Mortgage & Financial Services

Private Mortgage Broker

Google Ads — Search & Performance Max, policy compliance

Greater Toronto Area Client since April 2024 Numbers from the live Google Ads account

1,113leads in a single month (Aug 2025)
$7.69cost per lead at peak
15,800+tracked leads in 29 months
0policy suspensions

The challenge

Financial services is one of the most heavily policed categories on Google Ads, and mortgage clicks in the GTA are among the most expensive in the country. This brokerage needed volume — a lot of it — without the policy violations that get mortgage advertisers suspended, and at a cost per lead that made sense for a brokerage.

What we did

  • Restructured Search and Performance Max campaigns around verified, policy-safe financial-services messaging
  • Aligned landing pages with Google's financial products policy and FSRA disclosure requirements
  • Built lead tracking that separates real mortgage enquiries from junk, then fed that data to Smart Bidding
  • Scaled budget in steps as cost per lead held, with weekly policy monitoring

The results

The account started with us at roughly 200 leads a month for $13.38 each. Within 18 months it was producing more than 1,000 leads a month — 1,113 in August 2025 at $7.77, then 1,109 in September at $7.69 — and it did so without a single policy suspension in a category where suspensions are routine. Over the full engagement, $182K in ad spend has produced 15,867 tracked leads at an average of $11.49.

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