Google Ads

Google Ads for Electricians

Electrical work spans $180 callouts and $4,000 switchboard upgrades, and the same campaign shouldn't chase both. We build electrician accounts that push budget toward the jobs with real margin while still catching the urgent callouts that fill gaps in the day.

The electrician's opportunity in search

Electrical demand splits into three very different buckets: urgent faults, compliance-driven work and upgrade projects. Urgent faults convert instantly but are low value. Compliance work (safety switches, smoke alarms, switchboard upgrades) has good margin and predictable volume. Upgrade projects — EV chargers, solar-adjacent work, home automation, three-phase upgrades — are the highest value and are growing fastest.

$35–$70
Typical cost per electrical lead
Growth in EV charger search volume since 2022
$2k–$4k
Average switchboard upgrade value
10–14 days
From kick-off to live campaigns

Campaign structure for sparkies

  1. 1
    Emergency and fault-finding

    Power outages, tripping safety switches, burning smells. Aggressive bids during business hours, scaled back when the phone isn't answered.

  2. 2
    Compliance and safety

    Switchboard upgrades, safety switch installs, smoke alarm compliance, electrical safety certificates. Reliable, repeatable, good margin.

  3. 3
    EV charger and upgrade work

    The fastest-growing category in Australian residential electrical. Higher click cost, but job values that justify it comfortably.

  4. 4
    Commercial and strata

    Separate campaign, separate language, separate landing page. Business searchers respond to response times and compliance, not to discounts.

Where most electrician accounts leak money

  • Bidding on "electrician" broad match, which pulls in apprenticeship, TAFE and job-vacancy searches
  • Running ads 24/7 when nobody answers after 5pm — you pay for the click either way
  • Sending every campaign to one homepage instead of job-specific landing pages
  • No call tracking, so the highest-value keywords can't be identified or scaled
  • Service area set to a whole state instead of the suburbs you'll actually drive to
Ad scheduling is free money
One electrician client was spending 22% of their budget between 6pm and 7am with nobody answering. Turning ads off overnight and reinvesting that budget into 7am–4pm cut their cost per booked job by a third in the first month — no extra spend required.

Landing pages that convert electrical searchers

Electrical customers are risk-averse. Licence number, insurance, real photos of your team and vans, Google review count and a same-day response promise do more for conversion rate than any headline. We build the page around trust signals and one obvious action: call now.

Frequently asked questions

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