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PPC in Spokane, Washington

Google Ads for Spokane service businesses, tracked from click to booked job.

Spokane service businesses get Google Ads built around their best trades, with call tracking from the first click and reporting in booked jobs.

  • Every call tied to a keyword
  • One page per service sold
  • Spend moved toward booked work
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

Where the budget goes

What a Spokane ad budget should buy

A click on “hvac repair spokane” averages $50.47. At that price, Lithium Marketing starts a Spokane campaign with tracking, because an account that cannot tie a call to its keyword is guessing with expensive money.

Cheaper clicks exist too: “landscaping spokane” averages $6.03 and “garage door repair spokane” $8.06, which leaves room for a small test before the budget grows. When we checked “plumber spokane”, Google showed no paid ads at all. The top of that page is held by the Map Pack, so a strong Google profile matters as much as a bigger bid.

The Spokane market

Timing a Spokane ad budget

Spokane's warm, arid summer sits between short spring and fall seasons, and winter precipitation is significant. If your trade's work follows the weather, the ad budget should follow your own booking pattern, with heavier spend in the weeks your crews fill first.

Spokane holds 230,783 people, Spokane County 558,344, and the metro area 608,012. A campaign can start inside the city and widen to the county once the tracking shows the calls are worth it, with Google Ads setting the range by geography.

residents (2025 estimate)
230,783
residents (2025 estimate)
population change, 2020 to 2025
+0.8%
population change, 2020 to 2025
housing units
102,834
housing units
of occupied homes owner-occupied
58.8%
of occupied homes owner-occupied
of homes built before 1980
68.4%
of homes built before 1980
median home value
$363,500
median home value

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

Trades around Spokane

Which trades to bid on first

Spokane County has 223 landscaping companies and 179 plumbing and HVAC contractors. Both are deep fields, so the campaign starts on the services with the clearest job value and the tightest keyword list, before it spreads wider.

Some services suit a single focused campaign. The county counts 22 pest control companies, and a trade that size can be covered service by service. A pricey click still gets the same test, like $36.46 on “electrician spokane”: it only pays when the tracking shows the jobs behind it.

County Business Patterns

Trade and home service businesses in Spokane County

Establishments by industry, 2023

  • Residential remodelers
    317
  • New home builders
    253
  • Landscaping services
    223
  • Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors
    179
  • Electrical contractors
    155
  • Excavation and site preparation contractors
    127
  • Painting contractors
    116
  • Roofing contractors
    78

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

The first month

How the first Spokane campaign gets built

The account starts small, proves which searches produce calls, and grows only where the numbers hold.

1

Check what is running now

We review any current campaigns, keep the terms that convert and list the ones burning budget.

2

Wire the call tracking

Call tracking, GA4 and conversion tags go in, so each call and form points back to the keyword and ad that earned it.

3

Split the account by trade

Each service you want booked gets its own campaign, its own page and its own budget line.

4

Tune hard, then settle

The first 30 days get daily attention on bids and search terms, then the account moves to a weekly rhythm.

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

The numbers to check

A commercial glass case to look at

Town & Country Glass runs a commercial glass business in Portland, and Lithium handled its website, SEO and Google Ads. Matt Johnson supplies the quote beside it, from his time running On-Target Landscape.

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 is awesome to work with and the results you’ll get are outstanding. Once I started working with them I saw increase in my online presence and my sales increased too. I would highly recommend them to anyone looking for help with marketing!”
Matt JohnsonMatt JohnsonOn-Target Landscape

Paid coverage choices

Setting the radius before the spend grows

Each city linked below has a PPC page of its own: Spokane Valley, Coeur d'Alene in Idaho, then Walla Walla, Pasco, Richland and Kennewick. Aim the ads at the towns your crews work, and let the tracked calls settle which markets deserve more budget.

Published price

What PPC management costs in Spokane

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 Spokane owners ask before running ads

DJ Van Zanten

Still curious?

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

What monthly ad spend makes sense in Spokane?

The starting number depends on your trade and your close rate, because an expensive click only works when the jobs it brings cover it. We set a small, defensible budget together, then let the first weeks of tracking say whether it should grow.

What does the first week of a Spokane campaign look like?

Initial results typically arrive within the first week. From there the focus moves to the search terms, trimming the ones that never turn into calls and feeding the ones that do.

Can I pause a campaign when my season changes?

Month to month after the first six months: the usual service agreement starts with six months, then runs month to month on 30 days' notice. Within that, a campaign can pause or shift whenever the business's plans change, and we adjust the account to match.

Do Microsoft or Meta ads belong in a Spokane plan?

Meta ads on Facebook and Instagram, and Microsoft Ads, run alongside Google in Lithium's accounts. Whether they fit depends on two things: where your customers already spend time, and how much a Google click costs in your trade. We test the cheaper channel first and add the next when the report says so.

How do you show what the ads produced?

Each campaign reports its calls, leads and cost per lead, and the calls themselves trace back to the keyword and ad that paid for them. When you mark the leads that became jobs, money can move toward the campaigns that earned it.

Free action plan

Get a free ad plan for your Spokane trade

Tell us which trade you run and the jobs you want booked. A co-founder prices the clicks for those services and sets a first budget with you 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.

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