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Paid search for Pasadena trades

Pasadena PPC built around what your trade’s clicks cost.

Pasadena service businesses get Google Ads built around their trade’s click cost, with every call traced to the keyword and ad behind it.

  • Every call traced to its keyword
  • Budgets set trade by trade
  • Wasted search terms cut
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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

Where the budget goes

What a Pasadena ad budget buys

An average click on “garage door repair pasadena ca” costs $54.10, while a click on “landscaping pasadena ca” costs $11.36. Pasadena service businesses do not share one budget shape, so Lithium Marketing builds each campaign around the trade’s click price and the work the crew can take, then traces every call back to the keyword behind it.

The spread shows up in how the first month is spent. A garage door company has to make each click at that price count, so its landing page and search list get the most scrutiny. A landscaper can test more searches at the lower price and learn from a wider sample. The management fee and the media budget stay on separate lines.

Pasadena’s map

A dense city, four freeways and a budget that follows both

Four freeways cross Pasadena, and the city holds 5,915 people per square mile across 22.96 square miles. The city is dense, but your crews still cross into Glendale, Burbank and the cities beyond, so the location list should follow the work they already do.

If your trade sells exterior work, Pasadena rarely gets rain from summer into fall, which gives a painter or landscaper a long window. The budget should follow the months your crew can start, not sit at the same level all year. Your own call log shows where the peaks fall.

residents (2025 estimate)
135,804
residents (2025 estimate)
population change, 2020 to 2025
-2.7%
population change, 2020 to 2025
housing units
63,203
housing units
of occupied homes owner-occupied
42.5%
of occupied homes owner-occupied
of homes built before 1980
72.2%
of homes built before 1980
median home value
$1,093,300
median home value

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

Trade by trade

Why a plumber and a roofer need different campaigns

Plumbing and HVAC contractors number 2,765 across Los Angeles County, while roofing contractors total 487. Plumbing clicks in Pasadena average $30.39 and roofing $45.50, so the roofer’s campaign needs a narrower list of job types and a page that settles repair versus replacement before you pay for the click.

Landscaping services make up a 1,300-business field in Los Angeles County, and pest control 435. Cheap Pasadena landscaping clicks at $11.36 leave room to test several services; Pasadena pest control at $21.41 rewards a budget concentrated on the treatments the company wants to sell.

County Business Patterns

Trade and home service businesses in Los Angeles County

Establishments by industry, 2023

  • Residential remodelers
    3,775
  • Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors
    2,765
  • Electrical contractors
    2,286
  • New home builders
    1,747
  • Landscaping services
    1,300
  • Painting contractors
    839
  • Roofing contractors
    487
  • Pest control companies
    435

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

The first month

How a Pasadena account gets built

The account starts with the calls you already get, not with a bigger budget.

1

Start with the last booked job

We work backward from a job you booked: the search, the ad, the call and the page the customer saw.

2

Give every lead a source

Call tracking, GA4 and a form tag record the keyword and ad behind each one.

3

Match each campaign to a service

Every service you want sooner gets its own campaign and a page that repeats the offer the ad makes.

4

Set the week’s changes

Bids and search terms get daily work through the first 30 days and weekly after, measured against the months you can sell.

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

A fence case

The fence company’s website, SEO and Google Ads

The quote card belongs to Daniel Busby, president of Willard Power Vac. The case card belongs to F&W Fence Co., a fence business that bought a website, SEO and Google Ads from Lithium, so its figures come from all three.

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
“Lithium Marketing has been amazing for our business. They have greatly increased our web traffic and helped us land hundreds of jobs. Before we started using Lithium we were sitting on page 8 in google. We are now sitting in the top spots in all the areas we do work.”
Daniel BusbyDaniel BusbyPresident, Willard Power Vac

Around Pasadena

Paid search for the cities around Pasadena

Every city you serve can have its own campaign and budget. Start with Glendale, El Monte or Downey below, and open the California page for the full set.

Published price

What Pasadena PPC management costs

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 Pasadena owners ask about paid search

DJ Van Zanten

Still curious?

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

What monthly ad budget makes sense here?

Start from the cost of a click and the value of a job. Garage door clicks average $54.10 in Pasadena and landscaping $11.36, so the same monthly figure buys very different numbers of visits, and the landing page decides how many become calls. We agree a starting figure on the video call and adjust it once real leads are priced.

How soon do Pasadena ads produce calls?

A new account usually produces its first calls within the first week. The work that matters starts there: read the search terms, kill the ones that were never going to book, and shift money toward the terms that did. Cost per lead settles as that history builds.

What does PPC management cost?

Management starts at $500 a month, plus ad spend. It moves with the size of the media budget, the number of channels and whether landing pages are part of the job. Nothing launches until you have approved the number, and the media budget itself goes to Google, separate from the fee.

Should we run ads beyond Google?

It depends on where your buyers look. Lithium can also run Microsoft Ads and Meta ads on Facebook and Instagram. Those channels join only when there is a reason to think your customer is there, and each one gets measured on its own leads before the budget grows.

Which ads booked work?

The monthly sheet shows it campaign by campaign: calls, leads and cost per lead. Each lead carries the keyword and ad that produced it, so a cheap line that books nothing is easy to spot. Your team marks the jobs that closed, and that column decides where the next month’s budget goes.

Free action plan

Get a Pasadena ad budget built around your trade

Bring the trade you advertise, the months you can sell and the value of one booked job. On a short video call, a co-founder turns those into a starting budget at Pasadena click prices.

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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