution honesty | Neutral | Neutral | Incentive to over-claim | One blended number, no channel politics |
| Lock-in | Employment terms | None | 6–12 months common | 3-month minimum, then rolling |
| Knowledge if they leave | Walks out the door | Walks out the door | Variable | Documented playbooks handed over |
The person who runs your account is the person who joins the call. We do not staff accounts with people learning on your budget.
Ad accounts, analytics, domains, creative files, documentation. If we part ways, nothing is held hostage.
We give you a low, expected and high case with the assumptions written down — so a miss is a learning, not an argument.
If a channel won't work for your margin, we'll tell you before you sign, not in month four. We've turned down work for this reason.
We can work in most categories. In these, we already know the seasonality, the compliance edges, the benchmark CPAs and what the good competitors are doing.
"The first thing they did was tell us to pause a campaign we loved. It was cannibalising branded search. That call alone paid for the first quarter."
"We'd worked with three agencies. Credex is the first that showed us a forecast with a low case and then actually hit the middle of the range. No theatre."
"Our WhatsApp flows now do more revenue than our entire paid social budget used to. And we own the list. That's the part nobody else was building."
The questions we get on almost every first call, answered the way we'd answer them on the call.
A full-service digital marketing agency plans, executes and measures every online channel a business uses to acquire and keep customers. At Credex Media that means paid advertising on Google, Meta and LinkedIn, search engine optimization, generative engine optimization for AI answers, content and video production, social media management, email and WhatsApp automation, ecommerce management, affiliate and influencer programmes, web development and conversion rate optimization.
The difference between "full-service" and "many services" is whether they are reported against one revenue number or five separate channel dashboards. We do the former.
Most growing businesses invest 7–12% of gross revenue in marketing. Ecommerce brands in competitive categories often run 15–20% during an active growth phase, and early-stage companies buying their first market position sometimes exceed that deliberately.
The more useful question is the split. A practical early-stage allocation is roughly 55% paid acquisition, 20% content and SEO, 15% creative production, 10% lifecycle and CRO. As organic and owned channels compound, paid's share should fall toward 28% — see the budget chart above. If paid never falls below half your budget after three years, you are renting demand rather than building it.
Technical and on-page fixes can move rankings in 4–8 weeks. Content-driven ranking for competitive commercial keywords typically takes 4–7 months. Terms that depend on domain authority take 9–12 months or longer.
Anyone promising page-one for a competitive head term in 30 days is either targeting a keyword nobody searches or is about to do something that gets you penalised. We use paid media as the bridge: it buys demand at a known cost while SEO builds a channel that keeps producing after you stop paying per click.
Generative engine optimization (GEO) is the practice of getting a brand cited inside AI-generated answers on Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Copilot. It matters because a growing share of research now ends inside an AI answer without a click to any website.
You need it if your buyers research before purchasing — which is nearly every category with a considered purchase. GEO relies on clean structured data, quotable 40–60 word answer blocks, verifiable statistics, consistent entity signals across the web, and permitting AI crawler user agents. We include it in every SEO retainer at no extra cost. Read the full GEO service page →
Yes. We work with clients across India, the United States, the United Kingdom, the UAE, Australia, Canada and Singapore. Reporting, calls and creative are delivered in English, and account teams maintain at least four hours of working overlap with your time zone.
Single-channel retainers start with a three-month minimum, because meaningful paid or SEO data does not exist before then and judging the work earlier is guesswork. Multi-channel growth programmes run on six or twelve month terms with quarterly break clauses. One-off projects — a website build, a listing optimization sprint, a video package — are quoted as fixed-scope work with no retainer at all. See pricing and engagement models →
You do — always, and from day one. We work inside your Google Ads, Meta Business Manager, GA4 and CRM under agency access. Creative source files, documentation and playbooks are delivered to a shared drive you control. If the engagement ends, we run a handover call and remove our access; nothing needs to be rebuilt.
Most clients do. The common entry points are Google Ads, Meta Ads or SEO, and the common second addition is email and WhatsApp automation — because it is the fastest way to raise the return on media you are already buying. There is no penalty for adding or removing services at a month boundary after the initial term.
Forty-five minutes, no deck. We ask about your margins, your current channels, what you have tried, and what "good" would look like in twelve months. You leave with at least two specific things to fix whether or not you hire us — usually a measurement gap and a budget-allocation issue. If we do not think we are the right fit, we say so on the call and, where we can, point you at someone better suited.
Fill this in and a strategist - not a salesperson - replies within one business day with an initial read on your situation. If we're not the right fit, we'll say so and suggest who is.
Let's find out why. Forty-five minutes, no deck, and you leave with fixes whether or not you hire us.