SepticByers Septic Service
9Xorganic traffic
91 to 799 visits a month
- more ranking keywords (36 to 395)
- 11X
- more ranking keywords (36 to 395)
- conversion rate
- 23.1%
- conversion rate
Google Ads in San Antonio
Lithium manages Google Ads for San Antonio trades and traces every call back to the keyword and ad that paid for it.

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Paid search basics
At Lithium Marketing, PPC management for San Antonio contractors starts with what a click costs in your trade. Clicks here are not cheap: the average for “hvac repair san antonio” is $74.99, and for “garage door repair san antonio” it is $57.74. At those prices every call has to be traced to the keyword and ad behind it, or there is no telling which part of the budget is working.
“Plumber san antonio” is close behind at $55.69 a click. So we split campaigns by job, give each one a landing page with the phone number on top and go through the search terms every week, cutting the ones that bring clicks but no calls.
Click prices
At the low end, “landscaping san antonio” costs $7.47 a click on about 2,400 searches a month, and roofing and electrical searches sit near $21 a click. A landscaper can learn a lot from a small test budget, while a roofer or electrician needs tight keyword lists and a landing page for each job before spending much.
One more thing from the results page: no ads showed for “plumber san antonio” when we checked, and the Map Pack held the top spot. Paid slots come and go with the time of day and other advertisers’ budgets, which is why we run Google Ads alongside work on your Google Business Profile.
| Search | Searches a month | Cost per click |
|---|---|---|
| ppc management san antonio | 50 | not reported |
| google ads agency san antonio | 40 | not reported |
| ppc agency san antonio | 20 | not reported |
Source: Google Ads keyword data, average monthly U.S. searches. "Under 10" = below Google’s reporting floor.
| Search | Searches a month | Cost per click |
|---|---|---|
| hvac repair san antonio | 2,900 | $74.99 |
| garage door repair san antonio | 2,400 | $57.74 |
| plumber san antonio | 4,400 | $55.69 |
| pest control san antonio | 4,400 | $28.24 |
| water damage restoration san antonio | 480 | $22.62 |
| electrician san antonio | 1,900 | $21.37 |
| roofing company san antonio | 2,400 | $21.00 |
| landscaping san antonio | 2,400 | $7.47 |
Source: Google Ads keyword data, average monthly U.S. searches. "Under 10" = below Google’s reporting floor.
Source: one Google results page for “plumber san antonio”, as Google showed it to a searcher located in San Antonio. Search ad counts exclude sponsored local listings. Results shift by searcher and day.
Weather and budget
July and August tie as San Antonio’s warmest months, with an average high of 95 °F. If your AC repair calls climb when the heat peaks, plan a bigger daily budget for those weeks and have a same-day AC landing page live before the first hot stretch.
May, June and October see quite a bit of rain, and the city sits among the most flood-prone regions in North America. If roof leaks and water damage calls follow those months for you, set those campaigns to scale up as the rain arrives and pull back when it passes; your tracked calls will show whether the pattern holds for your business.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau 2025 population estimates, ACS 2020–2024 and 2023 County Business Patterns.
Bidding by trade
HVAC and plumbing searches sit near the top of the click-price table, so those budgets go furthest when each ad names the exact job searched (AC repair, a water heater, a slab leak) and lands on a page about that job with the phone number on top.
Bexar County has 109 painting contractors and 106 excavation and site preparation contractors, and neither trade has a search in the table. Their campaigns start from the jobs they sell, such as exterior repaints, cabinet refinishing, lot clearing or driveway prep, and the first month of tracked calls shows which of those keywords pay.
County Business Patterns
Trade and home service businesses in Bexar County
Establishments by industry, 2023
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 County Business Patterns (NAICS establishment counts).
The first month
Your money follows booked calls, which means the tracking has to work before anything else does.
We read your existing account or your call log, find the jobs that pay best and set a starting budget around them.
Calls ring through a number tied to the campaign that produced them, and GA4 conversion tags record every form, so the monthly report can show cost per lead campaign by campaign.
AC repair, water heaters and roof leaks each get their own ad group, ads that name the job and a landing page built for it.
For the first month we review bids, search terms and ad hours every day; after that, weekly, moving money toward the campaigns whose calls turn into jobs.
What every Google Ads account includes
The same eight parts go into every Google Ads account, wherever the business is.
Ads that paid off
Byers Septic Service, a septic tank company, is the case on the card, and its numbers come from Google Ads that Lithium ran together with a new website and SEO. Painting contractor Chris Martin of Mt. Hood Pro Painting says what happened to his phone once he started with Lithium.
Septic9Xorganic traffic
91 to 799 visits a month
“Ever since we've used Lithium Marketing, our phone has been ringing off the hook and we can hardly keep up with the leads we get from Google, Facebook or through our website. Most of our leads other than referrals are through Google and it's all because of Lithium Marketing.”
Chris MartinMt. Hood Pro PaintingWider reach
One account can run San Antonio and the cities around it as separate campaigns, each with its own budget. Before adding New Braunfels, Austin, Round Rock, Georgetown, Killeen or Corpus Christi, check that city’s PPC page below for what its trade clicks cost; the Texas page links the rest.
Published price
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
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Call (503) 766-5964 or email [email protected].
Typical ad spend runs $2,000–$5,000 a month, and where you land depends on your trade’s click price. HVAC repair clicks average $74.99 here and landscaping clicks $7.47, so an HVAC company needs a bigger budget and a sharper landing page to get the same number of calls. Our management fee is separate from that spend.
Some of it always will, because Google charges for the click whether or not the visitor picks up the phone. We keep that share down with negative keywords that block searches unlikely to become work, such as DIY and job-seeker terms, and with call tracking that shows which campaigns waste the most, so their budget can move to the ones producing calls.
From $500 a month in management, plus ad spend, the fee covers setup, tracking, campaign builds and ongoing tuning for a smaller account. Three things raise it: a bigger ad budget, more channels such as Microsoft or Meta, and landing pages we design for you. You see the number and sign off on it before any campaign starts.
Yes. Besides Google, we manage Microsoft Ads plus Meta campaigns on Facebook and Instagram. Google usually comes first because people there are searching for the job; a second channel gets added when the Google numbers are solid and there is budget left to test.
We change it or stop it. Each campaign is judged on cost per lead, and one that runs high after a fair test gets new keywords, new ads or a new landing page. If it still doesn’t pay, its budget moves to a campaign that does.
Free action plan
Send the jobs you most want booked and roughly what each is worth to you, plus account access if you already run ads. A co-founder reviews it with you on a short video call and lays out a first-month budget and the first campaigns to build.
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