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SEO + GEO AI for electricians: become the local reference

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Residential and commercial electrical markets are saturated online, but 60% of electrician sites are technically outdated (internal OMNIRK audit, 200 trades sites scanned 2025). That's a window of opportunity.

1. Target high-intent queries

'Emergency electrician [city]', 'consumer unit upgrade', 'EV charger install'. These have high SEA CPC — capture them via SEO + GEO for free.

2. Service × city pages (silo)

Cross 5 main services with 10 cities = 50 long-tail pages. Each page: unique H1, pricing, job photos, Service + areaServed schema.

3. Certifications in schema.org

Qualifelec, NICEIC, NABCEP: integrate into Organization's hasCredential. LLMs use these signals to answer 'certified electrician [standard]'.

4. Educational content = AI citations

'How an RCD works', 'NEC code summary'. Q→A format, dated numbers. These pages get massively cited by ChatGPT and Perplexity for consumer queries.

5. Video reviews + before/after photos

Multimodal LLMs (Gemini 3, GPT-5) start parsing Google review images. Before/after panel photos with captions = credibility signal.

6. Trade directory backlinks

Industry-specific directories: high-authority backlinks. The difference between ranking and being invisible.

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