Checkatrade, Bark and the national franchises hold the head terms in the cities with domains a regional company will not match. What they cannot do is explain what a cleaning contract for a GP surgery has to cover, what an end of tenancy clean includes so the deposit comes back, or which of your cleaners is DBS checked, which is what the buyer reads before asking for a quote.
Public liability cover, BICSc training where you have it, and the DBS checks for domestic staff belong on the pages and in the profile, because clients check. Nothing here needs an invented review count, and nothing quotes a rate.
The searches in the UK
The shapes cleaning companies are found by in the UK. The words in brackets are whatever the searcher
puts there: the town, the suburb, the matter, the treatment.
- commercial cleaning companies [city]
- office cleaning [city]
- end of tenancy cleaning [town]
- cleaners near me
What is different in the UK
Commercial and domestic are two sites in one
Office, contract, medical, school, retail and after-builders cleaning for the commercial buyer; end of tenancy, deep clean, oven and carpet cleaning for the domestic one. Each is its own search with its own questions, and each page answers them, with the sector named and the city named.
End of tenancy is the page that pays
It is searched by a tenant with a deadline and a deposit on the line, and it is won by the page that says exactly what is cleaned, what the inventory clerk checks, and how the booking works. The letting agents and landlords who find that page send the next tenant too.
Directories and the map pack
Checkatrade and Bark cannot be outranked on their own ground, so the plan takes the map pack, keeps the directory profiles consistent with the Business Profile, and puts the reviews, the insurance and the photographs of your own team where a buyer looks.
What a month of work covers for cleaning companies in the UK
- One service or area page each month: move-out, office, carpet, windows, post-construction, a neighborhood cluster
- Google Business Profile with services and from-prices, weekly photos, reviews replied to
- Citations on service directories and local listings
- Technical fixes: instant quote form, click-to-call, speed, schema for the business and service area
- Links from local business sites, property managers and suppliers
- Monthly Search Console report by service and neighborhood
The industry page, SEO for cleaning companies, has the
problems and the questions in full; the country page, SEO services in the UK, has the search landscape
in the UK for every trade.
The search landscape in the UK
Directories hold the first page
For many trade and service terms the top results are aggregators. Two routes past them: the map pack, and pages specific enough that a directory listing cannot answer the question.
Town and postcode, not region
Buyers search by town. A page covering a whole county competes with pages written about each town in it, and loses to all of them.
British English, properly
Spelling, the word for the trade and the way an address is written all signal whether a page was written for this market or translated into it.
Cities in the UK with their own page
Each is written for the way that city searches and for the trades that search there most.
Working with us from United Kingdom
SEO happens in your accounts and on your website, so nobody needs to visit. We scope the
work on a video call in your hours, send a written quote, and then work month by month
with a call whenever you want one. The result is judged on the enquiries in your own
records, never on a ranking report.