

Solar SEO that fills the calendar, not the dashboard.
fills the calendar
Solar SEO is the part of the pipeline that keeps producing after the media budget pauses. We get solar companies into the local map results and onto page one for the install, battery storage and quote searches homeowners actually type, then report it in booked site surveys instead of impressions. We already run marketing for solar installers, and organic search carries no per-lead media cost once a page ranks.
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FOUR LEVERS
Four levers move a solar company up the results.
move a solar company
Your Google Business Profile, a site structure that mirrors how homeowners and commercial buyers search, content that answers the expensive questions honestly, and the reputation signals search engines lean on when they cannot visit your warehouse. Local search and organic search are two jobs on one foundation, so we run both together.
Google Business Profile
Site structure and content
High-intent keywords
Technical and authority
Local search is won inside the profile.
Most solar installers treat the profile as an address listing. It is the single highest-leverage asset in local search: the primary category, the true service area, real photography of your crews on real roofs, the products you actually carry, and a steady flow of reviews that name the town and the system size.
We set it up properly, then keep it fed. Service-area installers and storefront showrooms need different handling, and we treat them differently rather than applying one template to both.
- Primary category set to Solar Energy Contractor, not Electrician
- True coverage area drawn, not a hopeful radius
- Photography of your own installs, dated and geotagged
- Review requests built into the handover, not the invoice
45%
of Q1 residential installs now pair a battery
One page per system, one page per town.
Most solar company websites carry a single services page trying to cover residential installation, battery storage, commercial arrays, maintenance and EV charging at once. Search engines cannot rank that page and buyers cannot navigate it.
We map the site to what you sell and where your crews drive: a real page for each service, a real page for each town, and depth on the questions that decide the sale — payback period, financing, utility interconnection, panel and inverter choice, what happens to the warranty if you move.
- A written page per solar service, never templated
- Town pages for the areas your installers cover
- Battery storage, financing and payback content in depth
- Navigation a homeowner can follow in ten seconds
6-12 mo
typical time to first leads from organic
Rank for buyers, not for browsers.
A page ranking for how solar panels work brings readers. A page ranking for solar installation plus your city brings quotes. We build the keyword map around commercial intent first, then fill the research layer underneath it once the money terms are held.
The economics decide the priority. Exclusive Google Search leads for residential solar run roughly $140 to $220 each in competitive metros, so a term you rank for permanently is worth chasing for a year.
- Commercial-intent terms mapped before research terms
- Residential and commercial solar kept on separate tracks
- Battery, maintenance and repair demand captured too
- Rankings reported against booked surveys, not volume
$140-220
exclusive paid search CPL for residential solar
$80-200
reported cost of a solar lead from Google Ads
Fast pages, real citations, honest links.
The technical work is unglamorous and it decides whether the content ever gets a chance: page speed on a mid-range phone, clean URLs, headings, schema, internal linking, and an index free of the thin pages a previous agency left behind. Across 500 audited contractor sites the median page loaded in 5.4 seconds and only 18% came in under three.
Authority comes from citations that match your name, address and phone exactly, plus earned coverage in local and trade media. No bought link networks, because the cleanup costs more than the ranking was worth.
- Speed treated as a defect to fix, not a nice-to-have
- Consistent citations across the directories that matter
- Earned local and trade coverage, never bought networks
- Conversion tracking recording quotes, not page views
5.4s
median load time across 500 contractor sites
18%
of those sites loaded in under three seconds
what an exclusive paid solar search lead costs today
forecast contraction in the 2026 US residential solar market
A written page for every area your crews genuinely serve
Profile, pages, tracking and reporting in your own accounts
We made the difference for those brands
01 — The challenge
Paid volume got expensive right as the market tightened.
Two things happened at once. The residential solar market is forecast to decline 21% this year, and the cost of buying a homeowner's attention kept climbing. Google Ads leads are reported at $80 to $200 and aggregator leads at $50 to $150, and the aggregator ones are sold to several installers at the same time.
So the companies that are comfortable this year are the ones with a pipeline they own. Organic search is slower to start and it does not stop, which is the opposite shape to the media buy most installers were living on.
“We were paying more per lead than last year and closing fewer of them.”
The other half of the problem is the site itself. A homeowner researching a twenty-thousand-dollar purchase reads for weeks, on a phone, mostly in the evening, and a single thin services page gives them nothing to read and search engines nothing to rank.
02 — Our approach
Own the local map first, then the research library.
We start with the profile and the towns, because that is where the fastest return sits. Category, coverage, photography, products, reviews, and a page on your site for each area your crews genuinely serve — written properly rather than spun a hundred times over.
Then the money terms. Installation, battery storage, commercial arrays, repair and maintenance, each with its own page, its own proof and its own next step. We interview your sales team to get the answers right, because nobody outside your business knows your local utility's interconnection queue or which financing your customers actually take.
Underneath that goes the research layer: payback maths for your state, incentive explainers kept current, panel and inverter comparisons, and honest answers about roof condition and shading. This is the content that earns links and gets quoted, and it is the part most agencies skip.
Everything is measured against booked surveys. Rankings and traffic are leading indicators we watch; the number we report on is how many quotes the organic channel produced this month and what they were worth.
03 — What we did
From invisible to the default local answer.
The same sequence whether you are a two-crew installer or a regional operator with a showroom.
01
Where the visibility leaks
Profile, rankings, site structure, speed and citations reviewed against the installers already beating you locally, with every gap named in writing before any work starts.

02
Profile and local footprint
Category, service area, products and photography corrected, citations aligned to one exact name and address, and review collection built into the install handover.

03
The pages that earn quotes
A page per service and per town, plus the payback, financing and battery storage content buyers read before they call, all written from interviews with your own team.

04
Compounded and reported
Monthly reads on booked surveys by page, steady expansion into the next towns and the next system types, and content refreshed as incentives change.

WHAT YOU GET
Deliverables you keep, whatever happens next.
you keep
The pages, the profile, the tracking and the reporting live in your own accounts from the first week.
Visibility and site audit
Your rankings, profile, structure, speed and citations measured against the installers beating you locally, with every gap named in writing rather than implied.
Keyword and page map
Every commercial term you should own mapped to one page, residential and commercial kept apart, and the questions each page has to answer written before anyone drafts a word.
Google Business Profile programme
Category, coverage, products and photography corrected, then kept fed with posts and a review flow built into your install handover instead of your invoice.
Written service and town pages
Pages for each system you sell and each area your crews cover, written from interviews with your sales team so the payback and financing detail is genuinely yours.
Technical and authority work
Speed, schema, internal linking and index hygiene handled, plus citation cleanup and earned local coverage — never a bought link network.
Monthly read on booked work
A written monthly report on surveys booked by page and by town, with next month's priorities named, delivered by the person doing the work.
HOW WE WORK
Operating standards, not promises.
Operating standards

Residential solar
Installation, payback and financing pages built for a homeowner researching for weeks on a phone.
ExploreBattery storage
Storage and backup content for the fastest-growing attachment in the residential market.
ExploreCommercial solar
Pages written for facilities and finance buyers who want models, references and timelines.
ExploreBuilt on trust. Proven by results.
We partner with SMBs and Fortune 500 companies to deliver more than reach — we bring clarity, execution, and measurable outcomes. Every successful partnership starts with a strong culture fit and a shared drive to grow.








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FAQ
Questions installers ask us
How long does solar SEO take to produce leads?
Local map improvements often show inside the first two months because profile work moves quickly. The organic pages are slower: the usual range is six to twelve months to first leads, after which there is no per-lead media cost. We tell you which months are investment months at the start, so nothing about the curve is a surprise.
Is SEO still worth it if the residential market is shrinking?
It matters more, not less. When the residential market is forecast to contract 21% this year, the installers who stay comfortable are the ones not paying for every enquiry. An owned pipeline is the cheapest insurance available against a media cost you do not control.
Should we do local SEO or organic first?
Both, in that order of emphasis. The profile and town pages return fastest, so we get them right in the first weeks, then build the research library that earns the harder rankings. Splitting them into separate projects just means paying twice for the same groundwork.
Do we need a page for every town we serve?
For the towns your crews genuinely drive to, yes. A homeowner wants their own area named and a system you installed nearby, and search engines need something specific to rank. We write them properly rather than generating a hundred near-identical pages, which does more harm than good.
What about commercial solar — is it the same work?
Same foundation, different content and different patience. Commercial buyers search fewer times, read longer, and want models, references and interconnection timelines rather than a monthly payment. We keep the two tracks separate so neither audience reads copy written for the other.
Can you work alongside our paid campaigns?
Yes, and it works better that way. Search terms from paid search tell us which organic pages to build next, and the pages we build lower what your paid traffic costs to convert. Plenty of clients also pair this with solar ChatGPT ads.
Our previous agency left hundreds of thin pages. Now what?
We audit them, keep the ones earning anything, rewrite the ones worth saving and remove the rest with proper redirects. Cleaning an index up is normal work for us and it usually lifts the pages you keep, because the site stops competing with itself.
How do you measure it?
Booked site surveys and quote requests, attributed to the page and town that produced them, using analytics configured in your own accounts. Rankings and traffic are in the report as leading indicators, but they are not the score.
Do reviews really affect where we rank?
Yes, and they affect conversion even more. A steady flow of recent reviews naming the town and the system installed is one of the strongest local signals available, which is why we build review collection into the install handover rather than leaving it to whoever remembers.
Will you write about incentives and payback?
Yes, and we keep it current. Incentive rules change and stale figures cost trust at exactly the moment a homeowner is deciding. Those pages get a scheduled review, and anything we cannot verify from a primary source does not go on the page.
What does it cost, and what is the commitment?
Scope drives the price, and we quote it after the audit rather than before. Work is monthly with no long lock-in, because a channel that compounds should keep earning its place. Everything we build stays yours if you ever leave.
What does a solar SEO strategy actually include?
Four strands, run together. Local search work on your Google Business Profile and location pages, so nearby customers find the company when they search for a solar installer. Content strategy across the services you sell. Technical work on the website itself — speed, structure, schema and the internal links that help search engines understand it. And digital reputation: reviews, citations and earned local coverage.
Most solar companies arrive with one of those partly done and the other three untouched. The audit tells us which, and the first quarter of the plan is built around whichever gap is costing the most online visibility today.
Which solar keywords are worth targeting?
The ones with commercial intent in the locations your crews serve. Solar installation plus a city, solar panel cost, solar companies near me, battery backup, commercial solar quotes: these are searches from people close to buying. High-volume research keywords like how solar panels work bring users who are months away.
We build the keyword map around intent first and add the research layer once the commercial terms are held, because a solar company that ranks for questions and not quotes has bought traffic instead of customers. The quality of the term matters more than its volume.
Does the website design affect our SEO?
Heavily. A slow, hard-to-navigate site loses users before search engines ever reward the content, and thin design leaves nowhere for the material a solar buyer wants to read. Speed, structure and clarity are ranking inputs as much as they are design choices.
Where the existing website can carry the strategy, we improve it in place. Where it genuinely cannot, we say so and scope solar web design separately rather than quietly spending SEO hours on a rebuild you did not agree to.
How do we choose between solar SEO agencies?
Ask each one three questions. Which solar keywords would they target for your towns, and why those and not the high-volume research terms? Who writes the content, and have they interviewed a solar sales team before? And what do they report — traffic, or booked surveys?
An agency that answers with quality examples from other solar companies, names the person doing the work, and reports on business outcomes is telling you something. One that opens with a package price and a keyword count is selling you a template. Ask to see a real monthly report from a live client before you sign anything.
What does solar SEO cost, and how is it priced?
Scope drives it: how many towns, how many services, how much technical repair the existing website needs, and whether we are writing content from scratch. We quote after the audit, so the number reflects your site rather than an average.
What we will say upfront is where the money goes. Most of a solar SEO budget is people — strategy, writing, technical work and local search management — not software licences. Tools are part of the cost of doing business here, and we do not mark them up or bill them separately.
What tools and reporting do we get access to?
Everything runs in your accounts. Google Search Console, Google Analytics, your Business Profile and the rank tracking sit in your name, and you keep access whatever happens between us.
On top of that you get a monthly written read: which solar keywords moved, which pages produced quote requests, what changed on the website, and what is queued next. No dashboard-only reporting, because a dashboard tells you what happened and not what it meant.
Do you work with more than one solar company per area?
No. Two clients competing for the same local searches is a conflict we will not take, so exclusivity in your service area is part of the agreement. It is one of the first things we confirm before quoting, and it is why we would rather say no early than explain later.
Who actually does the work?
A named senior strategist and writer who learn your utility territory, your financing options and your install process, supported by our technical and analytics teams. You have their direct line, and the person writing your monthly read is the person doing the work.


























































































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