Homeowners with a list of six small jobs search, call two people, and hire whoever answers and looks real. theStacc keeps your Google listing posting, answers every review, and publishes the pages people read before they call. From $49/mo, no contract.
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SEO for a handyman business is the work of getting your name in front of homeowners nearby who are searching for the small jobs you do — drywall patches, door adjustments, TV mounting, fixture swaps, deck repairs, honey-do lists. It comes down to three things: a Google Business Profile that looks active and lists your real services, reviews with replies underneath them, and pages that answer the “can a handyman do this” and “what does this cost” questions people have before they call.
Handyman work has a problem no other trade has: nobody knows what you do. A homeowner with a leaking tap knows to search for a plumber. A homeowner with a sticking door, a loose railing, and a mailbox that needs replacing has no word for who fixes that, so they search the job instead. Which means your visibility is not one keyword. It is dozens of small ones, and no single person has the time to cover them by hand.
Two surfaces, not one. The map — your Google Business Profile, which decides whether you appear in the local pack — and the blue links, where your website pages answer the questions people type before they buy.
Google rewards pages that have been live and useful for months, and listings that stay active. That is why cadence beats intensity: publishing steadily for a year outperforms a burst of work every quarter.
A homeowner has a list: a door that will not latch, a ceiling fan, two shelves, and a hole in the drywall from moving a couch. That is a full paid day. They search handyman near me, call the first two listings, and take whoever answers. You were on a ladder with your phone in the truck.
The frustrating part is that you are not short of work. You are short of good work. The list job would have paid well and taken a day; instead your week is full of thirty minute call-outs across town, half of which barely cover the fuel.
So you keep saying yes to everything, because there is no queue behind it. No pipeline means no ability to choose, and no ability to choose means your rate has not moved in three years while everything else has.
Meanwhile the guy with a proper listing turns down the jobs you are driving across town for.
One subscription covers the work an agency splits across a writer, a local specialist, and a social manager.
theStacc plans 15 posts a month — roughly every two days — across the range you actually work: drywall repair, doors, shelving, fixtures, TV mounting, small carpentry, deck and fence repairs, honey-do lists.
Reviews are pulled newest and lowest-rated first, so the one-star from someone who wanted a two-hour job done for a call-out fee never sits there alone.
What a handyman can legally do, what small repairs cost, when a job needs a licensed trade. theStacc researches, writes, and publishes them on a schedule.
These are the shapes of query theStacc builds your content and Google posts around — matched to the services you actually offer and the areas you actually cover.
theStacc does not sell search-volume or keyword-difficulty numbers — we don’t license a keyword database. Keywords are generated from your business and filtered for whether you can realistically win them.
Search your business on Google and confirm it. No website needed for Local SEO — it runs from the listing.
theStacc drafts your services, service areas, and tone from your business. Correct anything wrong — especially work you do not touch, like gas or panel work — before a word publishes.
15 planned post titles, and on Blog SEO a 30-day article calendar. Edit or regenerate any topic.
Content is written the evening before it is due and posts on schedule — or waits for your approval. Your choice, per module.
Every Monday theStacc records your Maps, Local Pack, and organic position per keyword and keeps the history.
Every module runs in one of three modes: full autopilot, draft-for-approval, or manual. You pick per module, and you can change it any time.
Not a strategy document. Actual published work — here is the shape of it.
Articles on your site Blog SEO
Titles are examples of the shape theStacc produces from your business — your real plan is generated from your own services and areas.
Posts on your Google profile Local SEO
A door that will not latch is almost never the door. Usually the frame has shifted slightly and the strike plate is a few millimetres out of line. Filing the plate or moving it takes minutes, while replacing the whole door does not fix the cause. If yours sticks in winter and swings fine in summer, that is the same problem showing up with the seasons.
SEO compounds, so anyone promising rankings in week two is guessing. Here is the honest sequence.
Connect your Google listing and, if you have one, your site. theStacc analyses the business, drafts your services and voice, and generates the first month’s plan. You approve it.
Posts begin landing on your profile every couple of days and articles publish on schedule. Reviews get replies. Your first weekly rank snapshot is recorded as the baseline.
Index checks run at days 2, 7, 14 and 28 per article, so you can see what Google took and what it ignored. Early ranking movement usually appears on long-tail terms first.
With Search Console connected, your real queries start feeding next month’s plan — the system writes toward terms you already almost rank for instead of guessing.
We do not guarantee rankings or lead volume, and we would be suspicious of anyone who does. What is guaranteed is the output cadence.
Local marketing agencies typically quote small trade businesses $500–$1,500 a month for roughly this scope, usually with a minimum term. Here is the honest comparison, including what theStacc does not do.
| Do it yourself | Hire an agency | theStacc | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | Your evenings | $500–$1,500 | $49–$167 |
| Google posts | When you remember | 4–8 a month | 15 a month, planned |
| Review replies | Days later, if at all | Usually an add-on | Drafted for every review |
| Blog articles | Almost never | 2–4 a month | 30 a month on Blog SEO |
| Rank reporting | Googling yourself | Monthly PDF | Weekly, with history |
| Contract | — | 6–12 months typical | Month to month |
| Who owns the content | You | Sometimes the agency | You — it stays on your site |
Our published case studies are in solar and B2B software — real Search Console exports, not mockups. We have not run a handyman account long enough to show you a number from this trade, and inventing one would tell you exactly what kind of company we are. What transfers between industries is the mechanism: the same engine that ranked our own site from a brand-new domain runs your listing and your blog. The free 3-day trial exists so you can judge the output on your own business before paying for it. Cancel before it ends and you are not charged.
What actually moves the needle for handyman
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No contract, no setup fee, no per-location surprise. Cancel and everything already published on your site stays yours.
15 planned posts a month — about every two days, review replies published to Google, weekly rank tracking, 0–100 profile audit. No website needed.
See Local SEO →30 SEO articles a month, researched, scored, and published to your site. WordPress, Webflow, Ghost and more.
See Blog SEO →Blog, Local SEO, and Social together — the full bundle at 15% off the separate prices.
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Everything above is the software — you approve the work, or let it run. If you’d rather not think about marketing again, the same engine comes with people attached.
A dedicated SEO manager owns the strategy, quality-checks what the engine produces, and reports back every month. You get the output — articles live, Google posts published, reviews answered — without opening the app. Most handyman who choose this are busy running the business, not learning software.
Because the goal is not more calls, it is better ones. When you are full with no queue, every job has to be taken at whatever it pays, including the thirty minute call-out across town. A steady flow lets you say no, group jobs by area, and take the full-day lists instead. That is where the rate increase comes from, not from working more hours.
Fair. Two differences you can check rather than take on faith. There is no contract — month to month, so we have to keep earning it. And the free 3-day trial produces real posts for your business before you pay anything, so you are judging output, not a pitch.
Not if you tell it what you do not touch. At setup theStacc drafts your services and you correct them, including removing anything you will not take on — gas, panel work, structural. Posts are written from that list. In approve-first mode you also read every post before it goes out, and theStacc cannot invent a rate, a promo code, or a deadline in any mode.
It is about the price of one call-out fee, and it does not require a website. Local SEO at $49/mo runs entirely from your Google Business Profile. Blog SEO is a separate $99/mo and only worth it if you have a site. There is no contract and no setup fee, and the 3-day trial is free — cancel before it ends and you are not charged.
That range is an advantage on Google, because people search the job and not the trade. The month is planned across the services you confirmed rather than repeating one, so the listing covers drywall, doors, mounting, and small carpentry over a few weeks. You see all 15 planned titles up front and can edit or regenerate any of them.
Yes. Local keywords are built from a real service you offer combined with a real area you serve. We will not create pages for suburbs you do not actually drive to, which matters more for a one-man operation than for a crew.
Local movement usually shows over weeks, and we do not guarantee rankings or call volume. What you can verify immediately is output: posts live, reviews answered. The weekly rank history then shows direction over time. If you cancel, you keep access until the end of the period you paid for, everything published to your website stays yours, and the posts already on your Google profile stay too.
A one-man operation can stay full for years and still never raise its rate, because a full week with no queue behind it means every job has to be taken. Visibility is what builds the queue, and it builds slowly — a listing that has been posting and collecting replies for a year is not something you can put together in the week your calendar finally goes quiet. Another twelve months of taking whatever comes in is another twelve months at the same rate.
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