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Contractor SEO

SEO for Contractors Proven to Increase Rankings, Traffic, Leads & Sales

97% of consumers go online to find local services, and 93% of those experiences start with a search engine. Make sure yours is the company they find with contractor SEO from THE authority in contractor marketing: Blue Corona. 

Customers searching for a general contractor or other home service company no longer turn to the Yellowpages or door hangers to find a reputable company. Instead, they turn to the internet. It’s imperative to partner with a proven marketing company that specializes in contractor SEO and local search marketing so your company:

See how one contractor doubled revenue with a 1,117% ROI with SEO from Blue Corona »

At Blue Corona, we keep your business goals in mind and strive to be your one-stop-shop for search engine optimization. Our campaign managers specialize in local SEO for contractors and have the knowledge and expertise to work with virtually any contracting company in any market, including:

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What You Get with Contractor SEO from Blue Corona

How does contractor SEO increase your leads and booked jobs? We diligently follow the process below. The end result is higher rankings in the search results, which translates into more leads and booked jobs for you.

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1PERFORMING A COMPETITIVE DIGITAL ANALYSIS

  • Complete a competitive digital marketing analysis to see how you stack up against your top three competitors using our proprietary data tracking software
  • Perform contractor keyword research and identify the top sales-driving search terms and keywords in your market area and industry
  • Establish your baseline for website code and structure, content, local visibility, and off-site citations, then compare it to your competitors to create an actionable, sales-driving plan
  • Create actionable revenue goals and corresponding SEO plans

2OPTIMIZING WEBSITE CONTENT AND CODE

  • Install advanced Google Analytics and call tracking
  • Make your contractor website fast, secure (optional but recommended), and mobile friendly
  • Edit your website’s code and structure to be in-line with best SEO practices
  • Edit and optimize your existing website pages for search visibility and creative content
  • Perform conversion rate optimization on all website elements (like contact forms, buttons, navigational links) to ensure an optimal experience for your customers

3CREATING NEW WEBSITE CONTENT AND CREATIVES

  • Publish targeted website content that delights potential customers, improves your local search rankings, and provides a seamless user experience
  • Create search-engine-optimized creative assets like infographics & videos
  • Optimize and create content for voice search and digital assistants

4OPTIMIZING AND CREATING LOCAL CITATIONS (LOCAL SEO)

  • Locate and audit existing citations across online directories like Yelp, Facebook, Angie’s List, and more, including industry-specific directories
  • Optimize your company’s Google My Business page for local SEO best practices
  • Optimize your company’s Facebook page for local SEO best practices
  • Discover, manage, and monitor local citation and backlink opportunities to build authority

5MEASUREMENT AND ANALYTICS REPORTING

  • Provide transparent revenue attribution and easy-to-understand monthly reports on the status and results of all your SEO campaigns, as well as what’s coming next
  • Provide reports on tracked incoming phone calls, and analyze separately tracked phone lines for each marketing channel (optional add-on, but recommended)
  • Monitor analytics on a daily basis to watch for anomalies, hacks, penalties, or other sales-damaging events

6TRACKING AND TWEAKING YOUR CAMPAIGN

  • Monitor your keyword rankings, organic traffic, calls, and leads
  • Monitor the keywords rankings of your competitors
  • Monitor your top-three competitors
  • Monitor keyword and search trends in your industry
  • Continually optimize and pivot your campaign for better performance over time

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Why SEO Is the Best Contractor Marketing Strategy

Why is SEO the best contractor marketing strategy? Because it lets you put your website in front of consumers at the exact moment they’re searching for your services. 

Each month, people in the U.S. perform more than 1.6 million online searches for contractors. Considering over 90% of people don’t go past the first page of search results, your website needs to be at the top of page one if you want to turn those searches into new leads and booked projects. By optimizing your website for search, you’re increasing your chances of claiming that top spot for your highest-converting keywords.

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What It Takes To Outrank Your Competitors in Search Engines

There are three requirements if you want to get your website on the first page of Google: First, your website code needs to be easy for search engines to find, read, index, and rank (Learn about our contractor website development services). Second, your onsite content (copy/text) must establish your company as an authority in the contracting industry. And third, your offsite factors (ex. links from other authoritative sites) must be optimized to reinforce your site’s authority.

To accomplish that, our SEO specialists focus on:

If you’re like most contractors, you probably get 20 emails a day promising to do the things above. Like most things in life, if it sounds too good to be true, it typically is (after all—think about what your competitors promise your clients!)!

We specialize in contractor marketing, which means we know more about contractor SEO than virtually any other digital marketing company!

What Are the Advantages of SEO for General Contractors?

One of the biggest advantages of SEO for general contractors is its cost-effectiveness. If you’re looking to make a big impact on a smaller budget, SEO ranks as one of the best investments.

Other advantages of SEO:

  • 97% of people go online to find local services, and 93% of people begin their online experience with a search engine
  • The first position on Google search results has a 34.36% clickthrough rate for desktop and 35% for mobile.
  • SEO leads have a 14.6% close rate, compared to only 1.7% for outbound leads such as print advertisements.

How Long Does SEO Take?

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We’re glad you asked! You can usually see some sort of SEO success by the end of three to six months, but for certain industries with highly competitive search terms it can take up to six months to a year to see a dramatic difference. Once you get the ball rolling, though, it’s hard to stop. Read more about how long SEO takes on our blog!

Our Contractor SEO Process in More Detail

STEP 1COMPREHENSIVE WEBSITE TRACKING & SEO AUDIT

You can’t maximize what you don’t (accurately) measure. Accurate tracking is the foundation of every service Blue Corona provides.  To provide you with intelligent decisions about your SEO our first step is to evaluate your marketing the same way a great accountant would review your financials. We measure the metrics that matter–increases in profit, revenue, and booked jobs from organic keyword searches.

SEO is a zero-sum game which means that in order for your website to move higher up in the organic search results, you must leapfrog other websites. One of the most common questions contractors owners ask us is, “How much SEO do I need?” You can’t (intelligently) answer this question without first doing a thorough analysis of the businesses in your marketplace (you CAN get a rough estimate by scrolling further down this page).

A typical SEO audit includes:

  • A business intake so that our account managers see your business from an owner’s perspective
  • Analytics and SEO software implementation (we use a set of tools no other SEO company has)
  • Keyword research and identification
  • Competitor analysis
  • Analysis and evaluation of your website code, structure, and content
  • Analysis and evaluation of your company’s presence online—linkscape, social media, and more

The output of our SEO audit process is an overview report and SEO strategy, which our team will present to you (allowing time for extensive Q&A).

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STEP 2: FOUNDATIONAL IMPROVEMENTS TO YOUR WEBSITE

Armed with the data derived from the SEO audit process, we then make foundational improvements required for ongoing SEO success. For example, to rank well on Google you not only need optimized content, but you also need your website to be coded and structured correctly. If we identify code and site structure issues during the SEO audit process, we fix those first.

Although every situation is unique, typical foundational improvements include things like:

  • Revising your website’s title tags and meta descriptions
  • Making sure your website looks great on mobile devices
  • Renaming various web pages to be more descriptive
  • Giving your website files a more logical structure
  • Improving your website speed (load speed is a known ranking factor)
  • Enhancing your local SEO by creating more geographically relevant content
  • In some cases, recoding your website onto a better content management system (CMS)

STEP 3: CONTENT CREATION AND Contractor MARKETING

With the right foundation in place and armed with the right keywords, the next step in the contractor SEO process is to update the content on your website and, when necessary, create new website pages. Contrary to what you might think, Google doesn’t rank websites—it ranks web PAGES. Each page of content on your site gives you an opportunity to rank for a specific set of relevant keywords.

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Most contractors either hate creating website copy or don’t have the time for it. That’s okay—Blue Corona has professional, U.S.-based copywriters who specialize in the home services, construction, and general contracting industries. 

STEP 4: OPTIMIZATION OF OFFSITE SEO FACTORS

The final step in the SEO process is to optimize your overall footprint on the web. Think of links from other authoritative websites (affiliate websites, local chambers of commerce, or the BBB) as votes of authority or digital recommendations. More links from high-authority sites equal more search engine visibility; however, you must recognize that not all links are created equal! Buying links with the intent to manipulate Google’s ranking algorithms is forbidden and doing so can get your website banned from the search rankings. The right way to attract links to your website is to earn them with great, linkable content!

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Questions to Ask a Contractor SEO Agency Before Hiring Them

Not all contractor SEO agencies live up to their promises of more traffic, better rankings, and more leads. Some SEO firms achieve results, but they do so using “black-hat SEO” techniques. These unethical strategies can hurt your website’s rankings—and ultimately your business.

Before selecting your SEO company, make sure to ask the following questions:

  • What’s in my current contract?
  • What’s the process if I cancel?
  • How will we communicate and how often?
  • Do I have full access to my site and Analytics/Adwords accounts?
  • Will I own my website?
  • Do you provide guarantees?
  • Have you done work like this for companies similar to mine?
  • What contracts and options are available? How do I determine the right budget?
  • What are all your fees and payment options?

Avoid any search engine optimization services that “guarantee” any of the following:

  • Overnight rankings
  • Doubled traffic within a certain amount of time
  • Instant leads
  • Search engine submissions
  • A certain amount of backlinks in a certain amount of time
  • Any sort of ROI projections

Ready to rank #1 on Google? It’s time to contact us about contractor SEO services

Learn more about how Blue Corona can help your contracting company grow with SEO! Contact us today!

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Top Company SEO FAQs

What is SEO?

SEO is the process of editing and creating website content and code that ranks well on search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo. First, your website must be coded so search engines can find and crawl it. Your website also needs to be fast, secure, and mobile friendly. Second, you need web page after web page of unique, remarkable, and optimized content. Third, you must gain citations, links, and references from other relevant and authoritative websites.

What’s included in SEO services?

In all SEO packages, we include:

    1. A digital competitive analysis
    2. Website content and code optimization
    3. New website content and creatives
    4. Local citation optimization (local SEO)
    5. Measurement and analytics reporting
    6. Continual tracking and tweaking of your campaign

Should I hire an SEO company?

An SEO company handles the day-to-day tasks of monitoring your online presence so you can focus on other aspects of your business. If you don’t have the time or resources to comb through pages upon pages of analytical data, rankings, and traffic patterns and then have the means to optimize accordingly, you need an SEO company.

How much do SEO services cost?

Blue Corona’s SEO process starts with a website audit – an ongoing SEO campaign may or may not follow (ongoing SEO occurs approximately 85% of the time). Website audits are customized for individual businesses, so the prices vary, but the typical range is $2,500 – $3,500 (audits for larger “enterprise” websites can be considerably more). Ongoing SEO ranges from consulting to “do it for me” SEO services where Blue Corona’s team acts like your own in-house SEO department (for a fraction of the cost of having your own SEO team). Ongoing SEO ranges from $2,000 per month on the low end to $10,000 (or more) per month on the high end. What should really matter is your return on marketing investment (ROMI). Sure, $5,000 per month may sound like a big investment for a local business, but if your ROMI turns into $50,000 per month, it’s worth the investment. A word of caution: you get what you pay for. If you sign up with a cheap SEO company that offers low monthly payments and includes a “free” website, you may be leasing a space on their proprietary platform, meaning you lose your website and all your work once you leave. Avoid outsourced or second-language SEO work.

How long does SEO take?

If you’ve got a good SEO partner, you can generally see results between 3-6 months, but certain industries with highly competitive keywords can take up to a year to see traction. Don’t give up, though—once you get going, your results will snowball.

How does Blue Corona track SEO success?

If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. You can’t win the game if you don’t know the score. Despite a million quotes which suggest that you can’t maximize your business success unless you track your results, most business owners and marketers are still not accurately tracking their advertising, marketing, website, or SEO. Most online marketing companies treat tracking and reporting as an afterthought—the last step. At Blue Corona, it’s the first step in every SEO engagement.

Is Blue Corona a certified Google Partner?

Yes.

SEO CASE STUDY
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Contractor Generates A 128% Lead Increase

What Makes Blue Corona Different

Unlike other SEO companies, we operate from the perspective of a business owner. We strive to provide superior service by offering the following to all our contractor SEO clients:

  • A dedicated Account Manager, someone that understands business and SEO, to be your guide
  • Detailed monthly reports (you can actually understand) that connect SEO performance to your bottom line
  • A support team that includes an analyst, web designer/developer, and a dedicated professional copywriter
  • Access to our proprietary analytics software(better data drives better results)

Our Happy Clients

I would 100% recommend Blue Corona to any new, aspiring HVAC, plumbing, electrical service, home services type business that is looking to expand the footprint of Internet marketing truly because the sense of, they're not like your every other internet marketing company. They're not going to sell you a bill of goods and over-promise and under-deliver. They're going to under-promise and over-deliver.

Ross Albert, Owner
Arctic Air Conditioning

There's been plenty of times where we would sit back and look at things and go, "Hey, you know what? That's probably the best decision we made in a long time." I would definitely recommend [Blue Corona] to other service companies because I want to see how other people like me and my family here at work succeed.

Bill McManigal, Sales & Marketing Manager
Blind & Sons

"Blue Corona has been our marketing agency for over a year now. They have provided great services and strategies for accelerating our business growth. Most importantly, they are willing and able to adapt our marketing strategy to help us succeed in our industry. Our account manager has been awesome! She is and has been such an asset to Reliable Power Systems."

De’Tavius Ross,
Reliable Power Systems

"Since working with Blue Corona our lead quality and profitability have skyrocketed! They give you advice on what is best for you rather what would line their own pockets. I have also been impressed by the quality of services (ad copy, amazing web design) and constant communication and tracking Blue Corona offers. Our account manager is truly a pleasure to work with. She is great at setting expectations and delivering results. I have worked with many marketing agencies and have...

Tracy Valgento,
Penguin Air, Plumbing & Electrical

"We have been partnering with Blue Corona for a couple of years now, and we are very pleased with the results. From the initial phase of learning our company's challenges and needs to the development of an effective online marketing strategy, working with the entire BC team has been a pleasure. The results have been tangible, and we're seeing an increase in leads and website visits across the board. One important asset BC brings to the table is their team's...

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"I’m very happy with the progress of Blue Corona’s SEO and pay-per-click campaigns for my garage door business. Blue Corona has helped improve our online visibility and generate more leads."

Bill McCormick,
Overhead Door of Indianapolis

"I've been with Blue Corona for over a year now. Hands down one of the best decisions I made for my business. The improvements they've made to my website, SEO, and general lead flow are so much better than previous companies I've worked with. One of the main reasons I chose them is they made decisions based on data and facts. Everything we do is measurable and they hold themselves accountable to the goals we collectively established. While all of...

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"The switch to Blue Corona for our digital marketing needs was the best switch our team ever could have made. Our account manager is the best. She and her team are constantly staying a step ahead of industry trends and keeping us informed of best practices for our brand. We have seen tremendous results in a short time since beginning our partnership with Blue Corona, and we look forward to a long and fruitful relationship with their phenomenal team."

Raven Love,
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"I work for an Ohio HVAC, plumbing, electric, and indoor air quality company. Blue Corona has been nothing but helpful. We've used their services for several years and never had any issues. They've helped us improve PPC, SEO, social media, Local Services ads, and anything in between. I would 100% recommend using their services."

Jenell Marsek,
Blind & Sons

"Blue Corona has proven to be an integral marketing partner for our team. They handled our website revamp, as well as have continued to work with us to optimize our SEO, create campaigns, and evaluate our lead volume. Not only have we appreciated their professionalism, but we are so thankful for their assistance in facilitating our online growth."

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Jacob Heating & Air Conditioning
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