Husky Digital case studies in numbers: $96 → $22 cost per lead in Google Ads — appliance repair, Los Angeles

Every figure below comes straight from Google Ads, Search Console, or client analytics.

  • 38×organic clicks growth — painting, Charlotte
  • 9.5×organic impressions — solo handyman, Charlotte

Case studies

Painting — Charlotte, NC
Organic clicks 38× growth

SEO & AI Search Dominance: 38× Clicks and #1 AI Recommendations for a Charlotte Painting Company

A painting company in Charlotte, North Carolina had no website and no organic presence in a market where homeowners research contractors heavily before calling anyone. The goal was to rank for broad, high-intent local and national queries while getting cited as a primary source in next-generation AI recommendation systems.

Method: Site built from zero → local neighborhood service pages → structured cost/process content engine → entity coverage audit
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Appliance Repair — Los Angeles, CA
Cost per lead $96 → $22

Google Ads for appliance repair in Los Angeles: cost per lead cut from $96 to $22 in three weeks

An appliance repair company in Los Angeles was paying almost $100 per lead across Google Ads search and Local Services Ads — economics that don't survive in a trade where many jobs are sub-$400 tickets.

Method: Weekly per-channel CPL review → query pruning → budget reallocation across Search, commercial Search, and LSA
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Home services — Charlotte, NC
Organic impressions growth 9.5×

Local SEO for a Solo Handyman in Charlotte — From Zero to 9.5× Organic Impressions in 5 Months

A solo handyman with 7+ years of experience and 34 five-star Thumbtack reviews had no website and no organic presence in one of the US's fastest-growing cities. The Charlotte metro spans 5 counties and dozens of towns — too large for a single-page site, too competitive for generic content.

Method: Site from zero → structured location + service data → programmatic city/service/ZIP pages → entity-rich content → technical SEO
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Cleaning — Honolulu, HI
Blended cost per lead $31 → $17

Google Ads for a cleaning company in Honolulu: 202 leads at a $21 blended CPL

A residential and commercial cleaning company in Honolulu, Hawaii needed a steady flow of booked jobs from paid search on a small budget — without burning money on broad-match clicks and unqualified calls.

Method: Unit economics first → tight search campaign → Performance Max → Local Services Ads → weekly query pruning
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Painting — Charlotte, NC
Referring domains 0 → 8

Link building for a Charlotte painting company: 7 editorial citations earned by data, $0 spent

A painting company in Charlotte, North Carolina opened its site to indexing on 25 December 2025 with zero referring domains and no budget for links — in a local US niche where bought links are the shortest path to a penalty.

Method: Anchor audit → four original data assets → build-and-verify pipeline → outreach with no link request
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Apparel manufacturing — US
AI-search leads 0 → 21 & rising

How a US apparel manufacturer recovered its Google traffic — and opened an AI-search lead channel

The site came to us mid-collapse: free Google traffic falling, most pages missing from search. We found the cause, gave a fix plan the client's team executed, organic search recovered, and a net-new AI-search channel opened as the best-converting source.

Method: Diagnose the drop → keep/fix/remove plan for every page → rewrite briefs for money pages → markup + entity model for AI search
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E-commerce — Charlotte, NC
Mobile PageSpeed Performance 52 → 100

Headless Shopify Rebuild for a Woodworking Studio — Performance 52 → 100, All Four Scores Green

The store ran on a paid Shopify theme that scored 52 on mobile PageSpeed: multi-megabyte product images, render-blocking resources, limited control over markup and SEO. The brand needed a premium, story-driven storefront without giving up Shopify's checkout or admin.

Method: Headless Astro SSG → Shopify Storefront API → responsive images + WebP → inlined critical CSS → full schema → ADA audit
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