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Paid search for Des Moines service businesses

PPC for Des Moines service businesses that ties every call to its keyword.

PPC for Des Moines service businesses puts tracking on every ad, so each call shows the keyword and campaign that paid for it.

  • Tracking before the first dollar
  • A landing page for the job you want
  • Calls and leads in the report
Byers Septic Tank Service website homepage
9Xorganic traffic for Byers Septic Service (91 to 799 visits a month)
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2010Lithium Marketing, established in 2010
$10M+Over $10 million in Google ad spend managed

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

The first job

How a Des Moines ad account earns its budget

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.

The Des Moines market

Targeting by city, and a budget that follows the seasons

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.

residents (2025 estimate)
212,086
residents (2025 estimate)
population change, 2020 to 2025
-0.9%
population change, 2020 to 2025
housing units
97,604
housing units
of occupied homes owner-occupied
60.5%
of occupied homes owner-occupied
of homes built before 1980
70.3%
of homes built before 1980
median home value
$194,700
median home value

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

Trades in Polk County

Where the ad money goes, trade by trade

“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

  • Landscaping services
    182
  • Residential remodelers
    178
  • Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors
    141
  • Electrical contractors
    114
  • New home builders
    94
  • Roofing contractors
    63
  • Painting contractors
    60
  • Excavation and site preparation contractors
    58

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

The account plan

How the first campaigns get built here

A live ad gets audited first, and the budget calendar is built from the calls you already get.

1

Trace one live ad

We follow a current keyword from the ad it triggers to the page it lands on and the call it produced.

2

Fix the leaks first

Search terms that never produce work get cut, and the pages behind your best offers get fixed first.

3

Split the jobs

Repair work and install work get their own campaigns, so the report shows which one pays.

4

Adjust as the data lands

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.

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

The Gulf Coast numbers behind the card

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.

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
“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 RickabaughMarc RickabaughRickabaugh Construction

Around Des Moines

The nearby cities, with their own click costs

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

What Google Ads costs a Des Moines business

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 fund a Des Moines campaign

DJ Van Zanten

Still curious?

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

How big should the starting budget be?

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.

How soon do calls come in?

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.

What does the management fee cover?

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.

Is Google enough on its own?

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.

How do we see which ads turned into work?

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

Bring one live ad for a free campaign review

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.

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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