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Paid search for Tampa home services

A PPC marketing agency for Tampa focused on lead costs.

Keep Tampa advertising accountable with Google Ads, service-specific landing pages and campaign reports that show average cost per lead.

  • Search terms checked for wasted spend
  • Landing pages matched to the ad
  • Campaign lead costs in your reports
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

Make the budget answer to the business

Tampa PPC needs a plan for expensive clicks

Lithium Marketing manages paid search for Tampa service businesses, connecting ad spending with the calls and forms it produces. The average click for “hvac repair tampa” is $130.56. Before increasing a budget at that price, we check the search terms, landing page and conversion tracking to understand what the campaign is buying.

A click becomes valuable when a customer requests work your business can do. We separate your services in the account, set targeting around your coverage and use your booking feedback alongside campaign reports. You get a better basis for deciding what to keep, change or stop.

Timing and territory

Set the campaign calendar from your own workload

Tampa has hot and humid summers with frequent thunderstorms and dry and mild winters. If weather changes your calls or your ability to complete work, include that pattern in the advertising plan. We compare your lead history and available appointments before deciding when a campaign should get more budget.

The Howard Frankland Bridge, Courtney Campbell Causeway and Gandy Bridge connect Tampa with Pinellas County across Tampa Bay. Decide if cross-bay jobs belong in your campaign before paying to reach them. Targeting should follow the locations and project sizes your team wants, with exclusions for areas you do not cover.

residents (2025 estimate)
413,554
residents (2025 estimate)
population change, 2020 to 2025
+7.3%
population change, 2020 to 2025
housing units
182,425
housing units
of occupied homes owner-occupied
50.3%
of occupied homes owner-occupied
of homes built before 1980
44.5%
of homes built before 1980
median home value
$420,400
median home value

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

Give the ad a reason to be clicked

Bid for a defined service, not a broad category

The landscaping sector includes 585 establishments in Hillsborough County. A landscaping company's ads should identify the offer being promoted, such as a project estimate or an ongoing service the business provides. We connect that offer to its own landing page and review the search terms for signs the ad is attracting a different kind of work.

Glass and glazing contractors number 42 establishments in Hillsborough County. A specialized trade still needs to distinguish the jobs it sells: a commercial project and a household repair may need different ads. For any trade, your service list and booking feedback are better guides to the account than one catch-all campaign.

County Business Patterns

Trade and home service businesses in Hillsborough County

Establishments by industry, 2023

  • Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors
    631
  • Landscaping services
    585
  • Residential remodelers
    558
  • Electrical contractors
    388
  • New home builders
    322
  • Painting contractors
    284
  • Roofing contractors
    142
  • Pest control companies
    125

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

Account setup and ongoing decisions

Put the spending controls in place before scaling

A working account needs a clear offer, reliable tracking and an owner who can tell us which leads booked.

1

Review the paid traffic you already buy

We inspect searches, locations and existing conversion data. Unrelated terms and poorly matched pages go onto the correction list before a budget increase.

2

Test the measurement with the landing page

We connect call and form tracking, then test the actions a prospective customer takes. Reports should distinguish a service lead from an unrelated button click.

3

Set service and location boundaries

The account separates offers that need different ads or pages. We agree on the starting spend and the areas you want to reach, including any cross-bay coverage.

4

Tune the account against lead quality

Review and optimization happen daily for the first 30 days, then weekly. We use campaign average cost per lead and your booking feedback to guide bids and spending.

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 paid-search example from Portland

Commercial glass results across ads, SEO and a website

Lithium's engagement with Portland commercial-glass company Town & Country Glass included Google Ads, SEO and a new website. The case separates the reported search and advertising measures. You can also read Daniel Busby's account of working with Lithium at Willard Power Vac, an air duct, dryer vent and chimney cleaning business.

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 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

Compare advertising territories

Extend a Tampa campaign only where you want jobs

Brandon, Clearwater and St. Petersburg each have a PPC guide for comparing service areas. Lakeland, Spring Hill and Orlando are linked too, along with the Florida directory, so you can examine another city before adding it to your targeting.

Published price

Separate the agency fee from the media budget

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

Tampa PPC questions about spending and results

DJ Van Zanten

Still curious?

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

What do I pay Lithium versus Google?

Lithium's management fee starts from $500 a month, plus ad spend paid for the advertising itself. The fee depends on ad spend, the channels we run and landing page work. Your proposal sets out that scope so you can review the agency cost and the media budget separately.

Can you run a campaign with a small advertising budget?

A limited budget may work for a narrow service and territory. We check click costs and your margins before recommending the test. If the budget cannot support enough traffic to evaluate the offer, we say so and discuss a smaller target or another way to pursue leads.

When can a new PPC campaign begin bringing leads?

Initial results typically arrive within the first week of a campaign running. That gives us early information about searches and conversions, followed by ongoing changes to the account. Lead volume and cost depend on the offer, market and budget; we use the opening results to decide what needs adjusting.

What will I see when we review advertising performance?

You will see calls, forms and average cost per lead by campaign. We ask your team which leads turned into estimates or booked jobs so we can discuss quality as well as volume. That feedback helps identify an offer attracting the wrong work or an area that deserves less spending.

What happens after the initial PPC agreement ends?

Service continues month to month on 30 days' notice after the usual six-month initial term. We review those terms with the proposed scope before launch. Advertising spend remains separate from the management fee, and decisions to expand the budget are discussed with you.

Free action plan

Check your Tampa ad spending before increasing it

Show us where the advertising money goes: your account, landing pages and a few leads that did or did not book. Your free PPC plan starts with a short video call, where a co-founder examines the spending and recommends what to test.

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