Local Services Ads, Search, and SEO each do a different job
Contractors often pick one channel and ignore the rest, but in home services they're complementary. Local Services Ads (Google Guaranteed) sit at the very top, charge per lead, and convert because they carry Google's trust badge. Traditional Search captures the more specific, higher-value queries LSAs miss and lets you control the landing experience. Local SEO and the Map Pack are the long game — they lower your blended cost per job over time so you're not renting every booking from the ad auction. The right mix depends on your margins, your service area, and your capacity. We run them together, watch cost per booked job by channel, and shift budget to whatever is filling the calendar most efficiently this season.