Google Ads Case Study · UK Schengen Visa Consultancy · United Kingdom

Turning clicks into clients: scaling lead quality for a Schengen visa consultancy.

A five-month campaign moved onto Maximise Conversions with target CPA, generating 3,015 clicks from 33,200 impressions at a 9.09% CTR and £1.21 average CPC, with 508 recorded raw leads.

Google AdsUK Schengen Visa ConsultancyUnited Kingdom5 months
01 / The situation

The account only matters if the demand becomes useful work.

The account needed to protect lead volume while improving the quality of traffic and search coverage around Schengen visa agent and consultancy terms.

Business context

UK Schengen Visa Consultancy

A five-month campaign moved onto Maximise Conversions with target CPA, generating 3,015 clicks from 33,200 impressions at a 9.09% CTR and £1.21 average CPC, with 508 recorded raw leads.

ChannelGoogle Ads
MarketUnited Kingdom
Period5 months
02 / The economics

What happened between traffic and the reported conversion signal?

The funnel uses only the metrics supplied for this case. Where booked-job data is unavailable, it is not invented.

Commercial funnel

The account is judged from spend and traffic through to the strongest downstream signal available in the source.

Impressions33,200
Clicks3,015
Raw leads508
Avg CPC£1.21
03 / What we found

The account was diagnosed through intent, measurement and useful lead signals.

Platform activity is useful only when it helps explain what produced commercially relevant demand.

01 / Volume vs quality

Volume vs quality

The account needed better lead quality without collapsing front-end volume.

02 / Bidding

Bidding

The campaign required a strategy that could use conversion data while respecting CPA.

03 / Keyword concentration

Keyword concentration

High-intent visa-agent terms continued to drive much of the useful traffic.

04 / Auction pressure

Auction pressure

Competitive impression share mattered in a narrow search market.

05 / CTR strength

CTR strength

Ad-to-query relevance was strong enough to support continued scale.

06 / Downstream evidence

Downstream evidence

The supplied case provides raw-lead data, not booked-client attribution.

04 / The strategy

The key decisions came before the optimisation checklist.

This section explains why the account changed, not every setting that was touched.

Decision 01

Use target CPA without starving volume

Shift bidding toward conversion efficiency while keeping the campaign able to gather enough data.

Decision 02

Keep high-intent terms at the centre

Preserve the strongest visa-agent and consultancy searches as the account's commercial base.

Decision 03

Treat auction visibility as context

Use impression share to understand competitive reach, not as the final success metric.

05 / What changed

Implementation followed the commercial priority.

The work is grouped into the parts that changed the account's signal quality, search coverage or conversion path.

Phase 01

Bidding transition

Moved the campaign to Maximise Conversions with target CPA.

Phase 02

Intent control

Maintained emphasis on high-intent search terms.

Phase 03

Ad and query alignment

Kept strong CTR across the core visa search themes.

Phase 04

Competitive monitoring

Tracked impression share and keyword-level performance.

Lead-quality feedback

Google Ads should learn from the strongest outcome the business can reliably return.

Where a case has confirmed-booking or client data, that feedback should sit closer to bidding. Where it does not, the page is explicit about the limit.

SearchIntent / campaign
→
Front-end actionClick / call / form
Lead signalRecorded conversion
→
Better signalQualified / booked when available
Next decisionBudget / bidding
→
GoalMore useful demand
06 / Results

Use the strongest evidence the case actually supports.

These figures are taken from the supplied case-study material. No missing booked-client or revenue metric has been inferred.

Raw leads508Five-month period
Clicks3,015From 33,200 impressions
CTR9.09%Reported campaign average
Average CPC£1.21Reported campaign average

The supplied 89.5% Google Ads optimisation score and roughly 40% impression share are supporting account signals.

07 / What changed commercially

End with what became more useful for the business.

The campaign delivered a strong front-end conversion rate of roughly 17% from clicks to recorded raw leads. Because booked-client or revenue data was not supplied for this case, the page stops at documented lead-generation performance.

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