If your HVAC business gives constant attention to SEO and keywords, then it’s because you know the Internet is always on and can bring you leads 24/7. What you might not know is that you can build seasonal pages for different keywords to cover the business cycles that your company might go through each year.
Seasons Change
If your HVAC company relies heavily on air conditioner clients, then you likely have two seasons:
- The Busy Season: Often from late spring until early fall, this is when you do most of your house calls. It’s also when you do most of your residential replacements, your highest-profit margin activity.
- The Slow Season: Late fall through winter and into early spring is more focused on preventative maintenance contracts and services. Business is not as strong, but it’s your best bet to make money during this time of year.
Other regions might have different cycles. For instance, regions where winters are long and cold might have a second busy season focused on heating issues. They would still have slumps in the fall and spring, though, in between the seasonal extremes.
In either case, your HVAC business is likely to have both periods of high activity and profitability and stretches where things are much slower with less money to be made. As such, it makes sense to break up your target keywords into two groups focusing on each season.
Let’s plan out your strategy together:
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Harness the Power of Local SEO
Competing against national keywords isn’t an effective use of your marketing resources, so you need to target local keywords. Anyone using Google or other search engines is probably typing in the name of their town, city, community, or region along with their keyword to narrow down results close to them. Knowing that, you shouldn’t just use the top 40 HVAC keywords for SEO in terms of overall volume but cater them specifically to people looking for professionals in your service area.
Here they are in alphabetical order with the local pages you should optimize for:
- AC air conditioning: Your geo + AC air conditioning
- Air con: Your geo + air con
- Air condition: Your geo + air condition
- Air conditioner: Your geo + air conditioner
- Air conditioner portable: Your geo + air conditioner portable
- Air conditioner price: Your geo + air conditioner price
- Air conditioner repair: Your geo + air conditioner repair
- Air conditioner unit: Your geo + air conditioner unit
- Air conditioner units: Your geo + air conditioner units
- Air conditioners: Your geo + air conditioners
- Air conditioners portable: Your geo + air conditioners portable
- Air conditioning: Your geo + air conditioning
- Air conditioning and heating: Your geo + air conditioning and heating
- Air conditioning cooling: Your geo + air conditioning cooling
- Air conditioning heating: Your geo + air conditioning heating
- Air conditioning portable: Your geo + air conditioning portable
- Air conditioning repair: Your geo + air conditioning repair
- Air conditioning system: Your geo + air conditioning system
- Air conditioning unit: Your geo + air conditioning unit
- Air conditioning units: Your geo + air conditioning units
- Central air: Your geo + central air
- Cooling and heating: Your geo + cooling and heating
- Furnace: Your geo + furnace
- HVAC air conditioning: Your geo + HVAC air conditioning
- HVAC: Your geo + HVAC
- Heating air: Your geo + heating air
- Heating air conditioning: Your geo + heating air conditioning
- Heating and air: Your geo + heating and air
- Heating and cooling: Your geo + heating and cooling
- Heat and air: Your geo + heat and air
- Heating and air conditioning: Your geo + heating and air conditioning
- Heat pump: Your geo + heat pump
- Heating & air conditioning: Your geo + heating & air conditioning
- Heating & air: Your geo + heating & air
- Heating & cooling: Your geo + heating & cooling
- Portable air conditioner: Your geo + portable air conditioner
- Portable air conditioners: Your geo + portable air conditioners
- Portable air conditioning: Your geo + portable air conditioning
- Repair air conditioning: Your geo + repair air conditioning
- Window air conditioner: Your geo + window air conditioner
Bonus Keywords to Get Through the Slow Season
A lot of HVAC contractors we work with rely on preventative maintenance services to get through the slower season.
If you have a large customer contact database, you can use email marketing effectively to promote content on your website that’s centered around the following services:
- Thermostat replacement
- Air duct cleaning
- Duct cleaning
- Indoor air quality
- AC tune up
Simply add a page or series of short posts to your site about these services and send out an educational newsletter to your past customers.
Your Website Deserves Preventative Maintenance Too
Before you get busy pushing replacement services or preventative maintenance, consider that your own website could use a good inspection and tune-up. Regardless of the keywords or the season you are focusing on, your online domain is there all year long trying to turn your traffic into revenue.
Sign up here for our website audit to get an idea of how your SEO is doing and what it could be doing better. If you offer your own prospects free evaluations, then you know you have nothing to lose with ours.