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How Contractors Can Get Asphalt Paving Leads This Week With Google Ads and Facebook Ads

Generate Paving Leads

Here is how to get paving leads fast. Run Google Search ads on the exact services homeowners type in, like driveway paving and sealcoating. Pair them with a Facebook offer that gets local homeowners raising their hand. Send both to a simple landing page, then call each new lead back within the hour. Google catches people ready to hire today, and Facebook fills your pipeline for next week and next month.

Grow Your Paving Company With Google Ads And Facebook Ads

Online marketing for paving companies is by no means an easy task. Yet worn-out traditional methods such as radio ads, yellow page ads, or door-to-door paving pitches are still common across the industry.

Sure, those might attract a few prospective clients. Luckily, there is a better way to cast a wider net and reel in the exact audience you are looking for with the one-two punch of Facebook ads for paving companies and Google Ads for paving companies (that second link goes to Paver Launch, our sister company that works with paving contractors).

Many paving companies overlook the power that pay per click (PPC) marketing campaigns can have on their company (if it is done right, of course). Maybe you tried these strategies once or twice before and the results fell short of what you hoped for. Hey, it happens.

I suspect what you are after is people calling in for asphalt paving and sealcoating estimates daily, and hitting monthly revenue goals well before month end rolls around. Am I right?

If so, I have some great news for you…

We have developed a ready-made multi-channel funnel that can help you crush lead generation, all by using Facebook and Google Ads to get new paving leads this week. You ready to get your hands on it?

Quick note first. We published the original version of this playbook back in 2017, and we have run paving campaigns from our office in Concord, NH, ever since. This 2026 update folds in what changed on Google and Facebook, plus what our paving campaigns have taught us about how to get paving leads in today’s market.

Okay, time for the basics of marketing for paving contractors.

Why Google And Facebook Ads For Asphalt Paving Contractors?

Google first.

Getting new asphalt paving leads can feel like a grind. When someone needs asphalt paving work, he or she typically does a Google search for something like “asphalt paving company near me” and starts calling the first listing, working down the list until someone picks up the phone and agrees to come out and provide an estimate. To grow your customer base, you need a way into those top spots on page one of Google search results.

Facebook plays a different role, and the two work best as a team. Here is how they compare.

	Google Search Ads	Facebook & Instagram Ads
Who sees your ad	People searching for paving right now.	Local homeowners scrolling their feed.
What you pay for	Clicks on your ad.	Ad views, within a daily budget you set.
Main job	Catch ready-to-hire demand.	Create demand with an offer, then retarget.
Speed	Calls can start within days.	Plan on a couple of weeks to settle in.
Best fit	Residential and commercial.	Residential homeowners.

3 Reasons Asphalt Contractors Should Have Google In Their Paving Marketing Strategy

Google Replaced the Yellow Pages

At one time, it was a simple process to place an ad in the local phone book and wait for customers to call you. Today that phone book lives in your customer’s pocket. Think about the last time you hired a contractor. You probably grabbed your phone, typed a quick search, and called someone near the top. Google handles the lion’s share of those searches. (Bing can work to generate exclusive paving leads too!)

The #1 Most Predictable Form of Traffic

Yellow Page ads are a thing of the past, yet advertising remains one of the largest expenditures for many businesses. If you can capture more of the people looking for paving contractors on Google, you will have an ongoing stream of highly qualified leads that you can likely convert into paying customers.

Fast Results

Asphalt contractors have a huge advantage on their side when it comes to Google. So many homeowners and commercial clients go to Google and search for the services you provide.

Across the paving clients we have worked with, this form of advertising tends to produce results quickly when done right. You can be up and running on Google Ads in a few days and generating multiple asphalt paving leads each month from this source alone.

Google Ads is the most popular pay-per-click advertising system in the world. The platform lets businesses create ads that appear on Google’s search engine and other Google properties.

Google Ads operates on a pay-per-click model, in which advertisers bid on keywords and pay for each click on their ads.

Each time someone searches, Google digs into the pool of advertisers and chooses a set of winners to appear in the valuable ad space on its search results page.

The “winners” are chosen based on a combination of factors, including the quality and relevance of their keywords and ads, as well as the size of their bids. (New to all this? Our walkthrough of Google Ads basics for small businesses covers the fundamentals.)

How to Get Paving Leads From Google Ads: The Setup We Use

Here is a peek inside the paving accounts we manage. A handful of settings decide which campaigns ring the phone with real estimate requests.

Give Each Service Its Own Campaign

Driveway paving, sealcoating, parking lot work, and repairs attract different people at different price points. We split them into separate campaigns so each one gets its own budget, ad copy, and landing page. When your sealcoating calendar fills up, you can pause that campaign and keep driveway paving running at full speed.

Campaign	Example searches to target
Driveway paving	driveway paving near me, asphalt driveway [town], driveway replacement.
Sealcoating	driveway sealcoating near me, sealcoating company [town].
Commercial paving	parking lot paving contractor, parking lot repair [town].
Repairs	asphalt patching, pothole repair contractor, driveway crack repair.

Negative Keywords That Protect Your Budget

Paving has a sneaky keyword problem: the word “pavers.” In plenty of searches, pavers means patio stones and hardscaping, a totally different job. Another surprise is equipment shoppers (other contractors searching for an asphalt paver for sale).

Here are negative keywords we add to new paving accounts on day one.

jobs
hiring
careers
salary
DIY
how to
rental
for sale
per ton
cold patch
Home Depot
Lowe’s
paver stones
patio pavers
brick pavers
paver sealer

Then check the search terms report each week during the season. It shows the exact phrases people typed before clicking, and it is the fastest way to find new phrases to block.

Location and Call Settings

Set a radius around your yard that matches how far your crews will travel. Then open the location options and choose “Presence: People in or regularly in your included locations.”

Google’s default setting also reaches people who have shown interest in your area, and for an asphalt company, that tends to bring calls from far outside your service map.

Plenty of homeowners would rather call than fill out a form, so add a call asset with your main number and run it during the hours someone can answer. Link your Google Business Profile too, so your location shows right on the ad.

Track Booked Jobs Back to the Keyword

Clicks and calls feel good. Signed contracts pay the bills. Set up call tracking so Google counts calls from your ads as conversions once they pass a length you choose (60 seconds by default), and track form fills on your landing page.

Next, use Google’s offline conversion import to send booked estimates and signed paving jobs back into your account. That teaches Google which searches turn into paying work.

Google reports that advertisers who added first-party data like emails and phone numbers to their imports saw a median 10% increase in conversions compared with standard imports.

Running Google Ads for paving lead generation already?

We will audit your Google Ads account for free, or run a market analysis if you are starting fresh.

Ok, Time To Move Over To Facebook…

Simply put, Facebook is one of the most targeted, cost effective ways to promote your paving or sealcoating company online. Why? Well, Facebook and Instagram are where your homeowners scroll after dinner, so there is a good chance your current and prospective customers spend a LOT of time there each day.

Facebook also knows a lot about its users: location, age, interests, pages they like, how they engage, and so much more. A couple of things have changed since we first wrote this, though. These days your offer and your photos do much of the filtering, which you will see below.

Because of this, you can reach the right people in your local neighborhood (the ones interested in your paving or sealcoating services) while skipping those who would scroll right past your offer faster than me getting a speeding ticket the time my old boss let me drive his Aston Martin. ;-)

An Ad Combined With A Jaw-Dropping Offer (JDO) For Asphalt Contracting Lead Generation

We are sharing all the secrets today to help you. One is the secret “sauce” of your ad, the Advertorial Landing Page, followed by the two-pronged Jaw Dropping Offers (JDO). After we warm people up with the Advertorial Lander (more on that in a second), the Jaw Dropping Offer is that special something that makes a Facebook user stop mid-scroll and go all googly-eyed over your ad, compelling them to click.

The Advertorial Blog Post That Snags Leads Off Of Facebook For Your Paving Business

First things first, let’s take a look at the Advertorial Lander that works for our clients. In a nutshell, it’s basically an informative article / blog post we put in front of our client’s ideal paving customers that makes them aware of our offer.

Our readers are homeowners within a 20 mile radius of the client. Facebook handles the location and age targeting, and the topic of the article does the rest of the sorting, since people with a driveway are the ones who care about choosing a driveway contractor.

We pay $5/day during the paving season to put that article in front of our prospective audience. The right people, the ones interested in paving who want to avoid falling for a paving scam, click on our article ad on Facebook to read it.

The article is informative, has good persuasive writing, shares solid tips to look for in a paving company, and positions our client as a great choice in the eyes of the reader. There are also two subtle banner ads on the Advertorial landing page that link to the two Jaw Dropping Offers we use for this particular client. (Note these can vary from client to client. You may choose to use one of these, both, or something completely different that fits the JDO criteria.)

Warning signs of a driveway scam: demands for cash up front, “leftover asphalt from a job down the street,” and pressure to sign on the spot.
Questions to ask any paving contractor, like how deep they dig and compact the base, what the warranty covers, and who carries the insurance on the job.
Before-and-after photos from driveways in your own towns.
A short note from the owner, with a face and a name.

Once someone has visited the Advertorial Lander, some readers will click on the banner ads right away, while others take their time. The ones who click right away get the chance to take advantage of the Jaw Dropping Offer and become real leads for your paving company.

And That Is Where The Fun Starts…

The ones that visit the Advertorial Lander but DON’T click over to the Jaw Dropping Offers we retarget with Facebook ads driving to the Jaw Dropping Offer landing page.

Perhaps that has your wheels spinning about the exact offer you could serve up to your ideal audience, hold up for just one minute. There are a couple requirements that go along with creating your JDO.

It needs to be a narrowly targeted, irresistible sales offer that compels your people to take immediate action.
It also needs to be a product or service of perceived high value to offer for free (or at little cost).

So, On To The First Requirement

You need to determine exactly who you want to target. With an asphalt paving business, there are a few different audiences you can appeal to: homeowners looking for paving, homeowners looking for sealcoating, and the commercial equivalents.

But you must focus on one audience at a time and build an offer that’s exclusive to them. In this case, we’ll focus on homeowners looking for paving, specifically homeowners, ages 30-65, within a 15-mile radius of our client’s location, who make $ 75,000+ in yearly income. For most of our clients, targeting on Facebook is ideal.

These homeowners, not renters, within this radius have the economic means to pay to get their driveway paved.

From there, we help Facebook find homeowners in three ways.

We retarget people who read the advertorial.
We upload the client’s past customer list so Facebook can find similar people (a lookalike audience).
We write ads that speak straight to driveway owners, with photos of driveways from the towns we are targeting.

Renters scroll on by, and homeowners lean in.

Going After Commercial Paving Work?

Commercial property managers, condo associations, and business owners shop for paving differently. They compare bids, and the decision can take months.

For this crowd, Google Search ads on terms like “parking lot paving contractor” do the heavy lifting, and Facebook works best as retargeting that keeps your name in front of them while they gather quotes.

Now that we’ve pinpointed our ideal targets, let’s move on to the second requirement: the offer. This is tough for a Paving contractor as you don’t have a ‘sexy’ free or discounted offering like some of our business clients do, but I’ll share a couple of proven ideas that have generated leads for our clients.

The Second Requirement: 3 Paving Offers That Bring In Qualified Leads

Idea #1: “The Bad Driveway Contest” $500 Makeover Offer

For a couple of our clients, we have run a “Bad Driveway” contest where we offer a $500 value touch-up to one of the bad driveway contest entries.

Our digital marketing agency runs a targeted Facebook ad offer to homeowners who fit our ideal targeting and to people who visited our advertorial landing page too.

The ad copy reads something like.

Bad Driveway Contest From [Business Name]: Win A Driveway Makeover! (a $500 Value!)

Face it, Mother Nature is hard on our driveways. If you have a bad driveway, we want to see it!

To be entered to win, follow these two steps:

Grab your phone, snap a photo of it and post it in the comments below.
Go to this page (link to landing page here) and complete your entry so we can reach out to you if you win.

Keep your contest on the right side of Facebook’s rules

Asking people to comment with a photo on your Page post is a fine way to collect entries. Facebook’s Page promotion rules do ask for a few things, though. Each entrant has to release Facebook from the promotion. Your post should make clear the promotion is run by your company, independent of Facebook, and entry methods that use personal Timelines or friend tags (“tag a friend to enter”) are off the table. Post simple official rules on your landing page, and check your state’s sweepstakes rules before launch.

Idea #2: The $100 Off Coupon With a FREE Quote

Now I admit this isn’t my favorite. It’s not really a Jaw Dropping Offer like we prefer, BUT it has worked to generate leads for paving clients, so I feel I need to share it with you.

This offer, however, is going to allow the paving company to get leads to talk to, build trust with them, and double the odds of them closing a deal.

Idea #3: The “Your Neighbors Are Getting Paved” Offer

Here is a third idea worth testing. When a crew is working on a street, run a small Facebook ad within about a mile of the job showing that driveway mid-project, with a neighbor discount for anyone who books while your equipment is already in the area.

Your crew saves on moving equipment, you pass part of that saving along, and homeowners get to see your work on a street they know.

Easy Enough? Keep Rolling…

The Winning Funnel You Need

To catch those leads, you need to set up a simple four-part funnel, which includes:

A well-targeted Facebook ad.
A landing page (aka opt-in page).
A thank you page.
A simple lead follow-up email sequence and text message.

Consider it a mini puzzle of sorts. Each piece needs the others to complete the picture. (We dig into the bigger idea in why a marketing funnel matters for small businesses.)

Now, let’s walk through each part of an effective asphalt/paving sales funnel to ensure you pass the process with flying colors.

The Facebook Ad

This is where you put that JDO on full display for your audience to see (and get excited about). Remember, it doesn’t need to be lavish.

And you can skip writing a novel for the copy. Your ultimate goal is to turn those clicks into LEADS, and the campaign objective to pick for that today is Leads.

Inside a Leads campaign, you choose where the lead happens: on your website landing page or on an instant form inside Facebook. Instant forms tend to bring in more names, and landing pages tend to bring in more serious ones.

If you go with an instant form, pick the higher intent form type, which adds a review step before submitting, and add a qualifying question or two, like “Do you own the home?” and “What kind of project is this?”

Make sense? Great.

Targeting Your Audience On Facebook

Now that the ad objective is knocked out, next, let’s move onto the meat and potatoes: targeting. This is where the segment we discussed earlier comes into play.

Start with your radius and age range, then let Facebook’s Advantage+ audience setting expand from there, using your retargeting and customer lists as hints.

Once your targeting is set, it is time to create your ad creative! Again, it doesn’t need to be anything fancy. It just needs to get people to take action and move on to the next step of the funnel. We are asking them to share their contact information to opt-in to your email list and receive the special offer (aka JDO). It is as simple as that.

After that point, you can reach back out to schedule appointments and offer other services.

Some Elements To Consider

The Ad Headline: super simple. States the offer clearly and who it’s exclusive to
The Main Ad Copy: pinpoints who this ad is for, in words your homeowners use (“Is your driveway cracking after this winter?”).
The Ad Image or Video: grabs attention and relates to your offer. Real photos from your own jobs beat stock images, and a short walk-around video of a fresh driveway works great too. Our professional video production for small businesses can make that easy.
The Ad Description: again, states the offer clearly with a bit more information.
The URL: easy to read and on your own domain. Skip borrowed funnel-builder addresses (ex. a .clickfunnels subdomain). Your own domain looks more trustworthy to homeowners and keeps your tracking under your roof.
The Call-to-Action Button: “Learn More” fits the contest, since people want details first. “Get Quote” fits a straight estimate offer.
The Next Step: once your audience clicks through the ad, they land on an opt-in page (or an instant form) designed to collect their name, email, and cellphone number in exchange for the offer.

The Landing Page (Opt-In)

While it is great and all to have a website for your business, we recommend a dedicated page for this offer. (Our team creates these as part of our website and landing page design work.)

When building out your landing page, consider the following:

The image and page text must match the ad that led your visitor there.
Ask for minimal information: name, email address, phone number, and the town where the project is. Short forms keep people moving toward the finish line.
Put a few Google reviews and a tap-to-call phone number near the form.
Make it load fast on a phone. Homeowners click these ads from the couch, and a fast page keeps them around long enough to reach the form. (Here is more on why site speed affects your leads.)
And add some urgency. Give your offer a real deadline, like the contest end date.

The Thank You Page

After the prospect enters their information on the landing page and clicks ‘Submit,’ they are added to your list and redirected to a Thank You page. It should look a lot like the opt-in page, with a few changes.

It starts off explaining that an email is coming their way soon with more details about the contest or JDO.
Most importantly, at the end, we throw in an incentive to encourage people to act now instead of waiting to see if they won. I mean, we know they need their driveway redone, so why not offer them 20% off your regular pricing because they entered the contest?

And that completes the first three parts of our four-part winning funnel. Lastly, and the most important part of this process, comes the follow-up, helping seal the deal with leads who’ve opted-in.

The Follow-Up

We have said it before, and we will say it again. How you follow up with people who opted in to receive your offer can make or break your campaign. Your job is to clear away anything standing between them and doing business with you.

Speed matters more than most contractors expect. Harvard Business Review research on online sales leads looked at 1.25 million leads across 42 companies and found that firms contacting a lead within an hour were nearly seven times as likely to qualify it as firms that waited even one more hour, and more than 60 times as likely as firms that waited a day or longer.

To help with that, you’ll need to send a series of two emails (at a minimum).

The first email they should receive immediately needs to restate the same information from the Thank You page. Super simple.

And the second email they should receive two days later needs to tell them the benefit of claiming the offer, while reminding them that it expires soon. (There’s that scarcity element again!)

The follow-up sequence we recommend for paving leads.

Right away: an automatic text and email that restate the Thank You page details.
Within the hour: a phone call from a real person. Ask for a photo of the driveway by text while you have them.
Day 2: an email that spells out the benefit of claiming the offer and reminds them it expires soon.
Day 4: a short, friendly text check-in.
Day 7: a final call before the offer closes.

And that wraps up the basic lead generation system.

Want the whole funnel set up for you?

Advertorial, contest, landing page, and follow-up texts, launched and tracked by our team.

When to Run Paving Ads: A Season-by-Season Plan

Paving runs on the calendar, and your ads should too. Here is a sample plan for a New England paving season (shift the months if your season runs longer).

Season	Google Ads	Facebook
Late winter (Feb to Mar)	Small budget on high-intent terms for early planners.	Advertorial and early-bird booking offer.
Spring (Apr to Jun)	Full budget across driveway, repair, and commercial campaigns.	Bad Driveway Contest plus retargeting.
Summer (Jul to Aug)	Steady budget, with sealcoating campaigns added.	Neighbor offers near active jobs.
Fall (Sep to Nov)	Sealcoating and “book before the season wraps up” messaging.	Last-call offers to retargeting lists.
Winter (Dec to Jan)	Paused, or brand terms at a low budget.	Reviews, customer list updates, next season’s creative.

To help with that, you’ll need to send a series of two emails (at a minimum).

The first email they should receive immediately needs to restate the same information from the Thank You page. Super simple.

And the second email they should receive two days later needs to tell them the benefit of claiming the offer, while reminding them that it expires soon. (There’s that scarcity element again!)

How to Get Paving Leads in the Off-Season

You should use the quiet months to plan ahead. After a New England winter, frost heaves and potholes are easy to spot, so late winter makes a great time to test an early-bird offer. Homeowners lock in a spring date with a small deposit and get a discount in return, and any deposits you collect put jobs on your calendar before the season starts.

Winter is also a good time to email past customers about booking next season’s sealcoating. For more ideas, check out our tips on marketing a seasonal business in the off-season.

How to Get Paving Leads on a Smart Budget: The Napkin Math

So what should a paving lead cost you? It depends on your town, your season, and your competition. A better question is what you can afford to pay, and you can figure that out on a napkin.

Average job value × Close rate × Marketing share = Max spend per estimate

Say your average driveway job is $6,000, you close 30% of the estimates you run, and you want marketing at 10% of revenue. That gives you $180 per estimate ($6,000 × 0.30 × 0.10). If half your leads turn into estimates, your max cost per lead comes out to $90.

Booking estimates for under $180? Turn the budget up. Coming in higher? Tighten your keywords and landing page first, then test again.

This math is the heart of how to get paving leads profitably, since it shows you when to spend more and when to fine-tune. Start with a daily budget your gut is comfortable with, track cost per booked estimate for a few weeks, then scale what works.

Our guide on how much a small business should spend on marketing goes deeper on setting the overall number.

Back Your Ads Up With Reviews and a Strong Google Business Profile

Suppose a homeowner who clicks your ad, likes your offer, and then checks your Google reviews before calling. That quick check can decide who gets the call. Ads bring people to your door, and your reviews and profile give them a reason to knock.

So part of how to get paving leads from ads is making sure your Google Business Profile is optimized with the right primary category (Paving contractor), real job photos, your service area, and fresh reviews that mention driveways and towns.

Our Google Business Profile setup guide walks through it step by step, and we break down the combo of paid ads and organic rankings by pairing Google Ads with local SEO.

Want more reviews? Ask after each finished job. Text the customer a direct review link the day you wrap up, while the fresh driveway still has them smiling. Our reputation management and review building service can help keep reviews coming in.

Paving Leads FAQs

Q: What is the fastest way to get new paving leads?

Google Search ads are the fastest route. Once your ads are approved, they show to people searching for paving in your area right now, and calls can start within days. Add a call asset, target a tight radius around your yard, and pick up the phone fast, since the first contractor to call back often wins the estimate.

Q: Do Facebook ads work for paving contractors?

Yes, for residential work. Facebook is great at reaching local homeowners before they start searching, and a strong offer like a driveway contest gives them a reason to raise their hand. It works best paired with retargeting and fast follow-up. For commercial paving, Facebook makes a better supporting player than lead source.

Q: Can paving companies run Google Local Services Ads (LSA)?

Paving has yet to appear as its own category. As of October 2026, Google’s current list of Local Services Ads categories covers trades like general contractors, landscaping, and snow removal, so check eligibility for the services you offer.

Q: Should paving contractors buy shared leads?

Shared leads go to several contractors at once, which turns the job into a price war. Leads from your own ads belong to you alone. One construction client of ours moved from buying paving lead services to a small Google Ads campaign years ago, and today our online marketing drives their new customer growth.

Q: Are paving ads worth it for a small, one-crew company?

Yes, as long as you start small and track results. A tight radius, one or two services, and a modest daily budget can keep one crew busy. One of our landscaping clients started as a one-man show with a very small Google Ads campaign and grew into a large team over the years we have worked together.

Give It A Go!

We have set you up for success with an outline for a four-part funnel that generates a steady flow of leads from Facebook, plus the Google setup that catches people ready to hire today. And the best part? It’ll work no matter what stage of business you’re in.

Now you know how to get paving leads this week. If you would like help setting this up for your paving company, I invite you to book a call with me (see below).

Helping small businesses grow through smart online marketing is our passion, and you will feel it within five minutes of talking with us.

Since 2012, NH Strategic Marketing has helped small businesses all over the country grow with paid and organic search traffic services that we track all the way to leads and booked jobs. I hope to talk with you about growing your business very soon.