From a Brand-New Domain to 4,040 Organic Keywords

Smart Climate Solutions is a Daikin-authorized HVAC dealer serving the South Hills of Pittsburgh, the West Virginia panhandle and Eastern Ohio. When Refresh took on the account, the business had a brand-new website with essentially no organic search footprint: no ranking keywords, no content library and no history for Google to build trust from.

In a market where established HVAC competitors had years of accumulated search authority, Smart Climate Solutions was starting from a true standing start. They needed:

• A technical SEO foundation built into a brand-new Webflow site from day one, not bolted on after launch.
• A content engine that could establish topical authority fast in a competitive, cost-and-repair-driven local HVAC search category.
• Organic visibility that could realistically compete with tri-state HVAC companies that had years of accumulated search history.

Refresh built the SEO groundwork into Smart Climate Solutions' Webflow site and paired it with a sustained, high-volume blogging cadence targeting the exact cost, repair and maintenance searches homeowners run when they are closest to booking service.

Web & SEO foundation

• A full Webflow site build from scratch, with on-page technical SEO (metadata, site structure, internal linking, page speed) built in from day one instead of retrofitted after launch.
• A technical SEO audit and cleanup to give a brand-new domain the best possible foundation for Google to crawl, index and start trusting.
• An AEO/SEO strategy targeting the specific cost, repair and installation questions homeowners search right before booking HVAC service.

Content + SEO performance marketing

• 213 SEO-driven blog posts written and published, each targeting a real, high-intent local search (installation costs, repair troubleshooting, maintenance timing) across the Pittsburgh, WV panhandle and Eastern Ohio service area.
• An ongoing monthly content cadence, not a one-time push, so keyword coverage keeps expanding every month instead of plateauing after launch.
• A paid media strategy layered on top of the organic build to support demand while the SEO foundation ramped up.

On the record: we could not confirm an exact site-launch date in our records, so this case study anchors "before" to the earliest reliable low-visibility baseline in the data itself (SEMrush's October 2025 snapshot and Google Search Console's August 2025 monthly clicks) rather than guessing a launch date.

Across roughly ten months of data, Smart Climate Solutions' organic search presence went from a standing start to a real, growing lead source, confirmed by both SEMrush's estimated organic metrics and the company's own verified Google Search Console data.

• 232 to 4,040 organic keywords ranking (Oct 2025 to Aug 2026, SEMrush), a 17.4x increase.
• 513 keywords now ranking on page 1 of Google (positions 1 to 10).
• 16 to 5,044 verified monthly organic clicks (Aug 2025 to Jul 2026, Google Search Console), a 315x increase.
• 13.9K to 635.7K monthly organic impressions over the same window (GSC), a 46x increase.

Underneath the headline numbers, the content strategy is compounding: 213 SEO blog posts are published and indexed, and 47 of them already rank well enough to drive real organic traffic, with topics like "central air install cost with no existing ductwork" and "cost to fix furnace ignitor" now landing in the top 10 for their target searches.

• Ongoing partnership: Refresh continues to run SEO, content and web maintenance on a monthly retainer, not a one-time build.
• A content engine that compounds: the blogging cadence keeps adding new keyword rankings every month. Not a single spike, but a curve that is still climbing.
• Data-driven iteration: monthly SEMrush and Search Console tracking means the content strategy adapts to what is actually driving traffic.
• Built to scale: the Webflow foundation and growing content library set Smart Climate Solutions up to keep expanding coverage across the entire tri-state service area.