For online shops

Grow your shop's revenue without giving the margin away

We run an online shop ourselves, so we know how hard ecommerce has become. Rising ad costs, marketplaces squeezing prices, and tracking that quietly stops telling the truth. We fix the last one first, because everything else depends on it.

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Google Premier Partner

Top 3%

of all Google partner agencies

Shops on our software

50,000

measure their conversions with it every day

Shops we advertise for

30+

every day, in Switzerland, the EU and the US

Google reviews

5/5

stars for our marketing services

Verified on our Google Partner profile and on the WordPress plugin directory.

We run an online shop ourselves

That is why we know first hand how tough ecommerce has become. The problems below are not yours alone, we see them in almost every account we audit.

Sound familiar?

  • Ad costs are rising fast and the competition is fiercer than ever.
  • Foreign sellers flood your market with low prices.
  • Marketplaces like Amazon are squeezing your margins.
  • On top of that, tracking what really works is getting harder every year.

So how do you stay relevant, dominate your niche, grow revenue and stay profitable? With the right strategy, and a partner who does things a little differently from most agencies.

How we do it

What we do differently, and why it works

We start with what matters most: perfect conversion tracking. Reliable data on what actually drives sales is the foundation, and it is so important to us that we built our own software for it.

Always first

Conversion tracking you can trust

Most ad accounts fail because the data is wrong. We fix the measurement so Google can optimise correctly and you can scale with confidence.

  • Order values checked against your shop, not taken on trust
  • Consent mode, enhanced conversions and server side tracking
  • Insights from 50,000 shops that no other agency has
  • A baseline before any campaign changes, so you can see the difference

Our tracking software is used by more than 50,000 shops every day.

The core

Google Ads built for shops

Shopping, Search, Performance Max and remarketing, structured around what each product earns you rather than what it sells for.

  • Campaign structure by margin, not by category
  • Bidding on target ROAS tied to your real profit
  • Promotions, product reviews and the free Google programmes most shops miss
  • Expert optimisation for any budget

Google Premier Partner, the top 3 percent of partner agencies.

When it fits

Every other paid channel

Google is the most profitable platform for most shops, and rarely the only one worth running.

  • Meta, TikTok, Reddit, Bing, LinkedIn, Amazon and Taboola
  • Marketplace ads on Amazon and eBay where your products belong there
  • One set of numbers, so channels stay comparable
  • A clear no when a channel does not earn its budget

Eight platforms, one measurement setup behind all of them.

The data behind Shopping

Feeds and Merchant Center

A Shopping campaign is only as good as the feed underneath it. We keep yours complete, correct and approved.

  • Feed quality, disapprovals and policy problems
  • Supplier data flowing into the shop and on to Google without gaps
  • Automated daily checks so a broken feed is caught before it costs sales
  • Local inventory ads and automated discounts where they pay off

Surfdeal keeps over 100,000 products live every day on our automation.

More from the visitors you already pay for

Conversion rate optimisation

Better campaigns bring more people. CRO makes sure more of them buy.

  • Checkout and product page audits
  • Speed, trust signals and mobile behaviour
  • Test ideas ranked by expected impact
  • The free CRO checklist for online shops as a starting point

Start with our free CRO checklist for online shops.

When the shop itself is the problem

A technical partner, not only an ad agency

Plugin conflicts, caching, checkout errors and hacked installs cost more sales than any campaign setting. We see them early and can fix them.

  • WooCommerce, Shopware, Shopify, Magento and WordPress
  • Server errors, payment failures and plugin conflicts
  • Security and recovery after an incident
  • Custom code and automation where standard software stops

We built the number one conversion tracking plugin for WooCommerce.

Google Ads conversion value for Schweizversand from January 2019 to December 2024, rising steeply after Wolf+Bär took over the account in May 2024

Hear from a client

Schweizversand.ch

"333 percent more revenue in our online shop speaks for itself. After switching to W+B Agency we saw immediate improvements in our campaigns and our profitability." Four months after the takeover, the account was scaling on a doubled ROAS.

  • +333% revenue from Google Ads
  • +156% revenue from Meta
  • +200% return on ad spend
Read the case study

Surfdeal

TIES

NorthCoast Keyless

Armyshop, outdoor and camping

We manage ads for more than 30 online shops, every day. Four of them.

Industry data from 50,000 shops

Our tracking software runs in 50,000 online shops, daily

We develop the conversion tracking plugin that 50,000 shops rely on every day. That gives us deeper insights and more industry data than a traditional agency, and it means we see every Google and WooCommerce change weeks before it reaches the blogs.

  • Recommended by Google's Tag Implementation Team
  • 5/5 stars from over 300 reviews
  • Official Global Channel Partner for Google Automated Discounts
  • Free version on WordPress.org for WooCommerce shops

How the agency and the software work together

Two reviews of the Pixel Manager plugin on WordPress.org, one calling it very easy to set up, the other noting it was recommended by Google's Tag Implementation Team
Two of the more than 300 reviews on WordPress.org.

Quote

"Running ads is not about clicks or impressions, it is about profitable sales. If your ads are not profitable, they are just an expense."

Founder, Wolf+Bär

How onboarding works

  1. Free strategy call. Book it through our calendar, ask through the contact form, or call us. Thirty minutes, no preparation needed.
  2. Audit of your current setup. We review your accounts against our industry benchmarks, then send a free marketing plan and a non binding price estimate.
  3. We start. Once you approve the plan we begin with the tracking, then rebuild the campaigns around your margin.

Your questions, answered

What shop owners ask us before they book

The honest answers. Anything missing, ask us on the call.

What sets you apart from other agencies?

Four things, and each of them is checkable.

  • Your sales and profits from paid ads are likely to grow, as they have for every client we have onboarded so far, because we are specialists in measuring paid ad performance. We develop and sell our own analytics software, used by over 50,000 websites every day.
  • We have skin in the game. We run our own online shop and face the same market shifts you do, so new opportunities are tested on our own money before we pass them on.
  • Your campaigns are in expert hands. Every account is managed by senior, Google certified marketers. No juniors, no outsourcing.
  • We are a well staffed, mid sized agency that has time for you and communicates. No disappearing account managers, no endless waiting.
What happens in the free strategy call?

A personalised session that analyses your current setup and finds the growth you are leaving on the table.

  • An audit of your marketing performance: we review your existing accounts, whether Google Ads, HubSpot or WooCommerce, and compare them against our industry benchmarks.
  • Growth opportunities: where you are not reaching your potential, whether in paid ads, tracking, HubSpot workflows or the shop itself.
  • A free marketing plan with strategies and operational measures, whether you need a one off optimisation, full account management or technical improvements.
  • A price estimate, if you would like us to implement what we discussed. No obligation, everything we share in the call is yours to use.
How do I know you will not promise the world and then deliver mediocre results?

We understand the concern, we get emails promising us leads every day too. Read our Google reviews: you will not find an unhappy client, because we genuinely care about the people we work for. We are a medium sized agency with a deliberately limited number of clients, so we have time for you. And on performance, we can stand behind our results: so far we have improved revenue and profitability for every client who came on board.

Do you only do Google Ads, or social media as well?

Both, and more. Google is still the most profitable platform for most shops, but we integrate it with Meta, TikTok, Reddit and other channels whenever that fits your goals and your KPIs.

How can ads be profitable, and what does ROAS mean?

Imagine you sell books online. We run a Google ad for your book, a customer clicks it (say that costs you 1 dollar) and buys the book for 5 dollars. Google Ads records one conversion, 1 dollar of ad spend and 5 dollars of revenue, so your return on ad spend (ROAS) is 5.0: revenue divided by ad spend. Whether that is profitable depends on your costs.

ItemAmount
Book cost$1
Shipping cost$1
Total cost of goods$2
Google Ads cost$1
Total cost per sale$3
Profit$2
What is left from a book sold at 5 dollars

You sold for 5, spent 3 and kept 2. For some businesses 2 dollars a sale is enough, because at scale it covers storage, salaries and the website. For others it is not sustainable. That is where we come in: we work out how much profit per sale you need, and set the campaigns to hit it. Try it with your own numbers in our Google Ads profit calculator.

Do you build websites?

Not from scratch, we expect you to have a shop already. We do have good industry contacts and can advise on software and on who to talk to. What we do offer is conversion rate optimisation for the shop you have.

Is it fine that my shop runs on a particular software?

Yes. So far we have managed to improve marketing results and performance on every kind of software our clients have brought us, from WooCommerce and Shopware to Shopify, Magento and custom builds.

Can I visit your office in Zurich, and where do I park?

Yes, we are there five days a week. Book an appointment and drop by. For parking we recommend Stampfenbachstrasse, and you will find us on Google Maps.