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SEO to Get More Customers for a Shelby County Lawn Care & Landscaping Business

A veteran-owned landscaping company based in Shelby County that went from almost invisible in search to ranking across five counties and landing six new customers.

3 → 166
organic visitors, last 6 months
+496%
Google Business Profile views
6
new customers
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Where they started

ER Landscaping Solutions is a veteran-owned landscaping company based in Shelby County, working across Shelby, Jefferson, Franklin, Anderson and Henry counties. Good company doing good work, but almost nobody could find them online. Over a six month stretch their site pulled in 3 organic visitors and 176 impressions, and the Google Business Profile was barely getting a call. The site itself didn't make it obvious what they did, where they worked, or how to get a quote, so even the people who did land on it didn't have a clear next step.

What we built

We started with a full redesign. The new site leads with the work, says plainly which counties they serve, and gives people an obvious way to call or request an estimate instead of hunting for it.

Redesigned ER Landscaping Solutions homepage

From there we built out the pages that actually win local searches. Every service got its own page, and every county they cover got its own service area page. Someone searching in Frankfort looks for something different than someone in Shelbyville, so each area gets a page written for that location instead of one generic services page trying to rank everywhere at once.

Then we went after the searches people make right before they hire, not just the broad terms everyone competes for. The veteran-owned lawn care and landscaping page is the clearest example. It targets a specific buyer who wants to support a veteran-owned business, and it brought in a real lead in the first month it was live.

For the blog we pulled the actual questions people ask Google about landscaping, the People Also Asked questions, and answered them properly. Those pages started picking up impressions and clicks inside the first week.

The same 20% that worked here is the exact playbook we break down in our guide on how to get more organic leads for your Kentucky home services business.

We worked the Google Business Profile hard too, posting regularly and rewriting the service descriptions so they're keyword rich and actually say what the business does and where it works. We built out local citations so the business name, address and phone number match everywhere Google looks, which is one of the quieter signals that helps a local business show up in the map results.

On top of regular search, the site now shows up first in ChatGPT when people ask for lawn care or landscaping in their service area, listed ahead of the other companies in town. That's where a growing share of people are starting their search now.

The results

Search visibility

Over the last six months the numbers moved across the board. Search clicks went from 3 to 166, and search impressions went from 176 to 10,400 — about sixty times more of the right people seeing them in local search.

Total organic visitors
166
Last 6 months
3
Previous 6 months
Total impressions
10.4K
Last 6 months
176
Previous 6 months

Source: Google Search Console — total clicks and impressions, last 6 months vs. the previous 6.

Local profile

The Google Business Profile took off too. Profile views are up 496% year over year, to 918 views. Website clicks from the profile are up 312%, and calls straight from the profile are up 1,000%.

Google Business Profile views up 496 percent year over year
Website clicks from the Business Profile up 312 percent
Calls from the Business Profile up 1,000 percent year over year

Requests for work

The growth in traffic wasn't just traffic. More people landed on the site, and more of them clicked through to ask for a quote or an estimate. Twenty-one quote and estimate requests came through the site's request buttons, button clicks on the calls to action are up 860%, and form submissions are up 700%. Those are the numbers that turn into paid work — and six of those requests became new paying customers in the first three months.

Quote and estimate requests up 860 percent year over year
Button clicks on the calls to action grew 860%, with 21 of them asking for a quote or estimate.

AI search

They also show up first in ChatGPT now. Ask it for lawn care or landscaping in their service area and ER Landscaping Solutions is the first business it names, ahead of the others in town.

ER Landscaping Solutions listed first in an AI search result for lawn care in Waddy, KY
ER Landscaping Solutions listed first in an AI search result for landscaping in Waddy, KY

A qualified lead came in during the first month from the veteran-owned page, with more calls and quote requests following as the new pages started ranking. The business went from invisible to showing up across all five of its counties, in regular search, in the map pack, and in ChatGPT.

In the owner's words

★★★★★Google review

"Josh at Sloan's Websites has done an outstanding job improving our website's SEO and overall online visibility. Since working with him, we've seen a noticeable improvement in how our company is found online, and he's been great to work with throughout the entire process. Josh is knowledgeable, responsive, and takes the time to explain what he's doing and why it matters. If you're looking for someone who genuinely understands SEO and wants to help your business grow, I highly recommend Sloan's Websites. Thank you, Josh, for the excellent work!"

Jeffrey Stanley

Owner, ER Landscaping Solutions · Waddy, KY · Verified Google review

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