The channels are not separate
Your website feeds your rankings, your rankings feed your profile, and your reviews feed both. Split across three suppliers, each one optimises its own metric and the phone does not ring any more often.
Most contractors are not losing the marketing race — they never entered it. We crawled 1,838 contractors already ranking in their own towns and 74% had not built pages for the services they offer in the places they serve. We build the whole system: the site, the rankings, the profile and the reviews, run by one team.
Your website feeds your rankings, your rankings feed your profile, and your reviews feed both. Split across three suppliers, each one optimises its own metric and the phone does not ring any more often.
A map pack appeared on 98% of the local searches we measured, and only 22% of the businesses we sampled were in their own town's. It sits above the organic results and it is ranked on inputs a website rebuild never touches.
Whether Google Ads, Meta or Local Services Ads make sense depends on your trade's job value and your ability to follow up fast. We published the arithmetic rather than guessing — see the channel calculator.
Fast, mobile-first, and built to be found — with a page for every service in every place you serve rather than a brochure that lists them.
Profile optimization, local rankings, citations and the service-and-location architecture most of your competitors have skipped.
Steady reviews and replies to every one of them. Pack membership runs 7% to 57% across review-count quartiles in our own data.
Local Services Ads and Google Ads where the job value supports them. We compare acquisition cost to profit, not revenue, which is how we found the channels that do not work.
Your job photos turned into short footage for the site and socials, refreshed as the work comes in — proof that reads faster than a gallery.
Rankings, calls, leads and what each channel returned. Not impressions, and not a traffic chart that rises while the phone stays quiet.
Marketing for a contracting business is mostly about being present at the moment somebody has decided to hire. These are the searches we build everything around.
We publish our own research rather than quoting someone else's. Here is what we measured across the market you are competing in.
49% had no LocalBusiness schema — the one format built for stating what a business does and where. A further quarter had structured data a plugin added for them, which describes the website and says nothing about the business.
16% carried not a single line of JSON-LD. To an AI answer engine deciding who to name for a trade in a city, those businesses are prose to be guessed at rather than a record to be read.
64% have no real service-and-location architecture, and half have not a single page aimed at a town. The search a homeowner actually types — the trade plus the place — has nothing on their site pointed at it.
37% of the sites we read reused one title across several pages. That asks Google to choose between pages all claiming to be the same thing. It usually picks the home page, and the service pages never surface.
34% had at least one page with no H1 at all. Small on its own, and a reliable sign that nobody has looked at the page the way a search engine does.
18% had no sitemap, and a third of the businesses we pulled from public listings served nothing we could read — parked, blocked, timed out or simply gone. Every citation pointing there is a dead end, and the owner almost certainly does not know.
Local Services Ads sit above everything else on the page and charge per lead rather than per click. We set them up and manage them where the job value supports it — and tell you plainly when it does not.
Measured and written by Cameron, founder of Local Leader.
Study run October 2026 · page last reviewed
The same checks we ran across 500 US contractor websites, run against yours: whether Google can read your pages, whether your services and service areas each have one, and what your profile looks like beside the companies already ranking.
Schema, titles, headings, speed, the sitemap. None of it is glamorous and all of it is cheap compared with what it unlocks. There is no point building content on a site Google cannot read.
A page for each service and each town you can genuinely evidence — not one page per town with the name swapped, which is the thing Google has spent years learning to ignore.
Your Google Business Profile does more for map rankings than anything on your website. It needs photos, posts and a steady flow of reviews, every month, not once at setup.
Most agencies in this trade will not put a number on a page. We would rather you knew now than spent a call finding out. The website build is free in every plan — no setup fee, no build fee — and you own it from the day it goes live.
One monthly package rather than four line items. The site, the SEO, the profile and the reviews move together, which is the only way the number at the end of the month means anything.
The complete system, for companies that intend to lead the market rather than appear in it. $1,199/mo billed yearly.
Franchises and operations running five or more locations. From $4,799/mo billed yearly.
No long contracts and no setup fees. If you leave you keep the website, the domain, the Google Business Profile and the analytics — ask every agency you speak to for that in writing. See what is in each plan.
A website built to be found and to convert, local SEO and map pack work, Google Business Profile management, review generation, and paid advertising where the job value supports it. Delivered as one system by one team.
A web designer delivers a site and leaves. Our own study found the median contractor site loads in 9.8 seconds on mobile against Google's 2.5-second line, and 74% have no pages for their services in their places — those are not design problems, and they are what decides whether anyone finds you.
Paid channels can produce leads in days. Organic rankings and map pack movement typically take 3–6 months and then compound. We would rather tell you that than promise a number we cannot hit.
We work with roofing, HVAC, plumbing, electrical, landscaping, pressure washing and kitchen and bath remodeling. The economics differ sharply by trade — average job value runs from roughly $1,400 to $11,000 — and the plan changes accordingly.
It depends on your job value and how fast you follow up. We built a calculator from our own first-party data that answers it per trade, including the cases where paid does not pay.
The website, the domain, the content, the Google profile and the reviews. All of it is yours and none of it is rented from us.
Monthly. The work compounds, so most clients stay for the compounding rather than the paperwork — but you are not locked in while you decide whether it is working.
Apply to work with us and find out if you're the right fit to lead your market.