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Paid Advertising (PPC) for Builders & General Contractors
Enquiries this week, not this quarter — Google, Meta and social ads managed to cost per lead. Built around how builders & general contractors actually win work.
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Paid Advertising (PPC) built specifically for builders & general contractors. Enquiries this week, not this quarter — Google, Meta and social ads managed to cost per lead. Win extensions, conversions and renovation projects worth having. We already know how buyers in this trade search, which quotes get compared, and which pages turn a search into a phone call — so the plan starts from that rather than from a generic checklist.
Paid Advertising & PPC for builders & general contractors: what we're solving
- Trade-specific challenge: Barn conversions and National Park planning are high-value niches with almost no dedicated local content.
- Second challenge: Generic builder searches attract low-quality, price-led enquiries.
- Where paid advertising (ppc) fits: Broad geo-targeting that pays for clicks from Manchester, Glasgow and beyond when you only work within thirty miles.
- Typical deliverable for builders & general contractors: Project-type pages: extensions, barn conversions, renovations, new builds
What's included
- Project-type pages: extensions, barn conversions, renovations, new builds
- Planning and building control guidance including National Park considerations
- Detailed case studies with photography and project timelines
- Town coverage pages across your working area
- Insurance, warranty and accreditation trust blocks
- Enquiry qualification content on budgets and lead times
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Timeline & pricing
What this looks like month by month
No twelve-month lock-ins and no invented milestones. This is the pace the work actually moves at.
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Month 1
Tracking fixed, account rebuilt with tight geo-targeting and negatives, campaigns live. First cost-per-lead baseline established.
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Month 3
Weekly optimisation compounding: wasted spend cut, winning keywords and creatives scaled, remarketing audiences live.
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Month 6
Stable, predictable cost per enquiry, seasonal budgets planned, and SEO reducing how much you need to spend to fill the diary.
Pricing
From £450 / month + ad spend
PPC campaign management starts at £450 a month per platform plus your ad spend. Most local campaigns run well on £400–£1,500 of monthly spend. No long contracts — you can pause any month.
Reporting
Judged on enquiries, not impressions
One monthly report: calls, form fills, map-pack positions, organic positions and what we changed — plus a live dashboard you can open any time.
Our approach
How we build the campaign
1. Discovery
We learn your best jobs, your margins and the towns you actually want to work in — then build the plan around those, not vanity keywords.
2. Audit & baseline
Technical crawl, Google Business Profile review, competitor gap analysis and an AI visibility baseline across four assistants.
3. Foundations
Fix what's broken: site speed, indexing, schema, citations and profile completeness. This is where the early wins come from.
4. Content & authority
Service, town and industry pages written properly, plus local links and reviews that make them rank.
5. Report & refine
One monthly report in plain English: rankings, calls, form fills and what we're doing next. No 40-page PDFs.
Local detail
Paid Advertising & PPC for builders & general contractors by location
The same trade behaves differently in each market. Here's how we adjust.
Carlisle
New-build and extension demand across the suburbs, with commercial fit-out work around the business parks.
Paid Advertising & PPC in CarlisleKendal
Barn conversions, heritage properties and National Park planning knowledge command premium fees.
Paid Advertising & PPC in KendalBarrow-in-Furness
Supply-chain and housing growth from the shipyard programme sustains both domestic and commercial demand.
Paid Advertising & PPC in Barrow-in-FurnessCompliance & E-E-A-T
CDM 2015, CSCS and building control
On most domestic and commercial projects the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 apply, and clients increasingly check CSCS cards, CHAS or Constructionline accreditation and public liability cover before shortlisting. Add Lake District National Park planning constraints and conservation-area material requirements, and a page that explains the process honestly outperforms one that just lists services.
Seasonal content calendar
- Jan–MarPlanning and quoting season for the year's extensions and conversions.
- Apr–OctBuild season; enquiries shift towards next-year projects as diaries fill.
- Nov–DecInternal work, snagging and commercial fit-outs during quieter trading periods.
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Paid Advertising & PPC for builders & general contractors: common questions
Is paid advertising (ppc) worth it for builders & general contractors?
Only if it produces enquiries, which is why we scope it against your job values. Enquiries this week, not this quarter — Google, Meta and social ads managed to cost per lead. For builders & general contractors, that usually means fewer, better pages targeted at the jobs you actually want, rather than broad traffic that never converts.
How do you tailor paid advertising (ppc) to builders & general contractors?
By using your own service, pricing and compliance detail as the raw material. Planning and building control guidance including National Park considerations That specificity is what separates a page that ranks from one that reads like every competitor's.
Which locations do you cover for builders & general contractors?
Cumbria in depth plus twenty UK cities including London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and Bristol. Each location gets its own page, so you appear in the map packs that matter instead of one generic service area.
How much should I budget for ads in Cumbria?
Most local service campaigns run well on £400–£1,500 a month of ad spend plus management. Rural Cumbrian clicks are far cheaper than city rates, which is one of the few advantages of advertising here.
Google Ads or Facebook Ads — which is better?
They do different jobs. Google captures people searching right now; Facebook and Instagram create demand and handle remarketing. Most local businesses start with Google and add Meta once tracking proves out.
Do I own the ad account?
Yes — always. Accounts are set up in your name with your billing. If we ever part ways, everything stays with you.
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