Local Services Ads
Pay-per-lead placement above the regular Sponsored ads, with the Google Guaranteed trust badge built in.
Done-for-you Google Ads management for service businesses. Local Services Ads, Search, and Performance Max — managed to your cost-per-booked-job, not your CPC. Pair it with Local SEO and stop renting position 1.
We don’t just run Google Search. For local service businesses, the leads come from a stack of placements working together. Our Google Ads management covers every campaign type Google offers.
Pay-per-lead placement above the regular Sponsored ads, with the Google Guaranteed trust badge built in.
High-intent keyword targeting with negative-keyword sculpting and weekly Quality Score audits.
Automated multi-channel reach across Search, Maps, YouTube, Gmail, and Display from one campaign.
Promoted pin placements that boost your Map Pack rank and capture “directions” intent.
Phone-first mobile ads that route directly to your line — no clicks to website, no friction.
Local-targeted skippable and bumper ads built for brand recall in your service zones.
Most Google Ads accounts hand 30–55% of spend back to Google for free. Here’s where the money goes — and exactly what we do about it in your first 30 days.
Loom video walkthrough delivered in 3 business days. Read-only account access only. No sales pressure.
Most service businesses cycle through DIY, a freelancer, and an in-house specialist before they land on a real Google Ads agency. Here’s the honest comparison — including where the cheap options actually beat us.
You + Google's wizard
1 PPC manager
1 generalist
Mid-size shop
Full team + system
Google Local Services Ads sit above the regular Sponsored Search ads. They’re pay-per-lead, not pay-per-click. We handle the verification, the dispute portal, and the lead routing so your phone rings with real, in-service-area calls.
License, insurance, and background-check submission for every technician. We handle the document chase so your Google Guaranteed badge goes live in days, not months.
LSAs charge per qualified lead, not per click. We monitor lead quality daily and dispute every spam, wrong-service, or non-service-area lead so you only pay for real calls.
Every call recording reviewed within 24 hours. Bad lead? We file the dispute through the Google Local Services portal and Google refunds the lead cost.
We tune service-area boundaries, hours, and service-type weights every week so your LSA budget concentrates on the zones where bookings actually happen.
Real account, names redacted. Here’s what consistent Google Ads management produces for a typical $4K/month home-services spend — pulled straight from the dashboard our team checks every Monday.
Everything service businesses ask before hiring us for Google Ads management — pricing, minimum spend, account ownership, contract terms, and what happens if you ever leave.
Our Google Ads management fee is a flat monthly retainer billed separately from your ad spend — that money goes straight to Google on your card, not ours. Retainers scale with account complexity (number of campaigns, locations, and channels: Search, Local Services Ads, Performance Max, Maps, YouTube). On the free audit call we’ll quote a fixed monthly fee with no setup fees and no percentage-of-spend markup.
For local service businesses we recommend a minimum of $1,500–$2,000/month in ad spend across Search and Local Services Ads. Below that, Google’s smart bidding doesn’t collect enough conversion data to optimize, and the math on a managed retainer rarely works. If you’re only ready to spend $500/month, you’re better off with our Local SEO program until cash flow supports paid.
Local Services Ads (LSA) typically deliver leads in 7–14 days once Google Guaranteed verification clears, because LSA bypasses bidding and routes calls directly. Google Search campaigns need 3–6 weeks to gather enough conversion data for smart bidding to stabilize. Performance Max typically needs 4–8 weeks before its asset combinations and audiences settle. We share a weekly Loom in the first 60 days so you can watch the optimization happen in real time.
We run them. This is full-service done-for-you Google Ads management — we handle keyword research, ad copy, negative-keyword sculpting, bid strategy, conversion-tracking setup, weekly optimization, and monthly reporting. We don’t do training engagements. If your team wants to learn paid media in parallel, we’ll loop them in on calls and explain what we’re changing and why, but the execution stays with us.
Yours. Always. We open the account in your name (or transfer your existing account into our MCC for centralized management), and you keep 100% admin access. Same for your Google Tag Manager, GA4, and Google Business Profile. If we ever part ways, you keep every campaign, every conversion action, every audience — nothing is held hostage. This is non-negotiable on every engagement.
We take over existing accounts in roughly 80% of engagements. Our intake includes a full audit of your existing campaigns, search-term reports, conversion tracking, and historical performance data. Mature accounts with real conversion data are gold — we keep what’s working, restructure what’s leaking, and seed new campaigns where there are gaps. Starting fresh only makes sense when the existing account is fundamentally broken (typically: tracking never worked, or the account was suspended).
Yes — this is the #1 thing most accounts get wrong. We install GA4 events, Google Ads conversion actions, CallRail (or a similar dynamic-number-insertion tool) for phone calls, and offline conversion imports if you’re tracking booked jobs in a CRM like ServiceTitan, Jobber, or HubSpot. Every form fill, every phone call, and every booked job gets a value attached so smart bidding optimizes for booked revenue, not just clicks.
Landing-page CRO is included in your first month of Google Ads management — we’ll diagnose conversion-rate issues on your existing service pages and recommend a list of fixes. Building a brand-new dedicated landing page is a separate engagement (usually paired with our web design team) and quoted per page. About half our clients run paid traffic to their main site and never need a dedicated LP; the other half see meaningful CPL drops once we ship one.
Send us read-only access to your Google Ads account. In 3 business days you’ll get a Loom walkthrough showing exactly what’s leaking and what we’d fix in your first 30 days — with a fixed-fee management quote.
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