When a Bendigo heatwave knocks out an evaporative cooler in Epsom, the ad that catches that call should not also be selling new split systems.
A Bendigo plumber, cooling or heating installer has two peak seasons, and is only useful where the van can reach. HeyLead runs SEO, Google Ads, Meta ads and landing pages for cooling, heating, plumbing, pest control and repair firms working from Eaglehawk to Kangaroo Flat. We set your service area by drive time, split urgent and planned jobs, show your Victorian licence on the page, and report booked jobs in A$. Bring your crew map to the free audit.
What we do
Search, SEO, Meta ads and landing pages are planned around your vans, your licence and a calendar with two peak seasons.
Pages and listings that appear when people nearby search Google for what you do.
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Paid search ads that reach people searching right now, reported against the calls and bookings they produce.
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Facebook and Instagram ads for offers that need reach, including ads shown again to people who visited your site.
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Pages built to turn a visit into a call, form or booking.
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Call and form tracking, so you can see which ad or search produced each lead.
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Optional link to your customer system, so signed work flows back into your reports.
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Who we work with
Air conditioning and evaporative cooling installers whose phones run hot in summer and who want planned installs booked before the first heatwave
Heating and hot water specialists busy through the cold months across Strathfieldsaye, Kennington and Golden Square
Plumbers and pest controllers covering Eaglehawk, Epsom and Huntly with a clear rule for after-hours call-outs
Trades tired of paying for clicks from towns along the Calder that the van will never reach
The local picture
Your market
Bendigo trade work has two busy seasons rather than one. Summers are hot and dry, so evaporative coolers and split systems fail in the first heatwave and installs get booked in a rush.
Winters are cold, which brings heating faults, hot water failures on chilly mornings and a steady run of plumbing calls.
Housing adds its own work: goldfields-era cottages and Victorian villas around the centre often hide old pipework, tight roof spaces and add-on extensions, while newer estates in Epsom, Huntly, Maiden Gully and Strathfieldsaye want tidy installs and clear paperwork for warranties.
Distance shapes routing. Eaglehawk to the north-west and Kangaroo Flat to the south-west are at opposite ends, and the bush fringe around Strathfieldsaye and Junortoun is a separate run again. Trades work under Victorian licences, which stay with your firm while HeyLead handles the marketing only.
Paying for a click across town usually means a van stuck between jobs.
Your customers
Trade searches in Bendigo lead with the job and add the suburb. Urgent searches such as cooler not working, no hot water, blocked drain or burst pipe are decided in minutes, nearly always on a phone.
Planned searches such as split system installation, ducted heating service or a pest inspection before buying reward a clear page and a simple quote process. Pest work also tends to rise in the warmer months.
We keep urgent and planned searches in separate campaigns and block job seekers, parts shoppers and do-it-yourself questions. A good lead is a call long enough to quote or a form that turns into a booked job.
Reports show the cost of each booked job by suburb group, in A$, with GST shown.
Our approach
We start with where the vans go. For each crew we note where the day begins and ends and which suburbs it can reach without losing a job, then build the search area from that rather than a radius.
Urgent campaigns run only in hours when someone picks up, with call tracking and short pages that lead with the phone number. Planned work gets its own campaigns and fuller pages that explain the process, show the licence and include photos of local jobs.
SEO adds a page per suburb and service. Meta ads remind homeowners who priced a split system or heater service but did not book.
Cooling budgets lift before summer and heating budgets before winter, and each booked job is tied to its source so spend follows the crews with spare capacity.
About the area
goldfields-era cottages, Victorian villas, and newer estates on the city fringe
Licences you show on your page
Victorian licensed trades
Common mistakes
A circle drawn from Golden Square catches Eaglehawk, Huntly and the Strathfieldsaye bush in one go, but a single van cannot work all three well in a day. A search area built from drive time keeps clicks where the crew can turn up on time.
A family with a dead cooler on a scorching afternoon and a homeowner comparing split system quotes for next month want different pages. Mixing them slows the urgent call and oversells the planned job. Separate campaigns and reports let each one work.
Homeowners check a licence before letting someone onto the roof or under the house. Tucked in the footer, it does nothing. Put the Victorian licence and the kind of work you do near the top, beside the phone number.
How it works
Record where each van starts and finishes and which suburbs it reaches in fair time, for example Kangaroo Flat and Golden Square, or Eaglehawk and Epsom. Add more as the roster grows.
Urgent call-outs get their own campaign, hours and landing page, while installs and services sit in another. Heatwaves and cold snaps get a plan in advance, not a scramble.
Put Victorian licence details, the kinds of Bendigo homes you work on and photos of real jobs high on the page, where a homeowner looks before ringing.
Follow calls and forms through to paid work and report the cost of each booked job by suburb group in A$. Then move each season's budget to where it pays.
Searches
These are the searches your pages and ads are built around, and what each person is trying to do.
| They search | What they want |
|---|---|
| split system installation Bendigo | Planned summer job, comparing installers |
| Bendigo plumber | Urgent or planned trade job, mostly on mobile |
| Eaglehawk electrician | Suburb-level trade search near a crew |
| evaporative cooler repair Bendigo | Urgent heatwave call-out |
| Bendigo pest control | Inspection or treatment for a house |
| ducted heating service Bendigo | Planned job ahead of winter |
Niches
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Testimonials from HeyLead clients
Our company 1800 CLEANER has worked with Martin for over two years now and we can attest he is one of the best. His technical knowledge in the SEO and online marketing space is second to none. But more importantly he cares. He listens and truly empathises with the client. The feeling of support that ensues is truly otherworldly. We have no hesitation in recommending him.
Michael Sweet
CEO, 1800 CLEANER
We'd worked with HeyLead before and knew what they were capable of - so when performance with another agency didn't meet expectations, coming back was an easy decision. The difference was immediate. They rebuilt our entire Google Ads account from scratch, fixed our tracking so we finally had accurate data, and gave us the confidence to scale our spend. What impressed us most was how well they understood our franchise expansion goals - they didn't just manage campaigns, they built a system that supports every new location we open. The leads are consistent, the quality is there, and the relationship is one we genuinely trust.
Robert Niroshan
CEO, Clean Australia Service
Month to month, no commitment. One fee covers the pages, the search and ad work and the tracking. Ad spend is separate and stays in your own accounts.
Starting at
$500 USD per month
Free to cancel with 1 month's notice. Tell us what you sell and where. We come back with what the first month would fix.
Get a Free AuditWhat $500 a month covers
Pages built around the searches your buyers actually type.
Search and ads aimed at people ready to enquire.
Calls, forms and bookings tagged to the search, ad or page behind them.
Our team
Martin writes every audit and takes the first call. The same team stays on the account. 160+ businesses since 2010.
Founder, strategy and audits
Writes every audit and takes every first call. On your account from day one, running growth for SMEs since 2010.
Social and app development
Shapes social strategy and builds practical app experiences that turn attention into action.
SEO
Owns technical, local and content SEO so the right buyers find you when demand is highest.
Paid media
Plans and manages paid search and social campaigns around qualified leads.
Analytics
Connects tracking, attribution and reporting so decisions are based on revenue-quality data.
Design
Creates clear brand and conversion-focused design across landing pages, campaigns and product experiences.
Certified and experienced
Verified platform knowledge, 25+ years of hands-on experience, and an operating track record since 2010.
FAQs
Plain answers for Bendigo tradespeople choosing a marketing team.
Only the suburbs your vans can reach on time. Many firms start with Kangaroo Flat and Golden Square, or with Eaglehawk and Epsom, and leave the rest until the roster can cope.
They come from different people with different needs. An urgent job needs a phone number and speed. A planned install needs a clear process, a licence and a fair quote. Separating them helps both and keeps the reports honest.
No. HeyLead is the marketing team. Your Victorian licence and insurance belong to your business, and we make sure the page shows them clearly and correctly.
Ahead of the first heatwave and the first cold snap, not after. We set budgets and pages for cooling in late spring and for heating in autumn, then adjust weekly as the weather and your capacity change.
Firms that service homes around Strathfieldsaye, Junortoun or Maiden Gully can run pages for jobs such as gutter clearing or pre-summer checks where they offer them. We only advertise work you actually do, and we do not give fire safety advice on your behalf.
SEO for suburb and service pages, Google Ads for job searches, Meta ads for reach and follow-up, and landing pages that tie them together. Tracking follows each call and form to a booked job.
Online. There is no Bendigo office to visit. We talk by phone, video or WhatsApp and plan campaigns around the suburbs your crews reach, with reports in A$.