HomeStars holds the review searches and the map pack holds the local ones. Neither can explain what an ESA inspection involves, why the insurer cares about the wiring, or what a 200 amp upgrade means for a house built in 1965, which is what a homeowner reads before choosing.
Licensing is provincial and customers check it: the ESA licence number in Ontario, the equivalents elsewhere. It belongs on every page and in the profile, matching the register.
The searches in Canada
The shapes electricians are found by in Canada. The words in brackets are whatever the searcher
puts there: the town, the suburb, the matter, the treatment.
- electrician near me
- panel upgrade [city]
- ev charger installation [city]
- knob and tube replacement [city]
What is different in Canada
The insurer drives a search
Buyers of older homes are told by their insurer to replace knob and tube or address aluminum wiring before a policy is written. A page that explains what the work involves, what the inspection covers and how the timeline fits a closing wins the call the insurer created.
Panel upgrades and the newer loads
EV chargers, heat pumps and induction ranges push older panels past their limit, and "200 amp service upgrade" is searched by people who have just learned the phrase. The page explains the upgrade, the permit and the utility’s part without a figure.
Licence on every page, HomeStars kept consistent
The ESA or provincial licence number appears on the pages and the profile; the HomeStars listing matches the Business Profile so the two help rather than hurt each other in the map pack.
What a month of work covers for electricians in Canada
- One job-type or neighborhood page each month: emergency service calls, panel upgrades, rewiring, EV chargers, solar, a neighborhood
- Google Business Profile with job photos weekly, services listed with from-prices, reviews replied to
- Citations on trade directories and local listings, license number included
- Technical fixes: click-to-call above the fold, quote form, speed, schema for the business and its service area
- Links from suppliers, local business sites and trade publications
- Monthly Search Console report by job type and neighborhood
The industry page, SEO for electricians, has the
problems and the questions in full; the country page, SEO services in Canada, has the search landscape
in Canada for every trade.
The search landscape in Canada
Seasonality decides the calendar
Pages for a seasonal service need to be written and indexed months before the season. Publishing a snow removal page in November is publishing it late.
Province first, city second
A page per province that a business genuinely serves, with city pages underneath only where there is real service, reads as true to both a buyer and to Google. A footer listing every city in Canada does not.
French is a separate job
Quebec search is a different campaign with different pages, written by somebody who writes French natively. We do the English side and say so plainly rather than machine-translating.
Cities in Canada 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 Canada
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.