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PPC in Lafayette, Louisiana

Lafayette Google Ads built around what a call costs.

Lafayette ads are measured at the phone: each call carries the keyword that paid for it, and the report shows leads and cost per lead.

  • Calls matched to the ad that paid
  • A page for each kind of job
  • Spend that follows your calendar
Search visibility report ranking sarkinenplumbing.com first among local plumbing competitors
2Xleads for Sarkinen Plumbing (on the same budget)
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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

Lafayette PPC, answered

Where a Lafayette ad budget goes furthest

An average click on “hvac repair lafayette la” costs $66.74, and the phrase draws about 10 searches a month, the thinnest demand in the Lafayette table at the highest price. Buying that click without knowing which calls it produced is how ad budgets disappear. The account Lithium Marketing builds starts at the phone: every call tagged to its keyword before a dollar moves.

Restoration and landscaping sit far apart on price. “water damage restoration lafayette la” draws 110 searches a month at $24.76 a click, while an average click on landscaping costs $6.81 in Lafayette. A landscaper can test ads on a small budget; a restoration company has to make every call count. The plan sets a starting budget per trade, not one number for the whole business.

The Lafayette market

When Lafayette homeowners start calling

Lafayette’s climate is humid subtropical: year-round precipitation, especially during summertime, and hot, moist summers and warm, damp winters. If your calls follow the heat, the budget should be ready before the first hot week, not spread flat across twelve months. The same account can carry a heavier month and a lighter one without starting over.

If your trade goes quiet in a warm, damp winter, a small campaign through those months keeps the phone from going silent, and the budget can climb again when spring calls begin. Your own call history shows which months those are, and the budget moves with them.

residents (2025 estimate)
123,311
residents (2025 estimate)
population change, 2020 to 2025
+1.6%
population change, 2020 to 2025
housing units
59,363
housing units
of occupied homes owner-occupied
53.1%
of occupied homes owner-occupied
of homes built before 1980
48%
of homes built before 1980
median home value
$257,000
median home value

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

Trades in Lafayette Parish

Which Lafayette trades can afford their clicks

“pest control lafayette la” draws 1,000 searches a month at $21.71 a click, and Lafayette Parish has 25 pest control companies. That combination gives a pest campaign room to learn: 1,000 searches a month is enough data to see which terms produce calls, and a landing page that separates the treatments gives each searcher a reason to pick up the phone.

Restoration leaves the least room for a missed call. A water damage search arrives from someone with a problem that cannot wait, so the first screen of the landing page should be the phone number, the hours and the areas covered. The same rule applies to any trade where the customer is standing in the problem while they search.

County Business Patterns

Trade and home service businesses in Lafayette Parish

Establishments by industry, 2023

  • Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors
    112
  • Landscaping services
    82
  • New home builders
    72
  • Electrical contractors
    69
  • Residential remodelers
    63
  • Excavation and site preparation contractors
    40
  • Pest control companies
    25
  • Roofing contractors
    20

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

The first month

From your own numbers to a live account

Tracking goes in before the budget moves, and the campaigns follow the work your crews can take each month.

1

Start from your own numbers

If an account already runs, its search terms and call records show which campaigns earned their budget and which did not.

2

Make the phone measurable

Call tracking and GA4 record which ad and keyword produced each call, so the first report shows a real cost per call, not a click count.

3

Separate the jobs that pay differently

A drain call and a repipe are different searches at different prices, so each gets its own campaign, landing page and budget line.

4

Cut what wastes money

Search terms that never produce a call get cut in the first weeks, and the budget they free moves to the campaigns that do.

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

A glass company’s ads, site and search results

For Town & Country Glass, a commercial glass company in Portland, Lithium ran Google Ads alongside its website and SEO, and the card carries the numbers from all three. The quote beside it comes from Kevin Atiyeh, at Atiyeh Bros, a carpet and rug business.

Town & Country Glass website homepage for commercial storefront glass in PortlandCommercial glass

Town & Country Glass

13Xorganic traffic

145 to 1,849 visits a month

top-3 rankings, up from 1
109
top-3 rankings, up from 1
Google Ads conversion rate
29.9%
Google Ads conversion rate
Read the case study
“Lithium Marketing has done a good job with understanding our Company and what we specialize in and applying that to our digital marketing.”
Kevin AtiyehKevin AtiyehAtiyeh Bros Carpet

PPC around Lafayette

Ads that can run in any city on your list

Ads travel well. A campaign built for Lafayette can be pointed at any city below, with its own budget and its own bids, and the city pages show what a click costs in each one. Beaumont is the Texas name on that list, and the Louisiana directory lists every city Lithium covers in the state.

Published price

What Lafayette PPC management and ad spend run

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

What Lafayette owners ask about click costs

DJ Van Zanten

Still curious?

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

What starting budget makes sense for a Lafayette campaign?

Work backwards from what a job is worth. A $19.49 garage door click in Lafayette and a $6.81 landscaping click leave very different margins, and a $21.71 pest control click has to produce quickly enough to justify itself. Start with a number the booked work can cover, then let the first month of tracking decide how it gets split.

How soon do the ads produce calls?

The first calls typically arrive inside the opening week, once tracking is live. What follows is the less glamorous work: dropping the search terms that never turn into a call and pushing that budget toward the ones that book jobs, which is what gives cost per lead a chance to fall.

What does the management fee cover, and what is ad spend?

The fee pays for running the account; ad spend pays Google for the clicks. Management starts at $500 a month, plus ad spend, and grows with the channels we run and the landing pages the account needs. Both numbers are agreed before a campaign goes live.

Should the ads run beyond Google?

It depends on the trade. Google reaches the person typing the problem, while Meta or Microsoft Ads can reach the same customer before the search happens. Lithium manages all three, and a channel gets added when the tracking shows it produces calls the Google account misses.

How can I tell a booked job from a wasted click?

The report is built on calls, not clicks. Each one arrives with the keyword, the ad and the landing page that produced it, and when your team marks the jobs that booked, the same report shows which campaign paid for itself.

Free action plan

Get a Lafayette ad budget review before you spend

Send your current ad account and the number of jobs your crews can take this month. A co-founder will read both on a short video call and show which campaigns in Lafayette are paying for themselves and which are not.

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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