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HVAC PPC in LA |

Google Ads Agency for HVAC Companies in Los Angeles, CA

We run Google Ads for HVAC companies in Los Angeles, CA – heating and cooling contractors who need the phone ringing during a heat wave, not a report showing impressions. Every campaign is built around booked installs and emergency repair calls, with a cost attached to each one.

Paced to the season, split by ticket size, and measured against booked jobs.

★★★★★4.9HVAC Google Ads SpecialistsHVAC PPCSince 2016
1 +
years of experience
1 %
avg. conversion rate
1 -6x
average ROAS
1 m+
in Google Ads managed
AC Repair
Heating Repair
System Install
Maintenance Plans
Emergency HVAC
Brand Terms
AC Repair
Heating Repair
System Install
Maintenance Plans
Emergency HVAC
Brand Terms
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Live before the next heat wave.

Live before the next heat wave

SEO takes months. A paid search account built properly is taking emergency AC calls the week it launches, which is what matters when the forecast hits triple digits and the schedule is empty.

Priced per booked install

Every call is tracked back to the search term that produced it, so you know what a replacement job costs to buy versus a filter change. Lead count on its own tells an HVAC contractor nothing useful.

Budget follows the weather

Spend gets pushed into the first heat wave and the first cold snap and pulled back through spring and autumn, so the account is not paying August prices in October for clicks nobody is converting.

Answered after hours

Emergency HVAC searches peak in the evening and overnight. Bids rise when the calls are worth the most, and the ad points at a number a homeowner can tap rather than a contact form.

Why PPC for HVAC?

What HVAC Google Ads management covers

Pay-per-click advertising is the only channel that puts an HVAC contractor in front of a homeowner whose AC just failed, on the day it failed. Home services search leads average around $85, and in a metro as competitive as Los Angeles the difference between a well-built account and a default one is most of that number.

Top of the page when it breaks

No waiting for rankings. When a compressor fails in Sherman Oaks in August, you are the first result that homeowner sees.

Repair and install kept apart

Two campaigns, two bids, two landing pages. The $180 repair never sets the price for the $12,000 replacement.

Negatives built for the trade

DIY searches, parts shoppers, technician job seekers and window-unit buyers get excluded before launch, not after they have spent your budget.

Tracked to the booked job

Call tracking by campaign, so the report shows installs won rather than clicks bought or forms filled.

individual, not templated
200+ negatives before launch
weekly optimization
conversion tracking day one
you own the account
no long-term lock-in
individual, not templated
200+ negatives before launch
weekly optimization
conversion tracking day one
you own the account
no long-term lock-in
Differentiator

How our LA HVAC PPC accounts are built

Most HVAC ad accounts in Los Angeles are one campaign covering repair, installation and maintenance at a single bid. The cheapest job on the list ends up setting the price for the most valuable one. It is one lever inside HVAC marketing in Los Angeles, and it works best alongside HVAC SEO. For how we run paid search outside the trade, see Google Ads management in Los Angeles.

Audit the account before touching the budget

What a booked install costs you today, which search terms burned money through the last shoulder season, whether conversion tracking is even recording calls correctly. Most HVAC accounts we open are counting form views as leads.

Rebuild around ticket size

Emergency repair, system replacement, maintenance and commercial work each become their own campaign with their own bid and their own page, because a homeowner replacing a system and one needing a tune-up are not the same buyer.

Two hundred negatives before launch

HVAC attracts an unusual amount of irrelevant traffic: parts, manuals, DIY repair videos, HVAC schools and job applicants. Every one of those clicks is billable if nobody excluded it first.

Worked weekly against the forecast

Search terms reviewed, bids adjusted to demand, and budget moved ahead of a heat wave rather than after it. HVAC is the trade where a week of inattention costs the most.

Results

What this looks like in practice

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Mr. Fridge

Commercial refrigeration – WA & TX

High-ticket emergency refrigeration work where a single booked job can cover a quarter of the month’s ad budget. We rebuilt the account around how commercial cooling is actually searched: single-theme ad groups, negatives built before launch, and ads and landing pages matched to the exact equipment and failure type. Full call attribution means every booked job traces back to the campaign that produced it. The account now converts at roughly four times the search average and runs across two states under one structure.

1 -12x
return on ad spend
1 %
conversion rate
1 %
top ad CTR
Northwest Aviation Medicine

DOT & CDL exam campaign

Not heating and cooling, but the same account problem in a different trade. A practice with two very different buyers – pilots booking FAA medicals and commercial drivers needing a DOT physical this week – was selling both from one page and one campaign, so neither converted. We split them into separate campaigns so the ad, the landing page and the booking flow all matched the search, then tracked every call back to the campaign that earned it.

The mechanics are identical to splitting emergency repair from system replacement in an HVAC account. Two buyers, two urgencies, two ticket sizes, two sets of objections. Run together they average into something that serves neither.

The numbers sit well above the benchmarks for paid search: a 40% conversion rate against a search average nearer 7%, and a click-through rate more than double the norm. What it did for the business was open a second steady revenue line it had not been competing for at all.

1 %
click-through rate
1 %
conversion rate
1 x
return on ad spend
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our work process

From audit to booked HVAC jobs in four weeks

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week 1

Audit & Research

Before we touch a setting we dig into your niche, your competitors and how customers in your area actually search. Already running ads? You get a line-by-line audit first - structure, wasted spend, tracking, landing pages.
week 2

Build & Track

Single-theme ad groups so every ad, keyword and landing page say the same thing. 200+ negative keywords blocked before launch. Conversion tracking and call attribution wired in before a single dollar is spent.
week 3

Launch & Measure

Campaigns go live and get watched weekly through the learning phase. First qualified leads usually land inside the first week - and every one of them traces back to the campaign and search that produced it.
week 4 onward

Optimize & Scale

Weekly search term reviews, A/B tests on ads and landing pages, bids adjusted, losers paused, winners expanded. Cost per lead comes down, and you keep a direct line to the person doing the work - no ticket queue.
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who we run ads for

HVAC campaigns we build

Every heating and cooling service searches differently, converts differently and carries a different margin. One campaign covering all of them overpays for the cheapest call and underbids the job that pays for the month.

Emergency AC & heating repair

The highest-intent search in the trade. Runs 24/7 with after-hours bid adjustments, because a homeowner with a dead compressor at 11pm hires whoever answers the phone first.

System replacement & installation

Long consideration and a high ticket. Separate campaigns, separate landing pages, and ad copy that answers financing and rebate questions before the call rather than after it.

Maintenance agreements

The revenue that carries the shoulder months. Campaigns run harder in spring and autumn when repair demand drops but tune-up intent is at its peak.

Equipment brand terms

Carrier, Trane, Lennox, Mitsubishi and Daikin searches are cheap because most competitors never build them. They convert well because the homeowner has already chosen the system.

audit first
built for your market
tracked to the call
worked every week
yours from day one
audit first
built for your market
tracked to the call
worked every week
yours from day one
our pricing

Pricing that starts where your project starts.

We’re a boutique agency by choice. Limited capacity means the HVAC accounts we run get worked every week – not parked in a queue behind dozens of others.

Most agencies make you sit through a sales call to hear a number. We’d rather you know before you pick up the phone. Google Ads management starts at $750 a month flat, plus 5% of spend above $10,000 a month. Ad budget is separate and always paid straight to Google. No lock-in, and the account is yours from day one.

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No long-term contracts

starting prices

Standard

Everything in Starter, worked weekly – plus ongoing landing page management and A/B testing development on both ads and pages.

flat fee from

$1,250/mo

most popular

5% – above $10k spend

Los Angeles

HVAC Google Ads across Greater Los Angeles

Los Angeles is not one market for heating and cooling. The Valley runs hot and cools late, the coast barely runs AC at all, and older Pasadena housing stock drives replacement demand that behaves nothing like new construction. A single citywide campaign pays the same premium in all of them.

We build HVAC campaigns around the areas a contractor can actually reach before the appointment window closes. Geo-targeting follows real drive times rather than a radius drawn around the shop, bid adjustments follow where the high-ticket installs come from, and landing pages name the neighborhoods a homeowner recognises. Licensing matters here too – a CSLB-licensed contractor and EPA Section 608 certified technicians are trust signals worth putting in the ad copy, not burying on an about page.

HVAC service areas we run campaigns in: Sherman Oaks, Burbank, Glendale, Pasadena, Hollywood, West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, Culver City, Downtown LA, Long Beach and Orange County.

Common questions about HVAC Google Ads

01 What does an HVAC lead cost on Google Ads in Los Angeles?
Home services search leads average roughly $85, and non-branded heating and cooling terms run higher again in a market as competitive as LA. Local Services Ads typically come in cheaper per lead than standard search.
The number that matters is cost per booked install. We report both, and we will tell you when cheap leads are not converting.
02 Do you separate repair campaigns from installation?
Yes. It is the single biggest lever in most HVAC accounts. A filter change and a full system replacement are different searches with different ticket sizes and different objections.
Run in one campaign, the cheap job sets the bid and the install never gets found.
03 How is the ad budget paced through the year?
Spend is pushed hard into the first heat wave and the first cold snap, then pulled back through spring and autumn. Maintenance and tune-up campaigns carry the quieter weeks so the account is not paying peak prices for clicks nobody is converting.
Flat monthly spend is the most common way an HVAC budget disappears without producing installs.
04 Do you run Local Services Ads as well?
Where they are available and worth it, yes. LSAs are pay-per-lead and usually cheaper than standard search, but they do not replace a search campaign for high-ticket installation work.
We will tell you which mix makes sense for your service area rather than selling you both by default.
05 Do I own the Google Ads account?
Yes. We build inside your account, not a shared agency one. The campaigns, the conversion data and the history stay in your name.
If you leave, nothing needs migrating and nothing is held back.
06 How fast do HVAC campaigns produce calls?
Usually within the first week. Paid search is the fastest lever in the trade, which is why it is the one we reach for when the schedule needs filling now.
The first 90 days are about lowering cost per booked job, not proving the channel works.
07 Do you bid on competitor and brand names?
Equipment brand terms almost always, because they are cheap and convert. Competitor names case by case, since they can work but they invite retaliation.
We will show you the maths before spending on either.
08 What if we already have an agency?
We will take a look at what is actually going on in the account and give you an expert opinion on whether we can do better, and what needs to happen next for the business to scale.
You keep the findings either way, and there is no obligation attached to them.
09 Is there a minimum term on HVAC campaign management?
A short initial term only, long enough to gather search-term data through at least one demand swing. After that it runs month to month.
Judging an HVAC account on two weeks of shoulder-season data tells you nothing useful.

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