GlassDixie Glass
76%more conversions
January vs the January before
- ads conversion rate
- 15.57%
- ads conversion rate
- organic traffic
- +18.2%
- organic traffic
Paid search for Des Moines service businesses
PPC for Des Moines service businesses puts tracking on every ad, so each call shows the keyword and campaign that paid for it.

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The first job
A Google Ads account in Des Moines has one job before it spends another dollar: knowing which clicks became calls. Lithium Marketing sets that tracking up first, because “garage door repair des moines” averages $106.32 a click and the account cannot afford guesses at that price.
The spread is wide by trade: $47.58 for “hvac repair des moines” against $5.04 for “landscaping des moines”. Where clicks cost more, the campaign needs its own landing page and a close watch on wasted search terms.
Click costs in Des Moines
“Water damage restoration des moines” draws 70 searches a month, and the ad behind it belongs on a page that opens with a phone number, not a paragraph about the company. The agency phrase “ppc agency des moines” draws 10 searches a month, so the account should target the trades, where the volume is.
No paid search ads showed for “plumber des moines” when we checked. Ad slots shift by hour and by searcher, so paid search here works best beside a complete Google Business Profile, not in place of one.
| Search | Searches a month | Cost per click |
|---|---|---|
| ppc agency des moines | 10 | not reported |
| google ads agency des moines | under 10 | not reported |
| ppc management des moines | under 10 | not reported |
Source: Google Ads keyword data, average monthly U.S. searches. "Under 10" = below Google’s reporting floor.
| Search | Searches a month | Cost per click |
|---|---|---|
| garage door repair des moines | 480 | $106.32 |
| hvac repair des moines | 390 | $47.58 |
| roofing company des moines | 720 | $28.05 |
| electrician des moines | 590 | $20.92 |
| plumber des moines | 1,600 | $20.42 |
| pest control des moines | 1,000 | $19.62 |
| landscaping des moines | 720 | $5.04 |
| water damage restoration des moines | 70 | not reported |
Source: Google Ads keyword data, average monthly U.S. searches. "Under 10" = below Google’s reporting floor.
Source: one Google results page for “plumber des moines”, as Google showed it to a searcher located in Des Moines. Search ad counts exclude sponsored local listings. Results shift by searcher and day.
The Des Moines market
Parts of Des Moines sit south of County Line Road in Warren County, so a campaign set by county name would miss the edge of the city. Build the target area from the city boundary, not from a county name.
Des Moines summers climb into the 90 °F range and winters drop below 0 °F often. If a heat wave or a cold snap brings a run of no-heat or no-cooling calls, a budget that was set for that week catches them; a budget spread flat all year will not.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau 2025 population estimates, ACS 2020–2024 and 2023 County Business Patterns.
Trades in Polk County
“Roofing company des moines” draws 720 searches a month at $28.05 a click. The ad copy and the landing page carry more of that campaign than the bid does.
Electrical clicks are cheaper, at $20.92 for “electrician des moines”, which gives an electrician room to test a modest budget before scaling. Cheaper clicks still need the same discipline: a page that matches the ad and tracking that shows what the call was worth.
County Business Patterns
Trade and home service businesses in Polk County
Establishments by industry, 2023
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 County Business Patterns (NAICS establishment counts).
The account plan
A live ad gets audited first, and the budget calendar is built from the calls you already get.
We follow a current keyword from the ad it triggers to the page it lands on and the call it produced.
Search terms that never produce work get cut, and the pages behind your best offers get fixed first.
Repair work and install work get their own campaigns, so the report shows which one pays.
The account gets checked every day for the first 30 days, then weekly, and the budget follows your busy season.
What every Google Ads account includes
The same eight parts go into every Google Ads account, wherever the business is.
Proof
The review in this section is from Marc Rickabaugh of Rickabaugh Construction. The numbers on the card belong to Dixie Glass, a Mississippi Gulf Coast glass company; Lithium's work there covered a rebuilt website, an SEO program and a Google Ads account.
Glass76%more conversions
January vs the January before
“We used the team at Lithium Marketing to update our website and increase our SEO. We couldn't have been happier with the results! We receive compliments about our updated website on a regular basis!”
Marc RickabaughRickabaugh ConstructionAround Des Moines
Click costs change from one city to the next, and the nearby PPC pages carry those numbers. The statewide link lists the rest of Iowa.
Published price
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
Still curious?
Call (503) 766-5964 or email [email protected].
Start from the cost of a click in your trade and what a booked job is worth, then set a number that buys enough calls to judge. A garage door campaign at $106.32 a click needs a different opening budget than a landscaping campaign at $5.04. We can set the number together on the call, and the tracking will show whether it is buying work.
Campaigns start with the terms closest to booking, so the phone can ring in the first week. The first month is for cutting the searches that bring nothing and moving budget to the ones that do. A slower trade may take longer, and the report will show it.
Campaign builds, landing page changes, tracking and reporting are all included. The fee rises with the ad budget and the number of channels, and the figure is agreed before launch.
Often it is, and sometimes a second channel earns its place. Microsoft Ads is managed here, and so are Meta ads on Facebook and Instagram. A channel gets added when the account shows it can bring calls the Google campaigns miss, not on day one.
Each campaign reports its calls, leads and cost per lead, with the search terms behind them. When you tell us which leads turned into booked work, the next budget decision starts from those jobs, not from the cheapest clicks.
Free action plan
Send a live ad and the landing page behind it. A co-founder goes over both on a short video call: what the ad promises, the calls it produced, and which changes to test first.
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