Plumbing PPC Agency

The Tradesmen Agency has generated over $3 million 

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HOW IT WORKS

➤ Initial Consultation
➤ Local Keyword Targeting
➤ Compelling Ad Copy
➤ Landing Page Design
➤ Budget Management
➤ Conversion Tracking

Maximize your reach with expert Google Ads Management. Our team crafts data-driven ad campaigns that boost visibility, attract qualified leads, and enhance ROI for your business.

Enhance your online presence with professional SEO Management. Our team optimizes every aspect of your website to drive traffic, improve rankings, and deliver measurable results for your business.

Transform your digital presence with our Website Design services. We create user-friendly, visually engaging websites tailored to your brand, designed to captivate visitors and drive conversions.

Our team understands the unique challenges and needs of tradesmen. We have the knowledge and experience to optimize your campaigns targeting relevant keywords and demographics to attract the right customers for your trade business. 

Turn past leads into paying clients with targeted email marketing campaigns built for fence companies and tradesmen. We craft automated sequences that nurture leads, re-engage old customers.

Streamline your business with smart automations, from lead follow-ups to quote reminders and job scheduling. We connect your tools so you can focus on building, not button-clicking. Less admin, more action.

Tradesmen Agency Pricing Packages

Choose from our growth-ready plans, each designed to turn your ad spend into booked jobs. All packages include Google Ad Management, conversion tracking, and monthly reporting.

Apprentice

For companies under $1M

$2,500/mo

  • ✅ Google Ad Management
  • ✅ Conversion tracking & monthly reporting

Journeyman

For $1M–$5M businesses

$7,500/mo

  • ✅ Custom Website Design
  • ✅ Starter SEO Services
  • ✅ Google Map Pack SEO
  • ✅ Google Ads Management
  • ✅ Conversion tracking & monthly reporting

Master

For $5M+ businesses

$10,000/mo

  • ✅ Custom Website Design
  • ✅ Full SEO Services
  • ✅ Google Map Pack SEO
  • ✅ Google Ad Management
  • ✅ Conversion tracking & monthly reporting

Craftsman

For $10M+ organizations

$15,000+/mo

  • ✅ Enterprise SEO, PPC & Website
  • ✅ Larger amounts of content + linking
  • ✅ Weekly check-ins & custom reports
  • ✅ For companies with many locations

Plumbing PPC Agency

The Tradesmen Agency has generated over $3 million 

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Your competitors are paying $10 a click for drain calls and ignoring $5,000 jobs at 35 cents.

Every plumbing account we audit is built the same way. Emergency terms, near-me terms, drain cleaning. The searches that feel like plumbing.

Meanwhile tankless water heater installation runs thirty-five cents a click on thirty-nine thousand monthly searches, and produces jobs worth three to six thousand dollars. Sewer line repair sits at ninety-six thousand searches, difficulty zero, seven dollars a click, on work that runs to twenty-five thousand.

The installation and replacement side of plumbing is the cheapest high-value inventory in the trades, and almost nobody is bidding it.

We own trade businesses. We run our own accounts before we run yours.

What the click prices actually look like

KeywordVolumeCPCTypical job
drain cleaning near me103,000$10.00$200 to $400
emergency plumber near me93,000$10.00$300 to $600
burst pipe repair6,100$8.00$500 to $2,000
plumber near me414,000$7.00varies
sewer line repair96,000$7.00$3,000 to $25,000
toilet repair14,000$4.00$150 to $400
water heater installation83,000$3.00$1,500 to $3,500
water heater replacement cost15,000$2.50$1,500 to $3,500
tankless water heater installation39,000$0.35$3,000 to $6,000

Read the top and bottom rows together. Drain cleaning costs twenty-eight times what tankless installation costs and produces a job worth a fraction as much.

That is not a small optimization. For most plumbing companies it is the difference between an account that pays for itself and one that does not.

What breaks in a plumbing Google Ads account

Everything pointed at emergency

Emergency work matters. It fills the truck, it converts fast, and it is the highest urgency demand in any trade. It is also the most expensive inventory on the board and the most contested.

Building the whole account around it means competing hardest where margins are thinnest.

Installation and replacement ignored

Water heaters, tankless conversions, repipes, sewer lines, fixture upgrades. Longer consideration, larger tickets, and dramatically cheaper clicks because everyone else is fighting over emergency terms.

Running in Smart Mode

Google’s simplified interface hides your keywords, your geographic controls, and your budget allocation. It is designed for advertisers who do not want to manage an account. At $10 a click you cannot afford that.

Geographic radius set too wide

Plumbing runs on drive time. A fifteen to twenty-five mile radius is the practical limit for most companies, and going wider means paying premium clicks for jobs you dispatch at a loss.

Commercial and residential blended

A property manager with twelve units and a homeowner with a leaking toilet are unrelated sales. One Reddit thread on this exact problem runs forty comments deep because a commercial-only plumber spent two thousand dollars and got thirty residential leads.

DIY traffic unfiltered

Plumbing has enormous how-to search volume. Fix a running toilet, unclog a drain, replace a flapper. Without a negative list built before launch, real money goes to people with a wrench already in hand.

No conversion tracking

Plumbing converts on the phone, usually within minutes. Without call tracking you cannot tell which keywords produce booked jobs, which means you cannot find the inversion above inside your own account.

How we build a plumbing account

Campaigns split by urgency and ticket

Emergency and urgent repair

Burst pipes, no hot water, sewage backup, 24-hour service. Call-only formats, aggressive bids, after-hours adjustments. Expensive, and worth it when you can dispatch.

Installation and replacement

Water heaters, tankless conversions, fixture and appliance installs. The underpriced side of the trade, and where we usually find the fastest gains in an existing account.

Sewer, drain, and main line

Sewer line repair and replacement, camera inspection, hydro jetting, trenchless. High ticket, difficulty zero on the main terms, and frequently reached through a diagnostic call rather than a direct search.

Repipe and whole-home

Long consideration, five-figure tickets, often triggered by an insurance claim or a failed inspection.

Commercial and property management

Contract based, repeat, and completely separate from the homeowner pitch.

Expert Mode, always

Full control of keywords, match types, geography, bid strategy, and budget allocation. Smart Mode is not a shortcut, it is a surrender of the levers that make an account profitable.

Tight geographic targeting

Presence only, set to a realistic drive radius rather than a metro. Most plumbing companies should be running fifteen to twenty-five miles, adjusted for traffic rather than distance.

Negative keywords installed before launch

DIY and how-to

How to, DIY, fix, myself, replace a, unclog, snake, home depot, lowes, video, tutorial, diagram.

Parts and products

Parts, valve, flapper, cartridge, fitting, best water heater, reviews, brands, prices.

Employment and training

Jobs, hiring, salary, apprenticeship, license, journeyman, plumbing school.

Wrong service

Septic pumping, well drilling, HVAC, appliance repair, unless you actually do them.

Landing pages per service

Water heater traffic hits a water heater page with financing and model options. Sewer traffic sees camera inspection and trenchless work.

Click to call above the fold on mobile, license number visible, service area named.

Tracking that follows the job to close

Call tracking

Dynamic number insertion. Plumbing is the most phone-driven trade there is and without this you are guessing.

Conversion tracking

Calls and forms both primary, through Google Tag Manager.

Offline conversion import

When a $9,000 sewer line replacement closes two weeks after a click, that revenue feeds back into bidding. This is the mechanism that surfaces the cost inversion inside your own account rather than in a table on a website.

What we report

Cost per booked call and cost per closed job, split by service. What installation produced against emergency. Which keywords produced revenue and which produced $180 drain snakes.

Not impressions. Not click-through rate. Not a dashboard screenshot with a green arrow on it.

What it costs

Plumbing PPC management

$2,500 a month, flat.

What’s included

Google Ads and Local Service Ads managed together. Campaign build and restructure, negative keyword management, call tracking, conversion tracking, offline conversion import, and monthly reporting on cost per booked job.

How ad spend is handled

Ad spend is billed to you directly by Google. We never take a cut of the media, and you own the account. If we part ways, you keep the history and everything the account has learned.

Most plumbing companies we work with also run plumber SEO, because in this trade the organic opportunity is larger than the paid one by a wide margin.

Why us

We own trade businesses. That’s the difference, and most agencies pitching you can’t say it.

Bear Brothers Cleaning is ours. We’ve priced jobs, hired crews, run the phones, and lived with a cost per lead that had to work against real margins. We also run paid search for Plastic Fusion Fabricators and TriHaz Solutions, both industrial operations with long buying cycles and large contracts.

We’ve generated over $3 million in revenue for the businesses we market.

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Frequently asked questions

Do Google Ads work for plumbers?

Yes, but not the way most accounts run them. Emergency terms are the most expensive inventory in the trade and the most contested. The installation and replacement side carries far cheaper clicks on far larger jobs, and almost nobody bids it properly.

Why are plumbing Google Ads clicks so expensive?

Because every plumber bids the same emergency and near-me terms. Drain cleaning near me runs around $10 a click, and reports of $30 to $50 clicks in competitive markets are common. The terms nobody fights over are dramatically cheaper.

Which plumbing keywords are underpriced?

Tankless water heater installation runs about $0.35 a click on 39,000 monthly searches, producing jobs worth thousands. Water heater installation is around $3.00. Sewer line repair is $7.00 at difficulty zero on work that can reach $25,000.

Should plumbers use Smart Mode in Google Ads?

No. Smart Mode hides your keywords, geographic controls, and budget allocation. Expert Mode is the only way to run an account where clicks cost $10 and structure decides profitability.

What geographic radius should a plumbing company target?

Typically fifteen to twenty-five miles, set to presence only and adjusted for drive time rather than straight-line distance. Plumbing economics are dispatch economics.

What negative keywords do plumbers need?

The DIY and how-to cluster above all: how to, fix, unclog, snake, replace a, home depot. Plus parts and product terms. Plumbing carries enormous homeowner repair search volume that will never convert.

Do you mark up ad spend?

No. Ad spend is billed to you directly by Google and you own the account. We charge a flat $2,500 management fee and never take a cut of the media.

Do you work with plumbers outside my area?

We run one plumbing client per market. If we’re already working with someone in your service radius, we’ll tell you on the first call rather than take your money and split the same auction.