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PPC in Cary, North Carolina

Cary PPC built around the number that matters: cost per call.

Cary service businesses get a Google Ads account built on call tracking, so each call is tied to the search and ad that paid for it.

  • Every call tied to its keyword
  • One landing page per service
  • Spend follows your busy weeks
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9Xorganic traffic for Byers Septic Service (91 to 799 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

Cary PPC, on the numbers

The clicks a Cary Google Ads budget buys

An average click on “hvac repair cary” costs $55.18. At that price, a Cary Google Ads account has to know which click became a call, so Lithium Marketing wires the tracking before the budget goes up.

The spread across trades is wide. “garage door repair cary” runs $46.28 a click, while “landscaping cary” costs $3.06. A landscaper can test a small campaign at that price; a garage door company has to be sharper about which searches it pays for.

The Cary market

Hot summers, mild winters and the ad calendar

Cary has hot summers and mildly cold winters, with about 3.2 inches of snow in a typical year. If your heating calls bunch up in the cold months and your cooling calls in the hot ones, set the ad budget from your own call history, not the same number every month.

Cary gets several months of pleasant weather each year. If your crews book outdoor work through that stretch, put the ad budget where your own booked jobs say the season starts and ends.

residents (2025 estimate)
183,582
residents (2025 estimate)
population change, 2020 to 2025
+5%
population change, 2020 to 2025
housing units
73,795
housing units
of occupied homes owner-occupied
66.6%
of occupied homes owner-occupied
of homes built before 1980
12%
of homes built before 1980
median home value
$580,200
median home value

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

Trades in Wake County

Where a roofer and a landscaper should start

Wake County has 118 roofing contractors. A roofer who wants the repair calls needs a page for each service and a list of searches to exclude, or the budget buys jobs the crew turns down.

Landscaping works differently. Wake County has 464 landscaping companies, and a cheap click lets a landscaper buy enough data to see which services pay before committing a season’s budget.

County Business Patterns

Trade and home service businesses in Wake County

Establishments by industry, 2023

  • Residential remodelers
    503
  • New home builders
    470
  • Landscaping services
    464
  • Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors
    395
  • Electrical contractors
    301
  • Painting contractors
    142
  • Excavation and site preparation contractors
    130
  • Roofing contractors
    118

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

Your first month

Building the account from the tracking up

Nothing in the account changes until tracking is right, then the campaigns follow your own call calendar.

1

Read the account first

Every running campaign, its offer and its conversion tag gets read before anything changes, and the search terms that never call go on a cut list.

2

Tie each call to its click

GA4, call tracking and conversion tags are wired so a call, a form and the ad behind them become one record.

3

Give each job its own campaign

The work you want more of gets its own campaign and landing page, so the ad and the page say the same thing.

4

Set the review rhythm

Bids and search terms get checked every day for the first 30 days, then once a week, against the budget and the calendar you approved.

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

Glass company results from a website, SEO and Google Ads

For Dixie Glass, Lithium handled three pieces of work: SEO, Google Ads and a new website. The company is a glass business on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, trading since 1946. The quote comes from Kevin Atiyeh, whose company Atiyeh Bros sells carpet and rug.

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
“Lithium Marketing has done a good job with understanding our Company and what we specialize in and applying that to our digital marketing.”
Kevin AtiyehKevin AtiyehAtiyeh Bros Carpet

Around Cary

Campaigns for the towns around you

Cary is not the only town a campaign can reach. The cities below each have a PPC page with local figures, and a campaign can target any of them from the start.

Published price

What the Google Ads fee covers in Cary

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 the Google Ads budget

DJ Van Zanten

Still curious?

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

What should a Cary business budget for ad spend?

Start from what a booked job is worth, then compare that with the click price for your trade in the table above. A high click only pays when the job behind it is big enough, so the opening budget is agreed on the strategy call and adjusted once tracking shows real cost per call.

How quickly can paid calls start?

Tracking goes live before the first click, so the calls that come in during the first week are already counted. From there, pause the searches that never call, put more budget behind the ones that book, and judge cost per lead on what the account has learned.

How long does the Google Ads agreement run?

Plan on a six-month first term. After it, the agreement renews one month at a time, and 30 days’ notice closes it. What you pay in management tracks the ad budget, the channels in use and any landing pages we build.

Can I test Google Ads on a small budget?

You can. A trade with a cheap click buys far more testing than an expensive one, and a smaller budget on one service is how most accounts start. The test decides whether to scale, and the report shows cost per lead from the first week.

What does the monthly PPC report show?

Calls, leads and cost per lead for each campaign, with every call tied to the keyword and ad that produced it. When you tell us which leads turned into booked work, the same report can carry that through to the job.

Free action plan

Price your Cary clicks before the first campaign

Tell us the trade you want more work in and the months your crews are busiest. On a short video call, a co-founder will weigh those months against the click price for your trade and what one booked job is worth, then mark the first campaign to run.

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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