Paid Advertising
Geofencing
Drawing a virtual boundary on a map so your ads only target — or deliberately exclude — people inside specific areas.
Definition
Geofencing is the practice of defining a geographic boundary and serving ads only to people inside it (or outside it). It ties ad delivery to real-world locations like a metro, a set of ZIP codes, or a radius around a job site.
In depth
Instead of buying a whole region, you draw the lines yourself — a radius around your shop, a list of target neighborhoods, or a polygon that traces your real service area. You can also use it in reverse, excluding places you don't want work, so the budget never leaves your map and your impressions land where they count.
For a contractor, location is money. Driving an hour each way kills a job's margin, and leads from outside your area waste both spend and sales time. A tight boundary keeps your ads — and your phone — pointed at the homes you actually want to build in, which holds your cost per lead down and pairs naturally with Local Services Ads that already key off proximity.
The mistake is drawing the fence too tight or too loose: too tight starves the campaign of volume and your impression share at the same time, too loose floods you with tire-kickers from outside your reach. We match the boundary to where your trucks actually run, exclude the far-flung ZIPs, and let conversion tracking show where your best jobs come from before we adjust.
Worked example
A remodeler geofences a 25-mile radius around the shop and excludes three distant counties, cutting out-of-area leads and dropping cost per booked estimate by about 20%.
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