SEO for roofers
SEO for Roofers
SEO for roofers is a slower trade than ads and a better one once it lands, because a roof leak search that finds you organically costs nothing the second time. The work is unglamorous: one page per job and per town instead of a services page that tries to be all of them, a Google Business Profile treated as a real listing, and enough proof on the site that a homeowner believes you work near them.
- clients served
- 400+clients served
- to first reply
- < 2sto first reply
- to go live
- 2-3 wksto go live
Example text conversation between Ava, an AI assistant for Summit Roofing, and a lead named Mike.
- Ava (AI): Hi Mike, this is Ava, the AI assistant for Summit Roofing. Saw your request about storm damage, sorry you're dealing with that. What are you seeing?
- Mike: Shingles in the yard after last night's hail. A couple spots on the ceiling
- Ava (AI): Thanks. Do you own the home, and have you filed an insurance claim yet?
- Mike: Own it. Haven't called insurance yet
- Ava (AI): That's common. Our inspector documents the damage with photos you can share with your adjuster. It takes about 45 minutes. Tomorrow at 8:00 AM or 11:30 AM?
- Mike: 8 works
- Ava (AI): You're set for 8:00 AM. Your inspector will text when they're 20 minutes out.
Booked: Roof inspection, Tomorrow, 8:00 AM, Photo report for the claim.
What we build
The pages that earn the ranking.
Search rewards specific pages, not a bigger services page. We build one per job and per real service area, then keep them current.
- 01
A page per service
Repair, replacement, inspection, storm and gutters are five different searches with five different buyers. One roofing services page competes for all of them and ranks for none.
- 02
A page per town you serve
Written for that town, with jobs you have done there. A list of fifty towns on one page is a doorway page, and it fools nobody anymore.
- 03
The Google Business Profile
For local roofing searches the map pack outranks everything you do on the site. Categories, service areas, photos of real jobs and a steady flow of reviews.
- 04
Answers people actually search
Cost, timelines, insurance claims, how long a roof lasts. These bring traffic months before someone needs you and make you the name they already know.
After the click
From search result to booked.
A ranking only pays when someone books. This is what happens to every lead, at 2 PM or 2 AM. It's our speed to lead system on AI appointment setters.
- 1
They find you
From the map pack, an organic result or an AI answer that cited you, usually on a phone, usually with water already coming in.
- 2
They call or fill in the form
Organic traffic calls at least as often as it converts on a form, and it calls at every hour.
- 3
Answered or texted back
An AI agent picks up when your office cannot, and texts back any missed call in under 2 seconds. A ranking that rings out is a ranking you paid for twice.
- 4
Inspection booked
Onto the right crew's calendar, confirmed and reminded, with the job logged in your CRM.
Where rankings come from
What we work on first.
Roofing is a local search business. Reviews, proof of local work and a site that loads on a phone move the needle before anything clever does.
Job photos with real locations
Your own install and storm photos, named by town. Stock roof images are the single clearest signal that a roofing site is a template.
Reviews as the engine
Review count and recency move map pack rankings more than almost anything else you control. Ask after every job, respond to all of them.
Fix the foundation first
Speed, indexing, titles and schema. Most roofing sites are losing to technical problems before the content is ever the issue.
Be the citable answer
AI results and featured snippets quote short, clear, specific answers. The same work that earns a snippet gets you named by ChatGPT and AI Overviews.
Before you launch
Rules we build around
- Nobody can guarantee a ranking, and any roofing SEO company that does is selling you something else. What is committed to is the work and a monthly report that ties rankings to booked jobs.
- A page for every town within a hundred miles, each one the same text with the name swapped, is a doorway page. It is against Google's guidance and it is the most common thing done to roofing sites.
- Your name, address and phone number have to match everywhere they appear. Inconsistent listings are the quiet reason plenty of roofers never show up in the map pack.
- Never imply that insurance will cover a claim, on the site or in a review reply. Documentation of what is there is a claim you can make. Coverage is for the adjuster.
Calls and texts only go to people who opted in on your form. How consent works.
Platforms
Where it runs, and where it connects.
The SEO placements we use for roofing contractors, where your leads come from, and the tools the agent writes back to.
Where you show up
Organic results, the local map pack, and the directories search engines trust.
Google
Google Maps
Bing
Apple Maps
Yelp
Where your leads come from
Google
Angi
Thumbtack
Nextdoor
Facebook
Yelp
Tools we connect to
Typical systems in your space. Most others connect through an API.
AccuLynx
JobNimbus
Roofr
CompanyCam
ServiceTitan
GoHighLevel
Google LSA
CallRail
Google Calendar
Slack
What we report on
What your SEO report shows.
Booked appointments first, then the numbers that explain them.
- Rankings on money searches
- Positions for the searches that turn into revenue, not vanity terms.
- Map pack visibility
- How often you appear in the local three-pack across your service area, checked on a grid.
- Organic calls and forms
- Leads that came from search, tracked separately from paid.
- Google Business Profile actions
- Calls, direction requests and website clicks from your profile.
- Indexing health
- Pages Google can find and index, and the errors that stop it.
- Booked calls from organic
- Organic leads that made it onto the calendar, tracked in StrideOps.
Client results
Hear it from our clients.
Executive Stride clients on camera and in their own words.
- clients served
- 400+
- clients served
- in client results
- $10M+
- in client results
- industries
- 20+
- industries
- average rating
- 4.8
- average rating
They've consistently been able to help me achieve at least 10 booked appointments on my calendar for both of my businesses separately every week for the last six months.
Jacob SnitmanBurke FinancialI don't usually do testimonials for people but we've been able to generate a tremendous amount of additional monthly income with Executive Stride. Their team is super supportive and basically hand you results on a silver platter.
Franky ShawFutrGroupI can personally attribute over $20k/mo of additional monthly income to Josh and the team at Executive Stride with their LinkedIn strategies alone. If you're not working with them I don't know what you're doing.
Stephen GomesRealtor Media LeadsGetting leads is fantastic, we have a small team and actually had too much coming in and I had to reel it back a little bit, which is a good problem to have.
Jacob SherrardElvt Marketing SolutionsSince working with Josh and his team at Executive Stride for three weeks, we have been able to book 35 qualified leads and closed 11 leads by using their LinkedIn system
Harshal DewanganDewa DirectionJosh and his team basically helped me generate over 37 booked appointments and 13 new clients, which is mind-blowing!
Kas GhorbContent RocketFAQ
SEO for Roofers: questions, answered.
Anything else, ask us on the call.
- How long does SEO take for a roofing company?
- Technical fixes and Google Business Profile work can move local rankings within weeks. Competitive service and town pages take months. Anyone promising page one in thirty days is describing ads, not SEO.
- Is SEO or Google Ads better for roofers?
- Ads buy the storm week, which is when you need volume you cannot wait for. SEO compounds and keeps paying between storms. Most roofers should run ads first because the cash flow is immediate, and build the organic side underneath it.
- Do I need a page for every town I serve?
- Only for the towns you genuinely work in and can show proof for. A real page with local jobs, named streets and a reason you are there earns its place. The same paragraph duplicated fifty times with the town swapped is a doorway page and a risk to the whole site.
- What matters most for roofing SEO?
- For local searches, the Google Business Profile and your reviews, by a wide margin. After that, a page for each service and each real service area, and a site that loads fast on a phone. The rest is refinement.
- What happens to the calls that rankings bring in?
- The same thing that should happen to a paid call. An AI agent answers or texts back in seconds and books the inspection, because an organic lead that reaches voicemail is worth exactly as little as a paid one.
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