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    Superior Group Australia

    House cleaning and exterior surface services · Melbourne, VIC

    Superior Group Australia: about 1 in 7 ad clicks became an enquiry

    About 1 in 7 clicks on Superior Group Australia's pressure-washing ads became an enquiry, and concrete work drew more than half of the clicks. The click-through rate rose 47% from the first fortnight to the last at the same enquiry rate. On the newer home and commercial cleaning ads, 86% of clicks came from phones.

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    Google Ads management · Enquiry tracking · Website design and landing pages
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    Superior Group Australia · Melbourne, VIC

    Services in the campaign

    The advertising covers moving and home cleaning and carpets and furnishings.

    Moving and home cleaning

    • End-of-lease cleaning
    • Bond cleaning
    • Move-out and vacate cleaning
    • House cleaning
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    • Regular home cleaning
    • One-off and spring cleaning
    • Deep cleaning
    • Kitchen and oven cleaning

    Carpets and furnishings

    • Carpet steam cleaning
    • Carpet cleaning

    Campaign hours

    Campaign schedule · Sydney local time

    • Every day: 7am–7pm

    The results

    Results for Superior Group Australia.

    Each result shows its reporting period. Open a tile for the measurement basis.

    • Headline result

      About 1 in 7

      pressure-washing ad clicks became an enquiry

      About five weeks of pressure-washing ads

    • +47%

      Pressure-washing click-through rate in the last two weeks, against the first two

      About five weeks of pressure-washing ads

    • 53%

      Pressure-washing clicks for concrete: resurfacing, cleaning, sealing and driveways

      About five weeks of pressure-washing ads

    • 57%

      Pressure-washing enquiries that came through a web form rather than a call

      About five weeks of pressure-washing ads

    • 86%

      Clicks on the home and commercial cleaning ads that came from phones

      First 26 days of the cleaning ads

    • About 1 in 3

      Cleaning-ad clicks from end-of-lease, bond, vacate and move-out searches

      First 26 days of the cleaning ads

    How we measured

    Pressure washing and cleaning ran in separate accounts and are reported separately. Enquiries are calls and web forms recorded by Google Ads. The pressure-washing window covers about five weeks; the cleaning window covers its first 26 days. Service shares follow the ad group.

    In one minute

    The 60-second version

    Superior Group Australia, from the brief to the result in 5 short slides.

    1. The business

      One Melbourne business, two kinds of cleaning

      Superior Group Australia cleans homes and workplaces across Melbourne, and runs pressure washing as SGA Pressure: concrete, driveways, brick walls, decks, windows and graffiti.

      SGA Pressure exterior-cleaning introduction beside a service quote form
    2. The problem

      Very different jobs under one roof

      An oven clean and a concrete reseal have little in common. Each needed its own ads, its own message and its own measure of what was working.

    3. What we built

      Separate accounts for exterior work and for cleaning

      Pressure washing runs in its own account, split by surface. Home and commercial cleaning run in another, split by the type of clean, with end-of-lease, bond and vacate cleans in their own ad groups.

      SGA Pressure about page with a company-story section and phone control
    4. What happened

      About 1 in 7 pressure-washing clicks became an enquiry

      Over about five weeks of pressure-washing ads, about 1 in 7 clicks became an enquiry, and the click-through rate rose 47% from the first fortnight to the last at the same enquiry rate.

      About 1 in 7pressure-washing clicks became an enquiry

    5. What we learned

      Concrete leads exterior work, and phones lead cleaning

      Concrete work drew 53% of pressure-washing clicks. On the newer cleaning ads, 86% of clicks came from phones and about 1 in 3 came from end-of-lease, bond, vacate and move-out searches.

      53%of pressure-washing clicks were for concrete work

    Insights

    What the data showed

    Details from the Superior Group Australia project. Open a card for the finding and its source.

    • Service

      53%

      Concrete work drew more than half of the pressure-washing clicks and enquiries.

      • Concrete work53%
      • Every other surface47%

      Resurfacing, cleaning and sealing concrete, along with driveways, oil stains and pavers, took 53% of clicks and 55% of the enquiries Google Ads recorded. Brick and wall cleaning, windows, decks and graffiti made up most of the rest, and commercial surfaces just over a tenth of clicks. Concrete is the work to keep funded first.

    • Search

      +47%

      Pressure-washing click-through rate rose 47% from the first fortnight to the last, at the same enquiry rate.

      • First two weeks1×
      • Last two weeks1.47×

      In the last two weeks of the run, 47% more of the people who saw an ad clicked it than in the first two weeks. The share of clicks that became enquiries held at about 1 in 7. With the enquiry rate steady, the higher click-through rate meant more enquiries for every thousand times the ads were shown.

    • Device

      86%

      Cleaning searchers were even more likely to be on a phone: 86%, against 68% for pressure washing.

      • Home and commercial cleaning86%
      • Pressure washing68%

      86% of clicks on the home and commercial cleaning ads came from phones, compared with 68% on the pressure-washing ads. Both streams need pages and forms that work on a phone first, and the cleaning stream most of all.

    Superior Group Australia

    Website development · Superior Group Australia

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    Explore the website we designed for Superior Group Australia: the pages, the mobile experience and the path to an enquiry.

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    SGA Pressure home page with the headline and the quote form

    The case study

    The project, connected.

    The brief, the work and what it delivered.

    1. The starting point

      Superior Group Australia

      Superior Group Australia is a Melbourne business that cleans homes and workplaces and runs pressure washing and exterior cleaning as SGA Pressure.

      House cleaning and exterior surface services · Melbourne, VIC

      Superior Group Australia

      SoudCoh services

      • Google Ads management
      • Enquiry tracking
      • Website design and landing pages
    2. What we put in place

      The campaign work

      • A pressure-washing account split by surface: concrete, driveways, brick and walls, decks, windows, graffiti and commercial sites.
      • A separate cleaning account split by the type of clean, with end-of-lease, bond, vacate and move-out cleans each in its own ad group.
      • Calls and forms recorded from the ads in each account, measured separately.
      • A review of clicks and enquiries by surface, service and device.
    3. What the project delivered

      The outcome

      About 1 in 7 pressure-washing ad clicks became an enquiry, with concrete work drawing 53% of clicks and the click-through rate rising 47% across the run.

    In this case study

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    Marketing for home services in Australia

    58 pages · 2.3 MB

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    About 1 in 7 clicks on Superior Group Australia's pressure-washing ads became an enquiry, and concrete work drew more than half of the clicks. The business runs two kinds of cleaning, so it runs two kinds of ads, and each is measured on its own.

    The business

    Superior Group Australia is a Melbourne cleaning business with two sides. One cleans homes and workplaces: end-of-lease and bond cleans, deep and one-off house cleans, regular cleaning, ovens, carpets and commercial premises. The other runs as SGA Pressure: pressure washing and exterior cleaning for concrete, driveways, brick walls, decks, windows and graffiti, for homes and for commercial sites such as car parks and sports courts.

    What we set out to do

    An oven clean and a concrete reseal have little in common. They differ in equipment, scope and customer. The goal was to give each side its own advertising, show which surfaces and services drew interest, and measure each stream separately rather than blending them into one figure.

    What we built

    Pressure washing runs in its own Google Ads account, split by surface: concrete resurfacing, cleaning and sealing, driveways, oil stains, pavers, brick and wall cleaning, decks and patios, house and soft washing, windows, graffiti and commercial sites. Home and commercial cleaning run in a second account, split by the type of clean, with end-of-lease, bond, vacate and move-out cleans each given its own ad group. In both accounts the main ad groups send people to the page for that service, such as concrete resurfacing, driveway cleaning, end-of-lease cleaning or oven cleaning.

    SGA Pressure exterior-cleaning introduction beside a service quote form
    The SGA Pressure home page asks for the surface-related service and suburb beside separate quote and call actions.

    Calls and forms from each account are recorded against the ads that produced them. The website behind the pressure-washing ads is covered in the SGA Pressure website case study.

    What happened

    Over about five weeks of pressure-washing ads, about 1 in 7 clicks became an enquiry. 57% of those enquiries came through a web form and the rest by phone. The click-through rate rose 47% from the first two weeks to the last two, and the share of clicks that became enquiries held steady.

    The cleaning ads are newer. In their first 26 days, 86% of clicks came from phones, and about 1 in 3 came from end-of-lease, bond, vacate and move-out searches.

    Concrete leads the exterior work

    Ad groups for concrete resurfacing, cleaning and sealing, driveways, oil stains and pavers drew 53% of pressure-washing clicks and 55% of recorded enquiries. Brick and wall cleaning, windows, decks and graffiti made up most of the rest, with commercial surfaces just over a tenth of clicks. Concrete is the work to keep funded first.

    Phones lead the cleaning

    Phones accounted for 68% of pressure-washing clicks and 86% of cleaning clicks. Both streams need pages and forms that work on a phone first, and the cleaning stream most of all. Move-out cleans earn their own ad groups because they come with a deadline and a clear brief.

    How we measured it

    An enquiry is a web form or phone call recorded by Google Ads from the ads. Each account is measured on its own days, and no figure combines the two. Job outcomes were not recorded against these enquiries, so this study reports the ads' performance up to the enquiry. For a cleaning business with more than one kind of work, see our Google Ads management and our marketing for cleaning businesses.

    Key campaign decisions
    • About 1 in 7 clicks on the pressure-washing ads became an enquiry, by web form or phone call.
    • Concrete resurfacing, cleaning and sealing drew 53% of pressure-washing clicks and 55% of recorded enquiries.
    • The pressure-washing click-through rate rose 47% from the first two weeks to the last two, while the enquiry rate held.
    • On the newer cleaning ads, 86% of clicks came from phones, and about 1 in 3 came from move-out cleaning searches.

    Tags

    • Google Ads
    • Pressure washing and cleaning
    • Melbourne, VIC

    That is one account. Yours is a different one.

    We read your ads, your search presence and your tracking the same way this one was read, and tell you what we would change first.

    What the results measure.

    The definitions behind the campaign results, from enquiries and conversion rates to advertising spend.

    Conversion
    An action recorded under the account’s conversion setup, such as a tracked call, form submission, booking or purchase. Platform call/form enquiries are described separately in the study; repeat calls can be separate events, so enquiries are not necessarily unique people.
    Cost per job · cost per lead
    Advertising spend divided by the relevant recorded enquiry or job count. The study identifies the denominator. Enquiry cost is considered alongside lead quality and job value.
    Conversion rate
    Recorded conversion actions divided by ad interactions, usually clicks. The study identifies which actions count toward its rate.
    Ad spend
    Money spent on the advertising platform. The enquiry costs and revenue-to-ad-spend figures here exclude agency fees and the cost of delivering the client’s service.
    The measurement window
    The period covered by the result, with spend and outcomes drawn from the same reporting window.
    A starting point
    Starting values appear beside the resulting figure when the account history is available.
    Qualified lead
    An enquiry assessed against the agreed service, service area and customer requirements.
    An anonymised client
    A project published without the client’s name. The page identifies its sector and explains the scope of the work.

    Put your own numbers to work: work out your own cost per lead, with your own click price and close rate. It takes about a minute and asks for nothing.

    How we run accounts

    How we manage the campaign.

    We define the outcomes to track, test the enquiry paths and use what we learn to guide campaign improvements. SoudCoh Compound explains how that work is organised.

    • Rule 01

      Count real enquiries only

      The number it moves: True cost per lead

      We agree which calls, forms, bookings or sales count as a result, and a real test enquiry goes through every tracking path before the campaign goes live.

    • Rule 08

      Build on practical campaign experience

      The number it moves: Waste blocked before the first click

      Every change on an account like this one is written to that client's change history, and what it teaches, never the client's numbers, goes into the next account's starting point.

    If you want one of these

    What actually happens after the first call.

    Start with your goals and current setup. We review the opportunity, agree the work and plan the next stage with you.

    1. The call

      Thirty to forty-five minutes, free

      We discuss your services, customers, website and goals, then identify the most useful next step.

    2. Week 0

      The audit

      We review your website and advertising, then set out the opportunities, priorities and recommended scope.

    3. Week 1

      The build

      Everything the account needs before it can spend a dollar: what it will bid on, what it must never pay for, the ad copy, the assets, the landing pages and the tracking. It waits in our approval queue, and a real test enquiry goes through every tracking path before anything is live.

    4. Day one

      You press go

      Campaigns are created paused, every time, so you can read the whole build first. You activate when you are ready, not when we are.

    5. Days 1–14

      The clean

      We review search terms, exclude irrelevant searches and refine keywords and ads using the early campaign data.

    6. From there

      Rhythm

      Regular optimisation and reporting, with reviews of lead quality, customer value and where to focus the next stage of work.

    Before you ask us anything

    Here is what everybody asks first.

    FAQ

    The questions this raises.

    How the results were measured and how the approach could apply to cleaning businesses.

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    How was the 1 in 7 figure worked out?

    We divided the calls and forms Google Ads recorded from the pressure-washing ads by clicks on those ads over the same days, from the first to the last day of the run. The rate is rounded toward the lower figure.

    Why are pressure washing and cleaning measured separately?

    They are different jobs with different customers, and they run in separate Google Ads accounts. Combining them would hide what each one does, so every figure on this page belongs to one stream only.

    Which pressure-washing services drew the most interest?

    Concrete: resurfacing, cleaning and sealing, along with driveways, oil stains and pavers. Those ad groups drew 53% of clicks and 55% of recorded enquiries. Brick and wall cleaning, windows, decks and graffiti made up most of the rest.

    What do the cleaning ads show so far?

    The cleaning ads are newer. In their first 26 days, 86% of clicks came from phones and about 1 in 3 came from end-of-lease, bond, vacate and move-out searches, so those cleans sit in their own ad groups.

    What do the results in this Superior Group Australia case study measure?

    Campaign results describe the enquiries or job outcomes reported for the client. Each figure identifies what it measures.

    Which records support these results?

    Result basis: About five weeks of pressure-washing ads. The labels distinguish advertising conversions, call/form enquiries and won-job revenue. Enquiry events can include repeat calls; booked jobs are reported separately.

    Would this work for cleaning businesses like mine?

    We assess your service area, competition, margins and customer value, then build a plan around the opportunities in your business. The first call establishes the priorities, budget and tracking for that work.

    How would you plan this for my business?

    We start with your goals, service area, competition and customer value. From there, we recommend the channels, website improvements and tracking that fit your next stage of growth.

    Ready to plan your campaign?

    Thirty minutes on your numbers, and a written list of what we would change first. Yours to keep either way.

    A real conversation and a written list of opportunities.