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Paid search in Roanoke

Roanoke PPC that turns ad spend into calls.

Roanoke Google Ads from $500 a month in management, plus ad spend, in an account you own, with reports on calls, leads and cost per lead.

  • Cost per lead for every campaign
  • Each job type has its own landing page
  • The account stays in your name
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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

What the budget buys

Which Roanoke clicks are worth buying

An average click on “garage door repair roanoke” costs $14.48, and a click on “pest control roanoke” costs $18.47, so the budget has to start with what a call is worth in your trade. Lithium Marketing runs Google Ads for Roanoke service businesses, and every campaign begins with conversion tracking, so the report shows calls, leads and cost per lead.

The spread does not stop there: “plumber roanoke” runs $22.19 a click, while “landscaping roanoke” runs $4.57. A landscaper can test a modest budget and learn quickly; a plumber needs a tighter set of searches, a landing page that answers the emergency and a report that shows which clicks turned into calls.

The year in Roanoke calls

Build the budget around the year, not a flat line

Roanoke averages 14.8 inches of snow a winter. The city lies in the humid subtropical climate zone, with four distinct, but generally mild, seasons. If your own call history dips in the cold months, the ads budget can follow the calendar: lighter in the slow weeks, ready when the calls return.

A budget that never moves ignores both the click prices and the calendar. We set the starting number on the cost of a call in your trade, then move it month by month as the tracking shows which searches produced calls and which only spent money.

residents (2025 estimate)
99,111
residents (2025 estimate)
population change, 2020 to 2025
-0.9%
population change, 2020 to 2025
housing units
49,106
housing units
of occupied homes owner-occupied
52.4%
of occupied homes owner-occupied
of homes built before 1980
77.6%
of homes built before 1980
median home value
$190,500
median home value

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

Trades and their click prices

How the trade mix shapes a Roanoke campaign

Roanoke city has 32 landscaping services, and the trade buys clicks at $4.57, so a landscaper can test more search terms on the same budget. A plumber buying $22.19 clicks needs the campaign narrowed to the jobs that pay, because every wasted click costs more.

Pest control sits between them at $18.47 a click, and a pest company should put its budget against the treatments it wants to sell. If the pest calls bunch up in one part of the year, the budget can rise and fall with that pattern and not sit still all year.

County Business Patterns

Trade and home service businesses in Roanoke city

Establishments by industry, 2023

  • Residential remodelers
    32
  • Landscaping services
    32
  • Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors
    30
  • Electrical contractors
    15
  • New home builders
    13
  • Painting contractors
    12
  • Roofing contractors
    8
  • Pest control companies
    6

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

The account in month one

How a Roanoke account gets built

The Google Ads account stays in your name, and tracking is live before the first budget decision.

1

Start with what the account already spends

An existing account gets a line-by-line audit: the campaigns that produce calls, the keywords that only spend, and where the budget leaks.

2

Put a source on every lead

GA4 and call tracking show the keyword and ad behind each call or form, so the report starts with the source.

3

Give each service its own line

Roof repair, drain cleaning or another service gets a campaign, a landing page and a budget line that stands alone.

4

Bids move daily for the first month

Bids and search terms change daily through the first 30 days; after that the account gets a weekly review against the calendar you set.

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 from a fence company

The ads, site and SEO behind F&W Fence Co.

The card covers the website, SEO and Google Ads work Lithium did for F&W Fence Co., a fence company, and the ad account stays in the client’s name. Atiyeh Bros owner Kevin Atiyeh adds his view in the quote.

F&W Fence Co. website homepage for fence installation, supply and repairFence

F&W Fence Co.

4Xmore ranking keywords

190 to 745 keywords

top-3 rankings (3 to 28)
9X
top-3 rankings (3 to 28)
core search conversion rate
27.78%
core search conversion rate
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 the valley

One campaign for the cities around Roanoke

Campaigns can reach Salem and Vinton from the same account, so the nearby markets are a targeting decision, not a new build. Each city below has a PPC page with its own click prices, and the state page covers the rest of Virginia.

Published price

What PPC management costs in Roanoke

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

Google Ads questions from Roanoke owners

DJ Van Zanten

Still curious?

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

What starting budget makes sense for Roanoke ads?

Work backward from the jobs. If a booked job covers the clicks it takes to win it, the budget is in the right range, and a $4.57 landscaping click stretches further than a $14.48 garage door click. The landing page decides how many of those clicks pick up the phone, so we set the number together and revise it when real costs arrive.

How soon does a new campaign bring calls?

The first calls usually arrive in the first week, once the campaigns are live and tracking is in place. From there the work is subtraction: drop search terms that never turn into a call and move the money to the ones that do, so the account gets sharper as it runs.

What commitment does PPC management carry?

Six months is the starting term. Once that ends, the agreement rolls month to month on 30 days’ notice. Before the first campaign, the management fee goes in writing; it follows ad spend, the channels in use and landing-page work.

Are Google Ads the only channel you manage?

Google is the first channel for most trades, but not the only one Lithium runs. Microsoft Ads and Meta ads on Facebook and Instagram get added when your customers already spend time there, or when Google clicks in your trade cost more than a booked job can carry. The tracking decides, not a package.

How do we know which keywords produced work?

Each lead keeps its source: the search term and the ad stay attached, and the report groups calls, leads and cost per lead under the campaign that earned them. Tell us which leads became work, and the next budget change follows those groups.

Free action plan

Request a free Roanoke Google Ads audit

Name the trade, the months to fill and the value of a booked job, and bring the current account if one is running. A co-founder puts the click prices next to that figure on a short video call and marks the starting budget.

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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