Google Ads for
Deck Builders

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

Google Ads for
Deck Builders

The Tradesmen Agency has generated over $3 million 

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Bid Trex and Azek. Skip “deck repair.”

A homeowner searching “deck builder near me” might want a pressure-treated rebuild for eight thousand dollars or a few boards replaced for three hundred.

A homeowner searching “Trex deck installation” has already chosen a premium composite, priced it, and knows roughly what it costs. Average order values in this trade run thirty to a hundred and twenty thousand dollars, and that is where they sit.

Material brand names are the cleanest qualification mechanism in any trade we work in. You are not filtering at the form or at the estimate. You are filtering at the keyword, before you have paid anything.

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

The material campaign

Composite and PVC terms behave differently from generic deck searches.

Trex, Azek, TimberTech, Fiberon, Deckorators. Searchers using a brand name have done research, chosen a product line, and mentally committed to a price range. Composite builds run $25,000 to $50,000 and up.

Composite decking, PVC decking, capped composite. One step earlier in the decision but the same budget signal.

Pressure treated, wood deck, cedar deck. Real work, lower ticket, and worth its own campaign and its own bid rather than sharing one with composite.

Deck repair, board replacement, deck staining. Smallest tickets in the trade. Run them deliberately as a service line or negative them out entirely, but never let them share a campaign with new builds.

Most deck accounts run one campaign across all four and wonder why the average job is small.

Outdoor living is where the ticket doubles

Pergolas, outdoor kitchens, fire pits, multi-level decks, screened porches, railings and lighting.

These are high-margin additions searched on their own, and a homeowner planning an outdoor kitchen is not planning a small project. Grouping them as their own campaign rather than burying them in a general deck ad group is one of the fastest improvements available in this trade.

What the numbers look like

Published figures for this category put deck leads at $25 to $70 each, closing at 18 to 40 percent, which works out to roughly $63 to $389 per closed job.

Against average order values of $30,000 to $120,000, that is not a close call. The arithmetic in deck building is unusually favorable, which means the failure mode is almost never cost per lead. It is attracting the wrong project size.

What breaks in a deck builder account

Everything in one campaign

Repair, wood, composite, and outdoor living have ticket values that differ by two orders of magnitude. Blended, Google optimizes toward the cheapest conversion, which is a deck repair inquiry.

Material brands never bid

Trex and Azek searchers are the highest-value traffic in the trade and most accounts do not have a campaign for them.

Geography set to a metro instead of the neighborhoods that can afford it

A custom composite deck is a discretionary purchase. Targeting a whole metro means paying for clicks from zip codes where the project will never be approved.

Launching in April

The peak booking window is April through June, which means homeowners are planning and collecting quotes in February. Accounts that launch when the season starts are buying at peak prices against everyone else who also waited.

LSA registered under the wrong category, or not at all

Google has no deck builder category in Local Services Ads. You register under Carpenters or General Contractor. Most deck builders either do not know that or assume LSA is unavailable to them.

DIY and plans traffic unfiltered

Deck plans, how to build a deck, deck cost calculator, deck material estimator. Enormous volume in this category, and none of it hires a contractor.

No project photography

Decks are bought from pictures. An account running text-only ads into a page with stock imagery is competing on price against builders who show their work.

How we build a deck builder account

Campaigns split by material and ticket

Composite and PVC

Trex, Azek, TimberTech, Fiberon, and generic composite terms. Your highest-value campaign and where the budget should concentrate.

Outdoor living

Pergolas, outdoor kitchens, fire pits, screened porches, multi-level builds. High margin, searched independently, and rarely bid.

Wood and pressure treated

Lower ticket, real volume, separate bids.

Repair and restoration

Board replacement, staining, sealing, railing repair. Run deliberately or negative it out. Never blended.

Commercial and multifamily

Apartment balconies, HOA common areas, restaurant patios. Different buyer, contract terms, repeat work.

Geo-fencing to zip codes that can afford the work

Presence only, restricted to the specific zip codes and counties where custom builds actually get approved. This is income targeting by geography, and in a discretionary high-ticket trade it matters more than radius.

A February launch, not an April one

Campaigns live and gathering data ahead of the April through June booking window, scaling into the season rather than during it. Off-season budget pivots to repair and maintenance rather than going dark.

Local Services Ads under the right category

Registered under Carpenters or General Contractor, since no deck builder category exists. Run alongside search, paying per lead rather than per click.

Negative keywords installed before launch

DIY and planning

DIY, how to build, plans, blueprints, kit, ideas, designs, pictures, cost calculator, material estimator, how much lumber.

Retail and materials

Home depot, lowes, menards, lumber, boards, price per foot, trex cost per square foot, buy decking.

Employment

Jobs, hiring, salary, carpenter wanted, subcontractor, crew.

Wrong service

Pool deck coating, concrete patio, fence, roofing, unless you offer them.

The planning cluster is the largest single drain in this trade. Deck plans and design searches dwarf the buying volume.

Ad copy on material, proof, and financing

Name the brands you install. A Trex buyer wants a Trex installer, and manufacturer certifications carry real weight.

Project photography in image assets. Licensed and insured, warranty terms, and financing where you offer it, because on a forty thousand dollar build the monthly payment often decides it.

Landing pages by material

Composite traffic hits a composite page with composite projects. Outdoor living traffic sees pergolas and kitchens.

Past project galleries, local reviews, click to call above the fold, and a simple quote form.

Tracking

Call tracking

Dynamic number insertion, so you know which keyword and which zip code produced which call.

Conversion tracking

Calls and forms both primary, through Google Tag Manager.

Contract value import

A board replacement and a $60,000 composite build with an outdoor kitchen are identical conversions until you import job value. With order values spanning two orders of magnitude, this is not optional.

What we report

Cost per booked estimate and cost per closed job, split by material and project type. Average order value by campaign and by zip code. What composite produced against wood.

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

What it costs

Deck builder Google Ads management

$2,500 a month, flat.

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.

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 own The Trade Table, a home improvement e-commerce business, which means we watch what homeowners actually buy for their houses every day.

We also run paid search for Plastic Fusion Fabricators and TriHaz Solutions, both B2B operations with long buying cycles and large contracts.

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

Frequently asked questions

Do Google Ads work for deck builders?

Yes, and the economics are unusually favorable. Published figures put deck leads at $25 to $70 closing at 18 to 40 percent, which is $63 to $389 per closed job against average order values of $30,000 to $120,000. The failure mode is almost never lead cost, it is attracting the wrong project size.

How do you get high-ticket deck leads instead of repair jobs?

Bid the material brands. Trex, Azek, TimberTech, and composite searchers have already chosen a premium product and priced it, which puts them in the $25,000 to $50,000 range. Generic deck terms and repair terms bring in everything else.

Should deck builders bid on brand names like Trex and Azek?

Yes, as their own campaign. It is the cleanest qualification mechanism in the trade because it filters at the keyword rather than at the form or the estimate.

Can deck builders use Local Services Ads?

Yes, but there is no deck builder category. You register under Carpenters or General Contractor. Most deck builders either do not know this or assume LSA is not available to them.

When should deck builders launch Google Ads?

February, ahead of the April through June booking window. Homeowners plan outdoor projects months early, and accounts that launch when the season starts are buying at peak prices.

What negative keywords do deck builders need?

The planning and DIY cluster above all: deck plans, how to build, ideas, designs, cost calculator, material estimator. Planning searches dwarf buying searches in this category.

Should deck builders advertise pergolas and outdoor kitchens?

Yes, as their own campaign. They are high-margin additions searched independently, and a homeowner planning an outdoor kitchen is not planning a small project.

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 deck builders outside my area?

We run one deck builder 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.