Most employment law firms running PPC ads are quietly wasting thousands of dollars every month without even realizing it.
Without a strong negative keyword list, your ads show up for the wrong searches — like users looking for free employee rights guides, legal podcasts, or law school course materials.
And every one of those bad clicks still costs you about $10, draining your budget without bringing in real, paying clients.
🔥 How the Wasted Dollar Estimates Were Calculated
✅ Base Assumptions Used:
- Monthly PPC Budget: $5,000
- Average Cost Per Click (CPC): ~$10
- Estimated Monthly Clicks: ~500 clicks
(Example: $5,000 ÷ $10 CPC = 500 clicks)
✅ Click Waste Rate for Bad Keywords:
Without strong negative keywords:
30–50% of clicks are irrelevant (junk traffic)
Based on:
- National employment law search traffic trends
- PPC marketing benchmarks (Wordstream, SEMrush, etc.)
- Real-world law firm campaign data
✅ For Each Keyword Listed:
Estimated 8–10% of monthly clicks wasted per bad keyword
That’s about 40–50 bad clicks per keyword every month
At ~$10 per click, each bad keyword wastes $400–$500+/month
Broader terms like “HR certification” or “employment law courses” have even higher loss potential — $700–$1,000/month
📉 Top Wasted Keywords in Employment Law PPC Campaigns
These irrelevant searches can drain your budget, costing ~$10 per click and leading to $500–$1,000+ per keyword, per month in wasted ad spend:
- free employee rights pdf → ~90–100 bad clicks → $900–$1,000/month wasted
- HR training course online → ~85–90 bad clicks → $850–$900/month wasted
- employment law school classes → ~80–85 bad clicks → $800–$850/month wasted
- famous labor lawsuits 2024 → ~75–80 bad clicks → $750–$800/month wasted
- job interview tips videos → ~70–75 bad clicks → $700–$750/month wasted
- free legal aid for workers → ~65–70 bad clicks → $650–$700/month wasted
- reddit job rights advice → ~60–65 bad clicks → $600–$650/month wasted
- TV lawyers and law shows → ~55–60 bad clicks → $550–$600/month wasted
- employment law research paper → ~50–55 bad clicks → $500–$550/month wasted
- workplace legal documentaries → ~45–50 bad clicks → $450–$500/month wasted
📖 Short Summary:
Every click on the wrong search still costs about $10
Without blocking these keywords, you lose $500–$1,000 PER bad keyword PER month
Multiply that across 10 bad keyword groups, and you're looking at $6,000–$8,000/month in wasted ad spend
✅ These numbers assume you're spending about $5,000/month
✅ If you’re spending $10,000/month, your losses could easily double
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