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Case study: HVAC, local SEO and web design

My Jockey: 120 calls in 30 days, three months after a full rebuild

My Jockey Heating & Cooling, an HVAC company in Saratoga Springs, New York, had a 25-page website that ranked for nothing and brought in no calls. Three months after we rebuilt it, the site drew 120 calls in 30 days, about four a day.

120Calls in 30 days
3Keywords at #1
9+Page-one keywords
90%+Of the map grid in the top 3
The client and the challenge

25 pages, no rankings, no calls

My Jockey Heating & Cooling serves the Capital Region of New York from Saratoga Springs: furnace repair, AC installation, boiler replacement, air scrubbers, and emergency service. Its website had about 25 pages, and Google ranked none of them. There was no organic traffic, no calls from online, and no Map Pack visibility, while established competitors took the local HVAC market.

Before Design ME
  • Pages Google ignored25
  • Google rankings0
  • Monthly calls from online0
  • Map Pack visibilityNone
Three months after launch
  • WebsiteRebuilt
  • Page-one keywords9+
  • Calls in 30 days120
  • Map gridTop 3
What we did

Rebuilt from zero, in three steps

The old site had nothing worth keeping for search. We designed, built, and launched a new one, laid the local SEO foundation under it, and tracked every call from day one.

01

A new website, built for local search

We rebuilt the entire site from the ground up, with every page set up for local search from launch day.

  • Service pages for heating, cooling, emergency repair, installations, maintenance, and air quality
  • Location pages for Saratoga Springs and surrounding Capital Region towns
02

The local SEO foundation

Then the work that makes a local site show up on the map and in organic results.

  • Google Business Profile updated with full service mapping
  • Structured data deployed across the site
  • Content silos for every core HVAC service
  • Consistent citations across directories
  • Internal links connecting services to locations
03

Tracking from the first day

Every number on this page comes from one of three sources.

  • Google keyword tracking, every keyword since February 1, 2026
  • Local grid analysis of Map Pack positions across Saratoga Springs
  • GoHighLevel call tracking on every inbound call
The results: calls

120 calls in 30 days, about four a day

Calls from online went from roughly zero before launch to about 29 in the first month, about 60 in the second, and 120 in the third. For an HVAC company that did not show up online three months earlier, that is four calls a day.

GoHighLevel reports the 120 calls as up 313.79% from the prior period. It compares the latest 30 days with the 30 days before, not with zero.

The results: rankings

From unranked to page one for the money searches

Every keyword here has been tracked since February 1, 2026, and every one started unranked. These are the searches Saratoga Springs homeowners run when a furnace dies or the AC quits, not long-tail filler.

Three sit at #1. All eight shown are on page one, part of the 9+ page-one keywords in tracking. Two still sit at #8, and those are the next ones to move.

  1. #1
    air scrubber installation saratoga springscombi boiler installation saratoga springsemergency ac repair saratoga springs
  2. #2
    24/7 hvac repair saratoga springs
  3. #3
    emergency hvac repair saratoga springs
  4. #4
    no keyword at this position
  5. #5
    after hours hvac service saratoga springs
  6. #6
    no keyword at this position
  7. #7
    no keyword at this position
  8. #8
    boiler replacement saratoga springsfurnace tune up saratoga springs
Tap a point to read it.60 of 63 points in the top 3
The results: Map Pack

Almost the whole Saratoga Springs map is green

Each point on the grid is a search run from a different spot in the service area. The number is My Jockey's position in the Google Map Pack from that spot. Green is the top 3, gold is 4 to 10.

In the grid shown here, 60 of 63 points rank in the top 3. The three exceptions sit at #4, #4, and #6: two on the right edge of the grid and one near its center. The grid report that accompanied it states 63 of 65 points (96.9%). Either way, My Jockey holds the top 3 across more than 90% of the area.

What you can take from it

What a Long Island contractor can learn from an HVAC shop upstate

01

A page count is not a website

My Jockey had 25 pages and no rankings. Pages that are not built around real searches do nothing. A website design that starts from the searches customers run is what changed the result.

02

Emergency searches pay first

The first #1 rankings included "emergency ac repair" and near-top spots for 24/7 and emergency HVAC repair. Someone searching for emergency repair usually calls the first company that looks able to come, so these rankings turn into calls quickly.

03

The map needs its own work

Organic rankings and Map Pack positions are separate. The grid went green because of the Business Profile, citations, and location pages, which is the core of local SEO.

The math, as an illustration

What 120 calls could be worth

This is a hypothetical, not a booked result. The service call and installation ranges are typical HVAC figures, and the 10% is an assumption, not a measured close rate.

120Calls in 30 days
$150 to $500Typical HVAC service call
$5,000 to $15,000Typical system installation
$60,000 to $180,000If 10% of those calls were installations: 12 installs in a month

Is your phone ringing from Google, or from nowhere?

Call 631-612-6976, email john@designmemarketing.com, or ask for a free quote. We will show you where you rank on the map in your own towns and what it would take to turn that into calls.