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calls a month from the Google Business Profile
“Our online presence has increased massively. I would recommend him 100%.”
Matt, ColourHausKitchen spray painting, Leeds
May to August 2026. Source: Google Business Profile.
Read the full storySEO for landscapers, built around the jobs people search for.
For UK landscaping firms, garden designers and gardeners who would rather be found on Google than buy leads. We shape your Google profile, your website's pages and your reviews around the jobs customers type, from porcelain patios to hedge cutting. Local SEO and Google Business Profile work is paid on results: nothing upfront, and nothing to pay until the results we agree with you in writing, before we start, have been met.
- Nothing upfront, and no fee until your agreed results are met.
- We work for one landscaping business in each area.
- Free video: who takes the garden searches where you work.
+123%more clicks from Google search to his website
“Now every day I have some job. They call, they text, I find the emails.”
George, GS RenovationRSJ installation and renovations, London
July to September 2026. Source: Google Search Console.
Read the full storyNot gardens, but jobs people plan the same way.
All client resultsWe do not work for a landscaper or gardener yet, so there is no landscaping figure on this page. These two clients sell planned home improvements that customers research and price before they ring, much like a garden build. Each figure runs from the first month we tracked to the best month since, using Google's complete monthly data, with the source beside it.
GS Renovation fits steel beams and runs renovations in London, and ColourHaus sprays kitchens and doors in Leeds. A landscaper's own figures will replace these once we have a landscaping client with enough months to show.
Customers type the trade, and each job by name.
Your profile and pages need to answer both. In the UK, "landscape gardeners near me" averages 9,900 searches a month and "landscapers near me" 6,600, counting the close variants Google groups with each (Google Ads Keyword Planner, UK, October 2025 to September 2026). Each job in the cards below draws searches of its own.
Google's help page lists what local results mainly depend on: "relevance, distance and popularity" (Google). Relevance starts with naming the work. A profile and site that only say "landscaper" give Google little to match to a turfing or fencing search. So each job you want more of gets its own page and its own service on your profile.
Patios and paving
"Porcelain patio" averages about 1,600 searches a month, so the material belongs in the page title. APL says its members follow BS 7533-102 for domestic paving (APL), the British Standard code of practice for laying paving, porcelain slabs included (BSI). If you lay to it, your patio page says so.
Lawns and artificial grass
"Artificial grass installers near me" gets about 1,000 searches a month and "artificial grass cost" about 880. One reads like a booking, the other like a budget, and your site should answer both. Turfing and lawn treatment are separate searches again, so each gets its own page.
Garden design
"Garden designer near me" averages 3,600 searches a month. Design gets priced early: "garden design cost" went from 70 searches in December 2025 to 320 in February and 390 in March 2026, then 110 in April (Google Ads Keyword Planner). So the design page explains how you charge for design, before anyone asks.
When do garden searches start, and when do they stop?
They climb from January, peak in spring and fall away by December. UK searches for "patio" peaked in April or May and bottomed out in December, every year from 2022 to 2025 (Google Trends). "Garden design" peaked between March and May in each of those years and hit its low between October and December. In 2026 it peaked earlier still, in February (Google Trends).
Last winter shows the size of the swing. "Patio layers near me" went from 140 searches in December 2025 to 1,900 in March 2026, and "landscape gardeners near me" from 2,900 to 14,800 (Google Ads Keyword Planner).
So the slow work happens in the quiet months: new pages for the jobs you want, last season's finished gardens written up, and your profile's services checked against what people searched for in spring. Nobody can promise where that leaves you by March, and we will not try.
What can a customer check before they let you dig?
Your photos and your reviews first, then anything they can check without taking your word for it. For a landscaper that usually means BALI or APL membership and the Environment Agency's register of waste carriers. Each one does more for you when your site tells the customer what it means for them.
BALI
If a customer cannot settle a problem with a BALI accredited member, they can take it to the Dispute Resolution Ombudsman free, and the member is legally bound to comply with the resolution (BALI). If you are accredited, that sentence belongs beside your quote form.
APL
APL's public directory sorts members into landscapers, designers and professional gardeners, and lets a customer filter by service, from design and build to hedge cutting (APL). APL says all its members are TrustMark accredited (APL). Describe your work on your site in the same terms your listing uses.
Waste carrier registration
A householder handing you waste they produced, such as bags of their own cuttings, must take reasonable steps to check you are authorised. If it is fly-tipped and they did not check, the council can fine them up to £600 in England (GOV.UK). Waste you create on the job is yours. Show your registration number on the clearance page.
Gardeners and maintenance firms: a different search.
Yes, we work with gardeners and garden maintenance firms, and the work differs from selling garden builds. Upkeep is searched for more often, for longer, and closer to home. Across the UK, "gardener near me" averaged 22,200 searches a month over the twelve months to September 2026: 5,400 in December 2025, then 33,100 in every month from March to June (Google Ads Keyword Planner).
The season lasts longer and never quite stops. "Gardener" searches peaked in April or May every year from 2022 to 2025, and even in the quietest month held at about half that peak (Google Trends). In their quietest month, "patio" searches fell to a quarter of their peak or less (Google Trends).
A round is won near your base. Google measures distance from the address your profile is verified at, not from the service areas you list (our guide), which limits how far from your base you can rank on the map. So we put the effort where you can win: a page for each job you repeat, and reviews from the customers already on your round.
- Regular visits and lawn care. Described the way customers search for them: fortnightly visits, grass cutting, lawn treatment.
- Hedges and clear-ups. Pages of their own, because they are separate searches with their own seasons. If you take on tree work as well, SEO for tree surgeons covers felling, stumps and hedges.
- Accreditation. APL has a Professional Gardener membership for businesses that do not regularly build hard landscaping (APL), and BALI accredits contractors whose main business is grounds maintenance (BALI).
- Contracts. UK searches for "grounds maintenance" never fell below half their busiest month in any year from 2022 to 2025 (Google Trends). Businesses and managing agents get a page of their own: what you maintain, how often, and how you report on it.
What we do for a landscaping business every month.
We start from the jobs you most want and work outwards, using the monthly service we run for every trade, shaped around photographs, seasons and the names of jobs.
If your website cannot carry the pages, we tell you. A sound site we keep and build on. A new one is quoted separately, not paid on results (websites for tradesmen).
A page for each job
Patios, turfing, artificial grass, fencing, decking, planting and design, each on its own page in the words customers type, naming the materials you use, with photos of that job finished. Why every service needs its own page.
Finished gardens, written up
A build you are proud of becomes a short project page: the garden before, what you built, the stone, timber and plants, and the town it is in. It is the evidence a careful customer looks for, in words Google can read.
Your Google profile
Managed by us: a main category that describes most of your work, every job listed as a service, and photos of real gardens. Photos help a customer choose once you are shown, but Google does not name them as a ranking factor.
Reviews
A simple request to every customer, sent at sign-off, and a reply to every review, good or bad. When and how to ask.
Figures you can check
Your portal shows the calls and views your Google profile brought in, and the clicks Search Console counted, month by month. You judge the work on Google's figures, not on ours. Which calls Google counts.
Who pays to sit above you on a landscaping search?
Sometimes, firms paying Google for every lead. In the UK, Google sells Local Services Ads to landscaping, lawn care, fencing and tree services firms, among other trades: sponsored listings, charged per lead (Google).
We found them live in London: on 20 October 2026, the phone results for "landscaper near me" there opened with eight of them, above the map. Two were driveway and patio firms and one a tree surgery company. The same morning, "landscape gardeners near me" set to Guildford and "gardener near me" set to Leeds showed none, only a row of directories and then the map.
Each of those listings is a lead somebody pays for. The map and the ordinary results below them charge nothing per click or call, and that is where our work goes, paid on results. If Local Services Ads or a lead site already pays its way, keep it. Our guide sets out what each one charges, and our ads page explains how Local Services Ads differ from search ads.
Nothing upfront. Paid on results.
Local SEO and Google Business Profile work is paid on results. There is nothing to pay upfront: you pay nothing until the results we agree with you in writing, before we start, have been met.
- Agreed in writing first
- What counts as a result, and how it is measured, is set before any work starts.
- One business per trade, per area
- If we take you on, we turn down your competitors.
- No lock-in
- After the result, a rolling monthly fee you can stop whenever you like. Leave before it and you owe nothing.
- Straight answers
- If your market is not winnable, the free analysis says so.
Websites, ads and social media are quoted separately after the free analysis. How pay on results works
From first call to first result
Free analysis
Tell us your trade and area. We record a short video of where you rank, who is above you and what would have to change. It is yours to keep.
An honest answer
If your market is not winnable, we say so. If it is, we agree in writing what a result is and how it is measured, before anything starts.
The work
Your Google Business Profile, the pages that need to rank, citations and reviews. One business per trade per area, so never your rival as well.
You see every number
Clicks, calls and where you show up, in your own portal, straight from Google. You pay once the agreed results are met.
What people ask us
When do I pay for SEO, and how much?
Local SEO and Google Business Profile work is paid on results: nothing upfront, and no fee until the results we agree with you in writing, before we start, have been met. You see the figure for your area after the free analysis, and you are free to refuse it. Past the agreed result, you pay monthly and can stop at any point; walk away before it and there is no bill. A new website, ads or social media work would each be priced on its own, and none of those is paid on results. How UK agencies usually charge.
How long does SEO take to work for a landscaper?
There is no honest answer in weeks or months, so we will not give one. It depends on the gap between you and the firms already on the map near you: their reviews, their pages and how complete their profiles are. The free analysis measures how wide that gap is. What counts as a result is written down and agreed before we start, and your portal shows the calls from your Google profile and the clicks from Google search, month by month.
What stops the landscaper down the road hiring you too?
We do. Each area gets one business per trade from us, and we never take on a client's direct rival. Once you are in, the next landscaper who asks about your area is told no. If one already holds it, you hear that before anything else.
Is SEO still worth it for a landscaper in 2026?
Yes, while customers keep typing the job into Google and ringing one of the three names on the map. What has changed is what sits above it: in some areas paid Local Services listings, and on some searches an AI Overview. Nobody can promise you a place in either. The work makes your profile and pages the strongest match for the jobs you do, near where you do them.
What is the best way to advertise a landscaping company?
The way that wins your jobs most cheaply, and you only know that by counting where each job came from. For work people search for, the map and your own pages cost nothing per click, and our work on them is paid on results. Paid Local Services listings and lead sites bill you per enquiry. Social media suits showing finished gardens. Ads and social are quoted separately after the analysis.
Will BALI or APL membership help my Google ranking?
Not as a badge. Google's help page names relevance, distance and popularity as the main factors, with links and reviews among the signs of how well known a business is (Google). APL's directory does link straight to each member's website, so a listing is one more site pointing at yours. Most of the value is with customers: an inspection before you were accepted, a public directory and, with BALI, a free dispute service for clients. We make each of those visible where customers compare you.
Can SEO bring in maintenance contracts as well as garden builds?
It can bring in the work that gets searched for: homeowners wanting regular visits, and businesses or managing agents looking for grounds maintenance. Each needs its own pages, apart from your garden builds. Public contracts are a separate route. Public sector buyers publish their opportunities on Find a Tender, and winning one is a bid, not a search.
My website is mostly a photo gallery. Do I need a new one?
Not necessarily. A gallery is raw material: each set of photos can become a project page or support a job page. What a gallery usually lacks is words Google can match to a search. A sound site stays, and we build on it. If yours is not sound, we say so, and a new site is quoted separately, not paid on results. What we build.
Can ChatGPT do my SEO instead?
It can draft a page. It cannot photograph your work, collect reviews from your customers, see which landscapers hold the map on your streets, or know which of your jobs pays best. If you use it, check every fact it writes about your business before it goes live.
See who wins the garden searches where you work.
Tell us your area and the work you want more of: garden builds, lawns and fencing, or regular maintenance. Two working days later, a short video shows you the map around you, the firms above you, and what would move you past them. If a landscaper we already work for has your area, or it is not worth chasing, the video tells you.