Heat pumps have become the third search: "heat pump installation", "heat pump vs furnace", and the rebate questions that follow, which change by province and by utility. A page that explains the rebates as they stand in your province, without promising a figure, wins a buyer who is comparing three quotes.
HomeStars, Google and the map pack decide who gets the call in most Canadian cities, and licences (the TSSA for gas work in Ontario, the provincial equivalents elsewhere) belong on the page because customers and Google both check.
The searches in Canada
The shapes HVAC contractors are found by in Canada. The words in brackets are whatever the searcher
puts there: the town, the suburb, the matter, the treatment.
- furnace repair near me
- ac installation [city]
- heat pump installation [province]
- emergency furnace repair [city]
What is different in Canada
Write for the season before it arrives
Furnace pages published in November are late. The pages are built in the off season, the emergency page carries the number that answers at night, and the profile’s hours match what a January caller needs to hear.
Rebates without promising a figure
Provincial and utility rebates for heat pumps change and expire. The page explains which programmes exist in your province and how to check eligibility, and links to the programme rather than quoting an amount that will be wrong next quarter.
Licences and the map
The TSSA registration in Ontario, and the equivalent elsewhere, appear on the page and the profile. The Business Profile category is set to the trade (HVAC Contractor, Furnace Repair Service) rather than a generic contractor, because the map pack is filtered by category before anything else.
What a month of work covers for HVAC contractors in Canada
- A service page written or rewritten each month: repair, installation and maintenance, cooling and heating, each on its own
- Google Business Profile: services listed by job, seasonal photos, hours that match reality, every review answered
- Review requests at the door with a wording that names the job, so the reviews carry the searches people make
- Citations on the trade and local directories, identical everywhere
- Technical fixes: tappable phone number, fast pages on a phone, service and area markup, a working booking link
- A monthly Search Console report of the repair and install searches you appear for, and the calls behind them
The industry page, SEO for HVAC contractors, 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 HVAC contractors guide is
the list we start from.