Pay-per-lead, Google Guaranteed · Home services eligible categories
Looking for a Google Local Services Ads alternative?
LSA charges per lead rather than per click, places you above search ads, and carries the Google Guaranteed badge. Your Google Business Profile reviews feed ad rank directly, and responsiveness affects placement.
The difference that matters
Compare the approach and fit.
LSA is genuinely one of the best paid channels in home services, and it is the one competitor page we would tell most contractors to run anyway. The limit is that it only reaches people already searching. It cannot create demand in a slow month.
| Google Local Services Ads | Pavado | |
|---|---|---|
| Approach | Pay-per-lead, Google Guaranteed | Lead Generation for Local Service Businesses |
| What it offers | LSA charges per lead rather than per click, places you above search ads, and carries the Google Guaranteed badge. Your Google Business Profile reviews feed ad rank directly, and responsiveness affects placement. | Done-for-you lead generation: a dedicated conversion page, a qualifying form that arrives with the answers attached, and lead-to-sale tracking, fed by targeted outreach and Meta ad campaigns we build and run. |
| When to consider it | Run it. Seriously. For most eligible trades LSA should be live before any funnel work, and a funnel complements it rather than replacing it. | When your requirements call for a scoped service engagement. Start with a discussion of your current process and constraints. |
When to stay
When Google Local Services Ads is the right call.
Run it. Seriously. For most eligible trades LSA should be live before any funnel work, and a funnel complements it rather than replacing it.
We would rather tell you that up front than sell you a build you did not need. If that describes you, keep the platform that fits and revisit the decision when your requirements change.
What we do instead
How Pavado gets you more booked jobs
- A conversion page for your service and area. One page with one job: turn a visitor into a call or a form fill.
- A qualifying form. Every lead arrives with the job type, address and timeline already answered.
- Lead-to-sale tracking. See which source produced booked jobs, not just calls and clicks.
- Outreach and Meta ads we run. Targeted campaigns built and managed for you to feed the page.
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