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Water Heater Genius is a water heater specialist in Los Angeles County whose customers find it mostly through its Google profile. We built its website, and in August 2026 we took on its SEO. In June and July, before that work began, it got 2 and 10 new-customer calls. Since then: 5 in August, 12 in September and 14 in October, plus 2 leads through the website's forms in October, the first month we counted them.

Water heatersLos Angeles CountySEO since August 2026
New-customer leads by month

Phone leads Form leads, counted from October

Phone leads before, per month6
Phone leads since, per month10.3
Calls we listened to one by one and counted only when a new customer was asking for work. Updated November 1, 2026.

Chapter I — Why we count leads

Rankings are the means. Leads are the point.

More and more searches end on Google itself. A homeowner sees your business in the map, taps Call, and never visits your website. That job is real, but a traffic report would never show it.

So we don't lead with traffic or rankings. We lead with the number you care about: how many new customers called or filled out a form. Search and profile numbers come after, as supporting evidence.

If the phone isn't ringing more, nothing else in the report matters.

Chapter II — What we did

What we did on the website

Local SEOGoogle Business Profile Management
i.

Covered the cities they serve

New city pages with real local detail, like permit rules and water hardness from the utility's own report, so the business shows up when someone nearby searches.

ii.

Answered the questions people ask before they call

Published prices, a sizing table, warranty terms and a cost guide for each city served. A customer who can see the number before calling is a customer who calls ready to book.

iii.

Made the phone one tap away

A call button in the header on phones, a faster homepage, service pages rewritten in homeowner language, and the Google profile's services and products filled in.

Chapter III — The numbers

What improved, month by month

Each month's own count, beside the monthly average from May 1, 2026 to July 31, 2026, before SEO work began. Updated November 1, 2026.

Measure Before, per month AugustSeptemberOctober Since, per month
Phone leadsNew customers asking for work; before is Jun–Jul 6 51214 10.3
Form leadsCounted from October 6, so there is nothing earlier to compare Not counted Not countedNot counted2 —
Website visits from GoogleTaps on Website in the profile 7.3 4169 9.7
Search clicksClicks to the website from Google Search 9.6 81715 13.3
  • We show the measures that clearly improved: the average since SEO work began is at least 10% above the months before. Other figures we track, such as map coverage and some traffic counts, did not meet that bar and aren't shown here.
  • Call recordings begin in June, so before SEO work is June and July for leads.
  • A phone line used by the business was not recorded until October 12, so earlier months may undercount calls answered on it.
  • Form leads are real customers who used the website's forms, counted from October 6, 2026, when the forms began keeping sales pitches out of the count. They are kept apart from phone leads because no earlier month has a form count to compare with.
  • Months swing (10 in July, 5 in August), so read the trend rather than any one month. Nothing in the record says which leads came from Google.
  • Before SEO work is May through July for the other measures, as a monthly average.
  • October: Search figures run through October 30, the latest day Google had published.

Chapter IV — Quarter by quarter

The work log

Q4 2026 · October

October 1, 2026 – October 31, 2026

October brought 14 new-customer calls, the most of any month so far, and 2 leads from the website's forms, the first month we counted those. Search clicks held at 15 after September's 17, well above the 9.6 a month before SEO work began. The pricing page, the city cost guides and the new rebate page were shown about three times as often as in September.

What we did

  • Maps tied to the Google profile on the contact page, the service-area hub and 15 city pages (October 1)
  • Question-and-answer markup completed on 24 city pages (October 1)
  • Pricing pages checked line by line against the owner's answers (October 1 – 9)
  • Tankless pages checked against the owner's answers (October 8)
  • Three more cities added to the service area, and county-wide coverage stated plainly (October 8 – 15)
  • Two county-wide cost guides: replacement and tankless (October 8)
  • Service pages extended with the questions people ask an AI assistant: leaks, symptoms, replacement day, tank-to-tankless conversion, relief valves and recirculation (October 9)
  • Contact forms stopped counting screened sales pitches as leads (October 6), and every real form lead is now texted to the owner within seconds (October 14)
  • "Bonded" added to every licensed-and-insured claim (October 16)
  • A rebates page for the gas utility's tankless rebate, linked from the footer (October 17 – 20)
  • Tracked short links for printed flyers to two local real-estate offices (October 20 – 28)

Q3 2026

August 1, 2026 – September 30, 2026

New-customer calls were 5 in August and 12 in September, against an average of 6 in June and July. The pricing, sizing and cost pages went live in mid-September, and website taps from the Google profile and search clicks both rose from August to September.

What we did

  • Seven new city pages and five service-in-city pages (August)
  • Service pages rewritten around the questions homeowners search (August)
  • A water heater maintenance page, matching the services on the Google profile (August)
  • Analytics set up with phone-tap and form tracking (August)
  • The sitemap, structured data and site links updated (August)
  • Google profile reporting connected, so the profile is measured every month (August)
  • Prices published on a new pricing page and on every priced service page (September)
  • Sizing tables and warranty terms on the service pages (September)
  • Twenty-nine city cost guides (September)
  • A tap-to-call button on phones and a faster homepage (September)
  • Maps tied to the Google profile on the contact and city pages (September)

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