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Local SEO for the trades · Kansas City

Right now your business is red on Google Maps. Twenty hours of the right work turned ours green.

Roofers, masons, painters, HVAC, concrete, detailers — if you run a truck in Kansas City, this is for you. Done by one guy who fixed his own family's businesses first. The website gets built before you pay for it.

Joe Young, owner of Young SEO, in a dark suit with a white boutonnière
Joe YoungOwner, Young SEO · De Soto, KansasWhy I do this ↓
A real scan · one of our own businesses · Lenexa, KS49 points · 5-mile radius · Google
Where the shop ranks for "car detailing lenexa"
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Sep 4, 3:52 PM · other people running itSep 5, 12:16 PM · 20 hours of my work later#1–3#4–7#8 or worse
Share of the map
Sep 42.04%
Sep 50%

Scanned the afternoon before. Scanned again the next morning.

Points at #1
Sep 40/49
Sep 50/49

Twenty hours of work in between. Nothing else changed.

Google reviews · May → Sep
May55
Sep0

Asked for one job at a time. Never bought, never from friends.

Share of the map, by search · Sep 5
  • car detailing lenexa61.22%
  • mobile detailing near me51.02%
  • interior car detailing46.94%
  • mobile car detailing44.90%
  • mobile detailing42.86%
All nine ↓

Every dot is a spot on the map 5 miles around the shop. The number is where the shop showed up when you searched from there.

Red or green? Three questions.

Thirty seconds. Be honest.

This is what I check first on every call. Tap the ones that are true for you.

Tap the ones that are true.Nothing is sent anywhere. It is just you and the page.
Send me the Gap Sheet
Packages · founding pricing, ends at client #5

Three things. Priced like a contractor, not an agency.

The first five clients get these rates locked for twelve months and their results on this page.

Google Maps, monthly
$500$1,000
per month, locked 12 months

The listing, the citations, the reviews engine, the monthly scan.

  • Listing fixed and managed
  • Directory listings corrected and built
  • Spam competitors reported
  • A scan every month so you see it move
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Logo + Brand
$750$1,500
with a build · list is standalone

A mark that works on a truck door, a yard sign and a favicon.

  • Logo in every format you will ever need
  • Colours and type set once, used everywhere
  • Truck, shirt and sign files included
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Founding clients give back
  • A written case study with your real numbers
  • A review on our listing
  • One introduction

Optional: $100 per booked job instead of the monthly, once we agree what counts.

How buying works

You see the finished website before you pay for it.

“I build your entire website first. You look at the real thing, live. If you don't want it, we shake hands and I take it down — you owe me nothing. You only pay when you've already seen what you're buying.”

— Joe Young, owner
  1. 01Sign the agreement$0 down. Nothing is charged.
  2. 02Give me seven wordsHow the site should feel. That is the whole brief.
  3. 03The site gets builtWith your real content, shown in four looks at four live links.
  4. 04Pick oneOn your phone, on a job site, whenever.
  5. 05Then you payOnly then. And only then does the Google Maps work start.

We never promise a ranking, a lead count, or revenue. Nobody honest can. We promise the work, the timeline, and that you see it before you pay.

Proof · one of our own businesses

Five weeks of someone else's marketing: all red. Twenty hours of mine: green.

Straight up: this is one of our own family's businesses, a detailing shop. That is why we can show you every number. The same work applies to a roofer, a mason or a painter — the map does not care what is on the truck.

Before · other people

Other people were running it.

This is the map while the marketing was in other people's hands. Five weeks of scans, late April through May, every one the same: not on the map at any of the 49 points. Not even at the shop.

May 4mobile detailingGoogle · 49 points · 5 miShare of map 0.00% · avg. position 16.00
May 25mobile detailingGoogle · 49 points · 5 miShare of map 0.00% · avg. position 13.00
After · me

Then I did the SEO myself.

Twenty hours of the right work. Same search, same 49 points, same 5-mile radius, scanned the afternoon before and the next morning. Green is the #1 spot. The red on the east edge is next.

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Sep 4 · 3:52 PMcar detailing lenexaGoogle · 49 points · 5 miShare of map 2.04% · avg. position 9.06
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Sep 5 · 12:16 PMcar detailing lenexaGoogle · 49 points · 5 miShare of map 61.22% · avg. position 4.80
Show the raw map exports
Map scan, car detailing lenexa — Sep 4 · 3:52 PM — Google · 49 points · 5 mi — share of local voice 2.04%. Rank number on every grid point.
Sep 4 · 3:52 PMcar detailing lenexaGoogle · 49 points · 5 miShare of map 2.04% · avg. position 9.06
Map scan, car detailing lenexa — Sep 5 · 12:16 PM — Google · 49 points · 5 mi — share of local voice 61.22%. Rank number on every grid point.
Sep 5 · 12:16 PMcar detailing lenexaGoogle · 49 points · 5 miShare of map 61.22% · avg. position 4.80
The work

What actually happens.

No ads. No bought reviews. No tricks that get a listing suspended. This is the boring, correct work that almost nobody does.

  1. 01
    Directory auditEvery site that lists the business gets checked. Wrong phone, old address, a second listing nobody remembers making — all of it gets fixed or killed.
  2. 02
    Point-by-point scanThe map gets scanned at 49 spots, 5 miles out, before anything is touched. Same scan after. No cherry-picking a good corner.
  3. 03
    Listings and local linksThe directories that matter get built out properly, and local sites that should point at the business start pointing at it.
  4. 04
    CategoriesThe listing's primary and secondary categories get set to the ones that actually rank in this market, not the ones that sounded right at sign-up.
  5. 05
    Every field filledDescription, services, hours, attributes, photos. A half-empty listing loses to a full one.
  6. 06
    Name, address, phoneMade identical everywhere. A "Ste" here and a "Suite" there is enough to split the trust.
  7. 07
    The competitor above youTaken apart gap by gap. What they have that the business doesn't, in a list, in order.
  8. 08
    Spam listingsFake and duplicate listings crowding the map get reported. It works more often than you would think.
Google reviews · May → September 2026
97+42

From 55 to 97. Asked for, one job at a time. Never bought, never from friends.

Four months · mobile detailing
May 25mobile detailingGoogle · 49 points · 5 miShare of map 0.00% · avg. position 13.00
Sep 5mobile detailingGoogle · 49 points · 5 miShare of map 42.86% · avg. position 5.89

May 25 to Sep 5. 0.00% to 42.86%.

Also under management, Kansas City
  • A masonry company
  • A holiday lighting installer
  • A detailing shop

Three local trades, three listings, one scan a month each. Yours is the fourth.

Nine searches

Same morning. Same 49 points.

Average position and share of the map, Sep 5 against the Sep 4 baseline. The grey columns are the gain.

SearchAvg. positiongainShare of mapgain
car detailing lenexa4.80+4.2661.22%+59.18
mobile detailing near me5.37+6.5251.02%+48.98
interior car detailing5.82+7.2846.94%+44.90
mobile car detailing5.61+5.3944.90%+42.86
mobile detailing5.89+4.4342.86%+40.82
car detailing near me5.35+5.8040.82%+40.82
auto detailing5.75+5.2538.78%+36.74
car detailing4.68+6.8834.69%+32.65
ceramic coating5.00+16.0034.69%+34.69
Joe Young

Owner · De Soto, Kansas

913-335-0835

Answers his own phone. Runs the scans himself. Three Kansas City trades under management today.

Who you are calling

I got tired of the SEO scams. So I learned it myself.

Every contractor I know has the same story. Somebody calls, promises page one, takes $1,500 a month, sends a PDF nobody can read, and eighteen months later nothing has moved. I watched it happen to our own family businesses.

So I stopped hiring it out. I spent countless hours studying how Google Maps actually decides who shows up, then took over our own detailing shop's marketing. Under other people it was five weeks of red dots. Twenty hours of my work and the map turned green.

That is the whole agency. No pitch deck, no account manager. You talk to me, I do the work, and you can see it move on a map every month.

Talk to Joe
Questions the trades ask

Straight answers.

How long until I see it move?

The listing work happens in the first month and the map usually reacts inside days of a category or field change. Directory and link work compounds over the following months. You get a scan every month so you see it, not a PDF that says "impressions."

What do I have to do?

One 15-minute call, seven words for how you want the site to feel, and a Google login. After that I send you the four preview links and you pick. Then, ask your customers for reviews when I hand you the script.

Do you run ads?

No. I refer that out. Ads stop working the day you stop paying; the map does not.

I already have a website.

Then we start with the listing and a look at the site. If the site is fine, you do not pay for a new one. If it is hurting you, I will show you exactly where.

Why is the founding price so low?

Because I need five case studies with real numbers on this page more than I need the margin right now. It ends at client #5 and the rate is locked for twelve months for the people who got in.

Can you guarantee page one?

No, and neither can anyone honest. I guarantee the work, the timeline, and that you see the site before you pay. The results on this page are what that work did for our own shop.

Also

The Gap Sheet — free

A one-page audit: where your listing is, where the competitor above you is, and the three things between them. Ask for it on the call.

AI training for businesses

Hands-on, for your crew and your office. Kansas City in person, anywhere remote.

Book a call

Fifteen minutes. Bring your phone.

We pull up your listing together and I show you what the scan says. If it is not a fit I will tell you on the call.

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