Is your cost per lead climbing every month with nothing to show for it? Are your competitors winning the clicks your firm should be getting? We run financial services PPC built around the searches that actually convert.
The PPC problems finance firms keep running into.

We’ve spent thousands on Google Ads and never seen a real return.
The ad spend goes out every month. The reports show clicks, impressions and a cost per click that creeps up every quarter. None of it shows where the actual clients are coming from, or whether the PPC ads brought a single new client in.
Most financial services companies running paid search end up paying for website traffic that never converts. Generic ad copy, broad match keywords, no negative keywords filtering out the wrong searches. The PPC campaign keeps running because nobody knows what to switch off.
That’s not PPC advertising. That’s an expensive monthly subscription to wasted website visitors.
Our ads keep getting disapproved by Google.
Google Ads enforces strict policies on financial services advertising. Mortgages, loans, investments, insurance, wealth management. All of it requires Financial Services Verification, disclosures and certifications before a single ad goes live. Most generalist agencies don’t know that.
So the ads get written. Google disapproves them. The agency rewrites, resubmits, gets disapproved again. Weeks pass before the campaign goes live, and when it finally does, the ad copy’s been watered down so much it stops bringing in qualified leads.
Financial services advertising only works when the agency understands the compliance rules before the campaign starts.
Our cost per lead climbs every month and we can’t tell why.
The first month of paid search looks great. Leads come in, cost per click stays manageable, the team feels good about it. By month three, the cost per lead has doubled and nobody can explain it.
Most agencies running PPC for financial services don’t manage the unsexy work behind the scenes. Single-Theme Ad Groups, phrase match keywords, long-tail keywords with lower competition, negative keyword lists and conversion tracking properly set up in Google Analytics. Without that work, the same ads keep firing for the same broad queries, the budget keeps draining and the lead quality keeps dropping.
You shouldn’t need a PPC degree to understand what’s happening to your ad spend.
AI search is changing paid ads and our firm isn’t on it.
Buyers aren’t just clicking Google results anymore. They’re asking ChatGPT and Google’s AI assistant for recommendations, and those platforms are starting to run their own paid ad placements. ChatGPT Ads and AI Overview-sponsored answers.
When a new client asks AI which finance firm to use, the firms paying to appear in those answers get named first. Most financial services companies aren’t running paid ads on AI search engines yet because their PPC agency hasn’t even started thinking about it.
The PPC platforms of the next five years aren’t just Google Ads and Microsoft Ads. The firms that move first on AI search ads will own the lead generation game while everyone else is still bidding on the same tired keywords.
What finance firms say about us.
Why PPC matters for finance firms.
24% of all web traffic in the financial services industry comes from paid search.
If your firm isn’t running Google Ads, that’s a quarter of your online buyers going to competitors who are.
The average PPC conversion rate in the finance industry is 6%, almost double most other sectors.
Finance buyers running Google searches are closer to a buying decision than buyers in any other industry.
PPC remains the fastest way to capture demand at the exact moment a buyer is researching financial options.
SEO compounds over months. PPC delivers qualified leads this week.
Hear from the finance firms we work with.
PPC for finance firms is five things working together, not just running Google Ads.

We run PPC for financial services across five pillars, because paid ads only work when every part of the campaign pulls in the same direction.
Most PPC campaigns waste budget on the wrong searches. Broad match keywords pulling traffic from people researching definitions, students writing essays, competitors checking your ads. We start every engagement with deep keyword research, mapped to buyer intent across the financial services sector.
The target keywords we go after are high-intent, bottom-of-funnel queries with active buying signals behind them. “Accountants near me Bristol.” “IFA for retirement planning.” “Insurance broker for limited company directors.”
Phrase match keywords and exact match keywords that bring qualified leads in, with rigorous negative keywords lists filtering out the searches that waste your ad spend. Just buyers ready to enquire.
Google Ads isn’t one campaign type, it’s seven. Search ads, Performance Max (PMax), display, YouTube video ads, Discovery, Shopping and remarketing.
Most agencies run search ads in isolation and ignore the other six, which is why their finance campaigns plateau after the first few months.
We run the full mix where it makes sense. Search ads for high-intent, bottom-of-funnel queries from buyers actively searching for what your firm does. PMax for broader reach across Google’s full ad inventory when the campaign needs to scale. YouTube video ads for the financial services brands building awareness in front of buyers earlier in the journey.
Microsoft Ads where the corporate and credit unions audience justifies it. Every PPC strategy gets matched to your business objectives and the way your target audience actually buys.
Financial advertising is one of the most heavily regulated areas of paid media. Google Ads enforces Financial Services Verification for mortgages, loans, investments, insurance and wealth management ads. The FCA, the ASA and your own compliance team all have a view on what can appear in an ad before it goes live.
We handle the verification, disclosures, certifications and documentation upfront. Every variant of ad copy goes through compliance review before submission, so your firm doesn’t lose two weeks to Google disapprovals or risk account suspensions on prohibited categories.
For financial firms and financial institutions, compliance isn’t a tax on the marketing strategy. It’s the reason the strategy gets to run at all.
Financial decisions have long deliberation windows. The prospect who clicked your ad in March is the one ready to sign in September, but only if they kept seeing your firm in between.
Every PPC campaign includes remarketing campaigns built to nurture buyers across the full decision cycle.
We integrate your CRM with the ad platforms so Value-Based Bidding optimises spend around closed deals, not just initial clicks. Remarketing also works alongside email marketing to keep your firm in front of existing customers and warm leads who didn’t convert first time.
Cross-channel social media engagement and content marketing through the same audience segments multiply the impact of every pound of pay per click spend.
Search engine optimisation compounds slowly. PPC remains the fastest channel for finance firms to capture demand, generate more leads and stay in front of high-value prospects until they’re ready to buy.
The ad copy that wins a finance click looks different to the ad copy that wins clicks in any other industry. Trust signals, regulatory disclaimers, FCA compliance markers and ad extensions that show your firm’s credibility before the click happens.
The dedicated landing page behind every ad is built around the search query that brought the visitor in. Custom landing pages for every ad group, not a generic homepage that confuses website visitors. Landing page copy that mirrors the ad’s promise, trust signals that financial services brands need to convert, and lead forms that ask only what’s essential to move the conversation forward.
That’s why our financial advertising campaigns convert at 6%+ when the finance industry average for generalist agencies sits closer to 2%. The work isn’t clever. It’s the combination of industry expertise, granular execution and dedication to the unsexy details most agencies skip.
PPC built for your niche of finance.
Accountants
Run paid ads that put your firm at the top of Google when limited company directors, sole traders and contractors are searching for a new accountant.
Bookkeepers
Capture the businesses actively searching for ongoing bookkeeping support, not the cold ones still six months away from making a decision.
Financial Advisors
Run FCA-compliant Google Ads that reach the retirement, investment and protection buyers your firm is built to serve.
Insurance Brokers
Win the commercial, professional indemnity and personal lines clicks your firm should be getting, with Google Ads built around the cover types you actually write.
Results we have achieved for companies like yours.
£30,948 a year in new business & rank 1 on Google for London’s toughest bookkeeping terms.
We took a brand-new US insurance company from no website to page one of Google in six weeks.
An accounting firm nowhere on Google. Under a year later, number one in Hampshire.
Three reasons finance firms choose HandL Agency for PPC.

Three things make us different to every other digital marketing agency running pay per click campaigns for the financial services industry.
Most agencies bury the truth in twenty-page dashboards full of impressions, click-through rates and cost-per-click averages. None of it tells you whether your PPC efforts actually made your firm any money. Our monthly reports show three things: the financial keywords we’re bidding on, the search results those bids win, and the qualified leads each ad campaign turns into. Plain English. Tied directly to revenue.
Most agencies run one or two campaign types and call it digital marketing. We run the full Google Ads mix where it earns its place: search campaigns, Performance Max, YouTube, remarketing, and Microsoft Ads. Every ad campaign is built around your business goals, the unique challenges of your sub-sector and the niche keywords your buyers actually search for. We conduct keyword research properly, with search volume mapped to commercial intent across the financial sector.
Generic landing pages kill PPC. Most agencies point ads at a homepage and hope. We build dedicated landing pages for every ad group, with copy mirroring the search query, trust signals that financial brands need, and lead forms that convert potential customers without making them work for it. Add-on options include landing page testing across social media platforms and creative for account-online lead-gen flows. Successful PPC campaigns aren’t an accident in digital marketing. They’re the result of the work most agencies skip.
We treat clients as partners, not contracts.
Quarterly catch-ups, dinners, beers, pool nights, coffees, darts, football, rugby and cricket.
We put real time into the financial services firms we work with because the work’s better when the relationship is. Most financial firms get treated like an ad spend line by their PPC agency. The accounts that compound for us are the ones that run as partnerships with finance businesses, not contracts.

Honestly? You don’t even need to work with us to get value from us.
Free Google Ads audit templates, financial keyword research frameworks, negative keyword lists, ad copy formulas, landing page checklists and conversion tracking guides you can download and start using today.
Built for accountants, bookkeepers, financial advisors and insurance brokers who want to run effective PPC campaigns before they bring an agency in. Genuine resources for finance companies ready to lower their cost per click, improve lead quality and bring qualified traffic to their dedicated landing pages.











Ready to bring in more clients without waiting on referrals?
In 45 minutes with Bailey and Luke, you’ll see exactly where your ad spend is going to waste, what your competitors in the financial services industry are doing differently and the two or three changes that would make the biggest difference to your PPC results in the next 90 days.
Whether the answer is keyword research, ad copy, dedicated landing pages, audience targeting, remarketing or a full PPC strategy across Google Ads, Microsoft Ads and YouTube, you’ll leave the call with a clearer picture than you walked in with. Built around the FCA compliance, financial advertising standards and Financial Services Verification rules the financial services industry runs on.
A great ad campaign gets your firm clicks. Turning those clicks into qualified leads is what we actually do.
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