How should a roofer set up Google Ads for commercial roofing jobs?<\/h2>\n
Run commercial roofing as its own Google Ads campaign with tight commercial keywords such as flat roof repair, TPO and commercial roof replacement, negative keywords that block homeowner searches, location targeting sized to your commercial crews and a dedicated commercial landing page. Because commercial contracts can sign months after the click, save each lead’s click ID and import signed contracts back into Google Ads with a conversion window long enough to count them. Judge the campaign on signed contracts and contract value over at least a quarter, not on cost per lead.<\/p>\n
Separate commercial campaigns with offline tracking are how we’d set up Google Ads for a roofer who wants commercial work, and they’re part of our local ads work<\/a> for roofing companies<\/a>. Whether Google Ads pay off for roofers at all, and the break-even math for residential work, is in whether Google Ads are worth it for roofers<\/a>, and the roofing marketing questions<\/a> library goes question by question.<\/p>\n Yes, for the commercial work that starts with a search: a property manager with a leaking flat roof, a new building owner looking for a roofer, a facilities team pricing a coating or a replacement. In our judgement, those searches are a small slice of roofing searches in most markets, so a commercial campaign works when it’s narrow, separate from your residential ads and measured on signed contracts rather than leads.<\/p>\n Google Ads won’t replace the relationship side of commercial roofing, such as bid lists, general contractors and maintenance programs. Marketing commercial roofing<\/a> covers that bigger picture. This page is only the campaign setup, step by step.<\/p>\n Yes. In our judgement, commercial work usually needs a different service area, different hours and a budget you can judge on its own, and a separate campaign gives it all three. It also lets you send every click to a commercial page.<\/p>\n Keep the two campaigns from competing for the same searches. Add residential terms as negatives in the commercial campaign and commercial terms as negatives in the residential one. Google’s negative keyword lists let you build a list once and apply it to several campaigns, so a change to the list updates every campaign that shares it.<\/p>\n Build ad groups around the commercial jobs you actually want, one theme per group, for example:<\/p>\n Match type matters more here than in residential, because one wrong match can turn a commercial campaign into a homeowner campaign. Google says exact match gives you the most control over who sees your ad but reaches the fewest searches, phrase match reaches more, and broad match can show your ad on related searches that don’t contain the meaning of your keyword. Google also says it’s critical to use Smart Bidding with broad match. In our judgement, a new commercial campaign with little conversion data is safer starting on phrase and exact match, and opening up only once the search terms look clean.<\/p>\n The commercial campaign needs everything a residential roofer blocks, such as job seekers, do-it-yourself and supply searches, plus a second layer that a residential campaign never needs: homeowner words. Think house, home, shingle, residential and the names of residential roof styles your commercial crews don’t touch.<\/p>\n Then use the search terms report every week for the first couple of months. Commercial searches are mixed in with a lot of residential and research traffic, and the report shows what people actually typed before they clicked. The full list of roofing negatives, with match types, is in negative keywords for roofers<\/a>.<\/p>\n Target the area your commercial crews will actually drive to, which is often wider than your residential area. Google Ads lets you target cities, regions or a radius around a location.<\/p>\n The advanced location setting matters more for commercial than residential. By default, Google targets people who are in, regularly in, or have shown interest in your locations (“Presence or Interest”). The alternative, “Presence”, reaches only people in or regularly in those locations, and Google suggests it when you don’t want to reach people elsewhere who are interested in your area. In our judgement, commercial roofers often want the default, because a regional property manager may search for a roofer in your city from an office in another one. Homeowners rarely do that, so residential campaigns can be stricter.<\/p>\n By default, Google Ads campaigns show ads all day. Google’s ad schedule lets you limit ads to certain days and hours, such as when you can handle inquiries, and raise or lower bids for specific times.<\/p>\n In our judgement, split the decision by job type. Planned work, such as replacements, coatings and inspections, is mostly searched and decided during business hours, so a business-hours schedule or higher daytime bids make sense. Leak calls are different: a roof leaking into a store or warehouse on a Saturday night is exactly the call that wins a commercial account. Run leak ads around the clock only if someone will answer, and send after-hours calls to a person, not a voicemail box.<\/p>\n On a commercial page, never the homepage. A property manager deciding whether to call should see, without scrolling far:<\/p>\n If the campaign gets clicks but the phone and form stay quiet, the landing page is often the problem; why ads get clicks but no calls<\/a> walks through the checks.<\/p>\n This is the step most commercial campaigns skip, and it decides whether you can ever judge them. Google Ads can record the call or form fill from your ad, but the contract is signed in your office. Offline conversion imports close that gap. Google gives every ad click a Google Click ID (GCLID); you save it with the lead in your CRM, and when that lead later signs a contract you send the GCLID back to Google Ads with the type of conversion and when it happened. For advertisers starting fresh, Google now recommends enhanced conversions for leads, an upgraded version that also uses data such as the email address from your lead form.<\/p>\n Then set the conversion window. Google’s default is 30 days, which is often too short for a commercial roof. For Search campaigns you can set it up to 90 days depending on the conversion source. Google notes that a changed window only applies to conversions recorded from that day forward, so set it before the campaign launches. Google’s time lag report shows how long your conversions actually take.<\/p>\n Inside your own software, tag commercial leads separately and move them through the same stages every time; tracking leads to signed jobs<\/a> covers the setup.<\/p>\n Usually, yes. Google says assigning values lets you see the total business value your ads produced instead of a count of conversions, and recommends using different values for each conversion when your services sell at different price points. A coating job and a full tear-off are not the same conversion.<\/p>\n In our judgement, a practical setup is to import a few stages with values: an inspection booked, a bid submitted and a contract signed, with the signed contract carrying the real contract amount. Value-based bidding, such as Maximize conversion value, can use those numbers later, once enough signed contracts have come through to learn from. Bids that go quiet are common in commercial work; following up on unsigned estimates<\/a> helps there.<\/p>\n Longer than a residential one. A commercial repair can be decided in a day, but a replacement often goes through budgets, approvals and several bids. In our judgement, look at leading signs in the first month or two, such as search terms, calls, form leads and inspections booked, and judge cost per signed contract over at least a full quarter, counted by the month the lead arrived.<\/p>\n The general timeline for roofing ads, including Google’s learning period, is in how long to run roofing ads before judging<\/a>. For commercial work, stretch every part of it.<\/p>\n A free visibility audit checks the Google profile, reviews, site and tracking, and shows what to fix first.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Different buyers.<\/strong> A commercial search usually comes from a property manager, facility manager, building owner or general contractor, not a homeowner. In our judgement, they care most about response time, insurance paperwork and whether you’ve done their kind of building before, and the ad and landing page should answer those first.<\/p>\n Fewer searches, bigger contracts.<\/strong> Commercial searches are a small share of roofing searches in most markets, but one signed contract can be worth more than many residential jobs. That makes cost per lead almost meaningless; cost per signed contract and contract value are what count.<\/p>\n Several decision-makers.<\/strong> The person who clicks the ad is often not the person who signs. Expect the lead to go quiet while a budget gets approved, and keep following up.<\/p>\n Leaks open doors.<\/strong> Emergency leak calls are often how a roofer gets onto a property manager’s vendor list, which can lead to maintenance and replacement work across several buildings. In our judgement, a leak campaign is worth running even if it rarely produces a big contract directly.<\/p>\n These numbers are made up to show the math, not a benchmark. Say a commercial campaign spends $2,000 a month for six months, $12,000 in total. Over that time it brings 18 leads, 7 inspections, 4 submitted bids and 1 signed replacement worth $90,000. The cost of that contract in ad spend is $12,000, about 13% of the contract value.<\/p>\n Now look at it month by month. In the first three months, the campaign had leads and inspections but no signed work, so judged on month one it looked like a loss. The contract only shows up as a Google Ads conversion because the lead’s click ID was saved and imported when it signed, with a conversion window long enough to count it.<\/p>\n For context on what help costs: our Essentials package is $3,500 a month and manages up to $2,500 a month in Google Ads spend; Growth is $4,500 a month and manages up to $5,000, plus Local Services Ads. Ad spend is paid to Google separately. We ask for three months in the contract, but if you want to leave, we won’t make you stay. A free visibility audit is a reasonable place to start if you’re weighing a separate commercial campaign.<\/p>\n Usually yes, as separate campaigns in the same account, with each campaign’s terms added as negatives in the other so they don’t compete for the same searches.<\/p>\n Google Ads has a Customer Match feature for reaching people from your own customer data, and it comes with its own Customer Match policy and list rules. Read Google’s Customer Match page before building a campaign around it.<\/p>\n LSAs are built around job types and service areas, and in our judgement most commercial buyers still find roofers through regular search, Maps and relationships. Check whether your LSA job types include commercial work before counting on it.<\/p>\n Add a hidden field to your website form that captures it, or use a call tracking or CRM tool that records it. Without it, signed contracts can’t be matched back to the ad that produced them.<\/p>\n Yes. We work month to month: we ask for three months in the contract, but if you want to leave, we won’t make you stay.<\/p>\n In our judgement, start with a Search campaign, where you choose the keywords and can read the search terms. Consider other campaign types once you have signed-contract data to measure them against.<\/p>\n We'll look at how you show up locally and where calls are leaking, then send you a plain-English breakdown.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Set up Google Ads for commercial roofing: a separate campaign, keywords and negatives, targeting, a commercial landing page and tracking to signed contracts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","ll_review_state":"approved","ll_template_version":"v1","ll_sources":"[\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/google-ads\/answer\/7478529?hl=en\", \"https:\/\/support.google.com\/google-ads\/answer\/2453983?hl=en\", \"https:\/\/support.google.com\/google-ads\/answer\/1722038?hl=en\", \"https:\/\/support.google.com\/google-ads\/answer\/2404244?hl=en\", \"https:\/\/support.google.com\/google-ads\/answer\/2998031?hl=en\", \"https:\/\/support.google.com\/google-ads\/answer\/3123169?hl=en\", \"https:\/\/support.google.com\/google-ads\/answer\/3419241?hl=en\", \"https:\/\/support.google.com\/google-ads\/answer\/6379332?hl=en\"]","ll_faq":"[{\"q\": \"Should commercial and residential roofing share one Google Ads account?\", \"a\": \"Usually yes, as separate campaigns in the same account, with each campaign's terms added as negatives in the other so they don't compete for the same searches.\"}, {\"q\": \"Can I upload a list of property managers to target them with ads?\", \"a\": \"Google Ads has a Customer Match feature for reaching people from your own customer data, and it comes with its own Customer Match policy and list rules. 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We work month to month: we ask for three months in the contract, but if you want to leave, we won't make you stay.\"}, {\"q\": \"Should I run Performance Max for commercial roofing?\", \"a\": \"In our judgement, start with a Search campaign, where you choose the keywords and can read the search terms. Consider other campaign types once you have signed-contract data to measure them against.\"}]","ll_cluster_id":"roofing-0073","ll_hub":"roofing","ll_lang":"en","ll_last_regenerated":"2026-10-25","tldr":"Can Google Ads bring in commercial roofing leads?<\/h2>\n
Step 1: Should commercial roofing get its own Google Ads campaign?<\/h2>\n
Step 2: Which keywords should a commercial roofing campaign use?<\/h2>\n
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Step 3: Which negative keywords keep homeowners out of a commercial campaign?<\/h2>\n
Step 4: How should I set location targeting for commercial work?<\/h2>\n
Step 5: When should commercial roofing ads run?<\/h2>\n
Step 6: Where should commercial roofing ad clicks land?<\/h2>\n
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<\/figure>\nStep 7: How do I track a commercial lead that signs months later?<\/h2>\n
Step 8: Should I give commercial conversions a dollar value?<\/h2>\n
Step 9: How long before I judge a commercial roofing campaign?<\/h2>\n
Not sure which of these is costing you jobs?<\/h4>\n
What's different about Google Ads for commercial roofing<\/h2>\n
A worked example: judging a commercial campaign on contracts, not leads<\/h2>\n
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<\/figure>\nFrequently asked questions<\/h2>\n
Should commercial and residential roofing share one Google Ads account?<\/h3>\n
Can I upload a list of property managers to target them with ads?<\/h3>\n
Do commercial roofing leads come through Local Services Ads?<\/h3>\n
What if my CRM can't store the Google click ID?<\/h3>\n
Is there a commercial roofing marketing service without a long contract?<\/h3>\n
Should I run Performance Max for commercial roofing?<\/h3>\n
Key takeaways<\/h2>\n
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Want a second set of eyes on your setup?<\/h4>\n
More in this section<\/h2>\n
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