Landscaping 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

Landscaping PPC Agency

The Tradesmen Agency has generated over $3 million 

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A mowing customer and a patio customer are not worth the same lead.

A weekly mowing account invoices maybe fifty dollars a visit. A hardscape or outdoor living project invoices fifteen to fifty thousand once.

Most landscaping accounts bid both the same, because Google sees both as landscaping. That is the mistake underneath almost every underperforming account in this trade, and it runs in both directions.

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

The bidding math most landscapers get wrong

Published benchmarks put a landscaping lead at roughly $104, with close rates on Google leads running 30 to 50 percent. Take the middle: about $260 to acquire a customer.

Now price a mowing account. Weekly service across a season, renewed three to five years, plus the cleanups and mulch jobs those customers buy along the way. Call it several thousand dollars.

That is a return in the range of ten to twenty times acquisition cost, and it is why maintenance keywords are worth far more than most landscapers bid on them.

The mistake is bidding against the invoice instead of the customer. A landscaper looking at a $50 mowing visit will not pay $104 for the lead, loses the auction to a competitor who did the lifetime math, and concludes Google Ads does not work for maintenance.

Hardscape is the opposite problem. One job, no recurrence, but a ticket large enough to justify a cost per lead that would look insane next to a mowing lead.

Two businesses, two sets of math, one account. They need separating before anything else gets optimized.

What breaks in a landscaping Google Ads account

Maintenance and design build sharing a campaign

Lawn maintenance, patio installation, and retaining walls have nothing in common as purchases. Different ticket, different cycle, different buyer, different close rate.

Averaged into one campaign, your bids are too low to win hardscape and too high to make maintenance profitable on a single-visit view.

Structuring by city instead of by service

The instinct is to build a campaign per town. In landscaping that is backwards. Service type drives value far more than geography does, so services should be the campaign layer and cities should be modifiers inside them.

No tracking before launch

Landscaping conversions are phone calls and form fills, and most accounts turn ads on before either is measured. You then spend a season optimizing against numbers that were never real.

Bidding the season instead of ahead of it

Spring demand does not start in spring. Homeowners plan hardscape projects over winter and book maintenance before the first cut. Accounts that scale in April are buying at peak price against everyone else who waited.

Nothing running in the off season

Fall cleanup, leaf removal, snow removal in northern markets, and winter planning for spring installs. Most accounts go dark in exactly the months when clicks are cheapest and hardscape research is happening.

Paying for people who want to do it themselves

Lawn care carries enormous DIY search volume. Fertilizer schedules, grass seed, how to level a yard, mower repair. Without a negative list built before launch, a real share of budget goes to homeowners who own a mower.

Commercial and residential in the same campaign

An HOA or property management contract is a different sale entirely: bid process, multi-property, annual contract, procurement timeline. It should not share ad copy with a homeowner who wants their hedges trimmed.

How we build a landscaping account

Campaigns split by service, with cities as modifiers

Recurring maintenance

Mowing, lawn care, fertilization, hedge trimming. Bid against lifetime value, not per-visit invoice. This is where the LTV math changes what you can afford to pay.

Design and installation

Landscape design, planting, sod, grading. Longer consideration, higher ticket, and a buyer who is comparing portfolios rather than prices.

Hardscape and outdoor living

Patios, retaining walls, outdoor kitchens, fire pits, pavers. Your highest ticket work and the campaign that justifies the most aggressive bidding in the account.

Seasonal and cleanup

Spring cleanup, fall leaf removal, snow removal where it applies. Short windows, high urgency, and the cheapest clicks in the trade because most competitors are dark.

Commercial and HOA

Separate campaign, separate landing page, separate sales motion. Contract terms and multi-property capability, not curb appeal.

Lawn care and landscaping targeted as separate vocabularies

Homeowners searching lawn care and homeowners searching landscaping are often different people wanting different things. Both are worth real money and most accounts only speak one of the two.

Tracking configured before a single ad runs

Calls and form submissions both tracked from day one, so you know which clicks turn into booked estimates rather than guessing at the end of a season.

Campaign settings we correct first

Location targeting

Presence only, people in or regularly in your targeted areas. The default also serves anyone who has shown interest in your city, which means paying for browsers outside your route density.

Network settings

Display Network and Search Partners both off. Google pre-checks them on every new Search campaign and neither carries the intent you are paying for.

Match types

Phrase and exact on your money terms. Broad match in lawn care pulls in DIY, equipment, and grass identification searches at a scale that will eat a small budget in a week.

Negative keywords installed before launch

DIY and equipment

DIY, how to, mower, mower repair, blade, fertilizer schedule, grass seed, weed identification, tractor, parts.

Employment

Jobs, hiring, salary, careers, near me hiring.

Wrong service

Tree removal if you do not do it, pest control, pool, irrigation repair if you only install, artificial turf if you do not carry it.

Informational

Cost calculator, how much per acre, what is, when to.

Bid schedules built around the season

We scale into the weeks before spring rather than during it, hold hardscape spend through winter when homeowners plan projects, and reallocate to cleanup and snow in the shoulder months rather than going dark.

Landing pages per service

Hardscape traffic hits a hardscape page with project photography and pricing context. Maintenance traffic hits a maintenance page with plan options and a simple signup.

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

Tracking that follows the job to close

Call tracking

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

Conversion tracking

Forms and calls both primary, through Google Tag Manager.

Offline conversion import

When a $28,000 outdoor living project closes six weeks after the click, that revenue feeds back into bidding. And when a maintenance customer renews for a third season, that is the number that proves the maintenance campaign was profitable all along.

Without this, maintenance always looks like your worst campaign and hardscape always looks unaffordable.

What we report

Cost per booked estimate and cost per closed job, split by service line. Maintenance measured on lifetime value, not first invoice. What hardscape produced against design and install.

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

What it costs

Google Ads management

$2,500 a month, flat.

What’s included

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

What to expect on media spend

Published minimums for this trade start around $750 to $1,000 a month, and most landscaping companies run between $1,000 and $3,000, scaling as the season ramps and the account proves a cost per booked estimate.

Benchmarks put a landscaping lead near $104 with close rates of 30 to 50 percent. At the bottom of that budget range you are buying roughly ten leads a month, and we will tell you honestly whether paying anyone to manage that makes sense yet.

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 landscapers we work with also run landscaping SEO, because the design and hardscape research that happens over winter is far cheaper to rank for than to buy.

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 landscapers?

Yes, when maintenance and project work are separated. A recurring mowing customer and a thirty thousand dollar patio buyer justify completely different bids, and accounts that run them together underperform on both.

How should landscaping Google Ads campaigns be structured?

By service, with cities as modifiers inside them. Splitting by city first is the common instinct and it is backwards, because service type drives lead value far more than geography does in this trade.

How much should a landscaper spend on Google Ads?

Most start between $1,000 and $3,000 a month, scaling as the season ramps and the account proves out a cost per booked estimate. What actually sets the number is your service mix and route density.

What is a lawn maintenance lead actually worth?

Far more than one invoice. Benchmarks put a landscaping lead around $104 at a 30 to 50 percent close rate, so roughly $260 to acquire a customer. A weekly maintenance account across a season, renewed for several years, is worth thousands, which puts the return in the range of ten to twenty times acquisition cost.

What is a good cost per lead for a landscaping company?

Published benchmarks put around $104 per landscaping lead in the good range, with close rates on Google leads between 30 and 50 percent. Whether that number works for you depends entirely on whether the lead is a recurring maintenance customer or a one-time project.

What negative keywords do landscapers need?

The DIY and equipment cluster above all: how to, mower, mower repair, fertilizer schedule, grass seed, weed identification. Lawn care carries heavy homeowner DIY volume that will consume a small budget quickly.

Should landscapers run ads in the off season?

Yes, reallocated rather than paused. Fall cleanup and snow removal have short high-urgency windows, and homeowners research hardscape projects over winter when clicks are cheapest because competitors have gone dark.

Should landscapers use Local Services Ads?

Worth running alongside search. LSA sits above paid results, charges per verified lead rather than per click, and carries the Google Guarantee badge. Search captures the design and hardscape research LSA does not serve well.

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 landscapers outside my area?

We run one landscaping 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.