saas-google-ads

saas-google-ads is a skill for Claude Code from jonbishop1/saas-marketing-skills. It costs 120 tokens per session (2,297 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to Google Ads, Google's paid search advertising service, for software products such as SaaS, developer tools, APIs, and enterprise software.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan keywords and campaigns, configure conversion tracking, manage Google Tag Manager, and improve paid-search performance.
Why use it?
It helps technical founders decide what people should search for, structure campaigns, set budgets, and measure whether ads lead to useful actions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Part of the saas-marketing-skills plugin — 16 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan keywords and campaigns, configure conversion tracking, manage Google Tag Manager, and improve paid-search performance.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jonbishop1/saas-marketing-skills/saas-google-ads
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add jonbishop1/saas-marketing-skills --skill saas-google-ads
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jonbishop1/saas-marketing-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install saas-marketing-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills.

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Per session 120 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,297 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00120 $0.02297
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.01149
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00459
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00230

Measured 12d ago against content hash c443ec66f85d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

saas-google-ads scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.agents/skills/saas-google-ads/SKILL.md · 247 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 247 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Audience: developers and technical founders. Explain things in engineering terms. Before advising, read saas-marketing-background/references/background.md and gather missing background.


After gathering shared background, also ask these channel-specific questions:

Keywords

  • High-intent terms they're confident about?
  • Competitors users might also be evaluating?
  • Terms that look relevant but attract the wrong audience?
  • What would they search for? (symptoms, tools they use today, category terms)

Google Ads current state

  • Ran Google Search Ads before? What worked/didn't?
  • Conversion tracking set up and verified?

Google Ads safe defaults (don't ask, just apply):

Parameter Default
Device All; -20–30% mobile for B2B
Ad schedule All hours; business hours only for sales-led
Budget sizing Target CPA × 3 minimum daily per campaign
Target CPA Unknown — run Maximize Conversions until baseline established
Match types Phrase + Exact to start; no Broad until 30+ conv/month

Channel-specific routing:

Situation Where to go
No tracking set up Set up tracking in guide.md → Conversion Tracking before anything else
Tracking set up, no campaigns Account setup below → keywords/ads/bidding in guide.md
Campaigns running, underperforming Verify tracking first (guide.md → Tracking) then Optimization section
Campaigns profitable, want to scale guide.md → Scaling

How Google Search Ads Work

A keyword is not just a search term — it's a signal of buyer intent. The same concept ("api monitoring") searched different ways signals different stages of the buying journey. Your job is to match your spend to the highest-intent signals first.

The auction pipeline:

User query → Auction → Ad Rank → Click → Landing page → Conversion
     ↑                                                        |
     └──────────── Feedback loop (conversion signal) ─────────┘

Read the full file on GitHub · 247 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 247 lines · 120 tokens per session scan A c443ec66f85d

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saas-google-ads is a skill published in the GitHub repository jonbishop1/saas-marketing-skills (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 120 tokens to every session and 2,297 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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