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Improve visibility on Google so customers find you before your competitors.
SEO compounds over time, delivering consistent traffic without paying for every click.
We enhance site structure, speed, and content to maximize user experience and conversions.
Transparent reporting shows progress, rankings, and opportunities for growth.
Service Overview
Brookings home service companies operate in a market where online visibility directly determines who gets the call. Plumbers, roofers, HVAC companies, and electricians across Eastern South Dakota are competing for the same page one positions, and the businesses holding those positions are capturing the majority of the leads. At Blume, our SEO in Brookings is built around one goal: getting your business to the top of Google for the searches your customers are performing every day. We don’t chase vanity metrics. We chase phone calls. Every keyword we target, every piece of content we create, and every technical fix we make is designed to put more qualified leads in your pipeline from organic search.
CASE STUDY
HUDCO Roofing increased qualified leads by 190% in their first 30 days working with us. They went from struggling to keep their schedule full to having more work than they could handle. Read the full case study to see how we did it.
First 30 Days
Increase in Leads
190%
Most SEO agencies deliver keyword rankings and call it a win. We care about what those rankings actually produce. A position on page one for a keyword nobody converts from is worthless. We build your SEO strategy around the searches Brookings homeowners are making when they’re ready to hire a contractor, not just when they’re browsing. Our approach covers technical optimization, local search dominance, content that converts, and backlinks that build authority. Our Growth and Expansion packages include ongoing SEO paired with custom web design so everything works together as a unified lead generation system.
core services
Get found by customers in your area searching for your services.
Optimize your website content and structure so search engines understand what you offer.
Fix backend issues that prevent search engines from crawling and ranking your site.
Create and refine website content that ranks for keywords your customers are searching.
Identify the specific searches your ideal customers use so you can reach them.
Contact us to learn more about what we can offer for your website.
“Most creative agencies design beautiful, award-winning websites but completely miss the SEO side, leaving clients with a stunning site that nobody can find. On the flip side, most SEO agencies build websites that rank well but look outdated or unprofessional, so visitors leave without converting. At Blume, we bridge that gap by combining both skillsets. We’re not interested in pumping out quick templated websites just to move on to the next client. Every site we build is custom, designed to look great and perform even better in search results.“
Peyton Tillotson
Co-Founder of Blume
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Brookings home service businesses that invest in SEO stop competing for scraps and start building a lead pipeline that works without ad spend. The searches are happening right now, and the calls are going to whoever shows up at the top. You work directly with Peyton and Chris from start to finish, not an account manager. See our results to see what we’ve built for businesses like yours.
“Blume was able to capture my vision expertly and display our site in a way that will push us towards our long term goals.”

Ladson P. - Owner
Our Process
We start by auditing your current search presence, identifying the keywords your Brookings customers are searching, and mapping out where the fastest opportunities are. From there we execute the strategy, building technical foundations, creating content, and building authority across the Eastern South Dakota market. Every month we report on what moved, what it produced, and what we’re doing next. No black boxes, no mystery. Just consistent work that compounds over time. Get Started today.
We define your goals, audience, and brand direction to set a clear website plan.
We create the visual layout and develop a fast, responsive, SEO-ready website tailored to your brand.
We publish your site, ensure everything runs smoothly, and optimize for performance and growth.
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Our Pricing Options
For Startups
Foundation
Essential marketing package built to establish your online presence
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For Growing Businesses
Growth
Strategic solution crafted to elevate visibility and consistent lead flow
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For Industry-Leading Companies
Expansion
Premier program designed to maximize growth and outperform competitors
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Most clients start seeing meaningful movement in search rankings within 90 to 120 days of launch, with stronger results at the six month mark. SEO is not an overnight process. The businesses ranking on page one today have typically been building their online presence for months or years. The sooner you start, the sooner those results compound.
Not at all. We run SEO campaigns for home service businesses throughout the Brookings area and Eastern South Dakota region, including Volga, Aurora, Elkton, and surrounding communities in Brookings County. We target the specific geographic areas where your customers are actually searching.
Our SEO service covers on-page optimization, technical SEO, local search setup and optimization, content creation, backlink building, and ongoing reporting. We track the metrics that actually matter for home service businesses: phone calls, form submissions, and rankings for the keywords your customers are searching in Brookings.
Most SEO agencies work across every industry and apply generic strategies. We work exclusively with home service businesses, which means we already know which keywords your customers are searching in Brookings, what your competitors are doing online, and what it takes to rank in this specific market. That specialization is what drives results faster.
Not always, but your website's technical foundation matters significantly. If your current site has major structural issues, slow load times, or isn't mobile-friendly, those problems will limit what SEO can accomplish. We assess your site before recommending a path forward. Businesses that pair our custom web design with SEO typically see the strongest results.
Yes. We build your SEO strategy around the full geographic area you actually serve, not just the city you're based in. If you work in Volga, Aurora, and Elkton in addition to Brookings, your campaign targets all of those areas specifically.
We track keyword rankings, organic traffic, and most importantly, the leads and calls that come from organic search. Rankings are a means to an end. The end is your phone ringing with qualified customers. We report on both so you always know where things stand.
They serve different purposes. Google Ads drives immediate leads from day one. SEO builds compounding organic visibility over time that doesn't require ad spend to maintain. The most effective Brookings home service businesses use both together. Our Growth and Expansion packages include both so you're not choosing between them.
Yes. Google Business Profile is one of the most important local SEO assets for a home service business in Brookings. We set it up correctly, optimize it for your target keywords and service areas, and manage it as part of your ongoing campaign.
Brookings is a smaller market than Sioux Falls, which actually creates real opportunity. While high-volume categories like plumber and HVAC have competition, the search landscape has meaningful gaps, particularly in neighborhood-specific and service-specific searches. Establishing strong organic positions now is significantly easier than trying to break in after the market matures.
SEO requires a service agreement because results build over time and the work is ongoing. We don't lock you into unreasonable terms, but we do require a commitment that reflects how SEO actually works. Short-term contracts and SEO don't produce meaningful results for anyone.
Rankings typically hold for a period after SEO activity stops, then gradually decline as competitors who are still investing outrank you. SEO is not a one-time project. It's an ongoing process of maintaining and improving your position as the competitive landscape shifts around you.
We work exclusively with home service businesses including plumbers, roofers, HVAC companies, electricians, landscapers, fencing contractors, and general contractors. Because we only work in this space, we already know the Brookings home service search landscape and what it takes to move rankings in this market.
Brookings is a growing Eastern South Dakota market where the window to establish dominant organic search positions is still wide open compared to larger cities like Sioux Falls. That doesn’t mean there’s no competition — established local contractors and regional players have been building their online presence for years in key categories like HVAC, plumbing, and roofing. But the search landscape in Brookings still has meaningful gaps, particularly in service-specific and neighborhood-level searches. A smart SEO strategy that moves quickly can claim the top positions before more competitors figure out that organic search is where the calls are coming from.
South Dakota’s severe weather patterns create significant and predictable seasonal spikes in home service search volume that SEO is uniquely positioned to capture. Brookings sits squarely in a region that experiences harsh winters with heavy snowfall and ice, spring flooding from snowmelt, and summer hailstorms capable of generating major roofing and siding demand overnight. Businesses already ranking at the top of those searches when the weather events hit capture that surge of demand immediately. Contractors who haven’t invested in SEO before those moments miss the spike entirely while paying premium ad costs for the same traffic.
The presence of South Dakota State University gives Brookings a unique local economy that influences home service demand in ways that don’t apply to purely rural Eastern South Dakota markets. Student rental housing generates consistent demand for plumbers, electricians, and general contractors year-round. The university’s growth has driven residential construction and renovation activity in surrounding neighborhoods, increasing the pool of homeowners actively searching for contractors online. A well-targeted SEO strategy captures both the established residential market and the demand generated by the university community and its surrounding development.
Google Business Profile dominance is especially high-value in Brookings because smaller markets often show the local map pack for a wider range of search queries than larger cities do. When a Brookings homeowner searches for virtually any home service, Google frequently surfaces the local three-pack before any organic results. Contractors with fully optimized, review-rich Google Business Profiles appear in that pack consistently. Those without optimized profiles are invisible for the most valuable real estate on the search results page, regardless of how good their website is.
The mix of older established neighborhoods near downtown Brookings and newer subdivisions expanding to the west and south creates two distinct search patterns that a well-structured SEO strategy captures more effectively than broad keyword targeting. Homeowners in older parts of the city search for solutions tied to aging infrastructure — older electrical systems, plumbing repairs, roof replacements on homes built decades ago. Newer construction areas generate searches tied to landscaping, fencing, and general contractor work for finishing and upgrades. Content that speaks specifically to those needs ranks better for those searches and converts at a higher rate than generic service pages.
Brookings is a market where establishing strong organic search visibility now produces a compounding advantage that gets harder and more expensive for competitors to close over time. The businesses that invest in SEO in a market like this aren’t just buying rankings — they’re building a lead pipeline that runs independently of ad spend and grows stronger every month. The contractors in Brookings who will own their category in Google search three years from now are the ones making the investment today, while the competition is still relying on referrals and word of mouth. That window to establish a dominant organic position is open right now, and it won’t stay open indefinitely as more home service businesses figure out that organic search is where the calls are coming from in Eastern South Dakota.
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