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SEO for HVAC companies in Canada

HVAC in Canada is two trades with two seasons. From October to February the searches are "furnace repair", "furnace not working", "emergency furnace repair", typed at night by people whose house is getting cold. In June and July they are "air conditioner installation" and "ac repair", typed during the first heatwave. A company whose pages answer the season gets the calls the season brings.

An HVAC technician on a flat roof servicing a rooftop air conditioning unit with the panel open and a gauge manifold in hand

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.

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 HVAC contractors in Canada ask us

Do you handle both furnace and AC pages?

Yes, as separate pages for separate seasons, with the emergency page shared between them. One page trying to sell both loses both searches.

Can we mention rebates?

The programmes and how to check eligibility, yes. A figure, no, because it will be wrong by the time somebody reads it, and a wrong rebate figure is a complaint.

How long until it moves?

Profile work shows within weeks. Service pages need a season to rank, so a furnace page built in spring is ranking by the first cold week.

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