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Tactical articles on local SEO, lead generation and digital marketing for US home service businesses — from the team that runs them every day.
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Is Angi Worth It for Contractors? Honest Cost Breakdown
Is Angi worth it for contractors? An honest look at what shared leads really cost per booked job, when Angi makes sense, and when it doesn't.
Christian Barnbaek · 9 min read Angi Leads Cost: What Contractors Actually Pay
A plain-English breakdown of Angi leads cost: per-lead pricing, shared-lead math, close rates, and the real cost per booked job for home service pros.
Mikkel Friis · 8 min read Shared vs Exclusive Leads: Why Owning Beats Both
Exclusive leads beat shared leads, but owning your pipeline beats both. Here's the real math on shared vs exclusive leads for roofers and contractors.
Leonardo Miodrag · 8 min read Electrician + GC marketing: service pages for multi-trade operators
Multi-trade operators confuse Google with one-page sites. Here's the architecture that ranks electrical, plumbing, roofing and remodeling separately.
Christian Barnbaek · 9 min read Why Austin roofing reviews matter 3× more than HVAC reviews
Roofing buyers research more and weigh reviews harder than any other home service category. The data — and the review-velocity playbook that wins the job.
Christian Barnbaek · 8 min read Commercial HVAC SEO in Austin: rank for property-manager searches
Austin's highest-ticket HVAC contracts come from commercial property managers, and almost nobody ranks for the terms they search. Here's the playbook.
Nicklas Dyrmose · 9 min read Schema markup for service businesses: the 4 types that matter in 2026
Most service sites either skip schema or pile on every type. Here are the four that actually move rankings and AI Overview citations in 2026.
Nicklas Dyrmose · 9 min read Dental review velocity: targets that beat Austin's corporate chains
Corporate dental chains dominate the map pack with review-velocity engines. Here's how independent Austin practices outperform them with the right targets.
Christian Barnbaek · 8 min read Insurance vs retail roofing pages: why one site can't serve both
Insurance-claim and retail roofing customers behave differently. Most Texas roofers run one site for both. Splitting them out lifts close rates 40-60%.
Leonardo Miodrag · 9 min read Tankless water heater landing pages: the spec sheet that converts
Tankless installs are a $3-6k job with research-heavy buyers. The page that closes gives them spec data, install timelines and honest tradeoffs.
Mikkel Friis · 9 min read Heat pumps in Texas: ranking the new search behavior
Heat pump searches in Texas grew 4× since 2023. Most Austin HVAC sites have nothing on the topic. Here's the content cluster that captures the demand.
Nicklas Dyrmose · 10 min read Server-side conversion tracking after iOS: what Texas operators lose
Browser pixels lose 30–55% of iOS conversion data in 2026. Server-side restores it. What to install, and the real ROAS lift we measure for Texas operators.
Leonardo Miodrag · 10 min read Pest control conversion: emergency vs scheduled-service architecture
Pest control customers split into urgent and scheduled. Same site can't serve both. Here's the two-funnel structure that doubles conversion.
Mikkel Friis · 8 min read LSAs vs Google Ads for Austin plumbers: when each one wins
Local Service Ads pay per lead, Google Ads pay per click. The right answer for a plumber depends on the season. The math from $6.7M in observed spend.
Leonardo Miodrag · 9 min read Map ranking changes by zip code: how to handle multi-area service
Your GBP ranks differently in every zip code you serve. Most contractors don't know it, most agencies don't track it. How to map multi-area Austin rankings.
Mikkel Friis · 9 min read AC replacement landing pages that close the financed sale
An $89 service call can become a $14k system replacement — if the landing page handles financing right. Most HVAC sites bury it. Here's the page that closes.
Mikkel Friis · 9 min read Drone roof inspection content: ranking the post-storm B-roll wave
Drone roof inspection videos rank for post-storm queries, and almost no Texas roofers make them. Here's the content asset that compounds every storm season.
Nicklas Dyrmose · 9 min read Local link building for trades: 12 sources Austin operators overlook
Local backlinks are still a top-three ranking factor in 2026. The 12 link sources every Austin trade should work — and the 3 that drive most of the lift.
Nicklas Dyrmose · 9 min read Boutique fitness email & SMS: the 6-touch new-member onboarding
Boutique fitness retention is decided in the first 14 days. Here's the 6-touch email and SMS onboarding sequence that doubles 90-day retention.
Leonardo Miodrag · 8 min read HVAC maintenance plan SMS: one-job customers to recurring revenue
Most Texas HVAC operators convert under 12% of jobs into maintenance plans. The right SMS automation lifts that to 30-40% and sustains review velocity.
Mikkel Friis · 9 min read The water-leak emergency funnel: why your form is killing the call
The water-leak emergency call is the highest-intent plumbing lead in Austin. Most sites lose it to a contact form. Here's the funnel that captures it.
Leonardo Miodrag · 8 min read Lawn & landscape SEO in Austin: queries the franchises miss
Austin landscaping search is dominated by seasonal queries, and most operators have no content matching them. Here's the cluster the franchises ignore.
Nicklas Dyrmose · 9 min read Missed-call math: why Austin home service operators lose $40k a year
Missed and after-hours calls are 38–47% of inbound home service demand, and most go unrecovered. The math, the recovery rate, and the SMS playbook.
Leonardo Miodrag · 8 min read Texas HVAC summer ad-spend curve: why doubling July loses money
Most Austin HVAC operators double their Google Ads budget in July. CPCs rise faster than demand and ROAS collapses. Here's the curve we run instead.
Leonardo Miodrag · 9 min read Storm-response roofing sites that out-rank chasers in 48 hours
Out-of-state storm chasers blanket Texas neighborhoods within 24 hours of a hail event. Local roofers with the right storm page capture the search first.
Christian Barnbaek · 9 min read Citation cleanup for Texas trades: 30 directories that move rank
Which business directories actually move local rankings in 2026, which are dead weight, and the list every Texas trade should clean before spending on SEO.
Christian Barnbaek · 10 min read Re-piping content cluster: rank for the highest-ticket plumbing search
Whole-home re-piping is a $4-15k job with low search competition in Austin. Most operators have one thin page. Here's the cluster that captures it.
Christian Barnbaek · 10 min read GBP categories: which one to pick for your Texas trade business
Your GBP primary category is the biggest local ranking lever. How to pick the right one for an Austin trade business — and the secondaries that compound it.
Mikkel Friis · 9 min read Why your Austin HVAC site ranks #4 (and the H1 isn't the fix)
Most Austin HVAC sites stuck at #4 in the map pack get diagnosed wrong. It isn't your H1, meta tags, or blog. Here's what actually moves the needle.
Christian Barnbaek · 9 min read Austin restaurant GBP: the photo, post and Q&A cadence that lifts rank
Restaurant Google Business Profiles run on a different cadence than home services. Here's the weekly rhythm that lifts an Austin restaurant into the local pack.
Mikkel Friis · 8 min read The Austin map pack playbook: how to land top 3 in 90 days
The map pack takes most local clicks in Austin. Here's the 90-day sequence we run on every Siite account — what to fix first, and the math behind it.
Nicklas Dyrmose · 10 min read