SEO for Cardiff Drainages, Without the £1,500 Agency Bill
Being good at the work isn't enough in Cardiff anymore. You also need to show up when someone in Cathays or Canton types your trade into their phone. That's the bit we do.
7 paying UK clients · all in the trades · all on monthly plans
Cardiff: Why Google Decides Who Gets the Calls
We see clear patterns in Cardiff: most calls for drainages come from people in Cathays, Canton, and customers who searched for 'drainage near Pontypridd' or 'drainage in Cathays'. The trades that target those exact searches get most of the work.
Looking at our existing drainages, the calls in Cardiff come overwhelmingly from Whitchurch, Roath and the catchment around Newport. The drainage jobs in Cardiff are usually collapsed drains or drain jetting, and the customer base is shaped by the property mix in those neighbourhoods.
How Local SEO Actually Works for You
For drainages working Cardiff (especially around Cathays and Canton), this is the unflattering bit nobody warns drainage owners about. Most drainages in Cardiff are invisible for the urgent searches that bring jobs. We do the technical work that most owners hate: writing schema markup, optimising local citations, monitoring rank for the keywords that actually convert, fixing site speed issues, sorting NAP consistency. You never have to know what any of those words mean. We just do the work and report on the result.
Drainages working Cardiff get a slightly different setup than other trades. We focus the keyword targeting on the urgent drainage searches (the ones with words like "sewer repairs" and "blocked drains"). We structure the drainage website so the phone number is always visible.
Bread-and-butter jobs for drainages: blocked drains, collapsed drains, drain jetting. The customers searching for a drainage are usually homeowners with blocked or damaged drains, homebuyers needing surveys, and they Google before they call.
What Most Local Owners Get Wrong
In Cardiff, the drainages who keep their diary full are not the cheapest or the best. They are the ones whose Google listing turns up first when somebody searches for drainage services in Cardiff. We get your drainage listing into that group. The phones do not stop ringing because the work has dried up. They stop ringing because somebody else's listing is showing up first. That is the entire diagnosis nine times out of ten.
Real Clients We Already Run
In Cardiff, the drainages who keep their diary full are not the cheapest or the best. They are the ones whose Google listing turns up first when somebody searches for drainage services in Cardiff. We get your drainage listing into that group. The Pontyclun plumber paid in two days. The Nottingham one paid in six. The bathroom fitter in Blackpool paid in four. The heating engineer in Liverpool paid in four. None of them were on a free trial. None of them got a discount. They all just looked at the work and said yes.
Next Step: A Free Audit
If you want to know whether any of this would actually work for your business, the fastest answer is a free audit. We pull your Google listing, look at your site, check who's ranking above you locally, and tell you what we'd fix. No sales pitch attached. No commitment.
The Three Things That Move the Needle
Local SEO and Google Business Profile
We do not pretend SEO is mysterious. It is mostly: clear keyword research, then doing the obvious work consistently, then measuring it. The agencies that overcomplicate it do so to justify the price. We just do the work and bill £199/month.
Missed-Call Text-Back
If you cannot answer the phone (because you are on a job), the system automatically texts the caller back within seconds. The reply reads something like 'Hi, can't pick up right now, on a job. What do you need? I'll be back to you within the hour.'. About a third of those texts turn into actual jobs that would otherwise have been lost.
Review Automation
The automation only asks customers we know are happy (most clients filter by job type before we send the trigger). If a customer was unhappy, we route them to a private feedback form instead so the public listing only collects positives.
What It Costs
Right then, the money. £199 setup (covers your website, yours to keep), £199 a month for management. Less than £6.70 a day. One job from Google pays for the month. Three months, then you decide.
Setup
£199
One-off. Covers your website. Yours to keep forever.
Monthly
£199/mo
Less than £6.70 a day. One job from Google pays for the month.
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?
All in: £199 setup (one-off, covers the website, yours to keep) and £199 a month for everything else. We do not do tiered pricing or upsells. That is the price.
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 tech skills needed. We built this for trades and small business owners who do not want to mess with WordPress or Wix or Google Search Console. We do all of that. You run your business.
What if I already have a website?
No problem. We can keep your existing site and improve it, or rebuild it from scratch, your call. Your domain stays the same. Your old URLs keep working. Nothing breaks for your existing customers.
How long until I see results?
We cannot promise specific numbers because nobody honest can. What we can promise is that the work gets done every week, you get a real monthly report, and most clients see their first new enquiry from Google within four to six weeks.
Can I cancel?
Three months in, then cancel any time. The website is yours forever. We hand over the domain and the codebase if you want them, or we leave the site running and just stop the management work.
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