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What Google's crawler reads on a roofing company's site
Roofing company invisible on Google after a storm season: what the crawler sees
Storm season brought the calls, the tarps and the claims, and your roofing company still is not showing up when someone nearby searches for a roofer. Here is what the public pages of your own site tell Google right now, the specific gaps a crawler finds on most roofing sites, and what to fix first.
What Google reads
A September 2026 read of 2,491 single-location dealer and contractor websites, 197 of them roofing companies, checked the public pages the way a crawler does: no login, no account, just what anyone can see.
| A page for each town you serve 39% of the 2,491 sites have one. Without it, ranking for "roof repair" or "roof replacement" stops at the city limits, right where a storm usually keeps going. | 39% |
| Business or service details Google can read 51% have this. Without it, Google cannot tie your repair and inspection pages to the towns you actually cover. | 51% |
| A link to their own Google Business Profile, in a form Google recognizes 59% show a Google map somewhere on the site, but only 16% link the actual Business Profile, meaning g.page, business.google.com or search.google.com/local. A map pin is not the same thing, because anyone can paste one. | 16% |
| Financing shown anywhere on the site 77% mention it somewhere. A roof is a five-figure job for most homeowners, and the sites that outrank you usually lead with a monthly payment. | 77% |
| A Spanish page Only 3% have one. Storm damage does not sort itself by language, and Spanish-speaking households search in Spanish. | 3% |
Check it in fifteen seconds
Paste your own website into the same reader we used for the report above and see which of these five items your site actually has.
The free check reads the public HTML of your home page and up to five more, without running scripts, which is a subset of what Google sees. It returns a plain yes or no on business details, the Business Profile link, financing, town pages and a Spanish page, plus what to fix first. Nothing is published, and nothing on your site is changed.
Free, no sign in. Takes about 15 seconds.
The fix, in order
Five items, most of it doable in an afternoon on the site you already have. Do it yourself, or hand this list to whoever built the site.
- Build a page for every town you actually worked storm claims in this season. Name the town in the title tag and the first paragraph, list the streets or neighborhoods you covered, and link it from your main service-area page. Only 39% of dealer sites have town pages at all, so this is usually the biggest single gap.
- Add service and business details Google can read. Structured data naming your service area, license number and insurance status, not just prose on the page. 51% of sites already have this; the rest are invisible to the part of Google that answers "near me" searches.
- Link your site to your own Google Business Profile the way Google recognizes it. An explicit link to your g.page, business.google.com or search.google.com/local address, not a plain Google Maps pin. Only 16% of dealer sites do this today.
- Put your financing terms on the roof-replacement page itself. A monthly payment figure, not "financing available, call us." 77% of dealer sites already show something; a five-figure job is easier to say yes to with a number attached.
- Add a Spanish page for storm damage and roof repair. Only 3% of dealer sites have one, and storm-hit neighborhoods do not sort themselves by the language a search is typed in.
If you want it done
Have all five, plus the rest of the checklist, done.
We fix these five items and the rest of the eight-item checklist once, for a flat $397, one payment, never a subscription. You get the plan in writing, naming every page we will touch, before we change anything. The 14 days start the next business day after you pay. If a listed fix cannot be done because of us, that part is refunded. After the pilot, an optional retainer to keep it maintained runs $997 a month, month to month, no contract, no discounts, no free pilots.
Eight items, 14 days, one report. Everything in writing.
Questions
Why did my roofing company disappear from Google after this storm season?
Usually it is not one thing. Across the 2,491 dealer and contractor sites read for the report above, only 39% have a page for each town they serve, only 51% carry business details Google can parse, and only 16% link their own Google Business Profile in a form Google recognizes. A roofing site missing two or three of those loses the towns outside its home base first, which is exactly what a busy storm season tests.
Does Google actually rank a roofer by what is on the website?
Google's own guidance on local search names relevance, distance and prominence as the three factors it weighs, and describes prominence as pulling from information found across the web, not only the Business Profile itself. That is a general description of what a reviewer or algorithm looks for, not a guarantee of where any one site will rank.
Is this the same as fixing a suspended Google Business Profile?
No. This page is about a site that is live but not showing up. If your Business Profile itself is suspended, that is a separate, narrower problem; see the Business Profile fix for what a reinstatement request needs on your side.
What does the $397 pilot include, and what if something cannot be fixed?
The full eight-item checklist on your own site: town pages, business and service details, the Business Profile link, financing shown on the page, a Spanish page and the rest, done in 14 days for one payment of $397. If a listed fix cannot be done because of us, that part is refunded. There is no discount and no free pilot; the retainer afterward is optional, $997 a month.
These numbers come from Conecta Media's public read of 2,491 single-location dealer and contractor websites, 197 of them roofing companies, published in full with methodology and per-brand scorecards at the September 2026 dealer website report.