Tools
Three calculators built from the questions I get asked most. Each gives you the full answer on screen — free, no sign-up, nothing held back for an email address.
4 min
Is my Google Ads account actually set up properly?
Twenty questions across measurement, structure, landing pages and bidding. Returns a score out of 100, the band you fall in, and the one area to fix first.
Open the account scorecard2 min
What is a customer actually costing me?
Enter spend, clicks, conversions, close rate and deal value. Returns your true cost per customer, your break-even CPA, your ROAS, and an estimate of the spend producing nothing.
Open the wasted spend calculator2 min
How much do I need to spend to get X customers a month?
Work backwards from the customers you need. Give it a target, a close rate and a conversion rate, and it returns the budget required — and whether that budget is large enough for paid search to work at all.
Open the budget plannerAfter each result you can ask for a written breakdown by email. That is optional and it is the only thing an email address gets you — the numbers themselves are never withheld.
Also free
Long-form papers
Full specifications and analyses, published in their entirety. No email, no form, no download required — read them here on the site.
Elsewhere
Not about paid search
Kept because people still use them, and because the URLs have been indexed for years.