SEO Services in Columbus, Ohio

Rank for the searches that turn into invoices, not the ones that look good in a report.

Most agencies sell rankings. We sell the fifteen or twenty terms that people type when they already have a wallet out. The keyword work starts with your job list and your margins, not with a volume export, and everything after it points at the same place. Site structure, content, links and the technical work underneath, all aimed at the searches that end in a booked job.

Keyword strategy On page Technical SEO Content Link building

4 to 6 wks

Typical window for first organic movement.

Monthly

Reporting tied to calls, not positions

1 per trade

One business per category in the city.

Local SEO Experts

100+ sites built and Ranked
$ 3 Million in Ad Spend
4.9 star on google

Get a practical website and SEO plan.

Tell us what you want to grow. We will review your website, search visibility, lead flow, tracking, and the clearest next steps.

We learn what growth means

Your services, goals, competition, current website, and what a better lead looks like.

We review what is holding leads back

Website design, SEO structure, Google Ads readiness, AI search clarity, and conversion tracking.

You get a clear path forward

Plain English recommendations, realistic priorities, and no confusing agency language.

Position one on the wrong term is worth nothing

There are keywords with a thousand searches a month that have never produced a single customer, and keywords with forty searches a month that pay for the retainer twice over. The difference is intent. We build the target list from the jobs you actually want more of, then work backwards to the searches that produce them.

Intent

What the searcher wants

Someone typing emergency plumber near me is buying in the next ten minutes. Someone typing how much does repiping cost is six weeks out. Both are worth targeting, but not with the same page and not with the same call to action.

Authority

Why Google trusts you

Links, mentions, and how established your site looks against everyone else competing for the same term. This is the slowest part of the job and the part most agencies quietly skip because it is hard to fake.

Structure

How the site is built

One page per service, one page per city, internal links that make the relationship obvious, and clean technical foundations underneath. Cheap to fix, and wrong on most sites we take over.

Map stacking, shown on a grid

A single average position hides the truth. We scan a nine point grid across your
service area so you can see exactly which suburbs you own and which ones you
have never appeared in.

AVERAGE GRID RANK
19.4 1.3
GRID POINTS IN TOP 3
0 of 9 9 of 9
CALLS FROM MAPS
44 175
Google Business Profile Insights Dashboard

Profile insights

Calls, direction requests and website clicks from the profile.

Local Map Grid Scan History and Geo Rankings

Grid scan history

Every scan since we started, suburb by suburb.

Call Tracking Log Tied to Maps

Call log, scored

Tracked calls tied back to the map listing that produced them.

What is included

Six workstreams aimed squarely at the map pack. Each one has an output you can
point at in the dashboard.

01

Keyword and intent mapping

Every term sorted by what the searcher actually wants and what the job is worth to you. The target list is built from your margins, not from search volume.

Job value Intent sort Competitor gaps
02

On page optimization

Titles, headings, internal links, schema and copy rewritten page by page so each one targets a single clear intent instead of half competing with the others.

Titles Schema Internal links
03

Technical foundation

Crawl issues, index bloat, page speed, mobile rendering and Core Web Vitals. The unglamorous work that stops everything else from landing.

Crawl Speed Core Web Vitals
04

Content built to rank

Service pages, city pages and supporting articles written for the searches people actually make, with the detail that proves you do the work rather than just sell it.

Service pages City pages Supporting content
05

Link acquisition

Local sponsorships, supplier and association listings, digital PR and genuine editorial placements. No networks, no bought links, nothing that needs disowning later.

Local links Editorial Associations
06

Reporting and attribution

Calls tracked back to the term that produced them, form fills tagged by page, and a monthly report you can read in five minutes.

Call tracking Attribution Monthly report

Reviews are a ranking factor, not a vanity metric

Volume, recency, rating and whether you reply all feed the map pack. A business with 180 recent reviews and an owner who answers them will outrank a better company with 40 reviews from 2021, every time.

We automate the ask after every completed job, route unhappy customers to you privately first, and draft a reply to every review that lands.

88%

Read reviews before calling a local business

3 mo

How quickly a review starts losing weight

2x

Reply rate lift when the owner answers

Job marked complete

The request goes out by text within the hour, while the work is still fresh.

Unhappy customers routed to you

A private form first, so problems reach you before they reach Google.

Every review answered

We draft the reply, you approve it. Google reads the replies too.

What the first six months actually look like

Organic is slower than maps and worth more once it lands. Here is what ships, and roughly when you should expect to feel it.

WEEK ONE

Audit and baseline

Full technical crawl, keyword and competitor analysis, call tracking installed and current rankings recorded before we touch anything.

EXPECT TO SEE

A list of what is broken and what it costs you

WEEKS 2 TO 6

Foundations and on page

Technical issues fixed, site structure corrected, every existing page rewritten and retargeted, schema deployed.

EXPECT TO SEE

First movement on longer tail terms

MONTHS 2 TO 4

Content and coverage

New service and city pages published, supporting content built out, link acquisition running.

EXPECT TO SEE

Competitive terms entering page one

MONTHS 4 TO 6

Authority and defense

Link work compounds, top pages get refreshed against whoever is competing, weak pages get cut or merged.

EXPECT TO SEE

Traffic that holds without constant spend

Six months on, four trades

A single average position hides the truth. We scan a nine point grid across your
service area so you can see exactly which suburbs you own and which ones you
have never appeared in.

Roofing

Columbus and Dublin
6 months
Roofing Local SEO Grid Scan Results
1.3

Avg grid rank, from 19.4

175

Calls a month, from 44

189

Reviews, from 61

HVAC

Westerville and Powell
8 months
HVAC Google Business Profile Insights
9 of 9

Grid points in top three

132

Booked jobs a month

4.9

Rating, from 4.3

Plumbing

Hilliard and Gahanna
5 months
Plumbing Local 3-Pack Map Rankings
#1

Emergency plumber, 3 suburbs

89

Calls a month, from 21

62%

Calls now from Maps

Landscaping

New Albany and Delaware
7 months
Landscaping Lead Generation and SEO Results
7 mi

Ranking radius, from 2 mi

64

Quote requests a month

3.8x

Return on retainer

Built for home service companies

Every trade searches differently. A burst pipe is an emergency search on a phone at
11pm, a kitchen remodel is six weeks of research on a laptop. We build the strategy
around which one you sell.

Roofing

Storm season spikes, high ticket, insurance driven

HVAC

Two hard seasons, maintenance plans in between

Plumbing

Emergency intent, mobile, decided in minutes

Electrical

Trust and licensing questions dominate

Landscaping

Seasonal, visual, review and photo led

Garage doors

Broken spring today, replacement next month

Pest control

Recurring contracts, fast response wins

Remodeling

Long research cycle, portfolio is the pitch

SEO Services questions we get every week

If yours is not here, call and ask. We will give you a straight answer even if it means telling you not to hire us.

Local SEO is aimed at the map pack, which is a different ranking system with different signals. SEO Services is the organic results underneath it. Most businesses need both, but if you only sell in one suburb and every job is an emergency call, local on its own may be enough. We will tell you on the first call.
Longer tail and service specific terms usually move in four to six weeks. Genuinely competitive head terms take three to six months, because the link and authority work has to compound before it counts. Anyone promising page one in thirty days on a competitive term is either buying links or lying.
No. We write it. You will get asked for details only you would know, the jobs you refuse, the questions customers ask on every call, the things that go wrong on site. That detail is what makes the page read like it came from someone who does the work.
Rankings decay rather than disappear. The technical fixes and the pages stay yours, and the links do not vanish. What stops is the compounding, so you will hold position for a while and then slowly get passed by whoever is still working. Everything we build is yours to keep either way.
No. Link networks and paid placements are a short term rankings bump and a long term liability. We build links through local sponsorships, supplier and association listings, and content people have an actual reason to reference.
Yes. National organic is the same discipline with a different competitive set and a longer runway, and it does not lean on your Google Business Profile at all. If you sell outside Central Ohio we will scope it that way from the start rather than bolting it on later.

Start with the grid scan.

We will scan your map rankings across every suburb you serve, audit your Google Business Profile and citations, and show you exactly where the calls are going instead.

PHONE 614-908-2515
WEBSITE Thenerdseo.com
HOURS Mon to Fri, 8am to 6pm

Get your free grid scan

Tell us your main service and the towns you serve. We will send back the map showing where you rank in each one.

No contract pitch on the first call.