
The exact playbook for taking the top spot on Google, paying per lead instead of per click, and booking more of the calls you pay for. From Braden Ormrod, who works in Local Service Ads every day.
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Pulled From The Pest Control Growth Playbook
Someone in your town searched for an exterminator this morning, and three other companies came up first. The guide shows where Local Service Ads sit and why they get seen.
Everywhere else you pay the moment someone clicks. Here you pay only when someone actually calls or messages. We show what that does to your cost per lead.
The green Google Guaranteed check mark comes from licence, insurance and background verification. For a homeowner choosing who sprays around their kids and pets, it does real work.
We put them into a simple framework called RINGS. Get all five right and you hold the top three. Get one badly wrong and you will wonder why the platform "stopped working."
It is not budget and it is not reviews. It is the thing that happens every time your phone is not answered. The guide names it and shows the fix.
The exact checklist to go from zero to booking jobs, from the application to your first reviews.
How Local Service Ads perform compared to traditional Google Ads pay-per-click campaigns for pest control operators:
You pay for every visitor whether they call, bounce, or hit the back button.
You pay only when a homeowner actually calls or sends a direct message.

Owner, Knockout Marketing
Hey, I'm Braden Ormrod. Over the last six years running marketing for local service businesses, I've spent thousands of hours directly inside Google's Local Service Ads platform.
At Knockout, we work with pest control companies and nobody else. We don't touch HVAC, roofing, or plumbing. The details that make Local Service Ads work in pest control—seasonality, urgency, licensing, and phone booking protocols—are unique to this trade.
"No hype, no theoretical fluff. Just the exact steps we take every single day to get pest control operators to the top of Google Guaranteed."
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