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Search and social campaigns with proper conversion tracking, so cost per enquiry is a number and not a guess. Below is how this work is actually done, what it costs to run properly, and what a realistic timeline looks like. Delivered directly by Syed Mudassir Shah, working on Pakistani search since 2010.

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  1. When Paid Search Is the Right Spend
  2. Account Structure and Keyword Discipline
  3. Conversion Tracking Is Not Optional
  4. Beyond Google Search
  5. Budget, Management and What Gets Reported
  6. Frequently asked questions

Short answer: what does PPC and Google Ads involve?

Paid search buys visibility immediately while SEO builds. Done properly it is measurable to the rupee: every click, enquiry and sale traceable back to a keyword. Done badly it quietly burns budget on broad match traffic that was never going to convert, which is what most underperforming Pakistani accounts are actually doing.

When Paid Search Is the Right Spend

Ads are not automatically the answer, and we will say so when they are not. They make sense when you need leads before SEO can realistically deliver, when your category is so competitive that organic will take a year, when you are launching something new with no search history, or when demand is seasonal and you need to be visible during a narrow window.

They make less sense when your margins cannot absorb the click cost, when your website converts badly enough that paid traffic will simply leak away, or when nobody is searching for what you sell yet. Running ads to a page that converts at half a percent is buying an expensive lesson.

The first thing we check is whether the landing experience can hold the traffic. Fixing a slow, confusing or trust-poor page before spending on clicks routinely doubles the return on the same budget.

Account Structure and Keyword Discipline

Most inherited Pakistani accounts have the same problems. Broad match everywhere, no negative keyword list, one campaign covering six unrelated services, and conversion tracking that either does not exist or fires on page loads rather than actual enquiries.

What we build instead:

  • Tight campaign and ad group structure, so each group covers a small set of closely related terms with ad copy that matches them specifically. Relevance lowers cost per click and raises position at the same time.
  • Match type control. Exact and phrase match for the terms you know convert, broad match used deliberately and monitored rather than left running.
  • A negative keyword list that grows weekly. This is where most wasted spend hides. Free, jobs, salary, course, and dozens of category-specific terms drain budget silently.
  • Search term reports reviewed properly, not skimmed. The queries that actually triggered your ads tell you more than any keyword tool.
  • Geographic and schedule targeting matched to where and when your customers actually convert, rather than running nationwide at 3am by default.

Conversion Tracking Is Not Optional

An account without correct conversion tracking is not being managed, it is being guessed at. Yet a large share of Pakistani accounts we inherit either track nothing or track the wrong thing.

For most businesses here that means tracking form submissions as distinct events, call clicks from mobile, WhatsApp click-throughs, and where possible the enquiries that actually became customers. WhatsApp matters particularly, because for a great many Pakistani businesses it is the primary contact channel and an account that ignores it is blind to most of its own results.

Once tracking is honest, the optimisation work becomes straightforward. You can see which keywords produce enquiries and which produce clicks, shift budget accordingly, and stop the arguments about whether the campaign is working.

Google Display and YouTube. Useful for awareness and remarketing, wasteful as a primary lead channel for most service businesses. Remarketing to people who already visited your site is usually the highest-return display spend available.

Meta ads, Facebook and Instagram. Strong for consumer categories with visual products, and for interest-based targeting where search demand does not exist yet. Pakistani audiences on Meta skew younger and more mobile than on search, and creative quality matters far more than targeting sophistication.

Google Shopping. For e-commerce with a proper product feed, this frequently outperforms text ads on cost per sale. Feed quality does most of the work, and most Pakistani feeds are incomplete.

TikTok. Increasingly viable for consumer brands in Pakistan, particularly beauty, fashion and food. Creative-led rather than targeting-led, and it burns out faster, so it needs constant new material.

We recommend the channels that fit your buying cycle rather than the ones that are easiest to bill for.

Budget, Management and What Gets Reported

Ad budget and management fee are separate. The budget goes to Google or Meta and we never take a cut of it, because a percentage-of-spend model gives the agency a direct incentive to spend more of your money. Management is a flat monthly fee based on account complexity.

Starting budgets depend entirely on category. A local clinic in Multan can produce meaningful volume on a fraction of what a Karachi property developer needs to be competitive. We will estimate a realistic floor before you commit, and if that floor is above what you can spend, we will say the campaign is not viable rather than take the fee anyway.

Monthly reporting shows spend, clicks, cost per click, conversions, cost per conversion, and where possible revenue attributed. The headline number is cost per enquiry, because that is the one that determines whether the channel is worth continuing.

Frequently Asked Questions

It varies enormously by category. Competitive terms in property, legal and healthcare in Karachi or Lahore cost multiples of what a local service term costs in Quetta or Multan. We estimate a realistic minimum before you commit, and if your budget falls below what the category needs to produce results, we will tell you rather than take the work.

No. Management is a flat monthly fee and the ad budget goes directly to the platform. Percentage-of-spend pricing gives an agency a direct incentive to spend more of your money, which is not an incentive you want your agency to have.

Ads produce leads immediately and stop when you stop paying. SEO takes months and compounds. Most businesses that can afford both run ads while SEO builds, then reduce spend on the terms organic takes over. If you can only do one, it depends on how urgently you need enquiries and how competitive your category is.

The usual causes are broad match keywords with no negative list, ads pointing at a homepage instead of a relevant landing page, conversion tracking that is missing or misconfigured, and a website that cannot convert the traffic it receives. An account audit normally identifies which of these applies within a day.

Yes, and it matters a great deal in Pakistan because WhatsApp is the primary contact channel for most businesses here. Click-to-WhatsApp events can be tracked as conversions, which usually reveals that campaigns were performing considerably better than the reporting suggested.

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Syed Mudassir Shah
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SEO consultant working on Pakistani search since 2010. Islamabad based, working with businesses nationwide.

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