Checkatrade, MyBuilder and Rated People hold the organic "electrician [town]" results, and NICEIC and NAPIT run their own find-a-contractor searches. None of them can enter the map pack, and none can explain what an EICR involves in your town the way you can.
Registration is the trust: NICEIC or NAPIT, the Part P competent person scheme, appear on every page and in the profile, because a customer who checks the register has to find what the page says.
The searches in the UK
The shapes electricians are found by in the UK. The words in brackets are whatever the searcher
puts there: the town, the suburb, the matter, the treatment.
- emergency electrician near me
- eicr [town]
- ev charger installation [town]
- consumer unit replacement [city]
What is different in the UK
The EICR is a landlord search
Landlords in England have needed an EICR every five years since 2020, and the search is made by people who want a certificate, a date and a quote they can compare. A page that explains what is inspected, how long it takes and what happens if it fails wins the booking; the figure stays for the quote.
EV chargers and the newer work
EV charger installation, solar and battery, and heat pump wiring are the growing searches, and they are made by buyers comparing installers on accreditation as much as on cost. The accreditations for each appear on the page for each.
Past the directories
The directories hold the organic slots, so the plan does not fight them there. The map pack, the profile’s reviews and the job-plus-town pages are where a local electrician wins, and the directory listings are kept consistent so they help rather than hurt.
What a month of work covers for electricians in the UK
- 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 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.