Featured2,700+ Paid Conversions and 900+ LSA Leads for a Virginia Pet Care Brand
"From website revamp to scalable growth: driving leads through SEO and paid strategy."
Written by: Tamara Burton BelottiDancing Creek Farm
SEO + Paid AdsFill holiday weeks early and defend occupancy through the quiet months. Software Pro Digital paces Google Ads for cat boarding to a booking curve that runs weeks ahead of every peak.
Two failures repeat across cattery accounts: spending at the wrong time, and spending on the wrong species.
Cat boarding demand concentrates into holidays and school breaks, and the searches that fill those weeks run four to six weeks ahead of them. Spending during the peak itself reaches owners who arranged care a month ago. That timing error wastes more cattery budget than any bidding decision, and it repeats every single year.
The second leak is species. Cat hotel PPC folded into general boarding campaigns collects clicks from dog owners who will never convert, and pet boarding PPC management that treats both species as one audience is why so many facility accounts underperform. Software Pro Digital paces to the curve and keeps the cat only positioning explicit.
Cat only is a searchable advantage. Most facilities never put it in the ad.
Google Ads for cat boarding, built for a specialist facility whose revenue lands in a handful of predictable weeks.
Spend raised four to six weeks before each peak and eased back after, rather than held flat across the year.
Named explicitly in ad copy and campaign structure, which is the differentiator a mixed chain cannot claim.
Presence based targeting across a realistic drive, with towns that never convert excluded outright.
Performance Max asset groups built per suite tier from real photography rather than one shared set of stock images.
Booking confirmations tracked where the platform allows, so reporting reflects reservations not enquiries.
Cost per booking measured against average stay value, so the target protects margin rather than chasing cheap leads.
Planned backwards from your peaks, with the quiet months handled deliberately.
Current spend and occupancy pattern reviewed, then the calendar worked backwards to set what must run when.
Booking confirmation mapped where the platform allows, with qualified request tracking as the fallback.
Cat only positioning in every headline, tight radius, and negatives against dog and in home sitter searches.
Suite level images and video prepared, because Performance Max without real facility assets performs unpredictably.
Budget lifted ahead of each peak, then redirected to medical and extended stay demand through the quiet months.
Being present while owners decide matters more than being aggressive once they have.
Budget raised as owners confirm travel, which is when care gets arranged rather than during the holiday itself.
Defended across the whole booking window rather than in a short burst that captures only part of the demand.
Spend moved toward medical boarding and extended stays once peak weeks fill, instead of switching off entirely.
Recurring short stays from working owners, steadier than holiday demand and considerably less price sensitive.
Performance Max only works here if you can feed it real pictures of a real facility.
Standard, premium, and multi cat suites given their own assets and messaging, because they sell at different prices.
Owners are checking for space, light, and whether cats look settled. Stock imagery reads as evasion in this category.
Short room walkthroughs materially lift Performance Max results and are what chains almost never provide.
Vaccination requirements, supervision hours, and climate control surfaced in asset text as well as on the page.
Enquiry counts flatter a cattery account. Reservations tell the truth.
The booking confirmation step mapped when your reservation platform is open, rather than counting form fills.
Where the platform is closed, we track qualified requests plus call duration and reconcile monthly against your report.
Cost per booking judged against average stay value and suite pricing, so the target protects margin.
A known calendar means budget can be scheduled rather than reacted to.
Holidays and local school break dates plotted, since school calendars drive family travel more than public holidays do.
Spend concentrated in the weeks before each break, then reduced once occupancy for those dates is secured.
A steady baseline aimed at medical and extended stays, so the account is not dark between peaks.
Cat only is a competitive advantage in the auction. Most facilities never use it.
Cat only stated in the ad, which lifts click through and keeps dog owner clicks out of your budget at the same time.
Work scheduled backwards from peaks and school breaks so visibility exists while owners are still deciding.
Experienced media buyers run the account, not juniors learning seasonal pacing on your budget.
Cost per booking against average stay value, reconciled with your reservation report each month.
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Featured"From website revamp to scalable growth: driving leads through SEO and paid strategy."
Written by: Tamara Burton BelottiDancing Creek Farm
SEO + Paid AdsA direct answer to the question cattery owners ask us most.

Four to six weeks before each peak. Owners arrange travel care shortly after they confirm the trip, so the searches that fill a holiday week happen roughly a month earlier. Waiting until the week itself means bidding hard against competitors for a calendar that is already nearly full. Plot local school break dates alongside public holidays, because school calendars drive family travel more than the holidays themselves do, then front load each window and ease back once those dates are secured rather than switching the account off entirely.
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Straight answers to what cat boarding operators want to know first.
Four to six weeks before each peak, because owners book travel care well ahead. Waiting until the week of a holiday means bidding hard against competitors for a calendar that is already nearly full.
It can once conversion data exists, and it is strongest when you have real facility photography and video for asset groups. We usually prove demand on Search first, then expand.
By advertising the difference rather than the price. Supervision hours, medical capability, climate control, and camera access are the reasons owners choose a facility over a sitter.
Yes where your reservation platform allows it. We map the booking confirmation step when the platform is open and fall back to qualified request tracking when it is closed.
It moves with your market and suite pricing. We benchmark against average stay value and target a cost per booking that protects margin instead of chasing the cheapest possible lead.
Tell us about the facility and how occupancy runs through the year. You will hear back within one business day.
Get your cattery ads audit and a pacing plan built around your calendar. No obligation, just a senior buyer showing you the waste.
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