The national brands and HomeStars hold the head terms in most cities. Neither can explain what a bed bug treatment involves in a Toronto apartment, whether the landlord pays, or what a raccoon removal has to do under provincial wildlife rules.
Licensing is provincial and customers check it: the exterminator licence where the province issues one, the separate wildlife control rules, the products used and what they mean for children and pets. It belongs on the page and in the profile.
The searches in Canada
The shapes pest control companies are found by in Canada. The words in brackets are whatever the searcher
puts there: the town, the suburb, the matter, the treatment.
- exterminator near me
- bed bug exterminator [city]
- mice removal [city]
- wasp nest removal [city]
What is different in Canada
A page per pest, in season
Bed bugs, mice and rats, cockroaches, ants, wasps, wildlife. Each is a search with its own questions about treatment, safety and whether the tenant or the landlord pays, and each page is built before its season so it ranks when the calls come.
Wildlife is its own trade
Raccoon, squirrel and bat removal is regulated separately from pest control in most provinces, with humane handling rules. Its pages say what the law allows and how the animal is excluded, without claims about extermination.
Licence and the map pack
The provincial licence number and the products used appear on the page and the profile, because customers with children and pets check. The map pack and the reviews decide the call, and the HomeStars listing is kept consistent with the profile.
What a month of work covers for pest control companies in Canada
- A pest page written or rewritten each month, the ones that pay best first
- Google Business Profile: services listed by pest, categories filled, photos of the work, every review replied to
- Review requests sent at the end of the visit, worded to draw out the pest and the town
- Citations on the trade and local directories, name, address and number identical everywhere
- Technical fixes: tappable number, speed on a phone, service and area markup
- A monthly Search Console report of the pest searches you now appear for, and the calls they produced
The industry page, SEO for pest control companies, 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.