Google Ads for Roofing Contractors
Paid search is the only lever that moves the same week the hail does.
Buy the Spike You Did Not See Coming
Roofing clicks cost what they cost because the money behind them is real. The Insurance Information Institute puts the average wind and hail homeowners claim at $13,511 across 2018 through 2022, drawing on ISO data. Every roofer in your market feels that number, which is why they all bid on the same words.
Roofers also get a second ad surface most trades do not. Google lists Roofers among the eligible Local Services Ads categories in the United States, which places screened, license-checked providers above the ordinary text ads. Running both, with separate budgets and separate jobs to do, is usually the right build.
We treat roofing paid search as a seasonal instrument, not a flat monthly retainer. Storm weeks get funded hard. Dead weeks get throttled or paused outright. And if your phone is not covered from four to seven in the evening, we will tell you to fix that before you spend a dollar on clicks.
WHERE IT LEAKS
How Roofing Ad Budgets Get Burned
Most roofing accounts we take over are losing a third of the spend before anybody clicks something useful.
- Broad match with no negative list. Roofing jobs hiring. Roofing supply near me. How to fix a roof leak yourself. Roof rack. All of it billable, none of it a customer.
- The same budget all year. One daily cap for a hail week and for a dead February. In one you are tapped out by ten in the morning. In the other you are paying for boredom.
- Ads pointed at the homepage. Somebody clicked a hail damage ad. Landing them on your company history page means you paid for that click twice and kept neither half.
- No call tracking. Roofing converts by phone. Without tracked numbers per campaign you are optimizing on form fills and guessing at everything else.
- Nobody answers during the spike. Paid demand does not wait for a callback. The click is already paid for by the time it rings out.
- Radius targeting instead of the damage path. Hail falls in a swath, not a circle. A twenty-five mile radius spends most of its money on streets where nothing happened.
- Local Services Ads left unmanaged. Unanswered leads and unrequested reviews pull your position down, and the junk leads never get disputed inside the window.
- Repair and replacement in one campaign. One bid, two completely different job values. The cheap clicks quietly eat the budget the expensive ones needed.
Every one of these is a settings problem or a staffing problem. Raising the bid fixes neither.
THE PLAN
How We Run Storm-Season Spend
Two speeds. Baseline and surge.
Baseline runs year round on the work that exists without weather. Repairs, leaks, inspections, maintenance agreements, gutter jobs, and commercial roof service. Budgets stay modest, bids stay disciplined, and the point is a steady flow of small jobs that keep crews working and reviews arriving.
Surge is a prepared campaign that sits paused. Ad copy written, landing pages live, negatives loaded, geography ready to be redrawn. When a hail or wind event hits, we retarget to the affected parishes and zip codes, lift the caps, and switch it on inside a day. That speed only exists because the work happened in the quiet season.
Local Services Ads run alongside both. Position there depends on your review score, your response rate, and how fast you answer, so it rewards the same discipline everything else needs. We handle the lead disputes too, because storm-week junk adds up faster than owners expect.
Reporting is booked inspections and signed jobs by campaign, with call recordings attached. Not impressions, not click-through rate. If a campaign is not producing signed work, we would rather turn it off than write a paragraph defending it.
THE WORK
What Roofing Paid Search Includes
Nine moving parts, all tuned to a season nobody can schedule.
NO LOCK-IN
Why Roofers Let Us Run the Spend
- We throttle instead of coasting. Dead weeks get paused. You should not pay a full management fee for a month with no weather and no demand.
- We will refuse to launch. If nobody answers the phone in the evening, ads are a way to buy voicemail. Intake gets fixed first or we do not start.
- The account stays yours. Your Google Ads account, your conversion history, your data. We do not run you through an agency account you cannot take with you.
- Veteran-owned and owner-run. The person adjusting your bids is the person who answers your text on a Saturday.
- One roofer per service area. We are not bidding against you with somebody else’s card.
- Cancel anytime. No twelve-month term on management, ever.
STRAIGHT ANSWERS
Roofing Ad Budget Questions, Answered
What owners ask right before they hand over the card.
Work backward from a signed job. If a replacement nets you several thousand dollars and one in four inspections signs, you can carry a high cost per lead. We size budget from your close rate and job value on the discovery call instead of quoting a package.
They do different work. Local Services Ads sit above the text ads, charge per lead rather than per click, and require Google’s screening. Text ads let you control the message and the landing page. Most roofers should run both, with the screened ads carrying near-me demand.
Within a day if the campaign was built in advance. From scratch it is closer to a week once you count account setup, policy review, landing pages, and tracking. That gap is exactly why we build the surge campaign in the off-season and leave it paused.
At a lower level, yes. Repair, maintenance, inspection, and commercial terms are cheaper clicks, they keep your account history and quality signals alive, and they keep reviews arriving during the months your competitors go quiet.
Because you are bidding against every roofer in three states plus the crews who followed the weather in. Cost per click is not the number to manage. Cost per signed job is, and it improves through better negatives, tighter geography, faster answering, and pages that convert.
Yes, for anything beyond small repair spend. The page has to match the ad, load fast on a phone, explain the claim step, show the license number, and offer one action. Sending paid clicks to the homepage is the most common waste we find.
They work for neighborhood awareness after a visible storm and for recruiting crews. They do not replace search, because search catches somebody already looking for you. If the budget is small, put it into search first and revisit social later.
Usually yes, and we prefer it. Your conversion history has real value. We audit what is there, keep what performs, and rebuild what does not. Either way the account stays in your name and you keep full access to it.
Get a Straight Read on Your Ad Spend
We will look at your search terms report, your negative keyword list, your call handling, and what a booked inspection is actually costing you. Free, and yours even if you never hire us.
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