Google Ads for B2B manufacturers
measured to a qualified RFQ, not a click
A manufacturer's Google Ads account often spends steadily on broad industry terms and reports a pile of clicks nobody can connect to an actual RFQ. We fix tracking first, narrow campaigns to the specific product and spec searches your real buyers run, and report in qualified RFQs joined to your CRM, not clicks.
Why B2B manufacturers lose money today
A manufacturer’s Google Ads account built around broad category terms, “industrial fittings,” “custom metal parts,” draws clicks from students researching a paper, competitors checking pricing pages, and procurement staff at companies who will never actually place an order, alongside the small number of genuine buyers. Without tracking that follows a click through to a real, qualified RFQ, all of those clicks look identical in a dashboard, and budget keeps going to the keywords that generate volume rather than the ones that generate orders.
A second cost is landing page mismatch. An ad promising a specific product sending traffic to a generic homepage, instead of the actual product page with specs and an RFQ form, loses a meaningful share of buyers who were ready to ask a real question but landed somewhere that made them start over.
A third is keyword match type left too loose. A manufacturer bidding on broad match for a specific product term often ends up paying for searches tangentially related to the actual product, diluting budget across traffic that was never going to convert into an order.
A fourth, common in this category, is the long sales cycle disconnect: a B2B manufacturing purchase can take weeks or months to close, and an ad account optimized only for immediate form fills, with no view into which leads eventually became real orders, ends up optimizing for the wrong signal entirely.
What we build
We start with the account and the tracking, not new ad copy. An audit of the existing campaigns, keyword match types and conversion setup usually finds the same pattern: broad terms burning budget, no connection from a click to what happened to that lead afterward. We fix conversion tracking to tie into your RFQ form or CRM, so a click becomes a tracked, qualified RFQ rather than an anonymous form fill.
Campaigns get rebuilt around the specific product, spec and application searches your real buyers run, discovered from your own sales data and search-term reports rather than guessed at, with a negative keyword list cutting spend on students, job seekers and clearly irrelevant searches from day one. Landing pages get matched to the ad, a search for a specific product lands on that product’s page with its spec sheet and RFQ form, not a homepage.
Typical integrations: Google Ads conversion tracking into your CRM or RFQ system, Google Analytics for on-site behavior, and offline conversion import if your sales cycle means a “qualified RFQ” only becomes a real “order” weeks later.
What stays with humans
Every quote, every account relationship and every judgment about which RFQs to prioritize stays entirely with your sales team. Our job is bringing the right buyers to the right page and reporting honestly on what converted into a real RFQ and, eventually, a real order. If a market or a product line genuinely does not have enough search volume to justify paid search, we say so rather than spending budget to prove a point.
Price and timeline
| Model | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Agency runs it | from $1,000 | We audit, build, launch and manage the account; ad spend is separate and billed directly to your ad account |
| Full control, handover-ready | from $1,700 | Same audit and build, full account access and documentation transferred to your team, ongoing management available as an option |
Both run on the same 2 to 3 week audit-and-launch phase.
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FAQ
What does it cost to start?
Audit and launch starts at $1,000: account and tracking audit, campaign restructuring, first ad copy and a two-week watch period. Ongoing management is $1,000 a month and up depending on markets and campaign count.
What ad budget do we need?
A realistic minimum is $1,000 to $2,000 a month for a focused product category, since B2B search terms often cost more per click than consumer ones. Below that, we usually recommend narrowing to the highest-intent terms first rather than spreading thin.
How do you track a click through to a real RFQ, not just a form fill?
Conversion tracking tied to your RFQ form or chat, plus a join into your CRM so a lead's actual qualification status, real buyer or not, feeds back into which keywords and campaigns we scale.
Do you handle broad industry terms or just specific products?
We usually start narrow, on the specific products and specs your buyers search for by name, since broad industry terms draw in students, researchers and competitors far more often than real buyers.
Can this work alongside our trade-show and outbound sales effort?
Yes, search ads tend to catch a buyer at the exact moment they are comparing suppliers, which complements outbound and trade-show relationships rather than competing with them.