Commercial Law PPC

Google Ads for
commercial & corporate solicitors.

Commercial legal PPC is B2B territory — longer cycles, sophisticated buyers, and instruction values that justify higher CPCs when the campaigns are built correctly.

£2bn+ UK SME legal spend per year
£5k–50k+ Commercial instruction value range
3–8 weeks Typical B2B legal buying cycle
20+ Years PPC experience

What we do

Commercial legal campaigns built
for long cycles and high values.

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Commercial Dispute & Litigation

Commercial dispute searches are often urgent — a contract dispute, a breach of confidentiality, a debt recovery situation. These have high instruction intent and can justify premium CPCs given the potential instruction value. We build dispute resolution campaigns targeting business decision-makers searching for rapid commercial legal support.

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Contracts & Advisory Services

Contract review, template drafting, and commercial advisory searches indicate businesses actively building legal capacity — either at growth stage or in response to a specific risk. These campaigns attract a mix of startup and established SME audiences, and convert well when landing page copy addresses the specific trigger (fundraising, new supplier, exit planning).

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Corporate & M&A Targeting

Corporate transactions (investment rounds, acquisitions, MBOs, shareholder agreements) have long cycles but very high instruction values. PPC for corporate work focuses on capturing decision-makers in the window between awareness of a transaction need and briefing a firm — typically several weeks.

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B2B Audience Layering

Google's business audience segments let us layer company size, industry, and job function signals onto commercial law campaigns. This means your budget concentrates on queries from company directors and decision-makers rather than employees or students — improving instruction quality without necessarily increasing CPCs.

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Long-Cycle Remarketing

Commercial legal buyers rarely instruct on first contact. A well-structured remarketing sequence — content offers, case study exposure, partner profile visibility — keeps your firm in the buyer's consideration set through a 3–8 week decision cycle. We build remarketing that educates and builds confidence rather than just repeating the same CTA.

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Commercial Property

Commercial property transactions (lease negotiation, acquisition, development finance, asset purchase) attract business decision-makers with defined legal needs and reasonable timelines. We build commercial property campaigns targeting property developers, investors, and business occupiers separately — each segment has distinct intent and different landing page requirements.

Process

From business search
to high-value instruction.

Commercial legal PPC requires understanding your practice areas, instruction values, and the B2B buying cycle before building a single campaign.

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Practice & economics audit

We map your commercial practice areas, instruction values by type, typical client profile (SME size, sector, transaction type), and current new business sources. We identify where PPC can realistically generate the right types of instruction at a viable CPL given your practice economics.

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Audience-led campaign architecture

Campaigns structured by commercial sub-type — disputes, contracts, corporate, property. B2B audience signals layered onto each. Ad copy speaks to business decision-makers: specific, credible, and outcome-focused ("commercial solicitors for growing businesses" rather than generic claims).

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Long-cycle attribution & remarketing

Extended 90-day attribution windows configured to capture the full commercial legal conversion cycle. Remarketing sequences built for each practice area — different content and messaging for prospects at awareness, consideration, and decision stages.

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Quality-led optimisation

Monthly reporting on cost per qualified instruction by practice area. Regular review of lead quality (are the enquiries from the right size and type of business?). Budget allocation adjusted quarterly based on which practice areas are generating the best instruction economics — not just enquiry volume.

FAQs

Common questions,
straight answers.

Everything you need to know about this service.

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Yes — when instruction values are £5,000–50,000+, even a cost per instruction of £500–2,000 represents excellent ROI. The key is proper attribution: standard 30-day conversion windows miss most commercial legal instructions. We implement 90-day windows and multi-touch reporting so the full value of campaigns is visible. Commercial PPC also tends to improve over time as remarketing audiences build and conversion data accumulates.

Through a combination of keyword specificity and audience layering. Keywords like "commercial contract solicitor" and "commercial dispute resolution" inherently attract business searchers. We layer Google's company size and job function audience signals to further weight toward decision-makers — company directors, CFOs, legal/compliance managers. Ad copy also self-selects: business-specific messaging ("for growing businesses", "commercial disputes from £X") filters out non-business enquiries.

Corporate transaction work can be generated through PPC, but requires realistic expectations about volume. There are fewer searches for "corporate solicitor M&A" than for "personal injury solicitor [city]", and the buying cycle is long. However, the instruction values often justify significant CPCs. The strongest corporate PPC results come from combining paid search with remarketing and content — not PPC alone.

Commercial disputes and commercial contracts consistently deliver the best initial ROI — search volume is meaningful, intent is clear, and the instruction-to-CPL economics work. Corporate work is possible but harder to scale. Commercial property depends heavily on your geographic market and property cycle timing. We assess your specific practice mix and local competitive landscape before making a recommendation.

Yes. If your firm has specific expertise in tech, construction, healthcare, or another sector, we can use Google's industry audience segments to weight spend toward that sector. Sector-specific ad copy also performs well — "commercial solicitors for tech businesses" converts better with a tech founder than generic commercial law messaging.

We implement 90-day click attribution windows and import offline conversions where possible. This means a commercial instruction that took 6 weeks from first click to signed engagement letter is properly attributed to the PPC campaign that started the relationship. Without this, your reporting will show campaigns as less profitable than they actually are — often causing firms to reduce spend on campaigns that are actually working.

HeroSEO is a specialist PPC agency for commercial law firms, running Google Ads campaigns targeting business owners and directors seeking legal advice on contracts, disputes, mergers, and commercial property. Our commercial law PPC campaigns are built around B2B search intent and deliver qualified business client enquiries at sustainable acquisition costs.

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commercial instructions from paid search?

Free audit. We'll review your commercial practice areas, assess where PPC can realistically generate high-value instructions, and show you what a B2B-optimised legal campaign looks like.

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We reply to every enquiry, without exception.
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A conversation, not a pitch. We'll be straight with you.
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Brighton-based, founded 2020. UK & European clients.
98%
Cost reduction
£5M+
Ad spend managed
1,100+
Clients served

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