hipages, Oneflare and ServiceSeeking hold the organic results for "roofer [suburb]", and after a hail event the insurers’ own panels take the volume. They cannot enter the map pack, and they cannot show a homeowner what a restored terracotta roof in their suburb looks like.
Licensing is state-based, the QBCC in Queensland and NSW Fair Trading among them, and the licence belongs on the page because a homeowner making an insurance claim has to use a licensed contractor.
The searches in Australia
The shapes roofers are found by in Australia. The words in brackets are whatever the searcher
puts there: the town, the suburb, the matter, the treatment.
- roof restoration [suburb]
- roof repair near me
- metal roof replacement [city]
- gutter replacement [suburb]
What is different in Australia
Restoration is its own page
Roof restoration is a different job from repair and a different search, made by owners of older tile roofs. A page that explains what a restoration involves, the coatings, the timeline and what it does for the value of the house wins a search most roofers leave to the directories.
Storms and insurance claims
After hail, the searches spike and the insurers direct the work. A page that explains how an insurance roof claim works, what the assessor looks for and what the homeowner can do first wins the calls that come with the storm.
Your own photographs, by suburb
Before and after photographs of your own roofs, with the suburb named, beat stock images and rank in image search where homeowners look for what a restored roof or a new Colorbond roof looks like on a house like theirs.
What a month of work covers for roofers in Australia
- One job-type page each month: repairs, replacement, restoration, gutters, storm damage, a roofing material
- Project write-ups added from your job photos, by neighborhood
- Google Business Profile with job photos weekly and services listed with from-prices
- Citations on trade directories and local listings
- Technical fixes: quote form, click-to-call, image compression, schema for the business and service area
- Monthly Search Console report by job type and neighborhood
The industry page, SEO for roofers, has the
problems and the questions in full; the country page, SEO services in Australia, has the search landscape
in Australia for every trade.
The search landscape in Australia
Suburb is the unit, not the city
Sydney and Melbourne are too large to be a catchment. Pages written for the suburbs you actually serve outrank a single city page in every one of them.
Regional terms are often uncontested
Outside the capitals the same search has a fraction of the competition and frequently the same commercial value per enquiry.
Licence numbers belong on the page
Australian buyers look for a licence number for regulated trades. It belongs on the page because it converts, not because it ranks.
Cities in Australia 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 Australia
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 roofing companies guide is
the list we start from.