Does it mention specific faults?
Frozen coils, warm air, tripping breakers, a unit that runs constantly. If the site only speaks in service categories it is invisible to the people who are actually searching.
Installation, repair, maintenance. It is accurate and it matches almost nothing people type. If you are browsing examples, that is the gap worth noticing.
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Three service categories
How you think about the business
example-hvac.com/services
Twenty faults, twenty pages
How a customer thinks about it
/katy/ac-not-cooling-capacitor
Symptoms, not services
The difference that decides rankings
Open the HVAC sites ranking in your area and look at what they have pages for. The ones doing well are not organised around your service categories. They are organised around what a homeowner types when something has gone wrong, which is never the word maintenance.
Start your 14-day trialNot better design. More pages, each about one fault in one place. Drag the slider to see how quickly that builds through a season.
240 examples
of your work, ready for the next customer who looks you up
One page per job
A normal website
nothing new after launch
A normal website
nothing new after launch
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These separate a site that fills a diary from one that exists so people can find your number.
Start your 14-day trialFrozen coils, warm air, tripping breakers, a unit that runs constantly. If the site only speaks in service categories it is invisible to the people who are actually searching.
Every HVAC site claims 24/7 and nobody believes any of them. Something dated, saying you were out on a call last night, is a completely different signal.
System replacement is a large unplanned expense. Sites that explain financing and available rebates convert a different tier of enquiry than sites that only publish a phone number.
Anyone can photograph a condenser. A tidy line set and a clean attic install show a homeowner something they can actually judge.
You do not need to rewrite the site. You need pages named after the things going wrong in people's houses, which you fix every day.
Whatever the fault was, photograph the finished repair.
“Not cooling, failed capacitor, Katy.”
The same faults recur, and so do the searches.
Three motives, and where each one leads.
Worth studying carefully. Replacement is a five-figure decision for a homeowner and how it is framed makes a real difference to whether they call you or the company offering monthly payments.
Most HVAC sites do, and it matters less than contractors think. Clear, current and obviously local beats modern and static, particularly when someone is uncomfortable and in a hurry.
The most useful exercise. Search a common fault plus your town and see who appears. In most markets the results are thinner than expected because everyone optimised for the word HVAC.
Nobody searches for maintenance. They search for the noise their unit started making last night.
Start your 14-day trialYes, in the examples section, including the individual job pages rather than just the homepage. Those are the pages that turn up for symptom searches.
Short ones in plain language help. A homeowner searching a symptom wants to know roughly what is wrong, roughly what it costs and whether it is urgent. Deep technical detail mostly serves other contractors.
Around twenty covering the faults you see most, which at five calls a week is under a month. Timing matters more than volume here, so build them before the season rather than during it.
For emergency work, often yes. Reviews and your Google listing carry most of the weight when someone is choosing in a hurry. The site matters more for planned replacements, where the decision takes weeks.
A range for the most common jobs sets expectations and filters out enquiries that were never going to book. Full pricing is harder because diagnosis changes everything, and most contractors publish typical ranges instead.
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