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PPC for Wilkes-Barre trades

Wilkes-Barre PPC for trades that count calls first.

Wilkes-Barre contractors get Google Ads in an account that stays in their name, with calls and forms tracked and a monthly cost per lead.

  • The account belongs to you
  • Calls and forms counted
  • A monthly cost per lead
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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

Wilkes-Barre PPC, answered

What a Wilkes-Barre click costs, and what it should return

An average click on 'garage door repair wilkes barre' costs $12.14, and 'pest control wilkes barre' runs $9.93. At those prices a campaign that cannot tell a call from a click is guessing, and guessing is expensive. Lithium Marketing runs Google Ads for Wilkes-Barre service businesses with tracking wired before the first dollar of ad spend moves.

The account is set up in your name, so the campaigns, the billing history and the data stay with your business if you ever change agencies. Lithium makes that commitment on every Google Ads account it manages. Management is from $500 a month, plus ad spend, and billed separately from the clicks.

The Wilkes-Barre market

A flat market rewards a tight budget

Wilkes-Barre's population moved 0.4% between 2020 and 2025, so the number of customers is nearly flat. Paid search works here when it takes work from other companies, which means the budget should follow the jobs you can staff, not every search in the county.

Luzerne County counts 7,212 business establishments, and the same budget buys different numbers of calls in roofing, pest control and electrical work. The first month should test one service, one city and one landing page before the budget widens.

residents (2025 estimate)
44,523
residents (2025 estimate)
population change, 2020 to 2025
+0.4%
population change, 2020 to 2025
housing units
19,781
housing units
of occupied homes owner-occupied
51.2%
of occupied homes owner-occupied
of homes built before 1980
85.8%
of homes built before 1980
median home value
$117,200
median home value

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

Trades in Luzerne County

Roofing, pest control and electrical at different prices

Luzerne County has 20 roofing contractors and 11 pest control companies, two fields where a single job has to justify what the clicks cost. A roofer's landing page should ask for the job, the roof and the timing, so the call starts with the details.

Electrical work is the larger field: Luzerne County lists 63 electrical contractors, and the click is the cheapest of the three at $7.14. That gap is why a contractor who sells several trades should give each one its own campaign, budget and landing page.

County Business Patterns

Trade and home service businesses in Luzerne County

Establishments by industry, 2023

  • Landscaping services
    123
  • Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors
    94
  • Residential remodelers
    94
  • Electrical contractors
    63
  • Excavation and site preparation contractors
    48
  • New home builders
    33
  • Roofing contractors
    20
  • Painting contractors
    19

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

Your first month

The first month of a Wilkes-Barre ad account

Tracking goes in before the budget moves, and the first month is judged on calls and cost per lead.

1

Start with what is already running

The current account gets a line-by-line read: keep the campaigns that produce calls and name the ones that only spend.

2

Wire the tracking before spend

Conversion tags, GA4 and call tracking go in first, so the month opens with a baseline, not a guess.

3

Split the account by job

Roof repair and drain cleaning do not share a budget line; each gets a campaign and a page built for that request.

4

Thirty days of close checks

Bids and search terms are reviewed every day for the first month, then weekly against the report.

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

Drake's 7 Dees: a garden center's website, SEO and Google Ads

The client on the card is Drake's 7 Dees, a garden center. Its results came from three pieces of Lithium work: web design, SEO and Google Ads. Daniel Busby of Willard Power Vac adds a separate owner's view.

Drake’s 7 Dees garden center and landscaping website homepageGarden center

Drake’s 7 Dees

380%more organic traffic

in one year

Google Ads conversion rate
26.4%
Google Ads conversion rate
leads in 60 days
744
leads in 60 days
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 Wilkes-Barre

A campaign for each city you serve

A campaign can cover more than Wilkes-Barre. Follow the links below to each nearby city's PPC page, and the Pennsylvania page covers the rest of the state.

Published price

What Google Ads costs a Wilkes-Barre business beyond the clicks

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 Wilkes-Barre owners ask before buying ads

DJ Van Zanten

Still curious?

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

What budget does a Wilkes-Barre ad account need to start?

Work backward from what a job is worth. Trade clicks with reported costs run from $7.14 to $12.14 here, so the budget has to buy enough calls at your trade's price to cover the work. We pick a starting number together, then move it once the account has data.

When do the calls start?

The first calls typically arrive in week one, once tracking is live. From there the search terms that never produce a call get cut, and the money moves to the terms that do. Cost per lead has room to fall as the account learns, though no one can promise a number.

Who owns the Google Ads account?

You do. Lithium builds the campaigns inside an account in your name, so the billing history and the data stay with your business if you ever move on. That is a working rule on every account we manage, not a negotiating point.

Should we advertise somewhere other than Google?

Ask where your customers look. Google is the default for urgent searches, and Lithium also buys Microsoft Ads and Meta ads when a trade's customers spend time on Facebook or Instagram. A channel earns its place when it can be measured, not because it is new.

How does the report show what the ads produced?

Each month the account reports the calls and form fills it produced, the cost per lead, and which campaigns spent the budget. If your team marks the leads that turned into work, the report can follow a campaign past the call. The report shows what came in, not an estimate.

Free action plan

Get a free ads plan for a Wilkes-Barre trade

A co-founder can put Wilkes-Barre click costs against the value of one finished job on a short video call. Bring your trade and the months that fill your calendar, and we will outline the budget from there.

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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