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Local SEO for auto repair and collision shops For independent repair shops and collision centres.

Local SEO for auto repair and collision shops. Your front counter is one person who is also writing estimates, ordering parts and talking to whoever walked in. I get the shop found on the map in the right category, I put a desk on your line that answers when the counter cannot, and I count every call and form so you see exactly what it did. Found first, answered second, then the ads.

Take the nine minutes

Found on the map · Answered when you cannot · Every call counted

Three steps, in order

Most shops land on The Foundation.

The way in is The Read: everything you have online, gone through properly in a week. Then three steps, always in this order. A shop with a ringing counter lands on the second one, because the calls already exist and the leak is the loudest thing in the building. Each step has a fixed price, said plainly on the nine minutes once I have seen what you have.

01
Step one

The Pin

Found, and held.

02
Step two - where most shops start

The Foundation

Found, trusted, answered, measured.

03
Step three

The Storefront

The Foundation, and a site that sells.

The Tap comes last, always. Paid campaigns on your own accounts go on only once the profile and the desk are already working.

01 The counter · inside The Foundation

You are losing the calls you already get. The bays are loud and the phone still rings.

A driver whose car is undrivable is calling three shops, not one, and he is taking whoever answers. He does not leave a voicemail and he does not call back, so the loss never appears anywhere you would look for it. One desk answers on your line and on your site, takes the vehicle, the damage and the urgency, books what should be booked, and hands the rest to a person.

  • Most of what arrives does not need an estimator: do you work on this make, do you deal with my insurer, are you taking cars this week, do you do loaners. Those need something that replies, not somebody who is mid-estimate.
  • After six in the evening is when a driver who has had an accident starts ringing round. That is the busiest hour of your week for enquiries and the emptiest hour of your week for staff.
  • Administrative intake only. It never quotes a repair, never states whether damage is covered, never touches a deductible and never commits you to a completion date. Where the desk stops is published.
  • Every contact routed on your own escalation order, so a tow-in emergency and a brake enquiry do not arrive the same way - and every one of them counted, so you see what came in and what happened to it.
  • Live in 14 days on the web and 21 on the phone, counted from the last thing I need from you.
one day · 24 hours7 of 12 arrive outside hours
No desk
5 caught
With the desk
12 caught
midnight9 to 6midnight
Illustrative · the lit band is when somebody is at the desk
02 The setting nobody checks · inside The Pin

Collision and mechanical are two categories. Your shop is probably in one.

Nobody drives past a collision shop and remembers it - Google is the entire top of the funnel. Google treats auto body and auto repair as different things, because drivers search for them as different things. A shop that does both and is listed as one is invisible for half of what it does - usually the higher-ticket half. It is one setting, it was chosen when the listing was claimed, and nothing about it announces itself. I will have run yours against the three shops above you before the call.

The category, corrected

Primary category set to what you actually want the work in, secondary categories carrying the rest, and every service named the way a driver types it - brakes, transmission, auto body, collision repair, not a generic label chosen in a hurry.

The service area, drawn

Most shop profiles compete only in the postal code the building sits in, because the area was never drawn. Drivers will cross a town for a shop they trust, and they cannot choose one they never saw.

The reviews, worked properly

The customers most motivated to write about a repair are the unhappy ones. A structured ask to the quiet majority corrects an average built out of complaints, and every review gets answered. It is carried inside The Pin rather than billed beside it.

The Rank Lock: first page on the agreed term inside sixty days - ninety in the hardest markets - or the monthly pauses until it lands.

03 The estimate flow · inside The Storefront

Get the photographs before the car arrives.

Every shop in the country already takes damage photos by text and calls it a system. Four dark pictures land in somebody's personal messages, the vehicle details arrive in a separate thread, and whoever writes estimates spends his morning assembling it. Built properly it is one page: vehicle, damage, photos, insurer if there is one, routed to the estimator as a single item.

  • The photo is the estimate. Getting it before the car is on your lot is the argument for building the site rather than refreshing it.
  • A booking or estimate-request link that actually exists. Most shop sites have neither, so every enquiry has to survive a phone call to exist at all.
  • A page per service, so brakes, transmission, collision and diagnostics each have something to be found on rather than sharing one paragraph.
  • Fast on a phone in a parking lot, which is where it is actually opened.

The Storefront comes after The Foundation is working. There is a parts build on the work page showing what a site that does a job looks like.

What I will ask before selling you anything
Your booking lead time. If you are at capacity with no plan to add a bay or a tech, ranking you makes your reviews worse, not your month better. I would rather fix the desk and come back to visibility later.
The order, and why

The Foundation on most shops, because the leak at the counter is loud and provable, and because the category fault inside it is usually costing you the collision half of your work. The Storefront follows, and it earns its place where an estimate-request flow is genuinely in scope.

Why the ads wait

I will not spend your money sending traffic to a profile with the wrong hours and a website that does not convert. Fix that first, then we turn the tap on - on your own accounts, your spend on your own card, and I am paid on what it sells.

Questions

Answered plainly.

Why does my shop not come up for collision work? +
Most often because the profile is in one category and you do two jobs. Collision and mechanical repair are separate categories on Google, and a shop sitting in the general one is effectively invisible for half of what it does. It is a single setting, it was almost certainly chosen when the listing was claimed years ago, and it has been quietly costing you the higher-ticket half of your work ever since. It is the first thing I check and I will run it against the three shops above you before the call.
How many calls is my front counter actually missing? +
More than you think, and you have almost certainly never counted it. The counter is one person who is also writing estimates, ordering parts and talking to whoever walked in, in a building with air tools running. I ring the published line in the evening before the call and log exactly what happened, so the conversation is about your shop rather than about shops in general.
What does an estimate request flow actually do? +
It gets you the photographs before the car arrives. Every shop in the country already takes damage photos by text and calls it a system - the customer sends four dark pictures to somebody’s personal mobile and they get lost in a thread. Built properly it is a page that takes the vehicle details, the damage photos and the insurer if there is one, routes it to whoever writes estimates, and lands as one item rather than a scavenger hunt. On a collision centre that is usually the single highest-value thing on the site, and it belongs to The Storefront.
Insurance pays for most of my collision work. Does ranking matter? +
More, not less. When the insurer is paying, the customer’s budget stops being the constraint - the only question left is whether you were the shop that got found and answered first. A driver choosing between three names on a map is not comparing prices, because the price is not his problem. He is picking whoever came up and picked up.
I am already booked three weeks out. Why would I want more calls? +
You might not, and I will ask your booking lead time before I sell you anything. Ranking a shop that genuinely cannot take the work produces a worse review profile than it started with, which is a harm I would have been paid to cause. If you are at capacity with no plan to add a bay or a tech, the honest answer is the desk first so the calls you do take stop leaking, and more visibility later.
Does the desk quote repairs or promise a completion date? +
No. It never quotes a repair, never estimates a job, never tells a caller whether damage is covered by their policy or touches a deductible, and never commits your shop to a completion date you have not authorised. It takes the vehicle, the damage, the urgency and the contact details, books what should be booked, and routes the rest to a person. Those boundaries are published rather than promised.
What does it cost? +
Each step has a fixed price, said plainly on the nine minutes once I have seen what you have. You will not get a range from me before I have looked.
Why not start with ads? +
I will not spend your money sending traffic to a profile with the wrong hours and a website that does not convert. Fix that first, then we turn the tap on - on your own accounts, your spend on your own card, and I am paid on what it sells.

I will ring your line before the call.

Tell me your shop and your town. I will tell you which category you are in, what happened when I called at twenty to seven, and which step fits.

Take the nine minutes

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