Local SEO Winter Garden, FL

From rank 61 to #1 in the map pack in 60 days.

St. Cyr Contracting, a general contractor in Winter Garden, Florida. Here's what was broken, what I changed, and what moved.

61 Avg map rank before

#1 Map pack spot after 60 days

13×13 Geo grid, tracked throughout

sccflorida.com

St. Cyr Contracting homepage, built by DropShadow

The client

Meet St. Cyr Contracting.

A family-owned general contractor with 20 years of building in West Orlando. Kitchen remodels are their bread and butter, and the goal is bigger work: commercial tenant buildouts and custom homes. Past customers loved them. Online, they barely existed, so every lead came from word of mouth and referrals.

“Amazing experience! Joey took something so unknown to me on how to do and language of setting up and optimizing our Google profile and upgrading to a professional website so seamlessly easy. He sent quick videos if I had questions on how to’s. He explained each detail of the process so I could understand what he had to do in the back side. If you are looking for someone who is knowledgeable, very responsive, and genuinely invested in helping your business succeed, I highly recommend Joey with DropShadow Agency.”

★★★★★ [ Reviewer name ] · St. Cyr Contracting · Google review

The problem

Twenty years of good work. Google just didn't know it. When someone searched “general contractor” in Winter Garden, St. Cyr averaged rank 61 — not in the top 20 anywhere on the grid. My job: fix what Google sees, then keep it moving.

The core problems

Primary category set to “Contractor” instead of “General Contractor,” the term people actually search

Hardly any secondary categories, so Google couldn't match them to most of their work

One review on the profile, and it was 1 star

A website Google had never indexed, not a single page

No service pages or service area pages to back up the profile

Zero citations: their name, address and phone weren't listed on any directory

Every lead came from referrals. Nothing came from Google.

What I did

Here's what I changed.
Five moves, one job each.

Fixed the category

Primary category moved from “Contractor” to “General Contractor,” with “Contractor” kept as a secondary and about 8 more secondary categories added.

Built 50 citations

A 50-citation bundle through LeadSnap. Name, address and phone made identical everywhere Google checks.

Reactivated past customers

33 past customers got a review request. 10 left a 5-star review, a 30% response rate, taking the profile from 1.0★ to 4.6★.

Rebuilt the website

The old site wasn't indexed, so I rebuilt it with a page for every service and every service area, mapped one-to-one to the profile.

Kept it moving

Two updates a week, every week: new website content, Business Profile posts and social updates.

Measured the whole way.

Every change was tracked on rank maps across a 13×13 grid of Winter Garden, so I could see what moved the map and what didn't.

The process

Here's how it came together.
In order. Nothing skipped.

Winter Garden general contractor rank map before: every grid point unranked, avg rank 61

Phase 01 · Days 1–14

Fixed what Google sees.

Primary category corrected, about 8 secondary categories added, 50 citations through LeadSnap, and a review request sent to 33 past customers. Within 14 days of the profile rebuild they were already climbing. That's what surprised the owner most: how fast it moved.

Phase 02 · Days 14–35

Rebuilt the website.

A new site with a page for every service and every service area, each one matching the services and areas on the profile, so the website and the profile tell Google the same story. By day 35 their average rank had gone from 61 to 5.

sccflorida.com/services/residential-services/kitchen-remodeling-winter-garden

St. Cyr Contracting kitchen remodeling service page for Winter Garden

Winter Garden general contractor rank map after 60 days: nearly every point ranking 1 to 3

Phase 03 · Days 35–60

Kept it moving.

Two updates a week across the website, the Business Profile and social. By day 60 they held the #1 spot in the map pack for “general contractor” in Winter Garden.

The result

Then the phone started ringing.

61 → #1

Map pack position for “general contractor” across a 13×13 grid of Winter Garden, from the first capture to day 60.

Keyword: “general contractor” · Winter Garden, FL · May 1 – July 1, 2026

Before

After

Google Maps rank coverage, before vs. after. Top-3 coverage went from 0% to 96%.

Top-3 coverage 0% → 96%

Google rating 1.0★ → 4.6★

Phone calls 0/week → 3/day

St. Cyr Contracting now ranks in the top 3 across 96% of the grid for “general contractor” in Winter Garden. They went from zero calls a week to about three a day, the website form fills started coming in, and they now show up in Google's AI Overviews for the services they offer. What was a referral-only business now gets found by people who had never heard of them, and that's exactly what it takes to win the bigger commercial and custom-home jobs they're after.

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