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SEO for home services companies in Canada

A Canadian home services company sells four seasons: furnaces in January, sump pumps and eavestroughs in April, air conditioning in July, snow and rodents in November. The searches are made by the trade and the month, "furnace repair [city]", "eavestrough cleaning [city]", "handyman near me", and a company that sells several trades needs a page for each of them and each of their seasons.

A tradesperson with a toolbag shaking hands with a homeowner at their front door, a work van parked at the kerb behind

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.

Results from real clients

Every number below is from the client’s own Google Search Console, for the period shown. Impressions are how often the site appeared; clicks are people who arrived. What each visit is worth is your sales process, not ours, so these are the visits we can prove rather than a conversion figure we cannot.

See all eight client results

  • 52,993clicks
    Up and Running Physical Therapy
    Physical therapy · 1 Mar 2023 to 14 Mar 2024
    Impressions
    2,238,155
    CTR
    2.4%
    Avg. position
    13.49

    +139,355% clicks against the previous period of the same length.

  • 12,285clicks
    Backcountry Physical Therapy
    Physical therapy · 6 Jul 2023 to 31 May 2024
    Impressions
    601,822
    CTR
    2.0%
    Avg. position
    19.3

    +2,059% clicks against the previous period of the same length.

Questions home services businesses in Canada ask us

We do everything. Is one site enough?

One site, with a real page per trade. A homeowner searching for a plumber does not want to read about your roofing, and Google ranks pages, not companies.

Do membership plans belong on the site?

What they include and how they work, yes; the fee is for the desk. A plan page answers the searcher who wants a company for the year rather than a call for the day.

How long until it works?

Profile changes show within weeks. Trade pages take a season each, which is why each is built before its season.

Book a call with us

A 30-minute call in your working hours. Tell us what you sell and where, and we will tell you what we would do first and what it involves. Prefer email? Send your website through the form and the Passieon Team will reply within two working days.

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