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PPC in Davenport, Iowa

Davenport PPC built around cost per lead.

Your Davenport Google Ads account opens in your name, with call tracking from day one and a report in calls, leads and cost per lead.

  • Call tracking on every campaign
  • One landing page per job
  • Reports in calls and cost per lead
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2010Lithium Marketing, established in 2010
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Businesses we’ve worked with

  • Willard Power Vac
  • Sarkinen Plumbing
  • Robinson Restoration
  • Town & Country Glass
  • Dixie Glass
  • Byers Septic Service
  • F&W Fence Co.
  • Drake’s 7 Dees
  • Rickabaugh Construction
  • Hillsview Building
  • Dozer Dave
  • Mt. Hood Pro Painting
  • On-Target Landscape
  • Atiyeh Bros Carpet
  • Lovett
  • Westmore Construction
  • Northwest New Homes
  • Porter Sealcoating & Paving
  • RescueHero Restoration
  • Panda Plumbing
  • Biermann Plumbing & Heating
  • Ballistic Junk Removal
  • Smart Doors LLC
  • Peak Performance Roofing
  • Deluxe Heating & Cooling
  • Lifetime Exteriors
  • Bruce Johnson Construction
  • Madrone Painting
  • Smart Tree Service
  • Premier Gutter Cover
  • NW Pacific Electric
  • Universal HVAC
  • Lenny Martin Painting
  • Next Level Decks & Exteriors
  • Prodan Construction
  • Smooth Rollin’ Sealcoating and Paving
  • Lovett Restoration
  • Greenlight Titles
  • G.W. Hartley IV
  • Advanced Coatings
  • Thomson Equipment
  • MyADU

Davenport PPC, answered

What a Davenport click costs, trade by trade

An average click on “electrician davenport” costs $22.14, and “garage door repair davenport” runs $15.37. At those prices, an account without call tracking is guessing. Lithium Marketing sets up the tracking first, then builds the campaigns; management starts at $500 a month, plus ad spend, and the Google Ads account stays in your name with its full history.

In Davenport, a pest control click averages $13.70 and a plumbing click $12.80, while a click on “landscaping davenport” averages $0.35. A landscaper can test several service lines on a small budget; a garage door company should put its money behind the one job type it wants most.

The Davenport market

Snow, humidity and a budget that follows the calls

Winters here bring cold and snow from November through February, and summers run hot and humid. If your calls bunch into one of those seasons, the budget should be heavy in the weeks before it and lighter after, and your own call history sets that calendar.

The shoulder months are where a PPC budget leaks. A campaign left flat through a slow stretch keeps buying clicks while the phone is quiet, so we set a monthly ceiling and move it when the call volume says to.

residents (2025 estimate)
100,358
residents (2025 estimate)
population change, 2020 to 2025
-1.3%
population change, 2020 to 2025
housing units
46,849
housing units
of occupied homes owner-occupied
62.9%
of occupied homes owner-occupied
of homes built before 1980
69.7%
of homes built before 1980
median home value
$166,400
median home value

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau 2025 population estimates, ACS 2020–2024 and 2023 County Business Patterns.

Trades in the county

Two county counts that change the bidding

Scott County has 23 roofing contractors and 10 pest control companies, and the two fields reward different bidding. A roofer wins on the landing page and the search terms it excludes; a pest control company wins by covering each treatment on its own page, because the pest search is the busiest trade search naming Davenport.

Landscaping is the other extreme. A click on “landscaping davenport” averages $0.35, so a landscaper can test a service line for very little and learn from the calls before committing a season’s budget.

County Business Patterns

Trade and home service businesses in Scott County

Establishments by industry, 2023

  • Landscaping services
    74
  • Residential remodelers
    62
  • Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors
    47
  • New home builders
    39
  • Electrical contractors
    35
  • Roofing contractors
    23
  • Excavation and site preparation contractors
    21
  • Painting contractors
    15

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 County Business Patterns (NAICS establishment counts).

The first month

The first month on a Davenport account

The account is measured first, then the bids, the search terms and the budget get set against what the calls cost.

1

Read the account you have

Current campaigns, search terms and conversion tags get reviewed, and anything that spends without producing a call goes on a list.

2

Track calls before the budget moves

Conversion tags, GA4 and call tracking go in first, so the account can report calls, leads and cost per lead from the first week.

3

Build a page per job

Each job type you want gets its own landing page, with the offer, the service area and a phone number at the top.

4

Hold the account to a rhythm

Bids and search terms are adjusted daily through the first 30 days, then weekly, and the report shows what each change did to cost per lead.

What every Google Ads account includes

The same eight parts go into every Google Ads account, wherever the business is.

See the full Google Ads service

  • Conversion tracking, properly wired
  • Landing pages per intent
  • Match types and negatives
  • Responsive search ads
  • Geo and audience targeting
  • Bid management
  • Remarketing
  • Looker Studio reporting

Proof

Google Ads, a new website and SEO for a Gulf Coast glass company

Dixie Glass serves the Mississippi Gulf Coast and has since 1946. The Google Ads, the website and the SEO were all Lithium’s work, and the card shows what changed. Nathan Boos of Hillsview Building is quoted beside the card.

Dixie Glass website homepage for glass services on the Mississippi Gulf CoastGlass

Dixie Glass

76%more conversions

January vs the January before

ads conversion rate
15.57%
ads conversion rate
organic traffic
+18.2%
organic traffic
Read the case study
“A lot of options out there for websites and SEO. I’ve worked with this team for years now and would highly recommend them. They know their stuff and deliver results. More importantly to me- they care about service and follow through on what they say they will do. Easy to work with and communicate with. Thank you!”
Nathan BoosNathan BoosHillsview Building

Around Davenport

Ad targeting for the metro, city by city

One account can target the metro city by city, and each PPC page below carries a place’s click costs. The Illinois cities and Madison in Wisconsin have their own pages, and the Iowa page lists the rest.

Published price

The management fee for a Davenport Google Ads account

From $500

per month in management

Management is separate from your ad spend. Typical: $500–$1,500 a month in management on $2,000–$5,000 a month in ad spend. No haggling, no hidden upsells.

FAQ

Before you put money into Google Ads

DJ Van Zanten

Still curious?

Call (503) 766-5964 or email [email protected].

How much should a Davenport business spend on ads?

Begin with the value of a single job in your trade and work backward. The click costs above set the floor, the landing page decides how many of those clicks call, and the monthly figure we agree on keeps both in view.

When do the first calls arrive?

Expect calls in the first week. After that the account earns its keep by subtraction, dropping searches that never ring and putting the money behind the ones that book work, while cost per lead stays the number we watch.

Who owns the ad account when we stop?

You do, from the day it opens. The account is in your business’s name, with its own history and conversion data, so changing agencies does not reset the learning or the records. Lithium works inside accounts it can hand back.

Is Google the only place worth advertising?

Google is where most trade businesses start, but it is not the only option. Lithium manages Microsoft Ads too, and Meta ads on Facebook and Instagram. A second channel makes sense when your customers already spend time on it, and the tracking shows it can produce a call for less than Google does. Until then, one channel is easier to read.

What does the monthly report show?

Cost per lead, leads and calls sit in the report for every campaign, beside the spend behind them. Mark the leads that booked and the campaign can be followed from the first click to the booked job, and that figure sets the next month’s budget.

Free action plan

See what Davenport clicks cost for your trade

Tell us your trade, the months that carry your year and what one booked job brings in. A co-founder will price your trade’s searches and sketch the budget month by month, on a short video call.

What we’ll cover

  • What’s working (and what isn’t) in your current marketing
  • Site and funnel gaps that are costing you leads
  • Local SEO and paid traffic opportunities
  • Simple tracking and KPIs to measure success

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