HomeStars holds the review searches and the map pack holds the local ones, per trade. A profile that lists every trade you do, with the category set to the primary one, and pages that stand alone for each trade are what put a multi-trade company on the map for each search.
Licences are per trade and customers check them: the TSSA for gas, the ESA for electrical in Ontario, the plumbing certification, and the equivalents by province. Each appears on the page for its trade.
The searches in Canada
The shapes home services businesses are found by in Canada. The words in brackets are whatever the searcher
puts there: the town, the suburb, the matter, the treatment.
- handyman near me
- furnace repair [city]
- eavestrough cleaning [city]
- plumber near me
What is different in Canada
A page per trade, not a list
Plumbing, HVAC, electrical, handyman, eavestroughs, snow. Each is a different search made in a different month, and each page carries its own licence, its own questions and its own booking route. One services page ranks for none of them.
The profile carries every trade
The Business Profile lists every service you sell, with the primary category set to the trade that earns most, so the map pack shows you for each search. The HomeStars profile matches it so the two help rather than hurt.
Seasons, planned
Winter pages are built in summer and summer pages in winter. A company that sells furnaces and air conditioning is ranking for each when its season arrives, because the pages were there before the searches were.
What a month of work covers for home services businesses in Canada
- One job-type or neighborhood page each month, written from your photos and a short call
- Google Business Profile: categories, services with from-prices, weekly photos, reviews replied to
- Citations on trade directories and local listings, license numbers included
- Technical fixes: click-to-call above the fold, quote form, speed, schema for the business and 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 home services businesses, 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.
If you would rather do the first part yourself, the Local SEO for home services guide is
the list we start from.