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PPC in Bellevue, Washington

A PPC management company for Bellevue trades, focused on cost per lead.

Bellevue service businesses get a Google Ads account built around tracked calls, a landing page per job and monthly reporting on cost per lead.

  • Call tracking on every click
  • A landing page for each job
  • Budget moved to your best months
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13Xorganic traffic for Town & Country Glass (145 to 1,849 visits a month)
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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

PPC in Bellevue, answered

Where a Bellevue ad budget should start

Garage door clicks in Bellevue are not cheap: an average click on “garage door repair bellevue” runs $29.68. If the account cannot say which search produced a call, every budget decision at that price is a guess. Lithium Marketing starts with the tracking, then builds campaigns around the jobs worth paying for.

The cost spread across trades is wide. “Plumber bellevue” clicks average $45.95, the most expensive search on the trade table. A plumber needs a tight search-term list and a landing page that answers the phone, while a landscaper can test ads on a modest budget.

The Bellevue market

Build the ad calendar around the rain

If your work happens outdoors, the frequent rain showers from October to May set the calendar: keep the budget where the crew has room and pull back when the book is full. A plumber or remodeler working indoors follows a different curve, so start from your own booked jobs.

Bellevue also covers 33.476 square miles of land, and a campaign aimed at the whole city spends money in neighborhoods you do not serve. Set the targeting by the places you work, then use the city pages for the towns next door.

residents (2025 estimate)
154,193
residents (2025 estimate)
population change, 2020 to 2025
+1.5%
population change, 2020 to 2025
housing units
66,021
housing units
of occupied homes owner-occupied
52%
of occupied homes owner-occupied
of homes built before 1980
46.7%
of homes built before 1980
median home value
$1,340,300
median home value

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

Trades in King County

Where a Bellevue ad budget meets the trade mix

The King County chart starts with 1,651 residential remodelers, and those are project searches: if a homeowner is comparing a kitchen remodel, the ad should sell the finished room with photos and a scope.

The phone trades want the opposite. King County has 477 electrical contractors, and if a customer calls about a dead panel, the number, the hours and the area covered matter more than a gallery. Painting is the third case, with 531 painting contractors in King County selling planned work, so the page should show finishes before it asks for an estimate.

County Business Patterns

Trade and home service businesses in King County

Establishments by industry, 2023

  • Residential remodelers
    1,651
  • New home builders
    874
  • Landscaping services
    843
  • Painting contractors
    531
  • Electrical contractors
    477
  • Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors
    468
  • Excavation and site preparation contractors
    234
  • Roofing contractors
    206

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

Your first month

How the Bellevue account gets built

Tracking, then campaigns, then a budget that moves with your own calendar.

1

Read the account before spending

We pull the last few months of search terms, keep the ones that produced calls and flag the ones that only produced clicks.

2

Make every call countable

GA4, call tracking and conversion tags go on the site, and we test each one so a call records the keyword and ad behind it.

3

Build a campaign for each job

The work you want more of gets its own campaign, its own page and its own budget, with cities separated so one does not starve another.

4

Adjust bids as the data lands

For 30 days we touch the account daily. After that it moves to a weekly review against the 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 glass business's website, SEO and Google Ads

Dixie Glass sells glass on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and has since 1946. It came to Lithium for a new website, SEO and Google Ads, and the card below carries the numbers from that combined work. The quote is Dave Turin's, of Dozer Dave, recommending DJ Van Zanten for website and internet marketing help.

Dixie Glass website homepage for glass services on the Mississippi Gulf CoastGlass

Dixie Glass

76%more conversions

January vs the January before

ads conversion rate
15.57%
ads conversion rate
organic traffic
+18.2%
organic traffic
Read the case study
“I highly recommend Dj Van Zanten if you need any help with your website and your internet marketing.”
Dave TurinDave TurinDozer Dave

Around Bellevue

Campaigns for the cities around yours

One account can serve the cities you cover, with bids and budgets set city by city. The PPC pages below show what clicks cost in Redmond, Kirkland, Seattle, Renton, Kent and Auburn, and the Washington page lists every city in the state.

Published price

What PPC management costs in Bellevue

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

Before you raise a Bellevue ad budget

DJ Van Zanten

Still curious?

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

What starting budget makes sense for my trade?

Two numbers set it: the click price in your trade and the value of a booked job. When a click costs more, the opening budget needs more room before the data means anything. We agree the starting figure with you, then shift it toward whichever campaigns produce calls.

How long before the account earns its keep?

The first calls tend to arrive within a week of launch, once tracking is live. The account then improves by subtraction: terms that produce nothing get cut, and the budget moves to the terms that produced calls. We check that with you every month.

Is the management fee separate from ad spend?

Two separate costs: management and the ad budget. Management starts at $500 a month, plus ad spend. The fee tracks how much you spend on ads, which channels you use and whether landing pages need work, and Google gets the ad budget itself. Both figures are on the proposal before the first campaign starts.

Should we run Microsoft or Meta ads too?

Sometimes it is worth it. Lithium also buys Microsoft Ads and Meta ads on Facebook and Instagram. We add one when Google clicks in your trade get expensive or when your customers clearly spend their time in those apps. The test is the same: does the new channel produce calls at a cost your jobs can carry?

How do I connect a paid click to a booked job?

Your team already knows which leads turned into work, so ask them to note it. The tracking ties every call and form to the search that produced it, and the monthly report sets calls, leads and cost per lead against each campaign. Put the two together and a finished job can be traced to the click that paid for it.

Free action plan

Get a Bellevue ad budget that follows your calendar

Bring three things to a short video call: the trade you run, the months the crew is busiest and what a finished job pays. A co-founder will use them to review the account and set the first month of spend around what clicks cost for that work.

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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