A practical roofing marketing checklist covering GBP, service-area pages, storm response, review velocity, paid media and follow-up. This guide is written for Roofing owners and marketing managers auditing their setup, and everything below comes from work we do on live accounts rather than recycled theory. Skim the sections, take the numbers as starting benchmarks for your own market, and treat the checklist items as a work plan you can hand to your team or your agency this week.
What it costs
Budget guidance: at least $1,500-$3,000 per month on SEO and local, plus paid media sized to your close rate. If your average job is $12,000 and you close one in four estimates, a $600 cost per lead is still profitable - most roofers underspend because they benchmark cost per lead instead of cost per contract.
Treat every range above as a starting benchmark, not a quote. Competition in your specific market, the current state of your website, how much production capacity you already have in-house, and how aggressive your growth target is will all move the number. The useful exercise is to work backwards from revenue: what is one additional customer worth, how many do you need per month to justify the spend, and does the plan on the table plausibly produce them?
How long it takes
Work the checklist in three sprints: instrumentation in weeks 1-2, service-area and cost pages in weeks 3-8, review velocity and paid scaling from week 9. Re-audit quarterly and before every storm season.
Two things reliably compress timelines. The first is production volume: more genuinely useful pages and more consistent execution per month means faster results, which is why budget and speed are linked. The second is starting condition - a site with clean technical foundations and existing authority moves much faster than a new domain. Be honest about which one you are, then set expectations accordingly with whoever signs off on the budget.
What actually works
Instrumentation first: call tracking numbers per channel, GA4 events on form and call, and a CRM field for lead source on every estimate.
One page per service per city, each with local project photos, a named crew, and a city-specific testimonial.
None of these are clever. They are the boring fundamentals executed at unusual quality and consistency, which is what separates programmes that compound from programmes that plateau after one quarter.
Review velocity target: 8-15 new Google reviews per month during peak. Ask on-site at the final walkthrough, then follow up by SMS the same day.
Speed-to-lead under five minutes. Roofing leads shop three contractors; the first responder usually books the inspection.
Mistakes that cost the most
Letting the site go stale between storm seasons, then expecting instant rankings when demand hits.
Running one generic Google Ads campaign for repair, replacement and inspection, all with the same bid and landing page.
No follow-up sequence on unclosed estimates. Roofing decisions often take 30-90 days and most contractors stop after one call.
Every one of these is common enough that we expect to find at least two of them in any audit. Fixing them costs almost nothing compared with the spend they waste, so they belong at the top of the work plan rather than in a backlog.
Your next 90 days
Weeks 1-2: instrument everything first. Tracking, call tracking where relevant, a conversion definition that finance would accept, and a baseline you can defend later. Skipping this step is the single most expensive shortcut available, because without a baseline you cannot prove anything worked.
Weeks 3-8: ship the highest-leverage items from the 'what actually works' list above, in priority order, one at a time so each change stays attributable. Resist the urge to rebuild everything at once - it feels productive and it destroys your ability to learn.
Weeks 9-12: build the compounding layer - content cadence, review velocity, link acquisition, experimentation - and set a monthly review with a fixed agenda. Roofing programmes that hit a sub-five-minute first response consistently book a materially higher share of inspections than those responding within a day.
If you would like a second opinion before you commit budget, we run free 30-minute strategy calls and will walk through your current setup using the same diagnostic we use with paying clients.
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