How do I get more metal roofing jobs instead of just shingle work?<\/h2>\n
Market metal roof installs as their own job type: a dedicated metal roofing page with photos of your own installs, metal-specific services on your Google Business Profile, and a separate Google Ads ad group or campaign built around metal-roof search terms, with negative keywords that keep out DIY panel shoppers. Every claim about lifespan, energy savings or storm performance needs evidence behind it before it runs. Because metal jobs tend to be bigger and slower to sign than shingle work, judge the effort by signed metal contracts and the profit behind them, not by lead count.<\/p>\n
Building out service pages for the jobs you want most is part of the content work in our local SEO<\/a> service, and it’s included in every tier of our roofing marketing<\/a> packages. For the bigger picture of which channels bring roofing jobs, the roofing marketing guide<\/a> covers all of them, and the rest of the roofing marketing questions<\/a> library goes question by question.<\/p>\n Usually, if metal is work you want more of and can staff. In our judgement, metal installs tend to be a bigger ticket than a standard shingle replacement, the homeowner usually takes longer to decide, and the buyer is often comparing materials as well as contractors. A general “roof replacement” page and ad rarely speak to that person.<\/p>\n The test is simple: if a signed metal job is worth noticeably more to you than a signed shingle job, and you have the crew and supply to take on more of them, metal earns its own page, its own place on your Google profile and its own budget line. If you do one metal roof a year and would rather not do more, mention it on your replacement page and move on. The same logic applies to repairs versus replacements<\/a>: market each job type for what it’s worth to you.<\/p>\n Not just homeowners ready to hire. In our judgement, metal searches usually mix several kinds of people:<\/p>\n Only the second group is ready to book an estimate today, and the first group can become one if your page answers their questions. Your marketing should welcome the first two and screen out the rest. Your own search terms, not anyone’s national list, show which mix you’re getting.<\/p>\n Start with Google’s Keyword Planner<\/a>, which Google says shows estimates of the searches keywords receive and the cost to target them. Set it to your service area and try the phrases a ready-to-hire homeowner would use: metal roof installation, metal roof replacement, standing seam metal roof, metal roofing contractor and the same phrases with your town names.<\/p>\n Treat the numbers as a direction, not a promise. Search volume for metal terms in a smaller market can be thin, which is a reason to build one strong metal page rather than ten weak ones. Once ads are running, Google’s search terms report<\/a> shows actual terms people searched that triggered your ads, and that’s the list to learn from. If you only install one kind of metal system, say so and target it by name; a homeowner searching for a system you don’t install isn’t your lead.<\/p>\n Google’s guidance on helpful, people-first content<\/a> asks whether a page offers original information, shows first-hand expertise and has a descriptive, non-exaggerated title. A metal roofing page that does well by those questions usually has:<\/p>\n What a roofing website needs<\/a> covers the parts every page shares, such as forms and calls to action.<\/p>\n Only what you can back up. The FTC’s advertising guide for small business<\/a> says ads must be truthful and not deceptive, that advertisers must have evidence for their claims before the ad runs, and that claims about a product’s performance, features, safety or price are the ones the FTC treats as important to buyers. It also says letters from satisfied customers usually aren’t enough to support a claim that needs objective evaluation.<\/p>\n Metal roofing marketing leans on exactly those claims: how long the roof lasts, how it handles hail and wind, how much it saves on energy, whether it lowers insurance premiums. In our judgement, the safe pattern is to tie each claim to a document you hold, such as the manufacturer’s written warranty or a published test rating for the product you install, and to say “can” where the result depends on the house. And never promise a homeowner an insurance discount; that’s the insurer’s decision, not yours. This is general information about the FTC’s guidance, not legal advice.<\/p>\n At least its own ad group. Google’s advice on organizing your account<\/a> is to give each ad group a narrow theme, use keywords related to that theme, mention a keyword in the ad headline and run at least 3 ads in each ad group. A metal ad group with metal keywords, metal ads and a link to the metal page does all of that; a general roofing ad group with “metal roof” tucked in does none of it.<\/p>\n Google says to create a separate campaign when you need different campaign settings, such as a separate budget or different locations. In our judgement, metal often qualifies on both counts: you may want a fixed slice of budget for it, and some roofers will drive farther for a metal job than for a repair. Google also warns that reorganizing an account after campaigns have built up data wipes out that history, so set metal up separately from the start rather than splitting it out later.<\/p>\n Negative keywords stop your ads from showing on searches you don’t want. Google suggests using the search terms report to spot terms that are related to, but aren’t exactly, what you sell; for metal roofing, that’s mostly people buying materials, not hiring an installer. Candidates to test against your own search terms report: panels for sale, sheets, screws, trim, DIY, how to install, supplier and wholesale, plus shed, carport or barn if you don’t do that work.<\/p>\n Two things matter here. Google says negative keywords don’t match to variants, so add the variations yourself. And in our judgement they’re easy to overdo: a negative like “cost” might block a homeowner pricing out a real job. Which negative keywords a roofer needs<\/a> covers the full roofing list.<\/p>\n Use the services editor<\/a>. Google says service businesses can pick suggested services or create custom ones, group them, and add descriptions, and that a service you offer may be highlighted when local customers search for it. Add metal roof installation and any specific metal services you offer, each with a short description of what’s included. Google rejects custom service names that include prices, phone numbers or gibberish, so keep the names plain.<\/p>\n Add photos of finished metal roofs to the profile too, and keep adding them as you finish jobs. Your primary category is a separate decision; choosing your profile categories<\/a> covers how to pick it.<\/p>\n Only as well as Google’s job types let you aim them. Local Services Ads are keywordless: you choose industries, job types and service areas, not your own search terms. Google says you toggle on the job types that apply to your business<\/a> inside each industry, so those settings decide which leads you get.<\/p>\n Check the roofing job types in your account. If none is specific to metal, our reading is that LSAs can’t single out metal buyers the way a metal ad group in Google Ads can; they’ll bring roofing leads of every kind, and the metal ones will come mixed in. That’s fine if you want all of it. If metal is the goal, search ads aimed at metal terms are the more precise tool.<\/p>\n Yes, but the wording carries rules. Under the federal Truth in Lending rules for credit advertising<\/a>, if an ad states certain terms, such as the amount of any payment, the number of payments or repayment period, or the down payment, it must also state the down payment, the repayment terms and the annual percentage rate. That applies even when the term isn’t spelled out but can be worked out from the ad.<\/p>\n So “financing available” is simpler to run than a monthly payment figure on a big metal roof. If you want to show a payment, get the full disclosure from your lender and put it right next to the number, and treat this as general information, not legal advice.<\/p>\n Count signed metal contracts and what they’re worth, and give it enough time. A metal buyer who compares materials before contractors can take longer to sign than a homeowner with a leak, so a slow first month doesn’t mean the effort failed.<\/p>\n If you want Google Ads to weigh a metal estimate request above a repair call, conversion values are the setting to look at; marketing gutters and siding alongside roofs<\/a> explains how Google describes them for different job types. Outside the ad account, tag every lead by job type in whatever you run the business on, so you can see which metal leads became inspections, estimates and contracts. Tracking which leads sign<\/a> walks through the setup.<\/p>\n A free visibility audit checks the Google profile, reviews, site and tracking, and shows what to fix first.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n A longer, two-step decision.<\/strong> In our judgement, many metal buyers first decide on the material, then on the installer. Content that helps with the first decision, such as an honest metal-versus-shingle comparison on your page, gives you a chance to be the installer they call.<\/p>\n More materials shoppers.<\/strong> Metal panels are sold to do-it-yourselfers and outbuilding owners, which shingle work mostly isn’t. Expect your negative keyword list for metal to need more upkeep than your shingle list.<\/p>\n A wider radius, sometimes.<\/strong> Fewer roofers install metal than shingles in many markets, which in our judgement is why some homeowners will accept a contractor from farther away. Test a wider ad radius for metal before widening anything else, and keep your free Google profile’s service area honest.<\/p>\n Claims under a microscope.<\/strong> Lifespan, storm and energy claims are the heart of metal marketing and exactly the claims that need evidence. Write them from the documents you hold, not from what other installers say.<\/p>\n These numbers are made up to show the math, not a benchmark for your market. Say a roofer puts $1,500 a month into a metal ad group and $1,500 into a shingle replacement ad group.<\/p>\n On cost per job alone, metal looks three times worse. Now add the profit. If, in this made-up case, the roofer’s gross profit on a metal job is several times what a shingle job earns, the metal ad group is the better buy despite fewer leads. That’s why the comparison has to be cost per signed job against profit per job, and why a month is too short to judge a job type that signs slowly.<\/p>\n On our side, the Essentials package ($3,500 a month) includes a content sprint of up to 10 pages, which is where a metal roofing page would be built, plus Google Ads management up to $2,500 a month in spend. Growth ($4,500 a month) raises that to $5,000 in spend and adds Local Services Ads. Ad spend is paid to Google separately.<\/p>\n Usually not. In our judgement one strong metal page on your main roofing site, linked from your replacement page and your Google profile, does more than a second site that has to earn its own reviews and links from zero.<\/p>\n Only if your agreement with the manufacturer allows it, and they shouldn’t replace your own. Photos of roofs your crew installed are the proof a homeowner is looking for.<\/p>\n Not as a promise. Premiums are the insurer’s decision, and the FTC expects evidence for claims about price and performance before an ad runs. Suggest the homeowner ask their insurer instead.<\/p>\n Not directly, and we won’t promise it will. In our judgement a profile that lists metal services, with a website page about them, gives Google more information to match against metal searches, which is the most you can do for that query.<\/p>\n There’s no Google minimum for search ads. Reviews that mention a metal job help a homeowner trust you with that job, so ask every metal customer once the work is done.<\/p>\n We'll look at how you show up locally and where calls are leaking, then send you a plain-English breakdown.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n How roofers get more metal roofing jobs: a dedicated page, Google profile services, metal-only ads with DIY negatives, backed claims, and the right math.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","ll_review_state":"approved","ll_template_version":"v1","ll_sources":"[\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/search\/docs\/fundamentals\/creating-helpful-content\", \"https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/business-guidance\/resources\/advertising-faqs-guide-small-business\", \"https:\/\/support.google.com\/google-ads\/answer\/7337243?hl=en\", \"https:\/\/support.google.com\/google-ads\/answer\/6372655?hl=en\", \"https:\/\/support.google.com\/google-ads\/answer\/7102466?hl=en\", \"https:\/\/support.google.com\/business\/answer\/9455399?hl=en\", \"https:\/\/support.google.com\/localservices\/answer\/12491364?hl=en\", \"https:\/\/www.consumerfinance.gov\/rules-policy\/regulations\/1026\/24\/\"]","ll_faq":"[{\"q\": \"Should I build a separate website just for metal roofing?\", \"a\": \"Usually not. 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Who is actually searching for a metal roof?<\/h2>\n
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Which metal roofing search terms should I go after?<\/h2>\n
What should the metal roofing page on my website include?<\/h2>\n
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What can I claim about metal roofs in my ads and on my site?<\/h2>\n
Should metal roofing get its own Google Ads campaign or ad group?<\/h2>\n
Which negative keywords keep DIY metal roof shoppers out?<\/h2>\n
How do I show metal roofing on my Google Business Profile?<\/h2>\n
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<\/figure>\nDo Local Services Ads work for metal roof jobs?<\/h2>\n
Can I advertise financing on metal roof jobs?<\/h2>\n
How do I know if metal roof marketing is paying off?<\/h2>\n
Not sure which of these is costing you jobs?<\/h4>\n
What's different about marketing metal roofing<\/h2>\n
A worked example: is a metal ad group worth its budget?<\/h2>\n
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<\/figure>\nFrequently asked questions<\/h2>\n
Should I build a separate website just for metal roofing?<\/h3>\n
Can I use the manufacturer's photos on my metal roofing page?<\/h3>\n
Can I say a metal roof will lower a homeowner's insurance?<\/h3>\n
Does a metal roofing page help me rank in Google Maps?<\/h3>\n
How many metal roof reviews do I need before advertising metal?<\/h3>\n
Key takeaways<\/h2>\n
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Want a second set of eyes on your setup?<\/h4>\n
More in this section<\/h2>\n
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