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Rank for interior, exterior, and the high-margin specialty work — across every neighborhood you roll to.

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01 — The Opportunity

Why Search Works Differently for Painters.

TWO SEASONS, TWO ROOMS

Interior and Exterior Split

Exterior surges with the weather; interior fills the off-season. Separate pages for each keep the calendar full year-round.

THE MARGIN NICHE

Cabinets Are the Quiet Winner

Cabinet refinishing searches carry remodel-level budgets at paint-crew costs — and almost no painter has a real page for them.

WHAT BUILDS TRUST

Before-and-Afters Book Estimates

Painting is judged by eye — real project photos by room and finish do the convincing before the walkthrough.

02 — Who You Work With

Painting SEO, Done Directly.

Connor Cedro, SEO consultant

Hey, I'm Connor. Painting search splits by season, room, and specialty — the crews that page for each fill the calendar the generic ones watch. I'm a SEMrush-certified SEO consultant with an MBA from SMU's Cox School of Business, based in Tampa and working with painting companies nationwide. You work with me directly — no account managers, no contracts.

03 — Proof

Real Clients. Real Numbers.

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04 — Deliverables

Everything You Need to Rank.

01

SEO Audit

Full technical audit to find what's keeping high-value clients from finding your firm.

02

Keyword Strategy

Target how clients actually search — firm type, project type, and location, like "residential architect [city]."

03

Technical SEO

Fast, crawlable, mobile-clean pages — the plumbing that lets a portfolio actually rank.

04

Content Strategy

Project pages, service pages, and guides written for how clients evaluate architects.

05

Authority & Links

Citations and links from design, construction, and local publications that move rankings.

06

Service-Area SEO & Google Maps

Neighborhood coverage plus profile strength — visibility wherever the ladders go.

05 — Process

Three Steps to a Fuller Schedule.

1

SEO Opportunity Audit

I review your technical health, rankings, backlinks, and competitors to find the biggest opportunities — the platform supports the audit; the judgment is mine.

2

Prioritized Growth Plan

A clear roadmap: keyword targets, project pages to build, technical fixes, and link strategy — in the order that moves revenue first.

3

Monthly Execution & Reporting

Month-to-month execution with plain-English reporting. You always know what was done, what moved, and what's next.

06 — Fit

Built for Painting Companies.

By Company

  • Residential painters
  • Commercial & repaint crews
  • Cabinet & specialty finishers
  • Multi-crew operations

By Work

  • Interior rooms & trim
  • Exterior & stucco
  • Cabinets & refinishing
  • Commercial repaints
07 — Engagement

Simple, Transparent Pricing.

Work directly with me. No contracts — cancel any time. Every engagement starts with the free audit, and I'll recommend the right tier for your firm's authority.

Starter

$1,250/month
Best for firms with a website DA under 20
  • Full audit + prioritized roadmap
  • 8 optimized posts & 3 low-KD keyword clusters monthly
  • 5 pages re-optimized · on-page across 25
  • 4 white-hat backlinks (DA 40+)
  • Monthly plain-English reporting
Discuss Starter
Most Popular

Growth

$2,500/month
Best for firms with a website DA of 20–40
  • Everything in Starter, expanded
  • 12 posts & 6 medium-KD clusters monthly
  • 10 pages re-optimized · on-page across 50
  • 8 white-hat backlinks (DA 40+)
  • Monthly reporting + quarterly strategy review
Discuss Growth

Authority

$4,000/month
Best for firms with a website DA of 40+
  • Full-scope strategy & execution
  • 20 posts & 12 high-KD clusters monthly
  • 20 pages re-optimized · on-page across 100
  • 16 white-hat backlinks (DA 40+)
  • Priority access + quarterly strategy review
Discuss Authority
08 — The Playbook

The Painters Playbook.

THE OPPORTUNITY

Own the Cabinet Search

“Cabinet painting [city]” is high-ticket, decided, and nearly uncontested — one strong page changes the average job size.

THE MECHANISM

Room and Finish Pages Convert

Homeowners search the project — “exterior house painters,” “kitchen cabinet refinishing.” Matching pages meet the budget already formed.

VS. THE ALTERNATIVE

Lead Apps Split the Estimate

Shared-lead platforms sell one repaint to five crews. Your rankings bring the homeowner who already saw your work.

09 — In Depth

How Painting Search Actually Works.

Exterior work books on a weather window — publish ahead of it

Exterior painting is scheduled against the calendar: homeowners research in late winter and spring, book for the dry season, and the good crews fill their exterior slots months out. Search follows that rhythm, which means exterior pages — repaints, stucco, siding, prep-and-primer questions — need to rank before the research season, not during the painting one. Interior demand runs opposite, filling winters, and the site should carry both seasons deliberately rather than letting one page blur them.

Cabinets and specialty finishes are the high-ticket searches

Cabinet painting and refinishing has become its own research category — a kitchen-transforming project at a fraction of replacement cost, searched by name, compared obsessively against new cabinets. Painters who give it a real page, with process detail, durability honesty, and finished-kitchen results, capture buyers most competitors still file under interior painting. The same logic extends to specialty work a crew wants more of: lime wash, epoxy floors, staining — each is a distinct search with a distinct buyer, and a bullet on a services list wins none of them.

Repaint customers and property contracts are different funnels

Residential repaints are won on proof and process — prep standards, product lines, clean-site habits, reviews that mention the crew by name. Commercial and HOA work is won on capability paperwork: insurance, crew size, scheduling around occupants, multi-building references. The searches differ the same way, and a modest commercial page that states those facts plainly competes in a far emptier field than the residential terms — and produces the repeat contracts that carry a painting company through the slow months.

09 — Common Questions

Questions Before You Book.

Is SEO worth it for a painting company?

Yes — demand is constant and local, and specialty pages (cabinets, exteriors, commercial) win the bigger tickets generic competitors miss.

What should a painter rank for?

Interior and exterior + area terms, cabinet and specialty finishes, and commercial repaint searches. Each service is its own page.

Do photos really affect bookings?

Decisively — published as real project pages with room, finish, and area, they rank and pre-sell the estimate at once.

How long until a painter sees results?

Local terms often move in 1–3 months; specialty pages pay off with the first ranked season.

Do you require contracts?

No. Everything is month-to-month, and every engagement starts with the free audit so you can see the opportunity before spending anything.

Who does the work?

I do. You work with me directly — no account managers, no outsourcing. That's the entire model.

10 — Keep Reading

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