Pay Per Click Advertising
Remarketing and Retargeting Campaigns
Reaches the 95 percent who left your site without calling
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- Lists start filling immediately but need one to four weeks to reach minimum size
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Remarketing shows ads to people who already visited your website or watched your videos but did not call. You build audience lists in GA4 or Google Ads. Those lists let you follow past visitors across Search, Display, and YouTube. You can give them a different message than the ad that brought them in the first time.
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The problem
Most people who land on a service business website are not ready to call. They are comparing three companies, checking whether you cover their city, or waiting until payday. They leave, and the visit is lost. Owners feel this as a website that gets traffic but not calls. Meanwhile the few businesses running remarketing are quietly showing up again a day later while the homeowner is still deciding, and they win the job for a few dollars in ad spend. Remarketing badly done is worse than none: the same ad hammered ten times a day makes a brand look desperate.
What it is
Remarketing is audience based advertising rather than keyword based. We build lists from what people did on your site. That includes everyone who saw a service page but not the thank you page, and everyone who spent over 45 seconds. It also includes past customers from your CRM and anyone who watched more than half of a YouTube video. Then we run different campaign types against those lists. Search remarketing bids higher when a past visitor searches again. Display gives visual reminders. YouTube carries longer proof. Each list gets its own message, membership duration, and frequency cap.
Signs you need this
- Your site gets traffic but the phone does not match the visit count
- Your average sale takes more than a week of consideration
- You spend on Google Ads but nothing follows up with non converters
- Customers tell you they meant to call and then forgot
- You sell a high ticket job that homeowners shop across three bids
What is included
- GA4 and Google Ads audience lists segmented by page depth and time on site
- A cart style list for people who started a form and abandoned it
- Customer match list uploaded from your CRM or invoicing system
- Search remarketing bid adjustments on past visitors
- Responsive display ads in every required size with real project photos
- YouTube remarketing ads targeted to prior site visitors
- Frequency caps and membership durations set per list
- Burn list so anyone who converts stops seeing the ads
- Monthly report on view through and click through conversions kept separate
Our process
Tag and List Build
Week 1We confirm the Google Ads tag and GA4 are firing on every page, then build the audience lists. Lists need 100 members for Display and 1,000 for Search remarketing, so low traffic sites need a few weeks to fill.
Segment by Intent
Week 1 to 2Not every visitor deserves the same ad. Someone who read your water heater page and priced financing gets a different message than someone who bounced off the homepage in six seconds. We usually build three to five segments.
Offer and Creative Build
Week 2 to 4Second touch ads need a reason to come back: a firm price range, a same week appointment, a warranty detail, or a piece of proof like a finished job in their neighborhood. We build display sets and a short video from real job footage.
Launch with Caps
Week 4Campaigns go live with a frequency cap of roughly two to three impressions per person per day and membership durations matched to your buying cycle, usually 30 days for repairs and 90 to 180 for remodels.
Placement Cleanup
Ongoing, monthlyDisplay remarketing lands on some bad inventory. Each month we exclude mobile app categories, low quality sites, and placements with high impressions and zero engagement.
Realistic timeline: Lists start filling immediately but need one to four weeks to reach minimum size. Meaningful conversion data at 45 to 60 days because volume is smaller than prospecting.
Five Lists, Five Messages, Five Durations
One list and one ad is where most remarketing stops. These are the segments that earn their own message for a service business.
| Segment | Who lands in it | Days on the list | Message that fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Service page reader | Saw one service page, never called | 30 to 60 | Proof and a same week slot |
| Form abandoner | Started the form, never sent it | 7 to 14 | Call us instead, one tap |
| Price page reader | Read pricing or financing | 60 to 90 | Payment options and warranty |
| Past customer | Uploaded from your invoicing | 365 | Maintenance plan or a second service |
| Video viewer | Watched half a YouTube ad | 30 | The offer, short and direct |
Durations are a starting point tied to how long that decision takes. Emergency trades run short. Remodels and legal matters run long.
The Arithmetic That Sets a Remarketing Budget
Remarketing has a ceiling, and the ceiling is your own traffic. It helps to do the math before picking a number.
Say a site gets 1,200 visits a month and 4 percent of those people call. That leaves about 1,150 who did not. With a cap of two impressions per person per day across 30 days, the largest that audience can absorb is roughly 69,000 impressions. Display impressions are cheap, so covering all of them usually costs a few hundred dollars, not a few thousand.
Spending 2,000 dollars there does not buy more people. It buys the same people more often, which is exactly how a useful reminder turns into an annoyance. When we find a remarketing budget that cannot physically be spent, we move the extra into the campaigns that bring new visitors in.
The exception is a long buying cycle. A remodeler with a 120 day window carries a much bigger active list at any moment, because nobody rolls off quickly. Same traffic, four times the audience, four times the useful budget.
Search Remarketing Is the Half Everyone Skips
Most people picture banner ads when they hear remarketing. The version that quietly pays best is search remarketing, sometimes called RLSA. It changes what you do when a past visitor searches again.
There are two ways to run it. In observation mode your normal campaigns run as usual, but you bid more when the searcher has been on your site before. Paying 30 percent extra for someone who already read your pricing page is easy math.
In targeting mode the campaign shows only to people on the list. That is when broad match finally becomes safe. You can bid on wide, cheap, generic phrases and still reach only people who already know your name.
The catch is size. Search remarketing needs a list of at least 1,000 people before it will serve, which is the main reason a small site cannot use it in month one.
Remarketing Rules for Medical, Legal, and Financial Services
Google's personalized advertising policies limit how you can build and target audiences around sensitive topics. Dental, medical, legal, and debt related services get caught here regularly.
Do this
- Keep sensitive service pages out of the lists you build
- Run a general brand message for these audiences instead of a condition specific one
- Read Google's personalized advertising policy before building a medical or legal list
- Use site wide visitors rather than one diagnosis page
- Upload only customer data you collected yourself with permission
Not this
- Do not name a list after a condition, a diagnosis, or a legal problem
- Do not write ad copy that implies you know what the person is going through
- Do not upload a purchased customer list
- Do not build audiences from a page about a lawsuit, an injury, or a debt problem
- Do not treat a rejected audience as a bug, it is almost always policy