Want to see how frustrating ranking your website on Google can be?
Then welcome to the top 20 plumber near me Google search results from a random US city.

Today we’re doing it from Minneapolis,
and I’m using a tool that we developed at True Blue Collar
that fools Google into thinking I’m in the Twin Cities
when I’m really here at my home office in Austin.

By the way, if you want to see where you rank in your city, just reach out to me.

But now here’s Minneapolis — and you did pretty good, Minneapolis.
You got nine local plumbers in the top 20,
with five in the top 10.

But let’s take a closer look at the top 10.
Can you believe that Ron the Sewer Rat — and yes, that is his name —
is going to get 10 times the number of clicks than Jen Bryan at number seven?

So if you’ve been told that SEO is going to get you on page one,
and it’s your salvation,
then you might have been sold a bit of false.