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L'Exterminateur en Ligne · Pest control · Paid search · 2026

How L'Exterminateur en Ligne grew revenue 2.4× and made every dollar work harder

Pest control is an emergency category: demand spikes, competitors bid hard, and the customer buys within minutes. Over twelve months this account went from 3.27× to 5.51× return while more than doubling its conversions.

L'Exterminateur en Ligne

5.51×

return on ad spend

up from 3.27× year over year

The results, up top — every number is in the strip below

5.51×

return on ad spend

up from 3.27×

+116%

tracked conversions

1,089 → 2,357

CA$265k

tracked revenue

up from CA$110,583

+42%

budget

CA$33,799 → CA$48,143

−36%

cost per conversion

efficiency, not just volume

Industry

Pest control

Location

Quebec, Canada

Channel

Google Ads (Search)

Services used

Paid search, paid social

Timeline

12 months — 2025–2026

01 — The challenge

An emergency category with no room for wasted clicks.

L'Exterminateur en Ligne sells pest-control treatment across Quebec, where the buying decision is made under stress and usually resolved the same day. The account was already profitable at 3.27× return, which is often where growth stalls: good enough that nobody wants to touch it.

The problem was mix. Seasonal pest demand swings violently by species and by month, and a single flat account structure spends the same way in a bed-bug panic as it does in an off-season week of idle research traffic.

“Our business is people panicking at ten at night. I never needed clever marketing, I needed to be there at the exact second someone decides they cannot live with this any longer — and to stop paying for everyone who was just curious.”

Urgency cuts both ways in a paid account. It makes the good clicks extremely valuable and the merely curious ones extremely expensive, so the discipline is in what you refuse to bid on.

02 — Our approach

Bid on urgency, not on interest.

The account was rebuilt around intent rather than around services. Emergency, same-day and named-pest searches were separated from research and price-comparison traffic, so the urgent segment could be bid aggressively while the curious segment was capped or excluded entirely.

The season came next. Pest demand is not one curve, it is several overlapping ones, and budget was moved between species and regions weekly as the volume actually arrived instead of on a plan written in January.

Finally the conversion path was made to match the panic. Copy answered the question the searcher was actually asking — can you come today, what does it cost — and the fastest route to a booked treatment was the most prominent thing on the page. That is where most of the ROAS lift came from, not from bids.

03 — What we did

Segment by urgency, follow the season, shorten the path.

Three moves, all of them about matching money to the moment demand appears.

Intent segmentation

Emergency traffic and research traffic stopped sharing a budget

Same-day and named-pest searches were separated from advice and price-comparison queries, so urgency could be bid hard while curiosity was capped. In this category that single split does more than any bid adjustment.

Google Ads view for L'Exterminateur en Ligne — Emergency traffic and research traffic stopped sharing a budget

Seasonality management

Budget moved weekly, with the pests

Pest demand is several overlapping seasonal curves, not one. Budget followed the volume as it arrived — by species and by region — instead of following a plan written months earlier.

Google Ads view for L'Exterminateur en Ligne — Budget moved weekly, with the pests

Conversion path

Answered the two questions a panicking customer asks

Can you come today, and what will it cost. Copy and landing experience were rewritten around those two, with the shortest possible route to a booked treatment. Most of the return lift came from here.

Google Ads view for L'Exterminateur en Ligne — Answered the two questions a panicking customer asks

Waste control

Aggressive negatives in a high-CPC auction

Continuous search-term review with negative lists for DIY, identification and job-seeker queries. When clicks are expensive, what you refuse to buy matters as much as what you bid.

Google Ads view for L'Exterminateur en Ligne — Aggressive negatives in a high-CPC auction

04 — The results

Twelve months: revenue 2.4×, return 5.51×.

Period covered: Aug 1, 2025 – Jul 31, 2026 vs Aug 1, 2024 – Jul 31, 2025

Source: Google Ads API, client account (ID withheld) — a single named conversion action, in CAD. Conversion values are platform-reported and not reconciled against invoiced revenue.

Google Ads screenshot for L'Exterminateur en Ligne — Twelve months: revenue 2.4×, return 5.51×Google Ads screenshot for L'Exterminateur en Ligne — Every result on this page was recorded before it was reportedGoogle Ads screenshot for L'Exterminateur en Ligne — 5.51× return on ad spend and +116% tracked conversionsGoogle Ads screenshot for L'Exterminateur en Ligne — One dashboard: 5.51× return on ad spend, +116% tracked conversions, CA$265k tracked revenue

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