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76%more conversions
January vs the January before
- ads conversion rate
- 15.57%
- ads conversion rate
- organic traffic
- +18.2%
- organic traffic
Google Ads in Grand Forks, North Dakota
A PPC agency for Grand Forks that spends on the jobs the crew wants.
Grand Forks service businesses get Google Ads built around their best work, with call tracking and a report on leads and cost per lead.
- Click prices for your trade first
- A page built for one kind of job
- Leads and cost per lead, by campaign
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2010Lithium Marketing, established in 2010
$10M+Over $10 million in Google ad spend managed
Businesses
we’ve worked with
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
Paid search, priced first
Where a Grand Forks ad budget goes
Lithium Marketing runs Google Ads for Grand Forks service businesses. What a click costs by trade decides where the budget goes first: “garage door repair grand forks” averages $36.19 a click and “electrician grand forks” averages $1.54, so the gap between them sets how tight the search list has to be.
The Google Ads account is opened in your name and you own the billing, so the history stays with the business. Management starts at $500 a month, plus ad spend, and the money that goes to Google is separate.
The clicks that matter
Searches worth buying in Grand Forks
“plumber grand forks” draws about 390 searches a month at an average of $10.73 a click, and “landscaping grand forks” about 70 at $9.59. Each of those searches comes from someone who wants a quote from a local business, so each deserves its own campaign and its own landing page, not a slot in a general campaign.
When we checked the results page for “plumber grand forks”, no paid ads showed and the Map Pack took the top of the page. Auction prices move with the hour and the searcher, so the plan watches the queries and the calls they produce before raising a bid.
| Search | Searches a month | Cost per click |
|---|---|---|
| google ads agency grand forks | under 10 | not reported |
| ppc agency grand forks | under 10 | not reported |
| ppc management grand forks | 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 grand forks | 40 | $36.19 |
| plumber grand forks | 390 | $10.73 |
| landscaping grand forks | 70 | $9.59 |
| pest control grand forks | 170 | $5.92 |
| electrician grand forks | 260 | $1.54 |
Source: Google Ads keyword data, average monthly U.S. searches. "Under 10" = below Google’s reporting floor.
- Map Pack
- The first thing on the page
- Search ads
- None recorded
- Local listing reviews
- 62 to 458 Google reviews each
- Directories in the top 10
- Facebook, Yelp
- AI Overview
- Shown above the results
- People also ask
- Shown
Source: one Google results page for “plumber grand forks”, as Google showed it to a searcher located in Grand Forks. Search ad counts exclude sponsored local listings. Results shift by searcher and day.
Two states, one budget
Target the towns before the budget goes up
Grand Forks and its twin city of East Grand Forks, Minnesota, sit on opposite banks of the Red River. A campaign set to the city alone leaves Minnesota callers out, and a campaign set to the whole metro pays for calls a crew will not run, so the target list starts from the towns on your route.
105,046 people live in the Grand Forks, ND-MN metropolitan area, which is large enough to support several campaigns and small enough that a $2,000 monthly ad budget can cover the searches that matter. The management fee scales with the ad spend, the channels you run and any landing page work.
- residents (2025 estimate)
- 60,365
- residents (2025 estimate)
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- +2%
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- housing units
- 28,129
- housing units
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- 46.4%
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- of homes built before 1980
- 44.9%
- of homes built before 1980
- median home value
- $249,900
- median home value
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau 2025 population estimates, ACS 2020–2024 and 2023 County Business Patterns.
Who else is bidding
The county trades and their click prices
Grand Forks County has 29 plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors and 25 electrical contractors, and both groups sell the jobs that get searched in a hurry. A plumbing campaign that names the repairs it handles, and declines the ones it does not, keeps the budget off jobs the crew will turn down.
A landscaping click here should land on the specific work, a patio or a fall cleanup, with photos of similar Grand Forks projects on the page. The wider the ad's promise, the more of that budget goes to calls the crew cannot use.
County Business Patterns
Trade and home service businesses in Grand Forks County
Establishments by industry, 2023
- Landscaping services31
- Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors29
- Residential remodelers28
- Electrical contractors25
- New home builders14
- Painting contractors11
- Excavation and site preparation contractors10
- Roofing contractors7
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 County Business Patterns (NAICS establishment counts).
The first month
How a Grand Forks account gets started
Ownership, tracking and the click prices come before any bid, and the first month is spent cutting what never turns into a call.
1
Take the account over cleanly
Access sits with the business from day one, the billing stays yours, and the campaign history comes with it. Conversion tracking is checked before a bid moves.
2
Price the trades before choosing them
What a click costs for each trade in this market decides which campaigns get money first and which wait.
3
Give each job its own page
A landing page built for one kind of work, so the ad and the page say the same thing to the same searcher.
4
Cut, then tune
Search terms that never produce a call get cut daily through the first 30 days, and the account is tuned weekly after that.
What every Google Ads account includes
The same eight parts go into every Google Ads account, wherever the business is.
- 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
A Gulf Coast result
Dixie Glass: the numbers behind a website, SEO and ads
The card follows a glass company whose website rebuild, SEO and Google Ads came from Lithium. That company is Dixie Glass, on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, and Marc Rickabaugh of Rickabaugh Construction gives the quote beside it.
Glass“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 ConstructionWhere else the budget can go
Other cities, separate budgets
Ad budgets do not travel well between cities. Bismarck, West Fargo and Aberdeen, South Dakota each have their own click prices on the PPC pages below, and the state overview shows which markets remain.
Published price
What PPC management costs in Grand Forks
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
Grand Forks Google Ads questions, answered
Still curious?
Call (503) 766-5964 or email [email protected].
What should a Grand Forks ad budget cover?
Clicks at your trade's price, and nothing that cannot become a call. A garage door repair click here is the expensive end of the market and an electrical click is the cheap end, so the same money buys very different numbers of calls. We set the opening figure with you and move it once the tracking shows what a call costs.
Who owns the Google Ads account?
You do. The account is opened in your business name and the billing stays with you, and Lithium works inside your account. Reports cover calls, leads and cost per lead.
How fast do paid clicks turn into calls?
The first calls tend to land in the week the campaigns go live with tracking on. That week tests the search terms and the quality of each call, and the report tells you whether they are the kind you want.
Do you run ads off Google as well?
Sometimes. Microsoft's search network, Facebook and Instagram are channels Lithium can run, and the report shows what each one brings.
How is the management fee worked out?
The size of the ad budget, how many channels run and whether landing pages need building. It is billed apart from the media cost. Management starts at $500 a month, plus ad spend, and you see the number before launch.
Free action plan
Get a Grand Forks click budget you can defend
Send the trades you run and the towns your crews reach. A co-founder prices those clicks on a short video call and shows how far an opening budget goes in your trade.
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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