Local SEO for Builders That Actually Moves the Needle
If you're a builder who's good at the work but rubbish at the marketing, this is the page where you stop having to be both.
No twelve-month contracts · cancel after the third month · website yours forever
Why It's Different for Builders
Builders get a steady stream of calls when their Google listing is sorted. When it is not, it dries up. There is almost no middle ground. You are either visible and busy or invisible and quietly dying.
If you cover loft conversions and structural repairs as a builder, your customers are searching for those exact words on Google before they call anyone. Builders who match those phrases on their Google listing pick up the calls before the competitors do.
What We Actually Do
Among the builders we have already taken on, every single one had the same bottleneck. Their Google profile was half-empty and their site was not ranking for the urgent builder searches. We are your outsourced marketing department, except cheaper than one in-house hire and we actually deliver. Website, SEO, Google, reviews, missed-call recovery, content. One monthly fee, one report, one mobile number for everything.
For builders, the search terms that matter are not "builder" on its own. The buying-intent searches are urgent variations like "extensions" and "loft conversions". We target those exact phrases on your Google profile and on the builder pages of your site.
What Most Owners Get Wrong
Builders get told the same marketing advice as everyone else, and most of it does not apply. Here is what actually works for builders in 2026. The honest truth: most local businesses lose more work to bad Google visibility than to bad service. Your skill is fine. Your work is fine. Your prices are fine. Your problem is that Google can't find you.
The Clients We Already Run
Builders get told the same marketing advice as everyone else, and most of it does not apply. Here is what actually works for builders in 2026. Honest signal-to-noise: we charge real money to seven real UK businesses. We do not have free trials, partner programmes, affiliate links, or fake testimonials. Everything we do is paid for by people running their own trades businesses.
Next Step: A Free Audit
We're not going to chase you with five follow-up emails. Request the audit, read it, and if you want to talk you reply. If you don't, we don't pester. Promise.
The Three Things That Move the Needle
Local SEO and Google Business Profile
Local SEO at its core is three things: a Google Business Profile that gets updated weekly, a website that loads fast and has the right keywords on it, and citations across the directories Google trusts. We do all three properly and continuously.
Missed-Call Text-Back
When the phone rings and you can't pick up, the customer's phone gets a text within 10 seconds. The text is short and human: a hello, an apology, a question about what they need. Most reply within five minutes. About a third book in.
Review Automation
Most trades sit on 5-15 reviews for years because asking is awkward. The automation removes the awkwardness. Click, send, done. The reviews accumulate in the background.
What It Costs
Two numbers. £199 once for the site itself, £199 every month for the management. The website is yours to keep even if you cancel. Three months minimum then rolling.
Setup
£199
One-off. Covers your website. Yours to keep forever.
Monthly
£199/mo
Less than £6.70 a day. One extension pays for over 12 years.
What's included every month
- Website (included in setup fee)
- SEO management
- AEO management
- Google Business Profile management
- Website updates included
- Monthly performance report
- 4 blog posts per month
- Missed call text back
- Quote follow-up automation
- Review automation
Frequently Asked
What does it actually cost?
Same price for every client. £199 setup, £199 a month. We do not haggle, we do not run promotions, and we do not have a 'special deal this week'. The price you see is what you pay.
What do you actually do every month?
Specifically: build and host your website, run your Google Business Profile weekly, set up review automation, set up missed-call text-back, write four blog posts a month, send a monthly report. That is the full list.
Do I need to do anything technical?
No. You do not need to do anything technical at any point. We handle the website, the Google profile, the SEO, the reviews, all of it. The only thing we ask for is information about your business and a few photos if you have them.
What if I already have a website?
Fine. We will migrate it over. The domain stays in your name. The content comes with it. The bits that work, we keep. The bits that do not, we replace.
How long until I see results?
Truthfully, we cannot put a number on it because every business is different. What we can tell you is what happened with our existing clients: most started seeing extra calls from Google within four to six weeks and meaningful ranking improvements by month three.
Can I cancel?
Three months is the minimum because that is how long it takes to do meaningful SEO work. After that you can leave whenever you want. Website yours, domain yours, no exit fees.
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