CASE STUDY · HOME SERVICES · LOCAL SEO
How Peak Comfort HVAC grew booked jobs 3.1× in 11 months
Peak Comfort HVAC, a multi-location heating & cooling group, leaned almost entirely on paid ads for new work. We embedded a senior fractional SEO inside their lean marketing team and rebuilt local visibility across every service area — until organic search became their most dependable source of booked jobs.
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3.1 ×
Booked jobs from organic
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+214 %
Local organic leads
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#1 pack
Google map pack, 9 cities
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11 mo
From kickoff to results
THE CLIENT
Who we partnered with
Peak Comfort HVAC is a family-owned heating and cooling company serving nine metro areas. They’d earned a strong local reputation on service quality and fast response times.
But with a lean two-person marketing team and no in-house SEO, nearly every new job still came from paid ads — an expensive tap they couldn’t switch off without the phones going quiet.
THE CHALLENGE
Paid ads were the only tap — and the bill kept climbing
Peak Comfort booked almost every new job through paid search and third-party lead platforms. The moment budget paused, the phones went quiet — and cost per lead crept higher every season. None of that spend built an asset they actually owned.
Organically, they were nearly invisible. Across most of their nine service areas, the map pack and first page belonged to national aggregators and a few entrenched competitors — even though Peak Comfort had more trucks, better reviews, and faster response times.
With a two-person marketing team and no in-house SEO, they needed a senior operator who could both set direction and ship the work — not another agency handing over a strategy deck and an invoice.
THE APPROACH
Four decisions that rebuilt local demand
Fewer, sharper bets — each tied to how homeowners actually search for HVAC help when something breaks.
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Rebuilt every service-area page from scratch
Peak Comfort had a single thin “service areas” page. We built a dedicated, genuinely useful page for each of the nine metros — local proof, pricing signals, and the exact services people search for in that city.
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Won the map pack, city by city
We cleaned up every Google Business Profile, fixed citation and NAP inconsistencies, and stood up a steady review engine — then worked the local map pack one metro area at a time.
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Fixed the technical basics holding rankings back
Instead of another 60-page audit, engineering got a short list of prioritized fixes — site speed, mobile UX, schema, and indexation — shipped inside their existing sprints.
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Tied every keyword to booked revenue
We ignored vanity head terms and prioritized high-intent “repair, replace, near me” searches homeowners use when they’re ready to book — the queries that actually fill the calendar.
THE RESULTS
Growth that kept compounding after launch
Eleven months in, Peak Comfort was ranking across all nine metros for the searches that book jobs — and the calendar filled up because of it. Every number below is measured against their pre-engagement, paid-only baseline.
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+214%
Local organic leads
vs. baseline, 11 mo
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3.1×
Booked jobs from organic
without more ad spend
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#1
Map pack rankings
in 9 metro areas
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+38
First-page keywords
high-intent & local
The numbers, visualized
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Why local leads compounded
Instead of chasing statewide volume, we earned authority in each metro’s map pack and service-area pages. As those local signals strengthened, Peak Comfort surfaced for more nearby, ready-to-book searches every single month.
Why booked jobs followed
Ranking for high-intent “repair, replace, near me” terms put Peak Comfort in front of homeowners at the moment they were choosing who to call. Booked jobs from organic grew 3.1× — without leaning harder on ad spend.
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WHAT CLIENTS SAY
Senior help they feel every single week
They didn’t hand us a strategy deck and disappear. Our fractional SEO was in our standups every week, shipping alongside the team — like a senior in-house hire at a fraction of the cost.
They operate like a senior member of our team, not an outside vendor. Within two quarters organic became our most efficient acquisition channel — and we finally understood why.
We’d been burned by agencies before. Having one senior SEO actually in our tools every week changed everything — organic revenue recovered faster than we forecast.
They translated SEO into decisions our partners could act on. Within two quarters we ranked for the practice areas that actually bring in clients.
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