Aurora HVAC Contractor: Year-Round Leads Across the Collar Counties
An Aurora HVAC contractor lived and died by the weather, ranking only in its home city. In six months we built coverage across 14 collar-county towns, ranked for both AC and furnace seasons, and used maintenance content to smooth the slow shoulder seasons, growing organic service calls 183%.
The Client
A family-owned HVAC contractor based in Aurora, handling installation and repair for residential and light commercial clients across the western suburbs. Busy in the summer and winter peaks, but the spring and fall shoulder seasons were painfully slow, and they only ranked in Aurora itself.
The Challenge
HVAC demand is feast or famine. AC searches spike in summer heat, furnace searches spike in winter cold, and in between the phone goes quiet. This contractor captured some of its home-city peaks but had nothing to carry it through the shoulder seasons.
Just as limiting, they ranked only in Aurora. Competitors owned the AC and furnace searches across Naperville, Joliet, and the rest of the collar counties, so a large, nearby service area was producing almost no leads.
Our Strategy
A phased plan built around this market, this industry, and the searches that actually drive revenue.
Service-Area and Seasonal Map
Mapped the collar-county towns worth targeting and the full seasonal keyword set across AC, furnace, indoor air quality, and maintenance.
Town Pages and GBP
Built service-area pages for each target town and configured the Google Business Profile service areas to rank beyond Aurora.
Dual-Season and Maintenance Content
Published AC and furnace content for the peaks plus maintenance-plan and tune-up content designed to generate leads in the slow shoulder seasons.
Local Authority
Built local and trade citations and links to push the town pages onto the first page and hold them through both peak seasons.
What We Delivered
Concrete deliverables, every backlink documented with a live URL you can verify yourself.
Collar-County Town Pages
Fourteen service-area pages across the western suburbs the contractor could profitably reach.
Dual-Season Content
AC repair and install content for summer, furnace content for winter, so the site ranks in both peaks.
Maintenance-Plan Pages
Tune-up and maintenance-plan landing pages built to drive leads in the slow spring and fall.
GBP Service Areas
Google Business Profile service-area and review optimization to win the Map Pack across multiple towns.
Local and Trade Links
Citations and backlinks, each with a live URL, to support rankings across the expanded service area.
Monthly Reporting
Reporting that tracks rankings, service calls, and seasonality so the strategy adjusts with demand.
The Results
Where they started versus where they ended up.
In six months the contractor went from ranking in a single city to ranking across 14 collar-county towns for both AC and furnace work. Average monthly organic service calls nearly tripled, and the maintenance-plan content kept leads coming during the spring and fall lulls that used to be dead.
The business is no longer at the mercy of the weather. Whatever the season, the contractor now ranks for the searches that match it, across the whole western-suburb service area.
"We used to live and die by the weather. Now we rank across 14 towns for both AC and furnace work, and the maintenance-plan pages keep the phone ringing in spring and fall."
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