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Local SEO · Ontario & Quebec · Search Console data
Local SEO Case Study — BlueGuard Duct Cleaning
A local SEO case study with the receipts: these are BlueGuard's own Google Search Console numbers for Canada, 17 September to 14 October 2026 — what people typed, which pages Google showed, and where BlueGuard sat in the results. No projections, no rounded-up claims.
- Real Search Console data
- Branded searches at #1
- Ottawa queries near the top
- 111 city service pages
- clicks from Google search (17 Sep – 14 Oct 2026, Canada)
- 293clicks from Google search (17 Sep – 14 Oct 2026, Canada)
- impressions in Google search (17 Sep – 14 Oct 2026, Canada)
- 43.9Kimpressions in Google search (17 Sep – 14 Oct 2026, Canada)
- average position for "blue guard duct cleaning" (17 Sep – 14 Oct 2026, Canada)
- 1.0average position for "blue guard duct cleaning" (17 Sep – 14 Oct 2026, Canada)
- mobile URLs rated Good in Core Web Vitals (report of 14 Oct 2026)
- 197mobile URLs rated Good in Core Web Vitals (report of 14 Oct 2026)
In short
What does this local SEO case study show?
This local SEO case study shows how a service-area business is found on Google once its site is built for local search. In Canada, from 17 September to 14 October 2026, Search Console recorded 293 clicks and 43.9K impressions for blueguard.ca. Searches for the brand landed at average positions of 1.0–1.1, "duct cleaning ottawa" averaged 5.9, and the Google Business Profile link alone brought 55 clicks at an average position of 2.0.
- Client: BlueGuard Duct Cleaning — blueguard.ca, serving eastern Ontario and western Quebec
- SEO by: Selimuzzaman Afridi, WebDesignerBD — the same studio that built the site
- Data: Google Search Console, 17 Sep – 14 Oct 2026, Canada; Core Web Vitals as reported on 14 Oct 2026
- Scope: local pages, structured data, bilingual hreflang, sitemaps and Search Console care
At a glance
- ClientBlueGuard Duct Cleaning
- MarketEastern Ontario, Durham and western Quebec
- ServiceLocal SEO and technical SEO
- Data sourceGoogle Search Console
- Window17 Sep – 14 Oct 2026, Canada
- SEO pluginRank Math PRO on WordPress
- SEO bySelimuzzaman Afridi, WebDesignerBD
- Live siteblueguard.ca ↗
The client and the search problem
BlueGuard cleans air ducts, dryer vents, heat pumps and air exchangers for homes and businesses across eastern Ontario, the Durham region and western Quebec. Nobody looks for that kind of company by browsing; they type a service and a town into Google and call one of the first few names they see.
That makes the job of SEO very concrete: for every town BlueGuard serves, there has to be a page Google trusts enough to show, and the brand itself has to win outright when someone searches for it by name.
WebDesignerBD built the site (that story is in the BlueGuard website design case study) and handles the search side as well. This page looks only at the search results.
What local search asked for
A cleaning company that covers dozens of towns in two provinces has a few specific problems to solve before Google will send it calls.
Many towns, one company
Ottawa, Kanata, Oshawa, Whitby, Gatineau, Montreal and more — each search names a different place.
Several services per town
Duct cleaning, dryer vents and heat pumps are searched separately, so one page per town is not enough.
Two languages
English and French searchers need their own versions, and Google needs to know which is which.
Competing directories
Local results are crowded with lists and aggregators; a small company needs pages that answer better.
SEO work you can verify on the live site
Everything below can be checked on blueguard.ca today — in the page source, the sitemaps or Search Console. It is the foundation of this local SEO case study.
111 city service pages
The page sitemap lists 111 URLs under /service-areas/ — duct, dryer vent, heat pump and commercial cleaning, town by town (sitemap read 16 Oct 2026).
Titles written for the search
The Ottawa page's title opens with "Duct Cleaning Ottawa" and adds the starting price and certification — the words a searcher compares.
Local business schema
The homepage marks BlueGuard up as a HomeAndConstructionBusiness with City service areas, a Service and an Offer.
FAQ and breadcrumb markup
City pages carry FAQPage and BreadcrumbList structured data; blog posts carry BlogPosting and FAQPage.
Bilingual hreflang
Pages declare en, en-CA, fr and fr-CA alternates, so English and French searchers get their own version.
Clean sitemaps
A sitemap index with post, page, video and local sitemaps, read successfully by Google on 16 Oct 2026.
Business Profile tracking
The website link on the Google Business Profile carries a UTM tag, so Search Console reports those visits as their own page row.
Guides that rank
Blog guides on Ottawa and Oshawa duct cleaning bring in searches the service pages alone would miss.
The Search Console reports
Screens from BlueGuard's Search Console, captured on 16 October 2026. Performance views use the range 17 Sep – 14 Oct 2026, Canada; the account details are hidden.
Choices behind the local SEO results
Win the brand search first
If someone types the company's name, nothing else should come first. In this window, "blueguard duct cleaning" averaged 1.1 and "blue guard duct cleaning" 1.0 (Canada).
Tag the Business Profile link
Tagging the Profile's website link separates map-pack visits from ordinary organic ones — 55 clicks at an average position of 2.0 in this window.
A page per town and per service
Separate pages for each service in each town give Google a precise answer for searches like "duct cleaning oshawa" (average 6.6).
Write guides for comparison searches
People comparing companies read lists. The Ottawa guide earned 31 clicks from 12,925 impressions in this window.
Treat phones as the main screen
Mobile brought 161 of the 293 clicks, with a better average position (11.9) than desktop (20.0).
What a service-area business needs for local SEO
The pattern behind this local SEO case study works for any company that travels to its customers — cleaners, plumbers, movers, electricians.
A Business Profile that links home
Keep it complete and point its website link at a tagged URL, so you can measure what it brings.
One page per town and service
Write each one for that place — local details, prices and questions, not a swapped city name.
Structured data that matches
Business, service, FAQ and breadcrumb markup that agrees with what the page says.
Language versions with hreflang
If you serve two languages, give each its own page and tell Google how they pair.
Guides for researching buyers
Cost, comparison and how-to articles reach people before they are ready to book.
Search Console every week
Watch which pages gain impressions but few clicks — those titles and snippets need work first.
Tools and setup behind the SEO
- CMSWordPress with Elementor
- SEO pluginRank Math PRO
- Structured dataHomeAndConstructionBusiness, Service, Offer, FAQPage, BreadcrumbList, BlogPosting, VideoObject
- LanguagesEnglish and French with hreflang (en, en-CA, fr, fr-CA)
- SitemapsIndex with post, page, video and local sitemaps
- Local pages111 /service-areas/ URLs in the page sitemap
- MeasurementGoogle Search Console, UTM-tagged Business Profile link
Designed and built by Selimuzzaman Afridi, WebDesignerBD.
How much does local SEO like this cost?
WebDesignerBD's monthly SEO starts at ৳7,999 a month.
A company with dozens of towns, several services and two languages needs more pages and more upkeep than a single-location shop, so the monthly scope is agreed after a free audit and written down before work begins.
You see the same Search Console data we do, so progress is never a matter of taking our word for it.
Check these local SEO results yourself
Some of this you can test from any phone in Canada; the rest is in the page source.
- 1Search "blueguard duct cleaning" on Google and see where the site appears
- 2Search "duct cleaning ottawa" and look for BlueGuard on the first page
- 3Open the Ottawa service-area page and view its title in the browser tab
- 4View the page source and find the Rank Math schema block
- 5Open blueguard.ca/sitemap_index.xml and count the sitemaps
Questions about this project
01What is a local SEO case study?
It is a write-up of how a business that serves a specific area is found on Google, backed by real data — here, BlueGuard's own Search Console numbers with their date range, plus the work on the site that you can check yourself.
02Are these numbers real?
Yes. They come straight from Google Search Console for blueguard.ca, filtered to Canada, for 17 Sep – 14 Oct 2026. The screenshots on this page are from that account, with the account details hidden.
03Why only searches from Canada?
BlueGuard serves Ontario and Quebec, so searches from Canada are the ones that can become customers. Filtering to Canada keeps the figures about the market that matters.
04Does BlueGuard rank first for every search?
No. Branded searches average about position 1 and Ottawa duct cleaning searches average around 5–6, but broader searches like "duct cleaning near me" averaged 24.7 in this window, and some city pages still sit low. Average position is an average across many searches, not a fixed rank.
05How soon does local SEO work show up in Search Console?
Search Console data arrives with a delay of a few days, and Google needs time to crawl and re-evaluate changed pages. Judge local SEO results over weeks and months, comparing like-for-like date ranges, rather than day by day.
06Which Search Console numbers matter most for a local business?
Clicks and impressions for searches that name your service and your towns, the average position of your city pages, and how many visits come through your Business Profile link. Branded searches show whether people who already know you can find you.
07Did WebDesignerBD build the website as well?
Yes. The same studio designed and built blueguard.ca; the design and build are covered in the separate BlueGuard website design case study.
08How much does local SEO cost with WebDesignerBD?
Monthly SEO starts at ৳7,999 a month. How much work a multi-town, multi-service business needs is agreed after a free audit, and you get it on paper before we start.
09Can you get results like this for my business?
We can do the same work — local pages, markup, Business Profile setup and steady Search Console care. Rankings depend on your market and competitors, so we promise the work and show you the data, not a position.
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