Google Ads for electricians
From £395 a month
No % of ad spend
One electrician per town
What your ad looks like
✓ Headlines written per job and town
✓ NICEIC, call and location assets set up
Sponsored
Emergency Electrician in Bolton | NICEIC Approved, Local Team
Tripping fuses, power loss and dead sockets traced by qualified local sparks. Ring now for a same-day slot and a clear price before we start.
QUICK ANSWER
PPC for electricians puts your firm above the map when someone near you searches “electrician near me” or “fuse board replacement”. Search ads bill per click and Local Services Ads bill per lead. Accounts that pay their way split fault calls from planned installs, stay within your towns, block trainee and DIY searches, and track every call.
What you get
Pay per lead
✓ Setup
✓ Verification
✓ Disputes
✓ Reviews
Pay per click
✓ Keywords
✓ Ad copy
✓ Bidding
✓ Areas
Electrical searches we bid on
A power cut at 9pm and a fuse board upgrade next month are two different buyers. Each gets a campaign of its own, so the search, the advert and the landing page all describe the same job. Fault searches get call-only electrician pay per click advertising within a short drive of your van. Rewires, EV chargers and landlord EICRs, which gov.uk says private landlords need at least every 5 years, get quote forms and remarketing while people compare prices. Need the job pages built too? See web design for electricians.
Trips and power loss, call-only, tight radius.
Faults page
Consumer unit swaps, won on clear quotes.
Fuse board page
Full and part rewires, bid on bigger homes.
Rewire page
Home chargers fitted, won on reviews and price.
EV page
Landlord reports every five years, repeat work.
EICR page
Downlights and garden lights, sold with photos.
Lighting page
Solar PV and storage, longer quote cycles.
Solar page
Letting agents and portfolios, booked in bulk.
Landlord page
Shops, offices and units, won on tender.
Commercial page
Account structure
Fault calls and planned installs never share a budget. A dead circuit on a Friday night and an EV charger quote on a Tuesday need different bids, hours and pages. So each gets its own campaign with tight ad groups inside. One negative keyword list, call tracking and booked-job import sit across all of them. Ads Starter runs one Search campaign; Growth and Premium add the rest. Electrician Local Services Ads sit alongside as a fourth, pay-per-lead route. Keywords start on phrase match and exact match, and broad match waits for booked-job data.
Campaign 1 · Search
Tripping, power cut and burning smell ad groups.
Campaign 2 · Search
Consumer unit, full and part rewire ad groups.
Campaign 3 · Search
Home charger, landlord and EICR ad groups.
Pay per lead · LSA
Google Verified, showing your Google reviews.
SETUP
How it works
Week 1
Weeks 2–3
Month 1–2
Every month
Waste control
✓ Negative keyword lists built for electricians
✓ Every call matched to the search behind it
Search terms report
“emergency electrician near me” → kept, bid up in your towns
“electrician jobs near me”, “18th edition course” and “how to change a fuse” → blocked as negative keywords the same week.
Weekly checks · negative keywords · call tracking
Ads vs quote sites
Lots of electricians win good work through quote sites, and there is nothing wrong with that. What changes is who keeps the customer. Here is how electrician PPC advertising compares with Checkatrade, MyBuilder, Rated People and Bark, line by line, including the one place it is a draw. Our free tools help you put a number on each.
Quote platforms
Your Google Ads
Payment
✕ Membership or lead fees
✓ Per click or lead, you set the cap
Competition
✕ Often compared with rivals
✓ The enquiry comes to you
Job types
✕ Whatever gets posted
✓ Rewires, not just socket swaps
Your brand
✕ Listed next to other firms
✓ Your name, site and photos
Search data
✕ No search terms shown
✓ Every search term visible
Reviews
✕ Stay on the platform
✓ LSA shows your Google reviews
If you pause
✕ Leads stop the same day
✕ Leads stop too, data stays
Why Zainfy
In September 2026, published fees at UK trade PPC firms started at about £395 a month plus VAT, and one construction specialist billed £180 an hour. Whichever electrician PPC agency you choose, get the monthly fee, the minimum term and who owns the ad account in writing. Here is how an electrician PPC company that only works with trades lines up.
Typical PPC agency
Zainfy
Who they work with
✕ Any sector that pays
✓ Electricians and trades only
Fee
✕ Hourly or a % of ad spend
✓ Flat fee from £395, on the page
Contract
✕ Long fixed terms
✓ 3 months, then rolling monthly
Ad accounts
✕ Often in the agency’s name
✓ Always in your name
Your competitors
✕ Rival electricians nearby too
✓ One electrician per town, always
Reporting
✕ Clicks and impressions
✓ Enquiries, jobs and cost per lead
Setup fee
✕ Common, billed up front
✓ None, ever
PER TOWN
Pricing
Ads Starter
per month + ad spend
Ads Growth
Most popular
per month + ad spend
Ads Premium
per month + ad spend
SEO
from £495
SEO and Ads bundle
from £795
Websites
from £1,195
DAYS
Watch for these
Most electrical accounts we audit leak money through the same four settings, and each one is a quick fix. Start with Google’s location options.
Mistake 1
Presence or interest brings calls from miles away.
Mistake 2
A power cut and an EV quote share one budget.
Mistake 3
No NICEIC or NAPIT badge in the ad text.
Mistake 4
Nobody knows which search booked the rewire.
Who runs your ads
Google Ads
Local Services Ads
Google Analytics 4
Google Search Console
Meta Ads Manager
FAQ
Yes, when the account is split by job and every call is tracked. Google Ads for electricians do best on urgent searches such as power cuts and tripping fuses, where people ring the first local firm that looks qualified. They fail when one campaign covers every job across a county and nobody reads the search terms report.
Start from the jobs you want, not a round number. £10 a day is roughly £300 a month, enough to test one job, such as fault calls, in one town during hours you answer. Rewires, fuse boards and EV chargers across several towns need more. Our marketing budget calculator gives a starting split, and our plans manage up to £1,500, £5,000 or £15,000 of spend.
Most electricians combine three routes. A Google Business Profile with regular reviews, quote sites like Checkatrade or MyBuilder, and their own ads on Google or Microsoft Bing so enquiries come straight to them. Show your NICEIC or NAPIT registration and Part P notification everywhere. Van livery and word of mouth still matter. Our marketing for electricians page covers the rest.
You pay per lead rather than per click, and the price varies by town and job. Electricians are one of Google’s UK Local Services Ads categories. You set a weekly budget and reply to leads quickly, because Google says missed calls and messages can push your ranking down. Leads that are not genuine can be disputed.
Local Services Ads are Google adverts that sit above the normal ads for trades searches. They show your name, rating, Google Verified badge and a call button. You pay when a customer calls or messages you through the ad, not for clicks. For electricians they suit fault calls, where people want a checked, local firm fast.
Yes. Call assets add a phone button to your search ads, and call-only style ads push the call first on mobiles. For fault work that is usually right, because people with no power want to talk. For rewires, EV chargers and EICRs, a page with photos, prices and your registration usually converts better, so we keep both.
Yes, and often separate campaigns. An EV charger buyer compares brands and grants, while a rewire buyer worries about mess and time. Mixing them in one ad group means one advert tries to talk to both and one budget gets eaten by the cheaper clicks. Separate groups let each job have its own advert, bid and landing page.
Usually one of three things: the landing page, the search terms or the location. Clicks landing on a general homepage without a phone number rarely ring. Searches from trainees or DIYers never will. Presence or interest targeting sends clicks from outside your area. We check all three in a free audit of your account.
Not better, different. Quote sites send enquiries, often shared, and you pay membership or lead fees. With your own electrician Google Ads, the customer contacts you only, you see every search term and you choose which jobs to buy. Many electricians keep one platform while ads grow, then compare cost per booked job after three months. Our case studies show how we report.
An electrician PPC agency builds and runs your paid search so ad spend turns into booked jobs. That covers keyword research by job type, adverts, bids, ad schedules, negative keywords, landing pages and call tracking, then weekly changes as the data shows what books. As an electrician PPC agency, we run Local Services Ads and Meta lead ads too.
Fault and emergency ads can ring the day they go live, since someone with no power calls quickly. Rewires, consumer units and EV chargers take longer, because buyers compare quotes. Landlord EICR work builds over months as agents add you to their list. We judge cost per booked job over the first 90 days.