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SEO for roofers in Australia

Australian roofing has a search of its own: "roof restoration", the repainting and resealing of tile and metal roofs, searched year round and worth more than the repair searches in most cities. Around it sit the storm searches, "roof repair [suburb]" after hail or a summer storm, and the replacement searches, "metal roof replacement", "Colorbond roof", searched over months.

Two roofers in hard hats and harnesses on a pitched roof, one laying a row of tiles and the other passing one up, blue sky behind

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.

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 roofers in Australia ask us

We get most work from hipages and insurers. Why change?

Keep both, and add the enquiries that come to you alone. A homeowner who finds you on the map or your own page rings one roofer, without a lead fee and without an insurer choosing for them.

Does the licence matter for search?

It matters for the homeowner and the insurer, which is what matters. It appears on every page and in the profile so a homeowner who checks finds what the page says.

How many suburb pages?

The ones you genuinely work in, each about the roofs there. A page for a suburb you do not serve is a doorway page and earns nothing.

Book a call with us

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