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PPC in Morgantown, West Virginia

PPC for Morgantown that brings in calls from your area.

Morgantown service businesses get Google Ads run inside their own account, with the management fee and ad spend kept apart.

  • Fee and ad spend, separate
  • Landing pages built for the ad
  • Daily checks in the first month
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

What a Morgantown click buys

How a Morgantown budget starts with a click price

Lithium Marketing runs Google Ads for service businesses in Morgantown, from $500 a month in management, plus ad spend, inside an account that stays in your name. The click prices differ by trade: “roofing company morgantown” averages $30.07, “pest control morgantown” $16.48 and “landscaping morgantown” $9.20.

No paid ads showed for “plumber morgantown” when we checked. Ad slots move with the hour and the budget, so one quiet page says little about the next one; the campaign should still sit beside a strong Google Business Profile and a landing page that repeats the ad's offer.

The Morgantown market

Where the ads should point before they spend

Morgantown holds 30,293 residents in 10.181 square miles, and Monongalia County around it holds 107,991. A campaign that targets only the city label misses work on the edges, and one that targets the whole county pays for searches it cannot serve, so the radius should follow the addresses your crews cover.

Monongalia County's housing is a mix: 40.8% of it went up before 1980, and the median home dates to 1988. If your work runs from repair to full replacement, the campaign should point at the jobs you want and stop the radius where your crews stop.

residents (2025 estimate)
30,293
residents (2025 estimate)
population change, 2020 to 2025
+0.8%
population change, 2020 to 2025
housing units
13,879
housing units
of occupied homes owner-occupied
43.7%
of occupied homes owner-occupied
of homes built before 1980
63.8%
of homes built before 1980
median home value
$259,400
median home value

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

Trades in Monongalia County

What each trade's click costs

Monongalia County has 28 landscaping companies and 7 roofing contractors, and their clicks do not cost the same: a roofing click averages $30.07 against $9.20 for landscaping. The roofing budget needs fewer, more specific keywords and service pages for the systems and repairs the company sells.

A plumbing click in Morgantown averages $14.89, and at that price the account should exclude the searches that never turn into a job and report calls, leads and cost per lead instead of clicks.

County Business Patterns

Trade and home service businesses in Monongalia County

Establishments by industry, 2023

  • Residential remodelers
    43
  • New home builders
    42
  • Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors
    30
  • Landscaping services
    28
  • Excavation and site preparation contractors
    25
  • Electrical contractors
    21
  • Roofing contractors
    7
  • Painting contractors
    7

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

The first month

What happens before the first click

Tracking goes in before the budget moves, and the first 30 days are tuned daily.

1

Read the account you have

We look at the current campaigns, the search terms that never produced a lead and the services you want more of.

2

Wire calls and forms

Call tracking, form tracking and GA4 record calls, leads and cost per lead, so the report starts with real numbers.

3

Build the page behind each ad

Each ad gets a page that repeats the offer, shows the work and asks for the address and the job.

4

Daily checks, then a weekly review

Bids and search terms get daily attention through the first 30 days, then a weekly review against the budget.

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 from a fence company

F&W Fence Co.: a website, SEO and Google Ads together

The F&W Fence Co. card comes from three pieces of work: a new website, SEO and Google Ads, all handled by Lithium. Nathan Boos of Hillsview Building is quoted next to it on his own experience with the team.

F&W Fence Co. website homepage for fence installation, supply and repairFence

F&W Fence Co.

4Xmore ranking keywords

190 to 745 keywords

top-3 rankings (3 to 28)
9X
top-3 rankings (3 to 28)
core search conversion rate
27.78%
core search conversion rate
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 Morgantown

Campaigns across the state line

An ad budget follows the addresses your crews serve, and a state line can change the market. The links below open PPC pages for Parkersburg and Charleston in West Virginia, Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania and Akron in Ohio, and the West Virginia page lists the rest.

Published price

What PPC management costs a Morgantown 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

Google Ads questions from Morgantown owners

DJ Van Zanten

Still curious?

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

What does PPC management cost, and what does ad spend add?

Management starts at $500 a month, plus ad spend. The fee follows your budget, the channels in the plan and the landing page work, and you approve it before launch.

When do the first calls come in?

The first calls typically arrive in the opening week, once tracking is live. After that, daily checks through the first 30 days and a weekly review steer budget toward the searches that produce leads.

Who owns the ad account?

You do. The account is opened in your name, and the login, billing history and conversion data stay with you if the relationship ends. Lithium works inside it as the manager.

What contract comes with PPC?

The first term is six months. After that it runs month to month, and 30 days' notice ends it. Ad spend is separate from the management fee and is billed to your own account.

Do you advertise anywhere besides Google?

Sometimes. Microsoft Ads and Meta ads on Facebook and Instagram are managed channels, and we test one when your buyers are easier to reach there than in a Google search.

Free action plan

Get a Morgantown ad plan before you raise the budget

Send the current account, the trades you want more of and what a lead is worth to you. A co-founder will go through the click costs, the radius and the landing pages 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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Tell us a little about your business. Response within 24 hours.

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  • Custom plan for your business
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