The trade directories hold the domestic terms and the national maintenance companies hold the commercial ones. Neither can write about your F-Gas registration, your MCS certification for heat pumps or the buildings you already maintain in your city, which is what a facilities manager reads before shortlisting.
Certification is the trust and the search: F-Gas for refrigerant work, Gas Safe for heating, MCS for heat pumps under the government scheme. They belong on the page and in the profile, written exactly as the schemes list them.
The searches in the UK
The shapes HVAC contractors are found by in the UK. The words in brackets are whatever the searcher
puts there: the town, the suburb, the matter, the treatment.
- commercial air conditioning maintenance [city]
- air conditioning installation [town]
- heat pump installation [town]
- f gas registered engineer [city]
What is different in the UK
Commercial and domestic, separately
A facilities manager and a homeowner search different words and want different pages: contracts, response times and compliance on one side, installation, running cost and the grant scheme on the other. One page for both loses both.
Heat pumps and the scheme
Heat pump searches come with grant questions. The page explains the scheme and the MCS requirement, and how to check eligibility, without quoting an amount that will be out of date next quarter.
Certification on every page
F-Gas, Gas Safe and MCS numbers appear on the pages that need them and in the profile, because customers and procurement teams check the registers and Google reads them.
What a month of work covers for HVAC contractors in the UK
- 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 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.
If you would rather do the first part yourself, the Local SEO for HVAC contractors guide is
the list we start from.