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Built to rank for "near me" searches like "plumber," "HVAC repair" and "electrician," and the local variations of each.GBP management · Reviews · Keyword tracking
Industry · Trades & Contractors
Local SEO and websites for electricians, plumbers and trade contractors across the GTA. When someone needs a repair at 2pm on a Tuesday, they Google it. We make sure it's you they find.

Industries we work in
Four searches, four different customers
Trades demand splits in half. Part of it is urgent and settled in the map pack in under a minute. The rest is a considered purchase where a homeowner reads for a week before calling anyone. A site built only for the first half loses every job worth having, and a site built only for the second half never gets the 9pm call.
Phone already in hand, water on the floor, decision made from the map pack before anyone reads a word of your website. You are in the top three or you did not exist for that job.
Research mode, days or weeks out from booking, and a bigger ticket. This one is won by the page that answers the cost question honestly instead of hiding behind "call for pricing."
This homeowner has been burned before and is checking you out. Licence number, insurance, and a plain explanation of who pulls the permit are what close it — and most contractor sites bury all three.
Evening or weekend search. Whether you appear at all is decided by the hours on your Google Business Profile, not by your website. It is the cheapest fix on this page and the one most often left wrong.
Why this is different
A homeowner needs a furnace fixed or an outlet installed. They open Google. If you're not in the first three results, they never know you exist.
Word-of-mouth keeps you busy, but every call you miss is a job that goes to whoever picks up. A website and form lets customers book without waiting for a callback.
No Google Business Profile, no website, reviews scattered across three platforms. A contractor who looks professional online wins the call before the truck shows up.
What a good trades site needs
None of this is exotic. It is the same short list we work through on every trades build, whether it is a plumber, an HVAC company or an electrical contractor. Two trades have their own pages: SEO for electricians and HVAC SEO go deeper on how it plays out for each.
A homeowner searching for sump pump replacement should land on a page about sump pump replacement — what the job involves, what drives the price, how long you need in the house. A single services page with a bulleted list ranks for none of those searches, because it is not really about any of them.
Half the competition on Google is somebody with a magnetic sign and no paperwork. Putting your licence number, WSIB status and insurance in plain sight is a conversion gain on traffic you are already paying to get, which is almost always cheaper than chasing more traffic.
Most of this traffic is on a phone, often in a basement, often annoyed. Tap-to-call above the fold, a form that does not ask for a postal code before it asks for a phone number, and a page that loads before they give up.
Stock photography of a smiling man in a clean shirt does nothing for you and homeowners can tell. Real photos of your trucks, your crew and finished work — added to the site and the profile on a regular schedule — are a signal to both Google and the person deciding whether to call.
What we do
Built to rank for "near me" searches like "plumber," "HVAC repair" and "electrician," and the local variations of each.GBP management · Reviews · Keyword tracking
A site with service pages, photos of your work and a booking form tied to your CRM.Service area pages · Online booking · Before/after
Google Ads for high-intent searches, Meta for retargeting.Emergency campaigns · Seasonal bidding · Lead tracking
How we work
The order matters more than the list. Profile before pages, pages before area pages, reviews running underneath all of it. Doing it out of order is how agencies end up with forty city pages and no rankings.
We map your map-pack position across a grid of your service area, pull what you rank for organically, check your profile against Google’s guidelines, and look at what the contractors beating you have that you do not. You get the findings whether or not you hire us.
The Google Business Profile gets rebuilt first because it moves fastest and because emergency work is decided there. In parallel we fix the unglamorous things: title tags, schema, internal links, page speed and the mobile layout.
We write the money services first, in whatever order you want more of. Area pages come after the service pages hold. You review each one for technical accuracy before it goes live.
A review process goes live, then monthly reporting: map positions across the grid, keyword movement, organic traffic, form fills and calls. If a page has had a fair run and is not moving, we say so and change it rather than quietly leaving it up.
Is this you?
If you are chasing builder subcontract work through a relationship rather than residential service calls, SEO is not your lever. We would rather tell you that on the call than sell you a retainer.
A fit if
Not a fit if
Websites, local SEO and Ava for trades businesses across the GTA. Names, sites and numbers come out on the call.
Names on the callReferrals are the best leads you will ever get, and they are also the ones you control least. They arrive when someone else decides to mention you. Search is the part of your pipeline you can turn up on purpose. Most contractors we work with are not trying to replace word of mouth — they are trying to fill the gaps between referrals so a slow month stops being a surprise.
Google Business Profile work moves first: categories, services, service area, hours and photos are things Google reads quickly. Website work is slower — a new service page needs time to be crawled, indexed and tested against everyone already ranking. Plan in months rather than weeks for the site, and expect the profile to move before it does. Anyone quoting you page one in thirty days is either targeting search terms nobody uses or telling you what you want to hear.
Only if each page is genuinely about that city — the housing stock, the permit office, the neighbourhoods, jobs you have actually done there. Twenty pages that differ by one swapped city name are a doorway pattern and Google has gotten good at spotting them. We would rather build a handful of real area pages than a pile of thin ones you have to clean up later.
It depends how fast you need work. SEO compounds and starts slow. Ads start the day you turn them on and stop the day you turn them off. A common pattern is SEO plus a small budget on emergency-intent terms, then tapering the ads as map-pack and organic positions hold. If ads are not worth it in your market we will say so instead of selling you a budget.
About an hour a month. You review service-page copy for technical accuracy — permits, code, what a job actually involves — because you know that better than any agency does. You also need to answer or return calls the same day. SEO puts the phone in front of a homeowner; it cannot pick it up for you.
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