01 / SERVICE Local SEO for trades

Be the
first call,
not the third.

When someone's furnace dies at midnight, they Google three companies and call the one that ranks. We do the unglamorous work that puts you first in that list — and keeps you there.

38%

Avg lift in organic leads — first 90 days

14

Service-area pages built per engagement

4.7

Avg Google rating, post-cleanup

§ What it is What is local SEO

Showing up where your customers already look.

Local SEO is the practice of getting your business to appear in the first few results when someone in your service area types something like "AC repair near me" or "plumber Tulsa" into Google.

It's three things, in plain English: (1) Google has to know you exist and what you do, (2) Google has to trust that you're a real, reputable business in the place you say you are, and (3) Google has to believe your website actually answers what the searcher is asking.

When all three line up, you show up in the local "map pack" — those three highlighted results above the rest. Map-pack listings get clicked roughly five times as often as listing #4. That's the whole game.

§ Why Why you need it

What changes when you do this well.

01

Emergency searches

Eighty percent of trades searches happen on a mobile phone, often after-hours, and the searcher calls one of the first two or three businesses they see. Rank or be forgotten.

02

Buying intent

"Plumber near me" isn't research — it's a person with their hand on the phone. SEO traffic converts to booked jobs at 3–5× the rate of social or display.

03

Compounding asset

Unlike ads, organic rankings keep working when you stop paying. A site that ranks #1 today still ranks tomorrow, even if you pause spend.

04

Cost predictability

A booked job from organic search costs you nothing per click. The economics get better every month, not worse.

§ Deliverables What we deliver

Specifically, what shows up.

  1. 01

    Audit & strategy

    A two-week deep audit of your current rankings, Google Business Profile, citations, and on-site SEO. You receive a written strategy document — yours to keep, even if you don't hire us.

  2. 02

    Google Business Profile overhaul

    Verification, category cleanup, services list, hours, photo set, Q&A seeding, and a posting cadence. The single highest-leverage SEO surface for trades, done right.

  3. 03

    Service-area pages

    A unique landing page for every town, ZIP, or neighborhood you serve — written by a human, not generated. This is what unlocks rankings outside your immediate city.

  4. 04

    Citation & directory cleanup

    Yelp, Angi, BBB, Houzz, Nextdoor, and forty more. We verify consistent name, address, and phone everywhere they appear.

  5. 05

    Review engine

    Automated SMS asks to happy customers, polite removal requests on bad ones, and a public review wall on your site. Most clients double their review count in ninety days.

  6. 06

    Monthly reporting

    A one-page report you can read in two minutes — rankings, organic calls, and cost-per-booked-job. No vanity metrics.

§ FAQ Questions you should ask

Things owners ask before we shake hands.

↗ Next step

Stop paying for impressions. Start counting booked jobs.

30-minute strategy call. No pitch deck. We'll tell you straight whether we can help.

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