Field note

What to look for in a Calgary home-services SEO company

By JJ Wardorx, Founder, WARDORX

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Home-services SEO in Calgary fails when agencies sell citywide rankings and ignore the phone. Here is a checklist instead of a crown.

The note

The short version

Prefer agencies that separate GBP ops, on-site SEO and answering, publish prices, and refuse ranking guarantees. Our optional retainer is $1,000/mo and excludes growth-layer Maps packaging.

Separate the products

Profile management, on-site SEO, ads and answering solve different holes. A single vague retainer hides that.

Demand call reporting

If they celebrate rankings while ignoring unanswered calls, they are optimizing a vanity metric.

Our line in the sand

$1,000/mo optional SEO. $149/mo GBP management. No Climbo-style growth layer sell. Founding websites $1,250/14 days.

Questions this raises
Are you the best SEO agency in Calgary?
We will not claim a crown. We publish scope, prices and named work, and we refuse guarantees.
Do plumbers and HVAC need different SEO?
Same foundations, different seasonal pages and emergency call paths. Industry pages on this site spell that out without invented stats.
Is review collection included in SEO?
Not as a bundled growth layer. Review process can sit in GBP management when you buy that product.
What phone should clients call?
+1 (250) 344-1619.
What to do about it
SEO cost

What $1,000/mo includes and excludes.

HVAC industry page

How emergency trades differ on the site.

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