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General Contractor ads in Louisville: US$23.00 a click

A Google Ads click for a general contractor in Louisville costs US$23.00 at the search-weighted average (947 searches a month, Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 2026). Searches over the last 12 months are down 57.1% on the 12 months before.

The 10-second read
Click price, weighted avg
US$23.00
Searches a month
947
Year on year
down 57.1%
Click cost per booked job
US$680

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$680 in clicks at US$23.00 a click.

In Louisville, the lowest click price on this page is general searches at US$6.29. The highest click price on this page in Louisville is specific jobs at US$31.84.

Cost per booked job

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$680 in clicks at US$23.00 a click.

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

Intent groupClick pricePer booked job
General searchesUS$6.29US$186
Near meUS$22.07US$653
Specific jobsUS$31.84US$942

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

By intent

Where the general contractor searches are in Louisville

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 Louisville, at 56.8%.

In Louisville, specific jobs has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at US$31.84 a click.

General searches

Lowest click price on this page
“general contractor”, “home remodeler”
Searches a month264, 27.9% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgUS$6.29
In Louisville, 1st of 3 niches on this page by click price, the lowest.

Near me

“general contractors near me”
Searches a month145, 15.3% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgUS$22.07

Specific jobs

Highest click price on this page
“home renovations”, “kitchen remodel”, “bathroom remodel”, “home additions”, “basement finishing”, “custom home builder”, “home extensions”, “whole home renovation”
Searches a month537, 56.8% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgUS$31.84
In Louisville, 3rd of 3 niches on this page by click price, the highest.

Related keywords

Not counted
“new home builder”
Searches a month52
Click price, weighted avgUS$5.48
Related keywords sit next to this service but are not counted in the searches or the search-weighted average click price above.
Plan

Plan a month of general contractor ads in Louisville

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.

What the budget buys (worked example)

Clicks a month
43.5
Calls or forms
3.5
Booked jobs
1.5
Click cost per booked job
US$680

US$1,000 at US$23.00 a click buys about 43.5 clicks a month.

If 8.05% of clicks call or fill a form and you book 42% of those calls, that is about 3.5 calls and 1.5 booked jobs, so each booked job costs about US$680 in clicks.

Put in your value per job and your margin to see whether this pays back.

Keywords

Every general contractor keyword tracked in Louisville

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 Louisville are “bathroom remodel” (283 searches a month at US$45.62 a click), “general contractor” (169 searches a month at US$5.89 a click), and “general contractors near me” (145 searches a month at US$22.07 a click).

In Louisville, “bathroom remodel” is the keyword furthest from the country median: US$45.62 a click, 146.6% above the US$18.50 median click price for general contractor across this country's tracked cities.

In Louisville, “home extensions” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 3 searches a month.

In Louisville, 8 of the 11 counted general contractor keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

KeywordIntentSearchesClick
general contractorGeneral searches169US$5.89
home remodelerGeneral searches95US$7.00
general contractors near meNear me145US$22.07
bathroom remodelSpecific jobs283US$45.62
kitchen remodelSpecific jobs106US$19.26
custom home builderSpecific jobs71US$9.53
basement finishingSpecific jobs32US$15.78
home renovationsSpecific jobs22US$10.57
home additionsSpecific jobs14no price
whole home renovationSpecific jobs6no price
home extensionsSpecific jobs3no price
new home builder
Related, not counted
Related keywords52US$5.48
Ranks and trend

How Louisville compares in the United States

Over the 48 months tracked, general contractors searches in Louisville peaked in September 2024 at 11,270 and were lowest in November 2022 at 680. Louisville's single latest tracked month is up 10.9% on the same month a year ago and down 73.4% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In Louisville, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "kitchen remodel", down 76.4%.

  • Louisville is 36th of 50 United States cities by click price, mid-table.
  • Louisville is 40th of 50 United States cities by monthly searches, mid-table.
  • Louisville is the only city in Kentucky in this set, so there is no same-state rank.
  • For this service, Louisville sits in Kentucky, which is 10th of 31 states by businesses per 10,000 people, mid-table (an average of 3.3 businesses per 10,000 people across Kentucky).
  • Louisville's 67.5 searches a month per 100,000 people is below the country-wide rate of 75.9 for this service.
  • Louisville's median general contractor click price of US$23.00 is 24.3% above the country median of US$18.50.
  • Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 57.1% on the 12 months before.
  • In Louisville, searches peak in September, about 114.6% above the monthly average, and are lowest in December.
Businesses

General contractor businesses in Louisville

The US Census Bureau counts 457 businesses in this industry in Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN (2023), about 3.3 for every 10,000 people.

What is counted: employer establishments.

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

Population: 1,402,509 (Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN). 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.

6 countries

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.

CountryMedian click (US$)Searches per 100,000 peopleCities
IrelandUS$2.7685.85
United KingdomUS$4.3853.225
AustraliaUS$6.72155.425
New ZealandUS$7.2191.36
CanadaUS$9.3183.813
United States
this page's country
US$18.5075.950

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

Rules for general contractors in the United States

Licensing is set by each state.

FAQ

Questions people ask about general contractor ads in Louisville

How much does a Google Ads click cost for a general contractor in Louisville?

US$23.00 a click at the search-weighted average across the counted general contractor search terms in Louisville (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 13, 2026). Louisville is 36th of 50 United States cities by click price, mid-table.

How many people search for a general contractor in Louisville each month?

947 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, down 57.1% on the 12 months before (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 13, 2026).

What does a booked job cost in clicks for general contractors in Louisville?

At a lead rate of 8.05% of clicks (calls and forms; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Home & Home Improvement) and a booking rate of 42.00% of calls (US/Canada benchmark, ServiceTitan, call-booking rate for trades), a booked job costs about US$680 in clicks at US$23.00 a click.

Where do the numbers on this page come from?

Searches and click prices: Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 13, 2026. Lead rate: LocaliQ 2026 (US benchmark). Booking rate: ServiceTitan (US/Canada benchmark). Population and business counts: US Census Bureau County Business Patterns (CBP) 2022, bulk file cbp22msa.zip (NAICS x MSA) (Residential Remodelers). Every source is listed at the bottom of this page.

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Method

Search terms: a fixed keyword set per service for United States, tagged by intent (general, near me, urgent and specific jobs), targeted to Louisville with Google Ads location codes, not a text match.

Monthly searches is the average of the last 12 months, summed across the counted keywords. Related keywords are listed but never counted.

Click price is the search-weighted average click price across the counted keywords (sum of each keyword's click price times its monthly searches, divided by total searches), as Google Ads reports the per-keyword prices via DataForSEO.

Year on year compares the last 12 months of counted searches with the 12 months before.

Cost per booked job is the click price divided by the lead rate times the booking rate. The lead rate is LocaliQ's US share of clicks that become calls or forms for the closest industry (US benchmark); the booking rate is ServiceTitan's share of calls that book, for trades (US/Canada benchmark). Where either rate has no source, the page prints no number.

Google Ads reports click prices in US$, so no currency conversion applies.

The tags “Lowest click price on this page” and “Highest click price on this page” rank the intent groups on this page by click price. They are rankings, not verdicts.

Sources

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.

DatasetLicense
DataForSEO, retrieved October 13, 2026
DataForSEO Terms of Service (paid API)
US benchmark lead rate (calls and forms), Home & Home Improvement
Published benchmark, cited
US/Canada benchmark booking rate, trades
Published benchmark, cited
Business counts, 2023
US government work / public domain
Population

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