Local SEO for Contractors and Home Service Companies
For home service businesses whose website does not come up when someone searches for the job they do. A real page per service, a Google Business Profile that matches it, and the technical work underneath.
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Local SEO for a home service business is the work of making your website the one Google shows when someone in your service area searches for the job you do. It is different from national SEO because the ranking depends on where the searcher is standing, not just on how good your page is. In practice that means one strong page per service you actually sell, a Google Business Profile that matches it, reviews arriving steadily, and a site fast and clean enough that Google can crawl all of it. Most contractor sites lose on the first of those: they have one page called Services that tries to rank for eight different jobs at once.
Why most contractor websites do not rank
The usual pattern is a five-page site — home, about, services, gallery, contact — where the services page lists everything the company does in a bulleted row. Google has nothing to match against a search for a specific job, because no page on the site is about that job. The site ranks for the company name and almost nothing else.
The second pattern is the opposite problem: dozens of near-identical pages spun out for every town within an hour's drive, each one the same paragraph with the place name swapped. Those pages compete with each other, and thin duplicates tend not to earn rankings for anyone.
The third is technical. The site takes six seconds to load on a phone, half the pages are not linked from anywhere, the same content answers to three different URLs, and Google quietly gives up before it finds the pages that matter.
How we work on a site
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Audit before anything changes
We crawl the site the way a search engine does, check what is actually indexed, read the Search Console data you already have, and find out which pages earn impressions and which earn nothing. The plan comes from that, not from a template.
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Fix the crawl and the speed first
Broken links, redirect chains, duplicate URLs, missing canonicals, slow images. None of it is glamorous and all of it caps what the content work can achieve.
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One page per service, written properly
A page about drain cleaning that answers what the job involves, what it costs to think about, and what happens when you call. Enough that a homeowner reading it would hire you without calling a second company.
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Align the profile with the site
Google Business Profile categories, services and description matched to the pages they point at, so the listing and the site reinforce each other instead of describing two different businesses.
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Reviews on a schedule
Automated review requests by text after completed jobs, so recent review flow stops depending on whether anyone remembered to ask.
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Measure the right numbers
Non-branded impressions, clicks and calls from organic search — not a vanity keyword position report. We separate map pack visibility from website rankings, because they move for different reasons.
What we work on, specifically
Technical SEO
Crawlability, indexation, site speed, mobile rendering, structured data and internal linking. The foundation everything else sits on.
Service page content
A real page for each job you want to be hired for, written for a homeowner deciding who to call rather than for a keyword counter.
Google Business Profile
Categories, service lists, service area, photos and posts, kept consistent with the site. Covered in more depth on our Google Maps page.
Review generation
A steady flow of recent, real reviews, requested automatically after work is completed.
Internal linking
Making sure every page is reachable, and that related services link to each other so authority moves through the site instead of pooling on the homepage.
Reporting you can read
What changed, what moved and what we are doing next, written in plain language rather than as a keyword position dump.
What we will not do
We will not promise a position on a date. Nobody controls Google's ranking, and an agency that guarantees a number is either describing a term nobody searches for or is about to disappoint you.
We will not buy links or place your site in bulk directory submissions. Link schemes are a known violation, the cleanup costs more than the links did, and the risk lands on your business rather than on the agency that sold them.
We will not publish fifty thin location pages to fill a sitemap. If we build a page for a city, it is because you genuinely work there and there is something specific to say about working there.
We will not report on rankings for your own company name and call it growth. Branded search was already yours.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How long does local SEO take to show results?
Longer than anyone wants, and the honest answer is months rather than weeks. How long depends on how competitive your area is, how much of the groundwork is missing, and whether the site has any service pages at all to begin with. What we will not do is quote you a date, because nobody outside Google is in a position to promise one.
Should I do SEO or run ads first?
If you need calls this month, ads. SEO does not produce leads on a schedule you control, and starving a business while you wait for it is bad advice. The usual answer is both: ads for the volume now, SEO so that in a year you are not renting all of your traffic.
How many service pages do I actually need?
One for each job you genuinely want more of. Not one per keyword variation. If you do drain cleaning, water heater replacement and repiping, that is three pages, each written properly, rather than one services page mentioning all three in a list.
Do you build a page for every town I serve?
Only where you genuinely work and there is something specific to say about working there. Spinning out fifty near-identical pages with the town name swapped is a well-known pattern that tends not to earn rankings and can drag on the rest of the site.
Will you guarantee a number one ranking?
No, and we would be careful with anyone who does. Nobody outside Google controls the ranking. What we can commit to is the work, the reporting, and telling you honestly when something is not working.
Do you do SEO for e-commerce or national brands?
Our work is built around local home service businesses, and that is what we are good at. If you sell nationally online, another agency will serve you better and we will say so on the first call.
Tell us what you need
Send a few details about your business and what you want fixed, and we will come back to you with what we would do first.
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Talk to someone who works with contractors
If you run a home service business and you are losing calls, quotes or past customers, that is the conversation to have. No charge for it, and nothing to prepare -- bring what is not working and we will tell you whether it is something we can help with.