New houses in Olathe mean new neighbors who have never heard of you.
Olathe keeps adding subdivisions on its west and south sides. The families moving into them need a fence, a patio, gutters or a new roof, and they find somebody by searching, not by asking around.
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Someone new to town searches "near me"
Long-time Olathe customers know who did their neighbor's driveway. Someone who closed on a house last spring does not. They open Google Maps, type the trade and call one of the businesses at the top. If you are not up there, you never hear about the job.
That is why your Google listing matters more than anything else for most Olathe trades. The website still has to be there, because Google reads it to decide what you do and where you do it.
The county seat is not the whole county
Plenty of Olathe contractors work Gardner, Spring Hill and De Soto too. The map only shows you in those towns if you are close enough, or strong enough, there. A page on your site for each town you really work, written about jobs you did there, is how you show up in the regular results below the map.
I grew up in De Soto, just up K-10 from Olathe, so this is ground I know.
Where I would start with an Olathe contractor
Get the listing verified and the primary category right, and write out every service you offer. Then every month: 2 posts and 4 photos from real jobs, a review ask to every happy customer the same week the job is done, and a 49-point scan around your shop so we both see where the map is moving.
$500 a month, and nothing until the phone rings.
Your website, your Google listing and the SEO, for $500 a month. Nothing at signing and nothing at launch. The first bill comes 7 days after your first call, and if 45 days go by with no call, you owe nothing.
Also working with contractors in Overland Park · Lenexa · Shawnee · Kansas City, KS · Lee's Summit, and Kansas City.
Want to see where you actually rank first?
Tell me your trade and your town. I run the 49-point scan on your business and send you the one-page Gap Sheet: where you rank, who is above you, and the three things between you and them. Free, and there is no call attached to it.