The 90-second decision
When the AC dies in July, a homeowner searches "AC repair near me", sees three companies on the map, and calls the one with the best rating and a phone number that answers. The whole decision takes about ninety seconds. Being in that box, across the whole area your trucks actually cover, is the entire game for HVAC, plumbing and electrical companies.
What usually goes wrong
The service area is set wrong. A profile at the shop's address with "Central Florida" as the service area ranks near the shop and nowhere else. Meanwhile the trucks drive to Clermont every day.
No city pages. The site has a Services page and a Contact page. There is no "plumber in Winter Garden" page, so Google shows the aggregators instead.
Reviews live in the trucks. Technicians finish jobs, customers are happy, nobody asks. The company with 40 reviews loses to the one with 400 every time.
Ads without call tracking. Budget goes to "how to fix AC" searches and to homeowners in cities you do not serve.
What we do for home service companies
Local SEO, Advanced plan (from $500/month). Profile rebuilt with the right categories (HVAC contractor, plumber, electrician, plus secondaries), services listed individually, service area set to what you actually cover. A page per city and per service, written with real local detail rather than a swapped city name. A review request flow that runs from the technician's phone at the end of every job. A rank grid across your service area so you see the streets where you are winning and losing.
Franchise SEO for multi-branch operators. One profile, one page set and one rank grid per branch, rolled into one dashboard. From $350 per location, down to $250 at scale. We have kept a nine-location Central Florida security company at #1 in its category for nine years with this exact structure.
Google Ads and Local Services Ads. Emergency campaigns that turn on when temperatures do, maintenance campaigns for the shoulder months, financing campaigns for replacements. Call tracking so every dollar is attributed. $100/month plus 3–5% of spend.
A website that converts on a phone. Click-to-call in the header, service pages with pricing ranges, financing, a booking form, real photos of your trucks and crews. $1,500 flat, $200/month maintenance including hosting and security.
The first 90 days
Weeks 1–2: profile and service-area audit, city and service priority list. Weeks 3–6: city and service pages live, review flow running from the field, citations cleaned. Weeks 7–12: rank grid movement in the priority cities, Ads optimized to cost per booked call, first monthly report with calls, bookings and map visibility side by side.
What we would do, in order
- Local SEO & Google Business ProfileShow up in the map pack when someone nearby searches for what you do.Starting at $150/mo
- Google Ads ManagementPaid search managed on a flat fee plus a small percentage. No spend, no percentage.Starting at $100/mo + 5%
- Franchise & Multi-Location SEOEvery location ranking in its own market, managed from one dashboard.Starting at $350/location/mo
- Website Design & DevelopmentA fast, secure website with its own CMS, built to rank from day one. $1,500 flat.Starting at $1,500 flat
