PlumbingSarkinen Plumbing
2Xleads
on the same budget
- search visibility
- 3.75X
- search visibility
- ads conversion rate
- 27.37%
- ads conversion rate
PPC in Sandy, Oregon
PPC management that ties each Sandy ad click to a booked job.
Every Sandy ad dollar gets traced to the calls it produced, and budget shifts toward the keywords that book jobs.
- Calls traced to each keyword
- Ads limited to towns you serve
- Repair and project ads kept apart
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2010Lithium Marketing, established in 2010
$10M+Over $10 million in Google ad spend managed
Businesses
we’ve worked with
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
Sandy PPC, briefly
Why Sandy Google Ads start with call tracking
Sandy service businesses that hire Lithium Marketing for Google Ads get call tracking first, before any budget goes up. An average click on “garage door repair sandy or” costs $78.11, on about 10 searches a month, and at that price an untracked call is an expensive mystery. With tracking in place, every call can be traced to the keyword and ad behind it.
When we searched “plumber sandy or”, no ads appeared above the map listings. Ad competition shifts by trade, hour and budget, so a Sandy account starts with a small, tracked test in your trade and raises the budget only where calls come back at a price your jobs can cover.
Targeting in Sandy
Reaching Sandy searchers, with or without a city name
Google Ads can show your ad to people searching from the towns you pick, even when they type a search like “roof leak repair near me” with no city in it. For a Sandy account, we set location targets town by town, add negative keywords for work you don’t do and send each ad group to a landing page built for that job.
Microsoft Ads and Meta ads on Facebook and Instagram can come later. We add a channel once tracking shows Google producing calls at a price you accept, and each channel reports the same way: calls, leads and cost per lead.
| Search | Searches a month | Cost per click |
|---|---|---|
| google ads agency sandy or | under 10 | not reported |
| ppc agency sandy or | under 10 | not reported |
| ppc management sandy or | under 10 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| garage door repair sandy or | 10 | $78.11 |
| water damage restoration sandy or | 10 | not reported |
Source: Google Ads keyword data, average monthly U.S. searches. "Under 10" = below Google’s reporting floor.
- Map Pack
- The first thing on the page
- Search ads
- None recorded
- Local listing reviews
- 39 to 233 Google reviews each
- Directories in the top 10
- MapQuest, Nextdoor, Yelp
- AI Overview
- Not shown
- People also ask
- Shown
Source: one Google results page for “plumber sandy or”, as Google showed it to a searcher located in Sandy. Search ad counts exclude sponsored local listings. Results shift by searcher and day.
The Sandy market
Timing Sandy ad budgets to dry summers
Sandy’s summers are dry, with no average monthly temperatures above 71.6 °F. If your outdoor work, such as painting, landscaping or roofing, books up in those months, the budget can rise ahead of summer and ease off once your crews have more work than they can take.
Sandy is the northern terminus of Oregon Route 211. If your jobs run south along 211 or east up the Mount Hood Corridor, Google Ads can target each of those towns separately, with higher bids where the jobs pay best and lower bids elsewhere.
- residents (2025 estimate)
- 13,323
- residents (2025 estimate)
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- +5.4%
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- housing units
- 4,599
- housing units
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- 74.7%
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- of homes built before 1980
- 19.1%
- of homes built before 1980
- median home value
- $470,300
- median home value
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau 2025 population estimates, ACS 2020–2024 and 2023 County Business Patterns.
Trades and bids
Bidding by trade across Clackamas County
Clackamas County has 216 plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors. With that many county firms in the field, a plumbing or HVAC ad needs a landing page that puts the phone number and service hours first, and the ad schedule should match the hours someone answers.
Residential remodelers are a bigger group still, at 310 in the county. If your remodeling leads are mostly planned projects, the ads should lead to a gallery and an estimate form, and the budget should be set against the value of a finished project.
County Business Patterns
Trade and home service businesses in Clackamas County
Establishments by industry, 2023
- New home builders344
- Residential remodelers310
- Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors216
- Landscaping services215
- Electrical contractors122
- Painting contractors116
- Excavation and site preparation contractors109
- Roofing contractors60
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 County Business Patterns (NAICS establishment counts).
Your first month
Getting a Sandy Google Ads account off the ground
Nothing gets a bigger budget until it has produced calls you can count.
1
Review the account you have
If ads already run, we go through the search terms they paid for and keep anything that produced calls. New accounts start from a keyword list built around your best jobs.
2
Track calls before raising spend
Call tracking numbers, form tracking and GA4 conversions go in first, so the first report already shows which keyword sent each lead.
3
Landing pages for each kind of job
Ads for repair work go to a page with the phone number up top, and ads for bigger projects go to a page with photos and an estimate form.
4
Tune bids and terms as calls come in
Bids and search terms get adjusted every day for the first 30 days, then every week, with budget moving toward the ads that book jobs.
What every Google Ads account includes
The same eight parts go into every Google Ads account, wherever the business is.
- 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
Google Ads, a new website and SEO for Sarkinen Plumbing
Sarkinen Plumbing, a plumber serving the Portland area, ran its Google Ads through Lithium alongside a new website and SEO, and the card shows the combined result. Sandy is part of that same metro. Drake Snodgrass of Drake’s 7 Dees, a landscaping and garden center business, speaks for himself beside it.
Plumbing“Lithium has moved us to page 1 in Google search organically. Prior to working with them we spent a huge part of our marketing budget on paid search. Website redesign was a great experience.”
Drake SnodgrassDrake’s 7 DeesAround Sandy
Bidding on Sandy and the cities next to it
One account can bid on Sandy and its neighbors separately, raising bids where jobs pay more. For figures on each nearby city, open its PPC page below; the Oregon link has the full state.
Published price
Google Ads management fees in Sandy
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
Sandy Google Ads questions, before you spend
Still curious?
Call (503) 766-5964 or email [email protected].
What does PPC management cost on top of ad spend?
A typical account pays $500 to $1,500 a month in management on $2,000 to $5,000 a month in ad spend. Your fee follows the size of that spend and the channels we run, and the starting ad budget is set against what a booked job is worth to you.
How soon will I see calls from Sandy ads?
Initial results typically show within the first week, once tracking is live. If your ads also cover Boring, Gresham or towns up the Mount Hood Corridor, the first month’s call log shows which of those places send booked work, and that decides where the bids go up.
Will you build landing pages for my ads?
Yes. Each kind of job gets a landing page that matches the ad, so a repair ad lands on a page about that repair with the phone number first. Landing page work is one of the things that shapes the management fee, and we agree on the fee before campaigns launch.
Do I have to sign a long contract for Google Ads?
Six months to start, then month to month, like most Lithium services. Once the first six months are up, either side can end the agreement with 30 days’ notice. That opening stretch gives the account time to collect tracked calls that show which keywords and towns deserve more budget.
Can ads run only when my crew can take the call?
Yes. Ads can be scheduled by day and hour, so they pause outside the times you answer, or keep running with the AI receptionist picking up after hours. Budgets can also come down in slow weeks and go up when you have open slots on the calendar.
Free action plan
Find out what Sandy clicks cost for your trade
Bring your trade, your service towns and your average ticket to a short video call. A co-founder looks up click prices for the jobs you want and sets a starting ad budget with you.
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
(503) 766-5964
[email protected]
2000 NE 42nd Ave Ste D Unit 2370, Portland, OR 97213
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