Australian click prices rose 31% in five months while search demand fell. That makes efficiency the whole game, and Quality Score, which our landing pages directly improve, is the single biggest lever you have. Fixed monthly fee, never a percentage of your spend.
AU Engagements Completed
Average Client Rating
Click Price Rise, Jan-May 2026
Not % of Ad Spend
TechnoBlick manages Google Ads for Australian businesses, a 19-person senior team with 11 completed engagements for Australian clients, our third-largest corridor, within 160+ international contracts at a 4.9★ average rating.
Here's what changed in your market this year, from an Australian dataset refreshed in May 2026. Click prices jumped 31% between January and May, the steepest run on record, up 21% year on year, while search demand on the same keywords fell 23%. More expensive clicks, fewer of them. Australian businesses still spent $8 billion on search advertising in 2025, up 11.5% year on year, which means competition is climbing into a shrinking pool.
When clicks get more expensive, only two things save an account, spending better, and paying less per click. Most agencies work on the first. We work on both, because the second is Quality Score, and Quality Score is partly a landing page problem, which is a thing we can actually build. See the Quality Score maths below.
One more thing about this corridor: Sydney runs 5-6 hours ahead of us, so your afternoon is our live morning, and your overnight is our full working day, optimisation, testing, and reporting land before you open the laptop.
THE QUALITY SCORE MATHS
This is the part most agencies can't act on, and it's worth more than any bidding tweak. Google discounts your clicks based on Quality Score, and the published effect is dramatic.
10
Up to 50% cheaper clicks
1-3
Up to 400% more expensive clicks
Quality Score has three components, expected click-through rate, ad relevance, and landing page experience. That third one is not a media-buying task. It's page speed, message match, mobile usability, and content relevance, in other words, engineering and design work on the page your ads point to.
A media buyer can improve two of the three components: CTR through better ads, relevance through tighter ad groups.
The third, landing page experience, requires a team that can rebuild the page. Most agencies can only recommend it and wait.
We build the landing pages, so all three levers are in the same hands. In a market where clicks just got 31% more expensive, that's not a nice-to-have, it's the difference between an account that survives the year and one that quietly stops being profitable.
WHY US
Australian agencies typically charge 10-20% of budget. Ours is fixed, so our lever is your cost per acquisition, not your spend.
Including the one that needs a developer. Most agencies can only touch two of three.
Feedback at 5 PM meets completed work at 9 AM, daily budget pacing and anomaly checks happen while Australia sleeps.
Your business, your billing, permanent admin access, GA4/GTM in your properties.
Month-to-month, 30 days notice.
SERVICES
Tight ad groups, query control, negatives maintained weekly rather than quarterly.
With the Merchant Centre feed treated as engineering work. Shopping management typically runs 10-20% above Search-only for exactly this reason, feed maintenance is real work, and we quote it honestly.
Where they earn their place. Display clicks average under $1 AUD and suit remarketing well.
Not your homepage. Built by our web team, speed-optimised, and iterated against Quality Score and conversion data.
GA4, GTM, call tracking, CRM integration, all in your accounts.
Never impressions, with next month’s plan attached.
HOW WE WORK
Your afternoon (2-6 PM AEST) is our live morning for calls and reviews, and your overnight is our full working day.
Even closer to our clock, meaning more overlap for live collaboration.
WhatsApp answered in 1-2 hours, email within 8, seven days a week.
30 days notice, itemised billing, GST-free as a foreign supplier, your accountant handles any reverse-charge treatment.
THE REAL PROBLEM
Most Australian businesses don't have an ads problem. They have a funnel problem that ads made visible, and at Sydney's $23 median service-plus-city CPC, it's an expensive way to find out. Only one of five common causes is purely a campaign problem.
| The symptom | The real cause | Who fixes it |
|---|---|---|
| Clicks but no enquiries | Traffic lands on the homepage, no offer, no next step | Needs a web team |
| "Ads aren’t converting" | Conversion tracking was never configured correctly | Needs an engineer |
| CPC keeps climbing | Low Quality Score, driven by landing page experience | Needs a developer |
| Enquiries that go cold | Form submissions sit in an unmonitored inbox | Needs automation |
| Wasted spend | No negative keywords, broad match unchecked | Needs a PPC manager |
Clicks but no enquiries
"Ads aren’t converting"
CPC keeps climbing
Enquiries that go cold
Wasted spend
Only the last row is a campaign problem, the rest need a team that can actually build, not just manage.
PRICING
Two separate numbers, and any proposal that blurs them is hiding something. Your ad spend goes to Google, never touched by us, small to mid-size Australian businesses typically run AUD $1,500-$15,000/month, larger businesses $20,000+. CPC varies widely by industry: the all-industry Search average sits near $3.81, Display around $0.96, hospitality $0.79, beauty and personal care $1.56, e-commerce $2.04, trades around $9.25 median, marketing and creative $12.62, insurance and finance $13+, and legal $17.48, with service-plus-city searches running $13.70 in Adelaide up to $23.21 in Sydney. Our management fee is fixed and stated upfront. The Australian market charges $800-$2,000/month most commonly, with a full published range of $400-$5,000+, mid-tier agencies at $1,500-$4,000, and enterprise $5,000-$15,000+, or 10-20% of ad spend.
From AUD $700/month
One campaign type, tracking setup included.
AUD $1,200-$2,000/month
Multi-campaign, remarketing, landing page iteration, Quality Score work.
Scoped individually
Shopping feeds, Performance Max, multi-location.
What drives cost: Industry and CPC band, number of campaign types, Quality Score and landing page work required, and whether remarketing is included.
What we won't do: Take an ad budget with no realistic floor for the category without saying so. Most agencies recommend AUD $1,500-$3,000/month for enough data to optimise meaningfully, and we'll tell you honestly which side of that line you're on.
PROOF
Storefront and campaign landing pages we engineered ourselves, built to convert paid traffic and lift Quality Score.
A YMYL vertical where trust signals, page speed, and tracking accuracy decide whether ad spend turns into bookings.
International reach run from Pakistan, showing the same technical foundation we bring to a Google Ads funnel.
Most Australian businesses pay $800-$2,000/month, with the published range running $400-$5,000+ and mid-tier agencies at $1,500-$4,000. Percentage models take 10-20% of spend. Our fixed fees start at AUD $700/month, always reported separately from ad spend.
Because they are, market-wide. Australian click prices rose 31% between January and May 2026, the steepest run on record, and 21% year on year, while search demand on the same keywords fell 23%. More advertisers, fewer searches. The response isn't a bigger budget, it's a better Quality Score and a funnel that converts what you already pay for.
Substantially. A Quality Score of 10 can cut your CPC by up to 50%, while scores of 1-3 can raise it by up to 400%. One of its three components is landing page experience, page speed, message match, mobile usability, which is engineering work, not media buying. It's the main reason clients move to us.
Because a percentage pays us more when you spend more, whether or not it performs. We'd rather be paid to make the same spend work harder. We also avoid per-lead pricing, since the agency ends up controlling which conversions get counted, and a cheap low-quality lead counts the same as a valuable one.
Around $1,500-$3,000/month, below that, campaigns often don't gather enough conversion data to optimise. Trades and local service businesses can start closer to $1,000 in less competitive categories, we'll tell you honestly which side you're on.
Clicks from day one, peak performance typically at 8-12 weeks as the account accumulates data. Anyone promising optimised performance in week one is describing a launch.
Yes, and in this market we'd insist. At $9.25 median trades CPC or $23.21 for a Sydney service-plus-city search, sending traffic to a homepage is the most expensive habit in Australian PPC, and it caps your Quality Score at the same time.
You do, from day one: your business, your billing, permanent admin access, GA4/GTM in your properties. Leaving an agency that holds your account inside its own MCC costs you the accumulated learning history.
In your favour: your afternoon (2-6 PM AEST) is our live morning for calls and reviews, and your overnight is our working day, so optimisation and testing land before you start. Perth sits three hours from us.
Yes, same corridor, one hour further, same terms.
A free audit of your campaigns, Quality Scores, landing pages, and tracking, booked in your afternoon, delivered by your morning.