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PPC in Portland, Oregon

A Portland PPC company focused on cost per call.

Portland service businesses get Google Ads with every call tracked to its keyword and a monthly report on calls, leads and cost per lead.

  • Calls traced to the campaign
  • A landing page for each job type
  • Budgets shifted to your best months
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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

Portland PPC, answered

Where a Portland PPC budget should go

Lithium Marketing runs Google Ads for Portland service businesses so the budget goes to searches that turn into booked jobs. Portland clicks are expensive, which is why tracking comes first: an average click on “garage door repair portland” costs $47.79, and an account that can’t tie a call to its keyword is guessing at that price.

Roofing and plumbing aren’t cheap either, at $30.81 for “roofing company portland” and $31.21 for “plumber portland”. At those prices we build a landing page for each job you want, cut the search terms that never produce a call and move spend toward the work your crews can take that month.

The Portland market

Plan Portland ad spend around the weather

Portland’s sunny, warm weather is short-lived, running from mid-June to early September, and temperatures reach 80 °F on only 61 days a year. A painter or landscaper who sells outdoor work has a narrow window, so the budget should build in the weeks before it and peak while it lasts.

From mid-fall to mid-spring, long stretches of overcast days are the norm, and the city averages 157 days a year with measurable rain. If your roof leak or water damage calls come in during those months, the budget should be ready for them, not spread flat across all twelve. Your own call history sets the final calendar.

residents (2025 estimate)
635,109
residents (2025 estimate)
population change, 2020 to 2025
-2.7%
population change, 2020 to 2025
housing units
307,719
housing units
of occupied homes owner-occupied
52%
of occupied homes owner-occupied
of homes built before 1980
63.4%
of homes built before 1980
median home value
$581,500
median home value

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

Trades in Portland

Which Portland trades to bid on, and how hard

Roofing is one of the smaller fields in the county chart: Multnomah County has 81 roofing contractors, and “roofing company portland” draws about 1,900 searches a month. A roofer with a sharp landing page and a tight list of negative keywords can compete for those clicks without the biggest bid.

Landscaping is crowded by comparison, with 238 landscaping companies in the county. There, the edge comes from cutting wasted search terms and aiming ads at the neighborhoods you serve, more than from a bigger bid.

County Business Patterns

Trade and home service businesses in Multnomah County

Establishments by industry, 2023

  • Residential remodelers
    436
  • New home builders
    329
  • Landscaping services
    238
  • Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors
    171
  • Painting contractors
    146
  • Electrical contractors
    106
  • Roofing contractors
    81
  • Excavation and site preparation contractors
    51

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

Your first month

Setting up a Portland Google Ads account

Tracking goes in before any budget changes, and the campaigns follow your calendar after that.

1

Audit what’s running

We go through your current account, keep what converts and list the search terms that are wasting money.

2

Wire every call and form

GA4, call tracking and conversion tags tie each call and form to the keyword and ad behind it.

3

One campaign per job type

Roof repair, drain cleaning or whatever your best work is gets its own campaign and landing page.

4

Daily tuning, then weekly

We adjust bids and search terms daily through the first 30 days, then weekly, against your Portland budget calendar.

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 Portland-area plumber’s Google Ads, website and SEO

Sarkinen Plumbing serves Portland and the surrounding area. Its Google Ads, website and SEO all came from Lithium, and the results on the card come from that combined work. Kevin Atiyeh of Atiyeh Bros, the carpet and rug company, is quoted beside it.

Search visibility report ranking sarkinenplumbing.com first among local plumbing competitorsPlumbing

Sarkinen Plumbing

2Xleads

on the same budget

search visibility
3.75X
search visibility
ads conversion rate
27.37%
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

Around Portland

Google Ads for the suburbs around Portland

A Portland campaign can also target Vancouver, Lake Oswego, Beaverton, Bethany, Happy Valley and Tigard from day one, with bids set city by city. Each of those cities has its own PPC page below with local search figures, and the Oregon page lists the state’s other cities.

Published price

PPC management fees for Portland businesses

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 Portland owners ask about Google Ads

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Still curious?

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

How much ad spend does a Portland business need?

Enough to buy calls at a price your booked jobs can cover, which depends on your trade’s click cost and how well your landing page converts. A garage door company, at the top of the click-cost table, needs a sharper page than a landscaper at the bottom. We set your starting budget together on the strategy call and adjust it once the tracking shows real costs.

When do Portland Google Ads start producing calls?

Calls usually start coming in during the first week the campaigns run with tracking in place. After that, we cut the search terms that don’t convert and shift budget toward the ones that book jobs, so your cost per lead has room to improve as the account learns.

What contract comes with PPC management?

The usual service agreement runs six months, then month to month with 30 days’ notice. Our management fee scales with your ad spend, the channels we run and any landing page work, and we agree on it before the first campaign goes live.

Should I advertise beyond Google?

Sometimes. Lithium also manages Microsoft Ads and Meta ads on Facebook and Instagram, and they earn a place when your customers spend time there or when Google clicks in your trade run high. We start where calls are cheapest to buy and add channels once tracking shows what each one returns.

How will I know which ads bring booked jobs?

Every call and form is tracked to the keyword and ad behind it, and your monthly report shows calls, leads and cost per lead by campaign. If you mark which leads booked, we can follow a campaign from click to job and move budget toward the ones that pay.

Free action plan

Get a free Google Ads audit and budget calendar for Portland

Send us your trade, your busiest months and what a booked job is worth to you. On a short video call, a co-founder will show what Portland clicks cost for your work and how your budget should move through the year.

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

Get my free action plan

Tell us a little about your business. Response within 24 hours.

  • 100% free, no obligation
  • Custom plan for your business
  • Response within 24 hours
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