Google Ads for removal companies
From £395 a month
No % of ad spend
One removals firm per town
What your ad looks like
✓ Headlines written per move type and town
✓ Trade badge, call and location assets set up
Sponsored
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QUICK ANSWER
PPC for removal companies shows your firm at the top of Google when someone nearby searches “house removals near me” or “removal company quotes”. You pay per click, not per move. Good accounts split house, office and long distance moves, block man and van and single-item searches, and count booked surveys, not just form fills.
What you get
Built for family-run removals firms, storage operators and commercial movers who want whole-house jobs. It runs inside our Google Ads management service and next to your SEO for removal companies, so one keyword list and one set of survey data steer both. Some call this moving company marketing; we judge it only on booked moves. Our PPC for moving companies starts with keyword research on the moves you want.
Pay per lead
✓ Checks
✓ Profile
✓ Reviews
✓ Disputes
Pay per click
✓ Keywords
✓ Ad copy
✓ Bidding
✓ Areas
Removals searches we bid on
A family selling a four-bed house and a student moving a few boxes search with different words and are worth very different bids. So each move type is priced on its own, and single-item jobs are kept out. Membership of the British Association of Removers goes into the ad when you hold it. Your site closes the booking, which is why campaigns point at websites for removal companies built around the survey form.
Full home removals timed to completion day.
House moves page
Planned commercial and office relocations.
Office moves page
Moves across the country in one day.
Long distance page
Full or part packing and materials.
Packing page
Containerised and short-term storage.
Storage page
Pianos, antiques and fine art moves.
Specialist page
Overseas and European removals.
International page
Clearances and moves between tenants.
Lettings page
Schools, labs and multi-site moves.
Commercial page
Account structure
Whole-house moves and small jobs never share a budget. A family booking a move compares two or three surveys, while someone shifting a single wardrobe just wants the cheapest van. So each move type gets its own campaign, ads and landing page, with one negative list, call tracking and booked-move import. Bidding starts on Maximise Conversions, then moves to Target CPA once surveys flow. Ads Starter runs one campaign; Growth and Premium add the rest. That is Smart Bidding fed with booked moves, not form fills. Ads show only inside your depot radius, with the Presence setting on.
Campaign 1 · Local Services
Local service ads for removal companies, paid per lead.
Campaign 2 · Search
Home removals, packing and town ad groups.
Campaign 3 · Search
Office relocation and national move ad groups.
Campaign 4 · Search
Storage, piano and international ad groups.
SETUP
How it works
Week 1
Weeks 2–3
Month 1–2
Every month
Waste control
✓ Removals negative list live from day one
✓ Each survey tied to the keyword that won it
Search terms report
“house removals bolton” → kept, bid up in your area
“man with van sofa”, “van hire”, “removal driver jobs” → added to negatives, never paid for again
Weekly review · negatives · survey log
Ads vs lead sites
Many removals firms buy leads from comparison sites such as Compare My Move and reallymoving, or list on Checkatrade and Bark. Back in 2017, one industry article priced comparison leads at £5.95 a lead, cheaper per job than its own Google Ads example. The catch is that the same mover is sent to several firms. Here is how your own removal company advertising compares, row by row.
Lead sites
Your Google Ads
Payment
✕ Per lead, booked or not
✓ Per click, with a daily cap you set
Competition
✕ Sent to several removals firms
✓ The enquiry comes to you only
Job types
✕ Any size of move
✓ The moves you choose
Your brand
✕ One listing among many
✓ Your name, vans and reviews
Search data
✕ You never see the search
✓ Every search term in the report
Reviews
✕ Kept on their site
✓ Built on your Google profile
If you pause
✕ Leads stop that day
✕ Calls stop too, the data stays
Why Zainfy
Trade PPC agencies publish fees from about £395 a month plus VAT, and some charge by the hour. Ask any provider of Google Ads for moving companies for the fee, the notice period and the name on the ad account, all in writing. Local Services Ads eligibility is on Google’s UK category list.
Typical PPC agency
Zainfy
Who they work with
✕ Any sector that pays
✓ Removals 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 removals firms nearby too
✓ One removals firm per town, always
Reporting
✕ Clicks and impressions
✓ Surveys, moves and cost per survey
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 removal company Google Ads accounts we look at leak money in the same four places, and a bigger budget fixes none of them.
Mistake 1
Sofa and fridge jobs eating the house-move budget.
Mistake 2
Broad match and Performance Max pulling in van hire and driver jobs.
Mistake 3
Ads landing on a page with no survey form.
Mistake 4
Counting forms, not surveys or booked moves.
Who runs your ads
Google Ads
Google Business Profile
Google Analytics 4
Google Search Console
Meta Ads Manager
FAQ
They can be, if the account chases full moves. One removals firm spent a steady £800 to £1,000 a month. After a rebuild with a dedicated landing page and call tracking, its cost per enquiry fell to about £30. Ads stop paying when small moves, van hire and job searches eat the budget. Judge them on cost per booked move. Our case studies show how we report.
You pay Google for clicks and you pay us to run them. Management is £395, £595 or £895 a month, with ad spend on top and never a percentage of it. A 2025 UK guide put most removals clicks at £1.50 to £4, with London above £6. We set a target cost per survey in week one. Our free tools include a cost per lead calculator.
Add negative keywords at account level for single items and small jobs, such as sofa, fridge, freezer and man with van. Then write ads that pre-qualify, for example “3+ bedroom house moves”. Check the search terms report weekly, because new small-job phrases keep turning up.
Yes. Moving services is one of the categories on Google’s UK Local Services Ads list. You pay per lead rather than per click, after Google screens the business. We run it next to Search campaigns, because Local Services Ads give little control over which move sizes come through.
Lead sites are quick to switch on and can be cheaper per job when they work. The catch is that each lead usually goes to several firms at once, and you never see what the person searched. Your own ads take longer to tune, but the enquiry is yours alone. Many firms run both while the ads bed in.
You pay per lead, not per click, and Google sets the typical price by category and area. One UK agency that runs them for removals firms says lead costs typically range from £10 to £30, varying by industry. You set a weekly budget, and leads that are clearly not removals work can be disputed for a credit.
Often, as a second channel. You only pay when someone contacts you, and the Google Verified badge helps people who worry about rogue movers. The downside is control: you cannot pick move sizes or block small jobs the way you can in Search. Most firms get the best results running both side by side.
Usually because of broad match. A loose keyword like “removals” matches “removal jobs”, “van for sale” and even Google removal requests. Use phrase and exact match on move searches, add job, training, course, free and van hire as negatives, and read the search terms report every week. A free audit shows which searches you are paying for.
Only for a narrow test. With removals clicks at roughly £1.50 to £4 in one UK guide, £10 buys a handful of clicks a day. That can cover house removals in one town if small-move searches are blocked. For office moves and several towns, work back from the surveys you want.
Moving company Google Ads can bring survey requests in the first week, because people search once a completion date is in sight. Booked moves follow a few weeks later, after the survey and quote. Timing follows completion dates, so some weeks are far busier than others. We judge cost per booked move across the first 90 days.