Claude Skills for PPC: Building Scalable Systems

Search Engine Land piece on using Claude Skills to move PPC/paid-search work from one-off prompts to reusable systems — shifting practitioners from “doing PPC work” to “designing the PPC systems” that do it. A near-twin of agentic-seo-skill one vertical over (marketing capability encoded as agent-skills).

Key ideas

• Skills as playbook automation — encode expertise (search-term mining, ad-copy generation, account auditing, budget reallocation) as structured, reliable processes.
• Skills need tools to be real — skills are the instructions layer; combined with model-context-protocol connections (live Google Ads data + the ability to execute changes) they become genuinely agentic — autonomous multi-step workflows, not idea generation. This is the explicit skills + MCP = agency formula.

Why it routed here

Another domain instance of agent-skills (after FSI and SEO), reinforcing the capability-as-portable-markdown pattern and the skills × MCP combination that turns static instructions into action. Audience: agency/enterprise PPC teams wanting consistency at scale. (Caveat: vendor-marketing-adjacent how-to.)

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agent-skills · agentic-seo-skill · model-context-protocol · agentskills-spec