Horizon GrowthDigital Marketing

Local SEO + PPC

Local Home Services: Local SEO And Google Ads Lead Generation

Home services, Queens & Brooklyn

How we build a dependable lead flow for contractors and home service companies competing across New York City boroughs.

The Situation

What Usually Goes Wrong

Home services businesses in New York compete in one of the most expensive local ad markets in the country, against national lead aggregators with far deeper budgets.

Most operators we speak to have a Google Business Profile they set up once, a website that loads slowly on mobile, and a paid search account spending against broad queries with no call tracking attached.

The result is a lead flow that swings unpredictably month to month, with no reliable way to tell which jobs came from which source.

What we measure

Cost per booked jobPrimary metric
Map pack visibilitySecondary
Lead-to-job close rateQuality gate
Weekly pacing, monthly strategyReview cadence

Targets are set from your own job values and close rate during onboarding, then reviewed monthly against actuals.

Typical timeline: Foundations in weeks 1–4, local rankings compounding from month 3.

The Approach

The Sequence We Follow

Order matters more than effort here. Doing these in the wrong sequence is how budgets get spent without moving the number.

Step 01

Fix measurement before spending more

Call tracking, form tracking and a simple lead log come first. Until every enquiry is attributed to a source and marked won or lost, no channel decision is better than a guess.

Step 02

Own the map pack in each service area

Google Business Profile is optimized for the primary category and service list, citations are made consistent, and genuinely distinct location pages are built for each borough or neighbourhood served — not thin duplicates with the place name swapped.

Step 03

Restructure paid search around job value

Campaigns are segmented by service type and margin, with aggressive negative keyword work to remove the DIY and job-seeker queries that quietly consume budget in this sector.

Step 04

Rebuild the mobile enquiry path

A tap-to-call header, a short form above the fold, service area clarity and visible licensing and insurance details. Most of this traffic is on a phone, often standing in the problem they need solved.

Step 05

Build a review engine

A post-job review request workflow, because in local search the volume and recency of reviews is a ranking factor and a conversion factor at the same time.

Services Applied

The Disciplines Behind This Blueprint

Search Engine Optimization

Technical fixes, content that answers real queries, and links worth having — the three things that actually move rankings.

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PPC Management

Google Ads and paid social managed against cost per acquisition and return on ad spend — with the wasted spend cut out first.

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Website Design & Development

Fast, accessible, search-ready websites designed to convert the traffic your marketing works so hard to earn.

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About this page. These are engagement blueprints: the diagnosis, sequence of work and success measures we commit to for each type of business. They document our methodology rather than published client results, and no figures here are presented as achieved outcomes.

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