Tree Service 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

Tree Service PPC Agency

The Tradesmen Agency has generated over $3 million 

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Nobody looks at their trees at eleven in the morning.

They look when they pull into the driveway after work and notice the limb over the roof. They look on Saturday morning with a coffee. They look the night the wind takes a branch down.

Almost every tree service account we audit runs nine to five, Monday to Friday, because that is the default and because that is what every other trade does. It is wrong for this one.

Running evenings to eight and through the weekend is the cheapest change available in a tree service account, and it costs nothing to make.

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

What the numbers actually say

KeywordVolumeDifficultyCPC
tree service near me61,00056$3.00
tree removal near me45,0000$3.50
arborist near me28,00042$3.00
tree trimming near me26,00041$3.50
stump grinding24,0000$0.60
land clearing8,6000$1.80
emergency tree removal7,5000$4.50

Those are national averages. Agencies reporting from live accounts in competitive markets put tree service clicks nearer $15 to $30, with a booked job landing around $650 to $700 in total ad investment at a $22 average click.

Both are real numbers. Which one you experience depends on your market. Plan for the higher end and be pleased if your metro runs cheaper.

What breaks in a tree service Google Ads account

Ads scheduled for business hours

The most common mistake in the trade, and the reason is above. Homeowners assess their trees on evenings and weekends.

One ad group for everything

Removal, trimming, stump grinding, and emergency storm work have different tickets, different urgency, and different buyers. Blended, your bids serve none of them.

Stump grinding ignored

Twenty-four thousand monthly searches at difficulty zero and sixty cents a click. The cheapest inventory in the trade, and stump customers frequently have other work they have been putting off.

Land clearing left off the account

Eight thousand six hundred searches at difficulty zero, and a ticket well above a single removal. If you own the equipment, this belongs in the account.

No storm readiness

Wind events create days of concentrated emergency demand. Accounts on a flat budget with slow approval miss the window entirely.

Thin negative keyword lists

Tree searches pull in students, job seekers, DIY, arborist certification, and firewood. A serious list runs into the hundreds of terms, not twenty.

Form fills treated as the goal

Tree work closes on the phone. A homeowner with a limb on the roof is not filling out a form.

How we build a tree service account

Ad scheduling built around homeowner behavior

Evenings to eight, weekends running, and bid adjustments weighted toward the hours your calls actually come in rather than the hours your office is open.

Campaigns split by service

Tree removal

Your volume driver and highest ticket residential work. Tree removal near me runs difficulty zero despite forty-five thousand monthly searches.

Tree trimming and pruning

Lower ticket, more discretionary, and more price-compared than removal.

Stump grinding

Sixty cents a click at difficulty zero. Cheap entry, fast close, and a natural opening to talk about the rest of the yard.

Emergency and storm

Wind damage, fallen trees, limbs on structures. Highest urgency in the trade and the campaign that needs to be ready before the weather is.

Land clearing

Lot clearing, brush removal, site prep. Adjacent, high ticket, uncontested, and often a builder or commercial buyer rather than a homeowner.

Commercial and municipal

Property management, HOA, and municipal contracts. Bid process, recurring, and nothing like the homeowner sale.

Campaign settings we correct first

Location targeting

Presence only, restricted to the area your crew and equipment can reach profitably. Tree work means moving heavy equipment, so the radius matters more than in trades that arrive in a van.

Networks

Display and Search Partners both off.

Match types

Exact and phrase only. Broad match in this trade finds tree identification, firewood, and arborist schools immediately.

Negative keywords, built out properly

Employment and training

Jobs, hiring, salary, careers, arborist school, certification, training, apprenticeship, climbing gear.

DIY and equipment

DIY, how to, chainsaw, rental, rent a, stump grinder rental, chipper, home depot.

Informational

Tree identification, types of, disease, leaves, when to prune, what is, cost calculator.

Wrong service

Firewood, mulch delivery, landscaping, lawn care, christmas trees, tree nursery, unless you offer them.

The list should run to hundreds of terms before you launch, not after.

Ad copy and trust signals

License, insurance, and years in business in the assets. Tree work means heavy equipment near a homeowner’s house, and insurance is the first thing a careful buyer checks.

Call assets so mobile users dial without loading a page, and image assets showing real work.

Landing pages built for calls

Click-to-call prominent above the fold on mobile, because phone calls close far faster than form fills in this trade.

License number, insurance credentials, years in business, and before and after photography visible on the page.

Tracking

Call tracking per ad group

Dynamic number insertion, so you know precisely which ad group produced which call.

Conversion tracking

Calls set as the primary conversion, forms secondary.

Offline conversion import

When a large removal or a land clearing job closes, that value feeds back into bidding. Otherwise cheap stump jobs will always look like your best campaign.

What we report

Cost per booked call and cost per closed job, split by service. What removal produced against trimming. Storm campaign performance per event.

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

What it costs

Tree service PPC management

$2,500 a month, flat.

What to expect on media spend

Most local tree care businesses run $1,000 to $2,500 a month to gather consistent data, with agencies reporting high-ticket removal programs in the $1,500 to $4,000 range.

If your budget sits at the bottom of that, we will tell you plainly whether paying anyone to manage it 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.

We also run Local Services Ads alongside search, which charge per lead rather than per click and carry the Google Guarantee badge.

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.

Frequently asked questions

Do Google Ads work for tree service companies?

Yes, and the trade has an advantage most do not: demand spikes after storms, and emergency tree removal sits at difficulty zero. The most common failure is scheduling ads for business hours when homeowners look at their trees in the evening.

When should tree service ads run?

Evenings through about eight, and weekends. Homeowners notice tree problems when they get home from work or spend a Saturday in the yard, not during the workday.

How much do tree service Google Ads cost?

National averages put clicks around $3.00 to $4.50. Agencies reporting from live accounts in competitive markets cite $15 to $30, with a booked job landing near $650 to $700 in total ad investment. Plan for the higher end.

What budget does a tree service company need?

Most local operators run $1,000 to $2,500 a month for consistent data, with high-ticket removal programs reported in the $1,500 to $4,000 range.

Which tree service keywords are cheapest?

Stump grinding at around sixty cents a click on twenty-four thousand monthly searches at difficulty zero. Land clearing is $1.80 at difficulty zero. Both are far cheaper than the near-me terms every competitor bids.

What negative keywords do tree services need?

Hundreds of them. The employment and training cluster, DIY and equipment rental, tree identification and disease searches, and adjacent services like firewood and mulch. This trade pulls more informational traffic than most.

Should tree service ads target calls or form fills?

Calls. Phone calls close significantly faster than form fills in this trade, and a homeowner with a limb on the roof is not filling out a form.

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 tree services outside my area?

We run one tree service 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.