General Contractor ads in Columbus: US$29.56 a click

What a booked job costs in clicks

At a lead rate of 8.05% of clicks (calls and forms; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Home & Home Improvement) and a booking rate of 42% of calls (US/Canada benchmark, ServiceTitan, call-booking rate for trades), a booked job costs about US$874 in clicks at US$29.56 a click.

Cost per booked job in Columbus is the click price divided by the lead rate times the booking rate. The rates are national benchmarks, not Columbus figures; the planner below starts from them and you can change both.

Each row uses the same two rates as the sentence above, so the order follows click price.

Where the general contractor searches are in Columbus

Searches split by what the searcher typed. The two tags rank the groups on this page by click price; they are rankings, not verdicts.

Specific jobs are the largest share of counted search volume in Columbus, at 61.5%.

In Columbus, specific jobs has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at US$38.29 a click.

Plan a month of general contractor ads in Columbus

Put in your own value per job and margin. The call and booking rates start at the benchmarks named under each box; change them to your own.

Every general contractor keyword tracked in Columbus

Monthly searches are the average of the last 12 months. Related keywords are shown for context and are not counted in any total on this page.

The most-searched general contractor keywords in Columbus are “bathroom remodel” (486 searches a month at US$62.35 a click), “general contractor” (273 searches a month at US$18.96 a click), and “general contractors near me” (233 searches a month at US$12.46 a click).

In Columbus, “bathroom remodel” is the keyword furthest from the country median: US$62.35 a click, 237.0% above the US$18.50 median click price for general contractor across this country's tracked cities.

In Columbus, “home extensions” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 8 searches a month.

In Columbus, 10 of the 11 counted general contractor keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

How Columbus compares in the United States

Over the 48 months tracked, general contractors searches in Columbus peaked in January 2025 at 2,730 and were lowest in May 2026 at 1,100. Columbus's single latest tracked month is down 21.0% on the same month a year ago and down 12.2% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In Columbus, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "home remodeler", down 54.6%.

• Columbus is 47th of 50 United States cities by click price, mid-table.
• Columbus is 29th of 50 United States cities by monthly searches, mid-table.
• Columbus is 3rd of 3 Ohio cities by click price, the highest.
• Columbus is 2nd of 3 Ohio cities by monthly searches, among the three highest.
• For this service, Columbus sits in Ohio, which is 8th of 31 states by businesses per 10,000 people, mid-table (an average of 3.0 businesses per 10,000 people across Ohio).
• Columbus's 68.6 searches a month per 100,000 people is below the country-wide rate of 75.9 for this service.
• Columbus's median general contractor click price of US$29.56 is 59.8% above the country median of US$18.50.
• Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 29.9% on the 12 months before.
• In Columbus, searches are fairly even through the year; the busiest month, July, is not a strong peak.

General contractor businesses in Columbus

The US Census Bureau counts 610 businesses in this industry in Columbus, OH (2023), about 2.7 for every 10,000 people.

What is counted: employer establishments.

Counts cover businesses with employees; most sole traders are not included.

Population: 2,242,028 (Columbus, OH). Source: US Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP), MSA/micropolitan estimates, vintage 2023.

Business counts are never compared across countries on this site: each country's statistics agency counts a different set of businesses.

General contractor click prices in 6 countries

United States is 6th of 6 countries by median general contractor click price (lowest first), all in US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average.

Medians across each country's tracked cities, same pull month. Each country uses its own keyword set and its own name for the service. Only click prices and searches are compared across borders; business counts are not.

Rules for general contractors in the United States

Licensing is set by each state.

Questions people ask about general contractor ads in Columbus

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Data and sources

Search data pulled October 13, 2026. Google Keyword Planner estimates via DataForSEO, not what you will pay at auction; your own Google Ads account shows your real price.