Case Study · Q2 2025 -> Q1 2026 (ongoing)

From renting leads at $85 each to 64 organic booked jobs a month

A residential HVAC company escaped shared-lead aggregators with 26 city-level service pages, a rebuilt Google Business Profile, and seasonal-demand SEO.

64
Booked jobs / month
11 → 64
47
Top-3 service rankings
3 → 47
$0
Cost per organic lead
$85 → $0
26
Service-area pages
1 → 26
Industry
Home Services — HVAC
Stage
SMB ($2.5M revenue, 18 employees)
Geography
US
Service
Local SEO & On-Page
The Challenge

Renting leads from a middleman. Rising costs. No owned pipeline.

A residential HVAC company leaned heavily on paid lead-gen aggregators that delivered shared, low-quality leads at rising prices — $85 per shared lead and climbing. They had almost no organic visibility for service-area searches and no owned pipeline for emergency or seasonal demand. Every job started by paying a middleman.

Top-3 service-area rankings3 keywords
Organic booked jobs11 / month
Cost per shared lead$85
Service-area pages on site1
“Paid lead aggregators (shared leads sold to multiple contractors) and a single generic website page with no local targeting.”

Before vs. After

From one thin generic page to a city-by-city service-area structure that ranks across the whole metro.

Before After
HVAC company local search presence before vs after Kreative Splash service-area SEO build-out
What We Did

Build the city pages. Win the service-area searches. Capture the emergencies.

Channels
  • Local SEO
  • City + service-area page build-out
  • Google Business Profile optimization
  • Review generation
Tools
  • Google Business Profile
  • Google Search Console
  • Local rank tracker
  • HVACBusiness / LocalBusiness schema
Key Tactics
  • 01Built individual service + city pages targeting 'AC repair + [city]' and 'furnace install + [city]' — 26 pages covering every service-area combo customers actually search
  • 02Optimized the Google Business Profile end-to-end and aligned NAP across directories so Google trusts the listing for the full service area
  • 03Added dedicated emergency-service and seasonal pages (summer cooling, winter heating) to capture urgent, high-intent demand spikes
  • 04Launched a post-job review-request workflow to build local trust signals and lift map-pack visibility across every city served
The Results

Every metric moved. Verified in GBP Insights + Search Console + job-tracking.

Top-3 service-area rankings
3 47
+44
Organic booked jobs
11 / mo 64 / mo
+482%
Cost per organic lead
$85 $0
-100%
Service-area pages
1 26
+25
Beyond the Numbers
  • Owned organic pipeline reduced dependence on expensive shared-lead aggregators
  • Higher-intent organic leads converted to booked jobs better than aggregator leads ever did
  • Seasonal pages captured spikes in heating/cooling demand — the most profitable months

We stopped renting leads from a middleman. Now the jobs come straight to us from Google — and they're better customers.

— Owner, Residential HVAC Company (anonymized)

Running a home-services business? Stop renting leads.

Book a free 30-minute strategy call. We'll look at your service area, your current GBP, and the city-level searches your competitors are winning — and tell you honestly whether owning the organic pipeline beats your current cost per lead.

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