A complete, current listing
Your Google Business Profile does more for local visibility than anything else, and it's free. Correct hours, correct categories, real photos, and steady reviews.
Local SEO for contractors
Local SEO for contractors, without hiring anyone
Most of what agencies charge for comes down to three things: a proper listing, pages that match real searches, and a site that keeps changing. Two of them are free and the third is the work you already do.
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Rivera Plumbing
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An agency location page
Written from a template, never visited
yourwebsite.com/katy-contractor
A remodel you finished in Katy
Real job, real address, real date
/katy/kitchen-remodel-galley
$0 monthly retainer
The pages come from the work
What you're paying an agency to do
A monthly retainer usually buys keyword research, a handful of location pages, some directory listings, and a report. The location pages are the part that matters, and they're written by someone who has never been to any of those places. You go to them every day.
Start your 14-day trialThe pages an agency would charge you for
A retainer might produce four or five location pages a month, written by someone who wasn't there. You finish more jobs than that in a week. Drag the slider to how many.
192 examples
of your work, ready for the next customer who looks you up
One page per job
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1 page per postNew pages added since launch
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The three things that actually move local rankings
Local search is less mysterious than the industry around it suggests. Most of the outcome comes down to a small number of things, and a contractor can do all of them.
Start your 14-day trialPages that match real searches
People search a problem plus a place. Pages built around one job in one neighbourhood match that language in a way a services page never will.
A site that keeps changing
A site that hasn't moved in two years gives search engines nothing to come back for. Regular, genuine updates are a signal you can produce yourself.
Doing it without a retainer
You don't need to learn any of this. The pages get produced as a side effect of finishing work, which is the one thing you're already doing consistently.
Post the job
Photo, sentence, neighbourhood. Thirty seconds when you pack up.
The page gets built properly
Title, description, address, and structured data, without you touching any of it.
It gets submitted
Reported to search engines immediately rather than waiting to be discovered.
What contractors ask about local SEO
Three questions worth answering plainly, because the industry around this tends not to.
Do I need an agency?
Some contractors genuinely benefit from one, particularly in very competitive metros or when running paid ads alongside. But the fundamentals - listing, specific pages, a current site - don't require a retainer, and it's worth doing them before paying anyone.
How long does it take?
Longer than anyone selling it will tell you. Pages get indexed in days, but ranking for anything competitive is a matter of months. What changes early is that you start turning up for the narrow searches nobody else has bothered with.
Is this just keyword stuffing?
No, and it's worth being clear about the difference. Pages built from work you actually did in places you actually went are real content. Pages generated for towns you've never visited are the thing search engines penalise.
The work is the strategy
Nothing to learn, no retainer, no reports. Post the jobs you finish and the pages accumulate on their own.
Start your 14-day trialFrequently asked questions
Do I need to understand SEO to use this?
No. The page titles, descriptions, addresses, and structured data are handled for you. Your part is posting the job, which is the part only you can do.
Should I cancel my agency?
Not on the strength of a landing page. If they're producing results you can measure, keep them. If the monthly report is the only evidence anything is happening, ask them which searches you now rank for that you didn't a year ago.
What about directories and citations?
Worth having your details consistent across the major ones, but it's a one-off tidy-up rather than an ongoing spend. Your Google Business Profile matters far more than the long tail of directory listings.
How is this different from the location pages agencies build?
Those are usually one template repeated across towns nobody visited, which search engines have become good at spotting. These come from jobs you actually did, in places you actually went, with photos to prove it.
What happens after the 14-day trial?
You can choose a plan before the trial ends to keep your site live. No card is needed to start, and we will remind you before the trial finishes. If you decide not to continue, you are not billed.
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