Google Ads for Contractors, Run by People Who Know the Trades
Most contractors who've tried Google Ads burned a few hundred dollars learning it's harder than it looks. Usually the problem isn't the ads — it's that every click landed on a homepage that didn't match what the ad promised. We fix that end to end.
Free Audit Before You Spend Another Dollar
If you're already running ads, we'll show you where the budget is actually going — which keywords are eating spend without converting, what match types are letting junk traffic through, and whether your landing page is the reason the leads aren't coming. Free, and yours to keep.
Get My Free Visibility AuditWhy Contractor Google Ads Usually Fail
Three things kill most contractor ad accounts. Broad match keywords that pull in people searching for jobs rather than services. A single landing page for twelve different campaigns. And no follow-up system, so the leads that do come in sit unanswered for four hours while someone else books the job.
We build a dedicated landing page for every ad angle and every location, match the keywords tightly to real service intent, and wire the leads into a system that responds instantly. It's the same approach we run across all the trades we work with, and it's packaged as the Paid Growth Package.
What's Included in Contractor PPC Management
A landing page per campaign
Built for the exact angle and town the ad targets. Match between what someone clicked and what they land on is most of the difference between a click and a call.
Tight keyword and match-type control
Broad match without conversion data is how budgets disappear. We start tight, prove what converts, then expand deliberately.
Negative keyword lists that actually work
Jobs, salary, DIY, free, wholesale, training. Filtering out the searches that will never become customers protects the spend that will.
Conversion tracking set up properly
Calls, forms and booked appointments all tracked. Without this, Google is optimizing toward clicks instead of jobs, and you're paying for the difference.
Instant lead response
A paid lead that waits four hours is a wasted lead, which is why every campaign is wired into an automated lead follow-up system that texts back within seconds of a form fill or missed call.
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Weekly management, not set and forget
Search terms reviewed, bids adjusted, losers cut. An unmanaged ad account gets more expensive every month it runs.
Real Campaigns, Real Cost Per Lead
We've run paid campaigns for painting contractors, junk removal, garage doors and roadside assistance across Chicagoland — including a Meta campaign that produced 63 leads at $35.19 each, and a junk removal account running on custom landing pages built per campaign rather than a shared homepage.
The actual numbers are in our case studies — cost per lead, spend and timeframe, rather than screenshots without context.
Should You Run Ads or Build Organic First?
Honest answer: it depends on your timeline. Ads produce leads within days but stop the moment you stop paying. Organic takes a couple of months to move and then compounds. If you need work booked this month, ads are the right call. If you're building something that lasts, you want both.
If the timeline isn't urgent, we'd point you at long-term local SEO instead — and we'll say so on the call rather than selling you ads you don't need yet.
Contractor Google Ads Questions
It varies by trade and market, but the number that matters is cost per booked job, not cost per click. We'd rather start smaller, prove the cost per lead, then scale budget against results you can see.
Usually within days of launch. That's the main advantage over SEO. The first few weeks are about gathering conversion data so the account can be optimized against real outcomes instead of assumptions.
No. Ads point to dedicated landing pages built for each campaign, so your existing website doesn't need to be rebuilt first. That's often the fastest way to start without a bigger project.
Because a homepage has to serve everyone, so it converts nobody especially well. Someone who clicked an ad about emergency drain cleaning should land on a page about emergency drain cleaning, in their town, with a phone number.
Yes, we run both. Google captures people actively searching for a service right now. Meta is better for demand you create rather than demand that already exists. Which one leads depends on your trade and ticket size.
No long-term contract. It's month over month and results based. If the campaigns aren't producing, you shouldn't be locked into paying for them.
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Book a call and we'll audit your current ad spend for free — where it's going, what's wasted, and what it would take to turn clicks into booked jobs.