HVAC · Charleston

Google rankings for HVAC companies in Charleston

When someone in the Charleston area searches "hvac repair", Google picks three businesses to show first. This page is what decides whether one of them is you, and what Pluff checks and fixes every week so it is.

Get your free Pluff AnalysisYour Pluff Map for "hvac repair", what's wrong on your Google profile, and who's outranking you.

The searches

What people in Charleston actually type

These are the searches we track for every HVAC company client. Each one is checked from dozens of spots across the metro, because an HVAC company serves the whole area: Downtown, West Ashley, James Island, Johns Island, Mount Pleasant, Daniel Island and more.

hvac repair
ac repair
air conditioning installation
heat pump repair
hvac company
ac repair Mount Pleasant
furnace repair

Plus the questions people ask ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity: "best AC repair company in Charleston", "who installs heat pumps in Charleston", "emergency AC repair Charleston". We check those too.

What Google weighs

Why one HVAC company outranks another

The primary category: Google has to list you as an HVAC company first, not something close. One wrong category and you're invisible for every search above.
Reviews: how many, how recent: The businesses in the top 3 for "hvac repair" in Charleston usually have more reviews, and newer ones, than the ones below. Steady beats a burst.
Services on the profile: AC repair, AC installation, Heat pumps, Maintenance: each one listed on your Google profile is a match for a search like "ac repair". Most HVAC companies list none.
A page for each service: A site page that talks about ac repair the way customers do gives Google a reason to show you for "ac repair". A single homepage doesn't.
Photos and hours: Real photos of the work, added regularly, and hours that match your door. Google reads both as "this business is alive."
Distance, which you can't change: Google favors whoever's closest to the searcher. Everything above is how you win the spots that aren't right next door.

What Pluff does

Every week, for an HVAC company

Scan. Your Pluff Map for the searches above, against the HVAC companies that outrank you.
Fix. Category, services, hours, photos, replies to reviews. Small things, done, logged, texted to you.
Build. A page per service on a site we host on your domain, written from your own words and reviews.

Free

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Tell us the business. In a couple of days you get your Pluff Map for "hvac repair", the things on your Google profile and website that are costing you, and who's ahead and why.