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The Mirror Strategy

The Mirror Strategy for an HVAC Company

Mark CantrellBy Mark Cantrell, Founder & CEO, Upward Bound MediaLast updated

Short answer

The homepage targets contractor and company searches, swapped by season. Heating and air conditioning hubs target services searches. Each service gets its own page under its hub.

A heating and cooling service van next to an AC unit and furnace, with the company website above them.
On this page

The profile

Start with NAP consistency.

The recommended minimum is five profile categories:

  • Heating contractor
  • Air conditioning contractor
  • HVAC contractor
  • Air conditioning repair service
  • Furnace repair service

There is more potential beyond these five.

The website

  • Homepage: your company name plus seasonal contractor and company terms.
  • Summer: air conditioning contractor, air conditioning repair company.
  • Winter: heating contractor, heating and furnace repair company.
  • Hubs: /heating targets "heating services". /air-conditioning targets "air conditioning services".
  • Service pages sit under their hub and target one service each.

Each category gets its own services hub. See Website Structure for SEO.

HVAC is the one exception. Two of the five categories are contractor terms (Heating contractor, Air conditioning contractor) and two are repair services (Air conditioning repair service, Furnace repair service), so each pair shares one hub.

/air-conditioning covers Air conditioning contractor and Air conditioning repair service. /heating covers Heating contractor and Furnace repair service, with furnace repair services as a service page inside the heating hub (/heating/furnace-repair).

The contractor terms go to the homepage, which swaps between them by season: air conditioning contractor in summer, heating contractor in winter.

Site tree

See how each category becomes a services hub.

/ Homepage: your company name + seasonal contractor/company terms
└ /heating Targets "heating services"
└ /heating/furnace-repair Targets "furnace repair services"
└ /heating/furnace-installation Targets "furnace installation"
└ /heating/heating-system-installation Targets "heating system installation"
└ /heating/heat-pump-installation Targets "heat pump installation"
└ /heating/heat-pump-repair Targets "heat pump repair"
└ /air-conditioning Targets "air conditioning services"
└ /air-conditioning/ac-repair Targets "ac repair"
└ /air-conditioning/ac-installation Targets "ac installation"
└ /air-conditioning/ac-maintenance Targets "ac maintenance"
Homepage: what you are. Hubs: what you do, by category. Each child page targets one service.

Reverse silo

Link services to hubs, hubs to the homepage, and related services to each other.

The reverse silo. Read more in Internal Linking Strategy.

What each page targets

PageURLWhat it targets
Homepage (summer)/Your company name, air conditioning contractor, air conditioning repair company
Homepage (winter)/Your company name, heating contractor, heating and furnace repair company
Heating hub/heatingheating services
Furnace repair/heating/furnace-repairfurnace repair services
Furnace installation/heating/furnace-installationfurnace installation
Heating system installation/heating/heating-system-installationheating system installation
Heat pump installation/heating/heat-pump-installationheat pump installation
Heat pump repair/heating/heat-pump-repairheat pump repair
Air conditioning hub/air-conditioningair conditioning services
AC repair/air-conditioning/ac-repairac repair
AC installation/air-conditioning/ac-installationac installation
AC maintenance/air-conditioning/ac-maintenanceac maintenance

Distinct searches prevent competition between pages. See Keyword Targeting.

How many pages

Most HVAC sites have 30 to 45 pages.

The tree above shows the core. The rest are more service pages, service area pages, and About and Contact.