Demonstration articleTwo cases: a business that works only on site, and one that also sells online
The first is a small heating company. The work happens at the customer’s home. The second is an optician with three shops and an online store. In one case the page is missing. In the other the page exists and needs an update.
Prepared to show the work. Not a customer result, and not a measurement of traffic or citations. The two business names are examples.
On site only
Martini Heating
Eighteen people. They replace boilers and fit air conditioning in the customer’s home. There’s no online shop: the job starts with a phone call and a visit.
The potential for a business that only works on site
- 480monthly searches for that question, in the area they serve
- 0pages on the site that say when a replacement is worth it
- 4competitors who already have a page on this
- 1new page: it ends with a request for a visit
- The question: when is a new boiler worth it?
- Linked offer: the visit and, when it makes sense, the replacement.
- What’s there now: “Services” lists “boiler replacement” as a single line. It never says when it’s worth it, what gets checked in the house, or what happens after the call.
- A new page. The services list stays as it is.
- Someone searching that phrase isn’t standing next to the engineer yet. They need a page that answers, not another line on a list.
When replacing the boiler is worth it
Who it speaks to
Someone whose boiler is more than twelve years old, whose bills are high, or whose faults keep coming back. Not someone who only wants the number for the annual check.
What to say
The age of the appliance, whether it already condenses, where it is installed, and whether the house was insulated afterwards. Those are the facts a visit uses to say yes or no.
What not to promise
A new boiler does not by itself fix a house that loses heat. The page says so. The visit is also there to advise against the job.
Where the reader goes
To a request for a visit, with the phone number and the area served. Not to a catalogue of models.
The next step on the site is “Request a visit”. There is no cart.
A short page, “Condensing boilers”, already exists. The proposal there is an update, not a second page on the same topic.
Shop and website
Viale Opticians
Three shops and an online store for frames and lenses. Some people come in for an eye test. Others reorder the same lenses from home.
The potential for a shop that also sells online
- 36models already for sale on the category page
- 0lines on how to choose, before the prices
- 1page to update: the criteria go above the models
- 2ways forward: try them in the shop, or order online
- The question: how do you choose prescription glasses?
- Linked offer: the frames you can try in the shop or order online.
- What’s there now: the “Prescription glasses” category lists models and prices. It doesn’t say how to choose by prescription, by how you’ll wear them, or by whether you want to try them on.
- Update the page that already exists. The products stay underneath.
- People already land on this page. A second page on the same question would compete with it. The update puts the criteria above the models.
How to choose prescription glasses
Who it speaks to
Someone who has a prescription, or needs a new one, and does not know whether to look at the frame, the lenses, or both.
What to say
How the glasses will be used: all day, at a screen, or driving. The prescription. Whether the frame should be tried on. Then the models.
What not to promise
The page does not name a best pair. It says what to check before choosing a model, in the shop or in the online store.
Where the reader goes
To the products on the same page. A note points to the shop for a fitting and to the store for an order. The eye exam lives on the other page, the new one.
People who want to try them and people who want to order them start from the same page. The in-store exam has its own.
Another question, “Is the eye exam done in the shop?”, has no page. That one becomes a new page, with two ways out: book the exam, or reorder the same lenses online.