Landscaping content marketing for design-build and lawn crews

Content marketing for a landscaping company is the written side of being found: a page for each service, a page for each town that sits on your work map, a write-up for each finished project in your gallery. We supply the writers and the editing. You supply the facts about your company, because nobody else knows how your estimate visit actually runs.

The pen is ours and the shovel is yours, and the pages below show how that split plays out month to month.

What landscaping content marketing covers, and what it leaves alone

Our writers draft pages about your business: the services you sell, the towns you drive to, how an estimate visit goes, how a maintenance route is set up, what a cleanup booking involves on your calendar. All of it is built from what you tell us, then returned to you for a read.

They do not write care instructions or planting advice, and they do not describe what a finished wall, patio or bed will do, last or look like. That belongs to the person who is standing in the yard with the customer. A page that sticks to your company and your services is also easier for you to stand behind.

The monthly writing load by plan, set out like a planting schedule

The plan cards give the counts. Strategic Content Assets are tallied separately from the new landing pages.
Tier on the scheduleNew landing pages for the landscaping siteStrategic Content Assets published
Organic Growth SilverTwenty-five a monthFour a month
Organic Growth GoldFifty a monthEight a month
Organic Growth PlatinumA hundred pages monthlyTwelve a month

Five kinds of landscaping page our writers draft

  • Services

    Service pages for patios, walls and planting

    One page per job type, so a homeowner looking for a patio lands on a page about patios rather than a general list of landscaping services.

  • Towns

    Town pages for each stop on the route map

    Each page ties a town to the services you offer there, in sentences that read like your company rather than a template with the town name swapped in.

  • Visits

    Estimate visit pages in your own process

    How you set a visit, who comes out, and what the office needs beforehand, written from your answers so homeowners arrive knowing the routine.

  • Gallery

    Project gallery write-ups from your photos

    Short captions and a paragraph per project, built from your description of the scope. The photos are yours, and so is the homeowner's say over showing them.

  • Calendar

    Booking pages for cleanups and new maintenance routes

    A page that opens the cleanup booking window or invites new route stops in a named town, timed around what your crews can take on.

From your landscaping notes to a published page

  1. Interview the owner

    A short call or a written form where you describe how a job runs, which towns you cover and what you leave out. Those answers are the only source for the draft.

  2. Stake the outline

    A heading list for the page comes back to you first, so a wrong turn is caught while it is still only a row of stakes.

  3. Draft in layers

    The writer builds the page in your terms: design-build, hardscape, beds, lawn visits, route stops. Plain sentences, no promises about the work.

  4. Owner read

    You read every draft. Edits go back to the writer, and a page waits for your approval before it is published.

  5. Publish and tag

    The page goes live with its tracking in place, so calls and form requests that arrive from it show up against its name on the monthly sheet.

Myths about content marketing for a landscape crew

Passed along at the estimate tableMore posts mean more estimate visits.

What the plan sheet showsVolume alone does nothing for a landscaping calendar, and we do not promise visit counts. Pages are written to match how homeowners search for a particular job.

Passed along at the estimate tableLandscaping content has to be lawn and garden advice.

What the plan sheet showsA homeowner choosing a crew reads about the crew. We write about your services, towns and process, and we leave advice about growing things to you.

Passed along at the estimate tableA gallery page is only photos.

What the plan sheet showsPhotos without words are hard for a search engine to read. The write-up beside each project is the part that tells a search page what the gallery is about.

Passed along at the estimate tableWriters have to tour the yard to write a landscaping page.

What the plan sheet showsThey work from your notes, your photo captions and your answers. If something is not in your notes, it does not go in the page.

Matching landscaping pages to the way homeowners search

Someone typing landscaping maintenance near me wants a different page from someone looking for commercial landscaping near me, even though both are looking at your company. A residential route stop and a commercial account get separate pages, each in its own vocabulary.

The keyword research behind these choices is written up on the keywords for landscaping page, and the pages themselves feed the work described under local SEO, since each town page supports the Maps listing.

Notes a writer needs from your landscaping office

  • A plain list of the services you want pages for, split by design-build and recurring work
  • The towns you serve, and any you refuse
  • How an estimate visit is scheduled and who attends
  • Your own wording for any paperwork or affiliation lines, kept as you supply them
  • Photos for the gallery, each with a one-line description of the scope

Where landscaping content marketing sits in the plans

Writing comes inside Organic Growth rather than as a separate line, so the cost of a page schedule is the cost of the plan: $1,495 a month on Silver, with the page count rising as you step up. There is no startup fee and no contract to dig out of later. If your site is managed by us, which begins at Gold, the new pages go straight onto it; on Silver we hand the pages to whoever edits your site. See the website design page for what a managed site involves.

Questions landscaping owners ask about content marketing

What is content marketing for a landscaping company?
It is the set of written pages that describe your services, towns and estimate process, plus the longer pieces counted as Strategic Content Assets. The goal is to match what homeowners search for with pages from your company.
Will your writers give lawn or planting advice on my site?
No. Advice about plants, soil and care belongs to the owner and the crews. Our pages describe your business and your services, and nothing else.
Do I approve every landscaping page before it goes live?
Yes, that is how the process is laid out. Drafts come back to you, edits go to the writer, and the page is published once you say so.
Can content marketing cover both my design-build work and my weekly lawn routes?
It can, and the two get separate pages. A homeowner weighing a patio and a client asking about a recurring route are reading for different things.
Who owns the pages written for my landscaping site?
Ask on the call with our CEO and get the answer in writing before the first month begins. The site is your business, and the terms should say so plainly.

Book a call to map your landscaping content calendar

Use the contact form to list the services you want pages for and the towns on your route map, a sentence each. Skip pricing for any customer and leave descriptions of work out of it; the call with our CEO is where the writing plan gets laid out.

Which crew has room for more work?

Name the jobs you would like more of, patios and walls or weekly lawn stops or both, and any town you would like added to the map. A few loose lines are plenty. Leave customer names and property addresses out; this is a conversation about marketing and never a job quote.

Sketch the company and its calendar

Tell us what your crews build or maintain and where they work, in as many lines as it takes. Our team reads each note before answering by email. No customer names or property addresses, please.

Settle on a day and a time between jobs, and our CEO, Ross Cohen, will ring you at that point.

Put the call on your week

Select a start time and your call is sketched out here.

Calls happen on weekdays, listed in whichever zone you select.

Lay the next season out on one sheet, then talk it through

On the call our CEO goes over which crews have room, which towns you want to reach and whether the budget belongs in search, in ads or in both. You hear one monthly price and a candid view of what would help. Nothing gets dug until you say so.

The wall and the planting along the bottom are a drawing, not a forecast of anyone's calendar.