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

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Portland PPC, answered
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.
Click costs in Portland
“Landscaping portland” is the cheapest trade search in the table at $13.09 a click, which gives a landscaper room to test Google Ads on a modest budget. Water damage restoration costs $22.93 a click on about 590 searches a month, and a water damage call is urgent by nature, so that ad should land on a page where the phone number is the first thing a visitor sees.
On the day we checked “plumber portland”, Google showed no ads at all and put the Map Pack first. That changes by hour, searcher and budget, so a Portland campaign should run beside a strong Google Business Profile, never in place of one.
| Search | Searches a month | Cost per click |
|---|---|---|
| ppc agency portland | 90 | not reported |
| ppc management portland | 10 | not reported |
| google ads agency portland | 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 portland | 1,600 | $47.79 |
| plumber portland | 3,600 | $31.21 |
| roofing company portland | 1,900 | $30.81 |
| pest control portland | 2,400 | $24.27 |
| hvac repair portland | 170 | $24.06 |
| water damage restoration portland | 590 | $22.93 |
| electrician portland | 1,600 | $21.16 |
| landscaping portland | 1,300 | $13.09 |
Source: Google Ads keyword data, average monthly U.S. searches. "Under 10" = below Google’s reporting floor.
Source: one Google results page for “plumber portland”, as Google showed it to a searcher located in Portland. Search ad counts exclude sponsored local listings. Results shift by searcher and day.
The Portland market
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.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau 2025 population estimates, ACS 2020–2024 and 2023 County Business Patterns.
Trades in Portland
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
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 County Business Patterns (NAICS establishment counts).
Your first month
Tracking goes in before any budget changes, and the campaigns follow your calendar after that.
We go through your current account, keep what converts and list the search terms that are wasting money.
GA4, call tracking and conversion tags tie each call and form to the keyword and ad behind it.
Roof repair, drain cleaning or whatever your best work is gets its own campaign and landing page.
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.
Proof
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.
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“Lithium Marketing has done a good job with understanding our Company and what we specialize in and applying that to our digital marketing.”
Kevin AtiyehAtiyeh Bros CarpetAround 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
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
Still curious?
Call (503) 766-5964 or email [email protected].
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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