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Pay Per Click (PPC) Marketing — Los Angeles

SEM Services in Los Angeles

CRTE runs SEM in Los Angeles that captures high-intent search demand with keyword-led campaigns. We put your brand in front of customers actively searching to buy, then optimize for cost and conversion. Talk SEM with CRTE.

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Overview

Search Engine Marketing (SEM) in Los Angeles.

Paid search is still the highest-intent channel on the internet — someone types 'personal injury lawyer Los Angeles' at 10:47 PM and Google decides who gets the click. Winning that click at a sane CPC takes real account structure: tight match types, aggressive negatives, and landing pages that match the query, not the campaign name.

We run SEM across Google and Microsoft Ads with the discipline the big platforms are trying to un-teach the market. Match-type structure, search-term N-gram harvesting, and negative libraries stay in your account's control — not delegated to Smart Bidding's black box.

For Los Angeles brands, SEM has a specific twist: geo-modifiers and neighborhood queries move differently in a market with 88 incorporated cities. Our LA accounts get geo-experiment structure that most agencies skip.

What ships

Deliverables on every retainer.

  • +Full account audit and rebuild plan
  • +Match-type disciplined campaign architecture
  • +Weekly negative keyword N-gram harvesting
  • +Geo-modifier + neighborhood experiments for LA
  • +Landing page + ad-copy testing framework
  • +Offline conversion + enhanced conversion setup
How we measure

KPIs we sign off on.

  • CPA + ROAS by campaign type
  • Search impression share vs top competitors
  • New-customer share and LTV:CAC
  • Auction insights vs primary LA competitors
Local

Built for the Los Angeles market.

Los Angeles PPC is expensive and crowded — legal, real estate, health, and hospitality all bid against each other in the same auctions. We run accounts with the geo-modifier, competitor conquest, and dayparting discipline needed to stay efficient in an LA-metro market.

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How we work

The four-phase cadence.

01
Discover

Kickoff, audit, and diagnostics. We map the account, the market, and the goal before we touch anything.

02
Plan

A 90-day roadmap with the channels, creative, budget, and KPIs the team will actually be measured against.

03
Build

Senior operators do the work — no juniors on your account. Weekly cadence, transparent Slack, real deliverables.

04
Optimize

Monthly review + quarterly recalibration. We double down on what works and cut what doesn't, on purpose.

Investment

Three ways to work with us.

Retainer pricing. Real numbers on the intro call — placeholders below stay until we've scoped your account.

Starter

For emerging brands testing a single channel.

  • One primary channel (SEO or paid)
  • Bi-weekly strategy calls
  • Monthly reporting dashboard
  • Slack access, 24h reply SLA
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Growth

Multi-channel program with dedicated senior operators.

  • Two to three channels running
  • Weekly strategy + creative reviews
  • Landing page + creative production
  • Custom Looker/GA4 dashboard
  • Dedicated account lead
Choose Growth
Command

Full-funnel program with fractional CMO leadership.

  • Full-funnel across paid + SEO + lifecycle
  • Fractional CMO cadence
  • Quarterly brand + creative sprints
  • In-studio production days included
  • Executive stakeholder reviews
Talk to Command

Search Engine Marketing (SEM) FAQ.

A 2-week diagnostic + a 90-day plan, then a weekly working rhythm with monthly reviews and quarterly recalibrations.

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