General contractor marketing
General contractor marketing starts with a short list. The project types that should fill the year, the ones you will refer, and how far you will travel. A site that names every trade, from concrete to paint, and explains none of them, leaves the owner to guess. The enquiries that arrive are often the jobs nobody in the office wanted.
If the company roofs for a living, read roofing SEO. If it plumbs, start with plumbing SEO. Those are specialisms. A leak, a storm, a burst pipe, and a van on the way are different searches from a remodel. An HVAC shop has its own page, HVAC marketing, because a no-heat call is not a kitchen. An electrical contractor has electrician marketing, because a dead panel is not a remodel.
This page is for the contractor whose work is a project, and for a company whose jobs span more than one trade.
Remodeling contractor marketing
Remodeling contractor marketing is a longer sale than a service call. The owner is choosing a kitchen, a bathroom, an addition, or a whole house, and they will compare how you estimate before they invite you over. The page has to say which of those you take. A remodeler who does not build from the ground up should say so. Residential work and commercial work should not share one block of text.
Write the sequence you actually use. First conversation, site visit, written scope, what is included, what is an allowance, who pulls the permit, and how selections are made. If you do not pull permits, say who does. Do not promise a start date the schedule cannot keep. If the wait is measured in months, the page can say that.
SEO for contractors
SEO for contractors is a page per project type you want, in the words an owner uses. Kitchen remodel, bathroom remodel, addition, design-build, tenant fit-out. The heading should contain a fact a competitor cannot paste onto their own site unchanged: a place, a limit, or the way you scope the job.
An SEO agency for contractors is often hired to produce a town page for every city inside the radius. We will not do that. Describe the area on the project pages. A location page is worth writing when you have an office people visit, a yard, or a licence that is specific to that place.
Each page needs its own title and its own description. Put the words in the HTML. Link to a related project type. A footer that lists every town you might drive to does not help a search, and it does not help an owner.
Contractor lead generation
Contractor lead generation, done properly, is a conversation with your company about a project you take. The form needs the project type, the town, a rough timing, a name, and a way to reply. A form that demands a budget before you have heard the job gets abandoned. The phone number stays in the header, including on a phone.
Count what you can see without a dashboard. Enquiries, how many were the right kind of project, how many became a site visit, and how many became a job. A visit total does not tell you whether the projects were the ones you wanted.
We do not buy a lead and sell it to several contractors. If a marketplace already does that, ask who else receives the enquiry. We will not promise a number of estimates, or a date by which a page will rank.
Licence, listing, photographs
Local search still shows a map. The Google Business Profile should use the trading name, a category that matches the work, and the same phone number as the site. General contractor and remodeler are different categories. Pick the one that is true. If customers do not visit a showroom, use a service area. Do not invent a shopfront.
Publish the licence the state expects, with the number you send us. We will not invent one. Photographs are of jobs the owner agreed you could show. A before and an after counts only when both photographs are from that job. A stock kitchen does not help an owner choose you, and it gives a search result nothing true to repeat.
What an answer can quote
Owners ask how to choose a contractor, what an estimate should include, and when a remodel can start. Answer with this company's process, and with the limits. We will not invent a typical project cost, a duration, or a saving. A search result and an AI answer can quote a plain description of how you scope a job. A slogan gives them nothing to quote, and a number you did not give us stays off the page.
The website is the same work. The home page says what you build, who it is for, and where you work. One page per project type. A short account of how a job runs. Proof you are allowed to show. A contact page with the hours you keep.
The site structure we use for a UK firm is on small business website design. The trade specialisms are roofing SEO, plumbing SEO, and electrician marketing. Local SEO services is the page for the listing and the site together. We quote this work per project.
We quote this work per project.
Questions
01What does a contractor marketing agency do?+
We build the site, the project pages, and the Google Business Profile so the right owner can find you and see how a job is scoped. We agree the scope on a call.
We do not publish a menu of packages.
02What is SEO for contractors?+
A page for each project type you want, titles written for that page alone, and a map listing that matches the company. We describe the area you serve.
We do not mass-produce town pages.
03Are you an SEO agency for contractors as well as a web designer?+
Yes, when the quote includes both. A new website with three vague pages changes little. The pages, the listing, and the photographs have to agree with each other.
You can ask for one part of that. Say which when you get a quote.
04How does contractor lead generation work?+
Someone contacts your company about a project you take, by phone or by a short form. We do not sell that enquiry to other contractors.
We will not guarantee a volume of leads.
05How do general contractor marketing and remodeling contractor marketing differ?+
General contractor marketing has to say whether you build, which trades you manage, and whether you take commercial work. Remodeling contractor marketing is about the projects you renovate, and the ones you do not.
If you do both, they still need different pages. A kitchen remodel and a ground-up build cannot share one paragraph.
06Will you write a page for every city we serve?+
No. Describe the area. Add a location page only where the office, the licence, or the crew is specific to that place.
07What does it cost?+
We quote this work per project. We do not publish a price for it.
08How do we start?+
Get a quote, or book a call. Tell us the projects you want, the projects you refer on, and where you work.
Tell us which projects you want, and which you refer on.
Get a quote. We quote this work per project.