Google Ads for Home Services
Google Ads That Books Jobs for Home Services, Not Just Clicks
When a homeowner needs a plumber at 11pm or a fence up before the dog arrives, they go straight to Google. We build and manage paid search campaigns for the trades so your phone rings with people ready to hire, in the service area you actually cover.
Before you decide
$17.7M in Google Ads spend under our roof since 2016, $16.1 million of it during our management windows
We give before we ask. You get a real growth plan, free, and it is yours to keep whether or not we ever work together.
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Paid Search Built for the Trades
Home services is a demand business. Nobody schedules a leaking pipe, a chimney that won't draw, or a fence that finally has to go up. When the need hits, the homeowner pulls out their phone and searches. The company that shows up at that moment, with a clear ad and an easy way to call, wins the job. The company that does not loses it to whoever did. That is the whole game, and Google Ads is the most direct way to be the one who shows up. Paid search is half of the program. The other half is Local Services Ads, the pay-per-lead placement above the regular ads with the Google Verified badge next to your name. How Local Services Ads work.
Our Google Ads management for home services covers the work that actually moves the needle for a trade: keyword targeting tied to your service area, call and form conversion tracking, smart bidding that learns from real bookings, negative keyword hygiene so you stop paying for tire-kickers, and ongoing ad copy testing. We manage your budget the way we would manage our own, and for home services that means measuring success in booked jobs, not impressions.
The Problems We Fix for Home Services Companies
Most of the trade accounts we inherit are not broken because the owner did anything wrong. They are broken because generic, hands-off management does not fit how home services demand actually works. Here is what we see most often.
Wasted Spend on the Wrong Searches
Broad keywords pull in people searching for DIY tutorials, parts, jobs, warranty questions, and "how much should X cost." Those clicks drain a daily budget fast and never book a job. We rebuild keyword targeting around high-intent, ready-to-hire searches and layer in a deep negative keyword list so your money goes to homeowners who want to pay a pro, not browse.
No Idea Which Ads Make the Phone Ring
For the trades, the phone is the lead. If your calls are not tracked back to the keyword and campaign that drove them, you are optimizing blind. We set up call tracking and form tracking on day one so every booked-job lead is attributed correctly. That feeds smart bidding the right signal and tells us exactly where to put the next dollar.
Getting Outspent by Lead Aggregators
Angi, HomeAdvisor, and Thumbtack bid aggressively and then sell the same lead to several contractors. We get you in front of the homeowner before the aggregator, so the call comes to you and only you. A direct click on your ad is a warmer, cheaper lead than a shared one, and your own page can convert it better than a marketplace ever will.
Feast-or-Famine Lead Flow
Seasonality is real in this industry, and ignoring it costs money both ways. Run flat and you get capped during your busy season and overspend during the slow one. We plan budgets and bids around your demand curve so you are aggressive when homeowners are searching and lean when they are not.
How We Run Home Services Campaigns
Same disciplined process behind every account, tuned for the realities of the trades.
1. Trade and Service-Area Strategy
We start with your trade, your map, and your money jobs. Which services are most profitable? How far will you drive? What is your busy season? We research the exact terms homeowners type when they are ready to hire in your specific area, then build a plan around the work you actually want more of.
2. Campaign Build or Audit
Starting fresh, we build clean campaigns organized by service type and geography so optimization data stays readable. Coming from an existing account, we audit first: wasted spend, missing negatives, weak structure, and tracking gaps. You get an honest picture of where things stand before we change a thing, and you keep your account history.
3. Keyword Targeting and Negative Hygiene
We organize keywords into tight, service-specific ad groups so your ad always matches the search. Then we guard the budget with continuous negative keyword work, blocking job-seekers, DIY queries, parts shoppers, and out-of-area searches. Tighter relevance lifts Quality Score, which lowers your cost per click and your cost per lead.
4. Call and Form Conversion Tracking
You cannot improve what you cannot measure, and in this trade that means phone calls. We wire up call tracking and form tracking and verify it is firing before we scale spend. Every lead ties back to a keyword and campaign, so bidding optimizes toward bookable work instead of cheap clicks.
5. Smart Bidding That Learns From Real Jobs
Once tracking is clean and conversions are flowing, we move bidding toward the searches most likely to produce a booked job in your area. Smart bidding only works when it is fed accurate conversion data, which is exactly why we get tracking right first. Garbage in, wasted spend out.
6. Ad Copy Testing and Optimization
We write and test ads that speak to homeowner urgency: licensed and insured, fast response, upfront pricing, local and trusted. We test headlines, descriptions, and extensions like call buttons, location, and service callouts to lift click-through and conversion rates. The account gets worked every week, not parked.
7. Transparent Monthly Reporting
Every month you get a clear report on leads generated, cost per lead, and what we changed, plus a live call with your dedicated advocate to walk through it. No jargon, no spin. You always know what is working and what we are focused on next.
What Is Included
- The Weekly Lead List: we send you the week's Local Services leads and you mark each one booked or not
- The First-Lead Call: a first Local Services lead inside seven days, or a call from us saying why
- The Junk Lead Sweep: every junk-rated lead's dispute outcome checked and your profile re-tuned
- The Booked-Out Throttle: tell us you're booked out and we turn the Local Services budget down, then back up
- Your published cost per booked job at day 90, provisional at 30 and 60
- Paid search for the same trade and service area, with call and form tracking
- When you need it: the Profile Pass (one Google Business Profile run) and the Booked Jobs Page (one landing page with a booking embed)
- Campaign strategy and build, or full audit for an existing account
- Service-area and geographic targeting tuned to where you actually work
- Trade-specific keyword research and aggressive negative keyword management
- Smart bidding setup and active bid management toward booked-job conversions
- Ad copy creation and ongoing testing for the trades
- Ad extensions: call buttons, sitelinks, callouts, location, and service snippets
- Landing page review and conversion recommendations for mobile callers
- Seasonal budget planning around your demand curve
- Monthly reports, a live review call, and a dedicated client advocate
One business per trade per service area while they're a client. If it's you, it isn't the next one who calls.
The Give-First Way We Work
We're a relational marketing agency. Before you ever sign anything, we'll build you a free growth plan for your trade and service area, and it's yours to keep whether or not you hire us. We start with a 45-minute working session with no pitch, just an honest look at your situation. And there's no long-term contract. Cancel with 30 days' notice, and your rate holds twelve months. For a home services owner who's been burned by an agency before, that's the difference: we treat your budget like our own and tell you the truth even when it isn't what you hoped to hear.
Proof and Honest Expectations
Today we manage 64+ active accounts and $17.7 million in Google Ads spend under our roof, $16.1 million of it during our management windows. Home services is a core part of that work: in the 30 days to September 2, 2026, the four trades we run on Local Services (plumbing, fencing, landscaping, home inspection) took 257 leads at $39.32 each, against a published Local Services benchmark of $53 to $57. One plumbing client rated 128 leads for us over 13 weeks: 24 booked jobs, $297 per booked job, about 3.3 times back on media spend. Two different windows; we don't chain them.
We won't quote you a cost per lead sight-unseen, because your trade and market set it. What we do put in writing is below in full: the First Lead Guarantee, the Cost Per Booked Job Commitment, and the 30-Day Exit. Our standard is a first Local Services lead inside seven days, or a call from us saying why, and after 90 days of rated leads we publish your cost per booked job, provisional at 30 and 60.
Where This Fits
Google Ads is the fastest way to turn on lead flow, and it gets stronger when paired with the rest of your local presence. See how we approach the trade as a whole on our home services marketing page, and review honest outcomes on our results page. When you are ready, the next step is a short, no-pitch call.
In writing
What The Booked Jobs Program puts in writing
Verbatim, the same words that go on the proposal.
The First Lead Guarantee
If you do not receive a single Local Services lead in your first 30 days live, your management fee is credited for every month until your first lead arrives. What we need from you: your Local Services profile verified, a Local Services budget of at least $500 a month live, and someone answering the phone during your stated hours.
The Cost Per Booked Job Commitment
After 90 days of rated leads we publish your cost per booked job. If it rises more than 40% above your 90-day baseline for two months running, each with at least 10 rated leads, we run a named fix cycle at no management fee until it returns to or below that baseline, for up to three months, once in any twelve months. What we need from you: every lead rated weekly. No rating, no commitment.
The 30-Day Exit
If in your first 30 days you decide this isn't for you, tell us and month one's management fee is refunded; the build fee stays.
The Stay-and-Earn Credit
Your $2,000 build fee is invoiced at signature, with month one. Confirm the weekly lead list we send you; once you've confirmed 20 of them, from your sixth month on, $1,000 comes back as credit spread across your next six invoices. Stay twelve months with your account current and the other $1,000 does the same. A missed week delays the credit; it never cancels it, because the count keeps running. At either date you may point the $1,000 at the build fee of a second service instead. Credit not yet applied when you leave isn't carried forward. Credits reduce future invoices only: never cash, never ad spend, never a past invoice. Twelve-month prepay waives the build fee instead; the two don't combine.
Rate and terms
Your rate holds twelve months. No long-term contract. Cancel with 30 days' notice.
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Google Ads for Home Services FAQ
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When a homeowner in your service area searches for your trade, Google Ads can place you at the top of results at the exact moment they are ready to hire. You pay per click, and the right keyword strategy means most of those clicks come from people who need the job done now. With tight campaign structure, service-area targeting, call and form tracking, and disciplined negative keywords, it consistently produces calls and booked jobs at a cost per lead you can see and steer.
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Yes. Most home services leads come in as phone calls, so call tracking is built into every campaign we manage. We attribute each call and form submission back to the specific keyword, ad group, and campaign that produced it. That lets us bid toward the searches that book real jobs instead of the ones that only generate clicks.
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We build a budget plan around your demand curve. Chimney work ramps into fall. Fencing and landscaping peak in spring. Plumbing spikes on the first hard freeze. We watch search volume trends and adjust bids and budgets ahead of the season so you're positioned when homeowners are looking and not overspending when the phones are already quiet.
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We put your business in front of high-intent searchers before they ever reach an aggregator. A homeowner who clicks your ad and calls your number is your lead, not a lead shared with three other contractors. We filter out low-intent traffic with aggressive negative keywords and point clicks at a page built to convert, so your own ad spend outperforms the marketplace alternative.
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The Booked Jobs Program is $1,500/mo + ad spend, with a $2,000 build. That one line covers Local Services Ads and paid search for one trade in one service area: strategy, build or audit, keyword work, conversion tracking, smart bidding, ad copy testing, the Weekly Lead List, and a published cost per booked job at day 90. Your ad budget is separate and billed directly to your own Google account, so you always own the account and see exactly where the money goes. Your rate holds twelve months. No long-term contract. Cancel with 30 days' notice.
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Mission fit. We work with pregnancy centers, churches, nonprofits, home services and local commerce. We don't take work in a vertical where we hold no results. Conversion tracking buy-in. You grant tracking access and approve the tags we install. Without it we can't measure, and we won't run media we can't measure. For home services. Every Local Services lead rated, every week. That rating is how we publish your cost per booked job.
Ready to Fill Your Service Calendar?
Book a free 45-minute working session. We will review your account or service area, show you where the booked-job leads are hiding, and hand you a free growth plan that is yours to keep. No pitch, no pressure.
Running paid search since 2016. $17.7 million in Google Ads spend under our roof. 216 Local Services leads at $39.32 each in 30 days. See our results.
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