The numbers, and what caused them.
Client names are withheld out of respect for the working relationship. Every figure below is pulled from the live account: Google Ads, Google Search Console, and Meta. Nothing here is estimated.
- Healthcare
- Google Ads
- Brand
A chiropractic practice cut cost per lead by 89 percent.
The account was spending steadily and producing almost nothing. Three conversions in January. Four in February. Zero in March, on the highest spend month of the quarter. The practice was paying roughly two hundred dollars every time someone raised a hand.
What I diagnosed
The keyword structure was pulling broad, low intent traffic, and the campaign had no way to tell someone looking for a chiropractor from someone researching back pain. Spend was going up while relevance was going down. This was not a budget problem.
What I changed
Cost per lead, Q1
$198.96
January through March 2026
Cost per lead, Q2
$22.20
April through June 2026
Conversions, Q1
7
On $1,393 of spend
Conversions, Q2
81
On $1,798 of spend
Monthly conversions
Google Ads, January to July 2026
The takeaway
Spend went up 29 percent. Conversions went up eleven times over. The account was never underfunded, it was pointed at the wrong people.
- Legal
- Technical SEO
- Local visibility
A trial law firm tripled organic impressions and now owns its own name.
The firm was well established and effectively invisible in search for its own attorneys. Its name was written differently across the website, the Google Business Profile, directory listings, and every social account. Search engines had no consistent signal to attach authority to.
What I diagnosed
An entity consistency problem, not a content problem. When a firm is named four different ways across the web, search engines treat it as ambiguous and give the authority to somebody else. The fix costs almost nothing and is invisible on any dashboard until it works.
What I changed
Impressions Oct 2025
17,144
83 clicks
Impressions Jul 2026
50,016
269 clicks, up 224 percent
Brand query position
1.47
Firm name, average position July
Named search clicks
63%
Of all organic clicks in July
Organic impressions
Google Search Console, October 2025 to July 2026
The takeaway
Some of the highest return work in marketing is unglamorous cleanup. This firm did not need more content. It needed search engines to be certain who it was.
- Healthcare
- Multi location
- Google Ads
- CRM
A multi location senior living operator went from $912 a lead to $161.
Several communities running through a single shared ad account with no location level structure. Broad match keywords were pulling searches for anything adjacent to senior care, so staff were fielding calls for services the business does not offer. Conversion tracking was firing on actions that were not leads.
What I diagnosed
The account was structurally incapable of producing a clean lead. Wrong match types, no negative keyword discipline, no location separation, and a conversion signal that meant nothing. Each of those problems made the others worse.
What I changed
Cost per lead, Feb to May
$912
13 conversions on $11,860
Cost per lead, June
$161
48 conversions, 82 percent lower
Conversion rate
0.70 to 2.77%
May compared with June
Organic CTR
0.78 to 1.43%
April 2025 compared with July 2026
Cost per conversion
Google Ads 2026. Lower is better.
The takeaway
The account was not underfunded. It was aimed at the wrong target. When the conversion signal is wrong, more budget just buys more of the wrong thing faster.
- Healthcare
- CRM buildout
- Launch SEO
A naturopathic practice went from position 44 to position 6 in one month.
A solo practitioner running the entire patient journey manually. Intake, lab result tracking, booking, and follow up lived across email, paper, and memory. The web presence was new enough that search engines had barely acknowledged it: 490 impressions and an average position near 45.
What I diagnosed
Not a marketing problem first. A capacity problem that marketing would have made worse. Generating leads into a manual process would have degraded the experience for the patients already there. The system had to come before the traffic.
What I changed
Average position
44.7 to 6.3
December 2025 to January 2026
Organic clicks
Up 478%
9 to 52 monthly clicks
Impressions
490 to 2,287
Up 367 percent
Position held
6.98
Seven months later, July 2026
Average search position
Google Search Console. Lower is better.
The takeaway
Sometimes the right first move is not more leads. It is building something capable of holding the leads you already get.
- Healthcare
- Google Ads
- Conversion tracking
A medical aesthetics practice cut 96 percent of its traffic and multiplied its conversion rate.
In June the account delivered 110,603 impressions and 3,538 clicks. It produced two conversions, a rate of six hundredths of one percent. The dashboard looked busy and the schedule stayed empty.
What I diagnosed
The account was buying enormous volumes of unqualified attention, and conversion tracking counted online booking completions when the overwhelming majority of this practice real business arrives as an inbound phone call. Every optimization decision made from that data was a guess.
What I changed
June conversion rate
0.06%
3,538 clicks, 2 conversions
July conversion rate
3.96%
202 clicks, 8 conversions
Cost per conversion
$697 to $330
Down 53 percent
Wasted clicks removed
3,336
In a single month
Conversion rate
Google Ads, June and July 2026
The takeaway
Traffic is not a result. Before you optimize anything, make sure you are counting the thing that actually pays you.
- Local service
- Website build
A commercial drone services operator went from no web presence to indexed and growing.
An experienced operator with real credentials and nothing online. Every job came through word of mouth, which meant growth was capped by how many people he could personally talk to.
What I diagnosed
Nothing was broken. Nothing existed. The right first move was a small, correct footprint rather than a content program he would abandon by month two.
What I changed
First month indexed
88
Impressions, June 2026
Second month
627
Impressions, up 613 percent
Organic clicks
5 to 15
From a standing start
Organic impressions
Google Search Console, first two months live
The takeaway
Small numbers, honestly reported. This is what month two of a new site looks like. Anyone showing you thousands of visits in the first sixty days is showing you bots.
Where every number came from.
Pulled, not estimated
Every figure comes directly from Google Ads, Google Search Console, or Meta on the live account. No modeled numbers, no projections.
Full periods only
Comparisons use complete months or quarters. No cherry picked date ranges chosen because they flatter the result.
Verifiable on request
Every figure here can be traced back to a platform report. Ask me to walk you through any one of them on a call.
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