Local search and the map

Local SEO for Plumbers: Winning the Map Pack

For a plumber, local search is not a marketing channel, it is the channel. Almost nobody has a plumber saved in their phone, so nearly every new customer arrives by searching, and nearly all of them stop at the map.

★★★★★

Rated 5.0 across 7 Google reviews

What invisibility costs

If you are not in the top three of the map, you are effectively not in the search. People do not scroll when water is coming through the ceiling.

What we do

What actually decides the map pack

Business Profile, properly done

Categories, service areas, hours, photographs and the details most businesses fill in once and never revisit.

Review velocity

Recent matters more than plentiful. We set up the asking so reviews arrive steadily rather than in one burst two years ago.

Consistent details everywhere

Name, address and phone identical across the site, the profile and the directories. Inconsistency quietly costs you ranking.

Pages for real service areas

One per area you genuinely work in. Not fifty for towns you have never driven to, which reads as spam to Google and to a customer.

The map pack is free to appear in. What it costs is attention to the things that decide it, and those are the cheapest wins available to a trade business.

Free things first

We fix the free things before the paid ones

We start with the Google Business Profile before anyone spends on advertising, because it is free, it is what the map runs on, and it is routinely the highest-return hour of work available to a local trade.

Live

plumbing client site you can go and click

R200/mo

what BlitzBooks costs a trade, all in

24-72h

to see your design direction after the audit

30 days

of defect fixes after go-live, no charge

Before you spend

How long before it moves

The audit is free and it is yours

We tell you what is losing you callouts, in plain terms, whether you build with us or not.

No jargon, no agency theatre

You will get a number, a timeline and a person who answers. We are a two-man business ourselves and we know what that is worth.

You own all of it

Domain, hosting and inbox in your name from day one. Leave whenever you like and take the lot with you.

See where you rank in your own suburb

Tell us what happens when the phone rings at six in the morning. That usually tells us more about the business than anything on the website.