The Booked Bays Method

    Your auto repair shop's Google Ads are probably costing you twice what they should.

    My audits typically surface about $1,283 a month in wasted ad spend. I pull your account data, grade it across 8 areas, and show you where the money is going, including how much of it buys oil change shoppers instead of brake, transmission and diagnostic work. No pitch. No commitment. Just the report.

    Takes 24-48 hours. You keep the report regardless.

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    Running Google Ads since 2007. I've managed accounts for auto repair and automotive service businesses across the US and Australia. Fortune 500 consulting background, including CarMax.

    Local Service Business. Real Numbers.
    Monthly Search Spend$4,100
    Conversions (60 days)19 leads
    Cost Per Lead$215.79
    Avg. Quality Score4.5 / 10
    Their Industry Benchmark
    Industry Benchmark CPL$45 - $65
    Benchmark CVR17.65%
    The gap: This account was paying 3-4x the industry average per lead. The audit found double-counted conversions, $1,283 in zero-conversion waste, and 10 service area cities blocked by their own negative keywords.

    Most shops are paying for the wrong clicks.

    The average account I audit is spending 2 to 4 times the industry benchmark per lead. Not because the market is hard. Because the account has fixable structural problems that nobody has looked at. For a repair shop that usually means oil change and tire shoppers using up the budget, while the brake, transmission and diagnostic searches that fill your bays get less of it.

    Average Account Before Audit
    $150-250+
    Cost per lead before cleanup. Often caused by conversion tracking errors, negative keyword conflicts, and unreviewed search terms.
    The Gap
    3-4x
    Average multiplier above industry benchmarks. This is the gap the audit finds, and the gap management closes.
    Industry Benchmark
    $40-80
    Achievable cost per lead for most lead-gen verticals with clean tracking, proper structure, and regular optimization.

    Benchmarks vary by industry and market. Most accounts I review have $800 to $2,500 in identifiable monthly waste regardless of category.

    Eight areas. Graded one by one.

    The Booked Bays Method grades your account across eight areas. Conversion tracking, search terms, Quality Scores and negative keywords account for most of the waste I find.

    01

    Account Structure

    Campaign organization, naming, duplicates, and whether your ad groups are set up to turn searches into booked jobs.

    02

    Search Terms

    What drivers actually typed before they clicked your ad. I flag every term that brings oil change and tire shoppers instead of repair work, and calculate what's recoverable each month.

    Average $800-2,500/month recoverable
    03

    Quality Scores

    A low Quality Score means you pay more per click than the shop down the street for the same search. I score every active keyword and show you where and why.

    Average savings of $150-400/month at QS 4-5
    04

    Ad Copy

    Whether your ads match what drivers are searching for, and whether they sell the jobs you actually want in the bay.

    05

    Budget and Bids

    Whether you're losing searches to budget limits, or spending on the wrong days and hours for your shop.

    06

    Conversion Tracking

    The most common problem I find. Calls counted twice, missing tags, and numbers that make the account look better than it is and push bids toward the wrong traffic.

    Found in ~60% of accounts I audit
    07

    Landing Pages

    Whether your ads send drivers to a page that makes it easy to call or book, quickly, on a phone.

    08

    Negative Keywords

    Missing negatives waste money. Bad negatives block your own customers, including the towns you serve. I check for both.

    Average 8-12 blocked cities per account

    Three steps. 48 hours. No fluff.

    I keep it simple on purpose. The point is for you to understand what I found, not to sit through a 60-minute presentation.

    01

    Share read-only access

    You grant read-only access to your Google Ads account. Takes about two minutes. I can't make changes or see billing details. Just the campaign data.

    2 minutes
    02

    I pull the data and build the report

    I grade your account across all 8 areas, from search terms and conversion tracking to Quality Scores and negative keywords. You get a complete written report, not a slide deck with screenshots.

    24-48 hours
    03

    Review it. Decide what's next.

    I walk you through the findings on a call. If the numbers don't justify hiring me, I'll tell you that. You keep the report either way.

    Your call

    Built for repair shops that depend on Google Ads for booked jobs.

    Independent and multi-location auto repair shops running Google Ads who aren't sure which clicks turn into cars in the bay. If you're paying for ads and can't say what they bring in, this audit was built for you.

    Independent Shops

    Independent Repair Shops

    Owner-run shops using Google Ads to bring in brake, transmission, diagnostic and repair work, who aren't sure which ads actually book jobs.

    • Running Search and/or Local Services Ads
    • Getting oil change and tire calls instead of bigger jobs
    • Not sure whether calls are being tracked correctly
    • Paying an agency without a clear picture of results
    • Spending money but unsure where it's actually going
    Multi-Bay & Multi-Location

    Multi-Bay and Multi-Location Shops

    Shops with several bays or locations that need every location's ad spend to pay for itself.

    • Running campaigns for more than one location
    • Want cost per booked job, not just leads
    • Seeing calls from outside your service area
    • Frustrated with vague reporting from prior agencies
    • Expanding into a new town or market

    From $215 per lead to a clear path forward.

    A multi-location local service business. Two service markets. Four months of unreviewed ad spend.

    Results span local service, B2B, and SaaS accounts. This is one example.

    "High Priority Marketing consistently outperformed all other agencies, delivering a steady flow of leads at a highly competitive price per lead."

    Client, multi-location local service business

    $1,283Zero-conversion spend identified in first audit
    10Service area cities unblocked from negative keyword conflicts
    3-4xCPL above industry benchmark before cleanup

    Common Questions

    Find out what your shop's ads are actually doing.

    Takes 2 minutes to request. Report delivered in 24-48 hours. No cost, no commitment.

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    No long-term contracts. I work month-to-month, and you can cancel anytime.

    ★★★★★

    "High Priority Marketing consistently outperformed all other agencies, delivering a steady flow of leads at a highly competitive price per lead."

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    David B.

    Bellandi Group

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