Painting

We find where painters are invisible.

Painting means a crew inside the house for several days, so a homeowner is judging who they are letting in as much as the finish — which is why named reviews from nearby streets outperform photographs here.

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What we scan for

Every phrase below, across dozens of mapped points in your market — one search each, not one search for the whole city.

  • “painter”
  • “painting contractor”
  • “interior painting”
  • “exterior painting”
  • “cabinet painting”
  • “house painting”
  • “commercial painting”
  • “deck staining”
  • “fence staining”
  • “drywall repair”
  • “popcorn ceiling removal”
  • “wallpaper removal”

The useful answer is usually which of these return you nothing at all. A phrase you score zero on is not a ranking problem — it is a page that does not exist or a category that is not set.

Where we check you are listed

general

Yelp, Better Business Bureau, Facebook, Apple Maps, Bing Places, and Nextdoor

home services

Angi, HomeAdvisor, Thumbtack, and Houzz

manufacturer

EPA Lead-Safe Certified Firm, PCA Member Directory, and Dunn-Edwards Recommended Contractor

These are not a generic citation list. They are the directories that matter in painting specifically — several are free, most painters already qualify for them, and almost nobody has claimed them.

What good looks like here

25

reviews before a homeowner takes you seriously

3/mo

a healthy rate of new reviews

60d

before your most recent review looks stale

Painters carry the lowest review volume and the highest ratings of the trades we track — a sampled median of 44 reviews at 4.9 stars. Volume is not the lever here; a painter at 25 reviews is already credible. What moves a decision is whether the reviews name a street a homeowner recognises, because they are choosing who spends three days in their house.

What a painter gets

Take what you need. No tiers — rank tracking and reviews without a website is a normal engagement.

THE SEARCHES THAT MATTER

Where you show up

We check your whole service area, town by town, and show you which searches bring you up and which ones don't.

  • ✓ Which parts of your area can find you, and which cannot
  • ✓ The exact searches where you do not come up at all
  • ✓ How you compare to the companies taking those calls
  • ✓ Checked again each month, so you can see if it moved

THE BIGGEST SINGLE LEVER

Your Google listing

The map listing people call you from. It is the thing that matters most, and it is usually set up wrong.

  • ✓ Listed under what you actually do, not something close
  • ✓ Every job you take, spelled out where people search for it
  • ✓ Hours, photos and details filled in properly
  • ✓ We check each change actually took, not just that you made it

WHAT CUSTOMERS CHECK FIRST

Getting more reviews

Every finished job gets asked. Steadily, and without picking who we think will say something nice.

  • ✓ Every customer asked after the work is done
  • ✓ A steady trickle, not a burst that looks fake
  • ✓ Everyone asked — we do not cherry-pick the happy ones
  • ✓ Tracked against the companies you compete with

WHERE ORGANIC SEARCH SENDS THEM

A website built to get found

A site built around what people in your area actually type into Google. We host it and keep it running.

  • ✓ A page for each job you actually do
  • ✓ Written from what your customers really search for
  • ✓ Set up so Google understands who and where you are
  • ✓ Hosted and looked after by us, not your problem

BEFORE YOU PAY FOR A NEW ONE

A look at the site you have

We go through the site you already have and tell you what is holding it back, in plain terms.

  • ✓ Speed measured as seconds waited, not as a score
  • ✓ Whether Google can actually read and list your pages
  • ✓ Towns you say you serve but have nothing written about
  • ✓ One-off, and yours whether or not you continue

THE LISTINGS NOBODY CLAIMS

Everywhere else people look

Apple Maps, Bing and the trade directories most contractors never claim — including ones you already qualify for.

  • ✓ The directories that matter in your trade specifically
  • ✓ Manufacturer and credential locators you already qualify for
  • ✓ Your name, address and phone the same everywhere
  • ✓ Re-checked quarterly, because listings rot untouched

PRESENCE WHILE THE REST TAKES EFFECT

Where an ad budget should go

If you want to run ads, where the money should go — aimed at the searches you are missing. Yours to run yourself.

  • ✓ What your budget actually buys, at today's real prices
  • ✓ Pointed at the searches you do not come up for
  • ✓ Based on what those clicks really cost right now
  • ✓ We never make up a lead or revenue number

Advice, not a measurement — we cannot attribute a number to this one.

SOMEONE MINDING THE SPEND

Running your ads

The plan, executed and maintained every month — campaign built, negatives kept current, keyword set swapped by season, cost per lead reported.

  • ✓ Built around the searches that happen in your area
  • ✓ We block the searches wasting your money, every month
  • ✓ Changed with the seasons, not left running on autopilot
  • ✓ What each click and each lead actually cost you

A flat fee for the work, not a share of your spend — so we are never paid more for spending more. We report what the campaign delivered; we do not claim it beats what you would have run yourself.

THE CALLS YOU ARE ALREADY MISSING

Catching the calls you miss

When a call goes unanswered, the customer gets a text back within seconds and the conversation is handled.

  • ✓ A text back within seconds of a missed call
  • ✓ The same agent answers your website form
  • ✓ Every conversation handed to you, never closed for you
  • ✓ It never quotes a price or promises a time

WHAT WE CANNOT SEE FROM OUTSIDE

What people searched to find you

The searches people actually used to find them, and which pages Google is showing.

  • ✓ Whether Google actually indexed each page
  • ✓ Which queries you are being shown for
  • ✓ Whether the site records a lead at all
  • ✓ The two things not visible from outside

What a website cannot do for a painter

The map pack — the three businesses above the blue links — is a large part of how a homeowner finds you, and it is decided by distance, category and reviews. No amount of website work moves it. We will tell you which problem you actually have before you spend anything.

We only work with one painter in your town

Your competitor cannot hire us — it is enforced in our database, not a promise.

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