Landscaping Keywords: List of 386 Keywords for Landscapers
Landscaping Keywords Overview
Search engine optimization (SEO) along with paid search advertising are two essential components in effectively promoting your landscaping business on the Internet. When someone enters their search term into the Google or Bing search engines, ads appear near the top, and the organic search results appear below the ads. Both require relevant keywords to reach your target market.
A successful landscaping SEO campaign will require writing unique content around keywords that are relevant to the services that your landscaping business provides. Local SEO is a subset of SEO that focuses more on ranking in the Google Map Pack. You can use these SEO keywords to enhance and better define your Google Business Profile listing (formerly Google My Business).
Search advertising for landscaping contractors is the process of creating (pay-per-click) PPC campaigns to get your advertisement in front of potential customers precisely at the time they're seeking your landscaping services. You will use these keywords within the text of a Google Ad, and as keywords within ad campaigns. When someone conducts a Google search, the goal is for your ad and your organic listing to appear prominently in the search results.
Both digital marketing strategies are able to bring landscaping leads to your website where you'll have the opportunity to convert a potential customer into a paying client.
Search for Your Personal Keywords
In this article, I'll first talk about the methods and tools that you can utilize to locate more keywords to add to your landscaping campaigns.
Utilize The Keyword List We HaveKeywordThe List
At the end of this article, I will give you 386 terms related to landscaping services. You can modify these for your own purposes and use them in your own search engine marketing campaigns. You can also utilize the keywords as a start point for search engine optimization to bring more people to your website for free.
Keyword Research Tools
Find Keywords that you can use for your landscaping SEO and Paid Search Campaigns
Notice that in every example I'm using a single seed keyword such as "landscaping contractor". While this is a decent starting point, you'll want to get deeper into your landscaping services when using these tools.
For example, you'll want to try keywords like “sod installation”, “inground sprinkler installs”, “paver patios near me”. Enter variations of all of your services into the tools for the best results.
Mangools KWFinder
KWFinder is a paid service that begins at around $29 per month however, they offer the option of a free trial for 10 days.
With Mangools the user enters their keyword, location, and language, and it will provide a wealth of data that can be useful for SEO as well as PPC purposes. While the actual data won't be 100% accurate (only Google has access to 100% accurate data about search queries) but the data can assist you in selecting the correct keywords.
Mangools Results of KWFinder for "landscaping"
In this case we picked "landscaping" as the keyword, and then set the location to "The Woodlands, TX" (1). By default, it shows Related Keywords (2).
It is also possible to change the settings between "Autocomplete" or "Questions". Writing content for websites around Google Autocomplete or Questions is an effective SEO Strategy. These are usually lower volume keywords that have little in the way of competition thus allowing you to gain an organic flow of web traffic (free) to your company website.
KeywordTable (Left Panel)
Under our search are the keywords returned in the keyword table
Keywords (2) - They are the key words you may want to look over to use in paid search and SEO-related campaigns.
Search (3) -The monthly average volume of searches for the past 12 months , based on parameters of the search (searches for "landscaping" for The Woodlands, TX). We can see that roughly 430 monthly people are searching for "landscaping" in The Woodlands, TX.
CPC (4) - CPC shows what the expected cost for each click for the keyword within Google Ads paid search. Also, using an example like the landscaping example, you'll see that the estimated cost per click could be around $9.06. It's just an estimate however, the price per click in your advertising campaign will be different depending on a variety of factors, including the position of your ad and the geographical location where you’re running ads. If we look at the numbers, it's safe to say that bidding on "landscaping" with an approximate CPC of $9.06 will probably be more costly than bidding on "backyard design" for $1.73.
PPC (5) - PPC shows how difficult the competition is for paid search ads. 100 is higher and indicates extremely competitive bidding. 0 indicates very little competition and likely much lower click costs. The PPC value of 16 shows that the advertiser competition is on the low side according to KWFinder - which actually kind of conflicts with the rather high CPC cost of $9.06.
KD (6) - It is the keyword difficulty and is used for SEO purposes. For landscaping, the keyword difficulty is 33 - which is "Possible" which means it's a struggle to rank but it can be done if you have a sound SEO strategy and lots of good quality content on your website. Higher KD values are harder to get to rank high up in the search results. The KD for many keywords isn’t provided. You can click on the magnifying glass to reveal the KD for those keywords.
KeywordSEO Data (Right Panel)
The right-hand section contains SEO data for the keyword which is highlighted in the left-hand panel. This panel shows the keyword difficulty highlighted once more (7), along with Search Engine Results Page (8) overview. Search Engine Results Page (8) overview of the keyword based upon our keywords search parameters. The top search result is owned by woodlandslandscaping.com. This section gives you great information about the companies you'll be going up against if you’re trying to rank for a certain keyword.
Make Lists and Export Your Keyword Data
You can make lists and export data from this interface, so that you can identify good keywords for your campaigns offline using a spreadsheet application or a database.
AHREFs
Ahrefs is paid keyword tool that starts at $99/month. Ahrefs doesn’t offer free trials. ahrefs provides very detailed metrics for PPC and search engine optimization.
Once you've signed up, you can navigate to the keywords explorer and input one or moe seed keywords. We've entered our keyword - "landscaping" (9) and kept the default search engine (Google) and location (United States).
Enter the seed keyword to Keywords Explorer - then click on "Related Terms"
On the page with results, we can click on "Related Terms" (10) to get a better overview of the available keywords. This takes us to a list of many related terms we can use as keywords…
You can see that we have 9,398 potential keywords to choose from. You can save these keywords as an excel spreadsheet or export them for offline analysis.
Ahrefs yields a great deal of SEO and PPC information
Some of the key columns in the results:
KD (12) - This is the keyword difficulty - a proprietary metric developed by ahrefs for determining how difficult it would be to rank for the given keyword. The higher the number, the harder it is to rank a keyword. The KD is the logarithmic scale. This means that the ranking for KD20 keywords are more than twice as hard to rank as KD10 keywords.
Volume (13) - This is the average monthly search volume for the specified keyword based on the search parameters that we used in our original search.
CPC (14) - the approximate cost per click you should anticipate if you're running ppc ads for this keyword. Ahrefs uses Google data for this estimate, however, as previously mentioned, the cost per click can vary widely for every search and ad placement
SERP (15) - Click here to see the search engine results for a keyword. Doing so will show you who your competitors are should you try to rank for the keyword.
Export (16) - You can export ahrefs data to do an offline analysis
Keyword Sheeter
Keyword Sheeter was called something a little bit different (and a bit off-color) and was free. Now it appears that they're moving toward more of a pay-per-click model. However, you can still find results for absolutely no cost.
What it does is give you a list of Google autocomplete suggestions based on the keywords that you provide. Here, from "Keyword Ideas Tools," (17) and using the default search settings (18), I entered “landscapers” as a seed keyword (19) and clicked on the “Sheet Keywords” button. (20).
Keyword Sheeter provides results using Google Autocomplete
Keyword Sheeter creates a running list of variations of the keyword that you entered. At the moment you are able to copy the results into a spreadsheet. Subscriptions start at $9/mo.
Google Ads - Keyword Planner for Landscapers
Google has its own keyword research tool within Google Ads. You can set up keywords when you first sign up for Google Ads, and you can edit or add to those keywords at any time. We’ll have an upcoming post on Google Ads for landscapers which goes more in depth on this topic.
If you've already signed-up for Google Ads, you can access Google's Keyword Planner by going to "Tools and Settings" (21), and choosing "Keyword Planner" (22)
Accessing the Google Keyword Planner
Once you're in the keyword planner, go to “Start with Keywords” (23). Then enter keywords related to your landscaping services (24) - here we entered "sod installation". You’ll want to enter many of your services here. Once you're done to go on, click the"Get Results" button(25).
Keywords that are seeded in Google's Keyword Planner
As you see below, Google provides 534 Keywords (26). The keyword suggestions (27) along with the monthly average keywords for each (28), and top of the page bidding details (29) and (30) are all displayed.
You can expand your results by broadening your search by clicking on a Google suggested keyword (31). You can also refine your keywords or download the results by clicking on the appropriate link in the upper right(32).
Keyword planner results for "landscaping"
You can automatically put these keywords right into your existing Google Ads search campaigns if desired.
Search Engine Optimization and PPC Keywords for Landscapers
Based on my experience and the use of the tools listed above, here is a starting set of 386 landscaping keywords to think about using for your digital marketing efforts.
It's not a complete list, and you should do your own keyword research to find terms that are relevant to your business.
Qualifiers
Remember that for paid-search campaigns, it is necessary to include qualifiers for some of the phrases below.
Location qualifiers
For example, a lot of people are searching for "near my home", "my area" or their location (e.g. "new patio design and install Albuquerque"). So, for certain landscaping keywords, you could want to include city names that you service (or the "near me" qualifier).
Price qualifiers
You’ll see below that there are a lot of price-related keywords. I probably don’t have to tell you that landscaping customers that completely dialed in on price usually aren’t the best. The best customers are willing to listen to what makes your services so much better than the competition that they’ll be getting incredible value - not the cheapest deal around. You get what you pay for - and spending a lot of time trying to optimize or bid on price-related keywords usually isn’t the best. You don’t want to be known as the cheapest landscaper around. It is much better to be known as the best landscaper in your town.
Negative Keywords
Many of the terms below are pretty popular searches for customers seeking landscaping services. If you're not offering one of the popular services or products are shown below, you should choose to make it a negative keyword in Google Ads or Microsoft Ads. As an example, If you don’t do inground sprinkler installations, you probably want to make “sprinklers” and related terms negative keywords. You don’t want ads for your business appearing for landscaping services that you don’t offer.
Keywords for Backyard Landscaping
backyard landscape companies near me
backyard landscaping companies near me
backyard landscaping near me
backyard makeover companies near me
backyard makeover near me
backyard renovation near me
Commercial Landscaping Keywords
commercial landscape contractors near me
commercial landscape maintenance companies near me
commercial landscape maintenance near me
commercial landscapers near me
commercial landscaping companies near me
commercial landscaping services near me
commercial lawn care companies near me
commercial lawn maintenance companies near me
Concrete Landscaping Keywords
concrete and landscaping companies near me
concrete curbing companies near me
concrete curbing company near me
concrete curbing contractors near me
concrete edging companies near me
concrete edging company near me
concrete landscape curbing companies near me
concrete landscape edging companies near me
curbing companies near me
curbing company near me
Deck Keywords
deck and landscaping companies near me
Drainage and Grading Keywords
backyard drainage contractors near me
french drainage contractors near me
grading and drainage companies near me
grading and drainage contractor near me
grading and drainage contractors near me
grading and landscaping companies near me
land grading companies near me
landscape and drainage contractors near me
landscape drainage companies near me
landscape grading and drainage contractors near me
landscape grading companies near me
landscape grading contractors near me
landscape grading services near me
landscaping and drainage companies near me
landscaping and grading companies near me
landscaping grading services near me
landscaping water drainage contractors near me
lawn drainage company near me
lawn drainage contractors near me
lawn grading companies near me
outdoor drainage companies near me
outdoor drainage contractors near me
yard drain companies near me
yard drain contractors near me
yard drainage company near me
yard drainage contractors near me
yard drainage system contractors near me
yard grading companies near me
yard water drainage contractors near me
Eco Friendly Keywords
eco friendly landscaping near me
eco landscaping near me
ecological landscaping near me
organic landscaping company near me
organic lawn care companies near me
organic lawn care near me
sustainable landscaping near me
Keywords About Fences
fencing and landscaping companies near me
fencing and landscaping contractors near me
landscaping and fencing companies near me
Garden Keywords
garden and landscaping services near me
garden landscape companies near me
garden landscape services near me
garden landscaping companies near me
garden landscaping services near me
gardener landscaper near me
gardening & landscaping services near me
gardening and landscaping near me
gardening and landscaping services near me
gardening companies near me
landscape gardeners near me
landscape gardening companies near me
landscaping and gardening services near me
lawn and garden care companies near me
lawn and garden companies near me
Keywords for Hardscapes
cement edging companies near me
custom curbing concrete edging landscaping near me
decorative curbing companies near me
hard landscaping companies near me
hard landscaping contractors near me
hard landscaping near me
hardscape and landscape companies near me
hardscape companies near me
hardscape contractors near me
hardscape design companies near me
hardscape designers near me
hardscape landscapers near me
hardscape landscaping near me
hardscaping near me
hardscaping services near me
landscape and hardscape companies near me
landscape and hardscape contractors near me
landscape curbing companies near me
landscape curbing contractors near me
landscape edging companies near me
landscape hardscape contractors near me
landscape hardscape near me
landscaping and hardscaping near me
landscaping and hardscaping services near me
landscaping and paving companies near me
lawn edging companies near me
HOA Keywords
hoa landscaping companies near me
Landscape Design Keywords
backyard design companies near me
custom landscape design near me
design landscapers near me
garden design companies near me
garden design near me
independent landscape designers near me
landscape and design companies near me
landscape and design near me
landscape and pool design companies near me
landscape design and installation near me
landscape design companies near me
landscape design contractors near me
landscape design near me
landscape design services near me
landscaping designers near me
lawn design companies near me
outdoor design company near me
residential landscape design near me
residential landscape designers near me
Lawn Care Kewyords
landscape and lawn care services near me
landscape and lawn service near me
landscaping and lawn care companies near me
landscaping lawn care near me
lawn care and landscaping companies near me
lawn care and landscaping near me
lawn care and landscaping services near me
lawn care business near me
lawn care clean up near me
lawn care companies around me
lawn care companies near me
lawn care companies near my location
lawn care contractors near me
lawn care landscaping near me
lawn care landscaping services near me
lawn care providers near me
lawn mowing and landscaping services near me
professional lawn care near me
quality lawn care near me
small lawn care companies near me
veteran owned lawn care near me
Licensed / Bonded / Insured Keywords
licensed landscape contractors near me
licensed landscaper near me
licensed landscapers near me
Lighting Services Keywords
landscape lighting companies near me
landscape lighting contractors near me
landscape lighting installation companies near me
landscape lighting services near me
LED landscape lighting
outdoor landscape lighting contractors near me
outdoor lighting service near me
outdoor lighting services near me
yard lighting companies near me
Maintenance Services Keywords
flower bed maintenance companies near me
garden maintenance companies near me
garden maintenance services near me
ground maintenance companies near me
grounds maintenance companies near me
grounds maintenance contractors near me
landscape and lawn maintenance near me
landscape maintenance companies near me
landscape maintenance near me
landscape maintenance services near me
landscaping and maintenance near me
lawn and garden maintenance near me
lawn and garden maintenance services near me
lawn maintenance companies near me
lawn maintenance contractors near me
organic lawn maintenance near me
residential landscape maintenance services near me
yard maintenance companies near me
Mulch Keywords
landscape mulch companies near me
landscape mulching services near me
mulch companies near me
mulch installation companies near me
mulch installation services near me
Patio Keywords
brick paver patio companies near me
landscape patio contractors near me
landscaping and patio companies near me
landscaping patio near me
patio and landscape companies near me
patio and landscaping companies near me
patio hardscaping near me
patio landscaping companies near me
patio landscaping near me
Keywords About Pavers
patio paver companies near me
patio paver installation companies near me
patio paver installer near me
patio pavers contractors near me
paver patio installation companies near me
landscape paver companies near me
Landscapers Pricing Keywords
affordable landscaping companies near me
affordable landscaping company near me
affordable landscaping near me
affordable landscaping services near me
cheap landscape companies near me
cheap landscaping companies near me
cheap landscaping near me
cheap landscaping services near me
landscaping companies near me prices
landscaping near me affordable
low cost landscaping near me
most affordable lawn care near me
reasonable landscapers near me
reasonable landscaping companies near me
reasonably priced landscapers near me
Proximity Keywords
all landscaping companies near me
big landscape companies near me
big landscaping companies near me
construction and landscaping companies near me
creative landscaping near me
custom landscaping near me
female owned landscaping business near me
find landscapers near me
find landscaping companies near me
flower bed planting services near me
full landscaping services near me
full service landscapers near me
full service landscaping company near me
full service landscaping near me
good landscaping companies near me
good landscaping company near me
groundskeeping services near me
handyman landscapers near me
handyman landscaping near me
home landscaping companies near me
home landscaping services near me
landscape clean up companies near me
landscape cleanup services near me
landscape construction companies near me
landscape construction near me
landscape contractors near me
landscape handyman near me
landscape installation companies near me
landscape installation near me
landscape removal services near me
landscape renovation near me
landscape renovations near me
landscape repair near me
landscape specialist near me
landscape trimming service near me
landscaping and construction near me
landscaping and excavating companies near me
landscaping and yard clean up near me
landscaping around me
landscaping business near me
landscaping businesses around me
landscaping companies around me
landscaping companies near me
landscaping companies near my location
landscaping firms near me
landscaping installation near me
landscaping lawn service near me
landscaping near me
landscaping places near me
landscaping services near me
landscaping services near my location
landscaping stone company near me
large landscape companies near me
large landscaping companies near me
lawn & landscape near me
lawn and landscape companies near me
lawn and landscape near me
lawn and landscaping companies near me
lawn and landscaping services near me
lawn care service near me
lawn landscaping services near me
lawn service and landscaping near me
lawnscape services near me
lawnscapes near me
local landscapers near me
local landscaping companies near me
outdoor landscape companies near me
outdoor landscaping companies near me
outdoor landscaping near me
pool and landscaping companies near me
pool landscaping companies near me
private landscapers near me
private landscaping near me
professional landscape services near me
professional landscapers near me
professional landscaping companies near me
professional landscaping services near me
quality landscaping near me
residential landscape contractors near me
residential landscaping companies near me
residential landscaping landscaping companies near me
residential landscaping near me
residential landscaping services near me
small landscape companies near me
small landscaping companies near me
yard and landscaping services near me
yard landscaping companies near me
yard landscaping ideas
yard landscaping near me
Ratings and Review Keywords
best affordable landscapers near me
best garden landscapers near me
best hardscaping companies near me
best landscape architects near me
best landscape contractors near me
best landscape design companies near me
best landscape design near me
best landscape gardeners near me
best landscape maintenance companies near me
best landscape maintenance near me
best landscape services near me
best landscapers designers near me
best landscapers near me
best landscaping companies near me
best landscaping services near me
best lawn care company near me
best lawn care near me
best lawn maintenance companies near me
best lawn maintenance near me
best rated landscaper near me
best rated landscapers near me
best rated landscaping companies near me
best rated lawn care near me
best rated lawn maintenance near me
best residential landscapers near me
best residential landscaping near me
best sprinkler system repair near me
best yard maintenance near me
recommended landscapers near me
reputable landscapers near me
the best landscaping companies near me
the best lawn care near me
top 10 landscape companies near me
top 10 landscaping companies near me
top landscape companies near me
top landscapers near me
top landscaping companies near me
top lawn care companies near me
top notch landscaping near me
top rated landscape companies near me
top rated landscapers near me
top rated landscaping companies near me
top rated lawn care companies near me
top ten landscaping companies near me
Retaining Wall Keywords
retaining wall installation companies near me
Rocks
landscaping rock companies near me
rock landscaping companies near me
stone landscaping companies near me
Sod and New Lawn Keywords
landscape sod companies near me
landscaping and sod companies near me
lawn installation companies near me
new lawn installation companies near me
sod installation companies near me
sod installation near me
Sprinkler and Irrigation Keywords
in ground sprinkler system installation near me
irrigation and drainage companies near me
irrigation and drainage contractors near me
irrigation and landscape companies near me
irrigation and landscaping companies near me
irrigation and lawn care near me
landscape & irrigation companies near me
landscape and irrigation companies near me
landscape and sprinkler company near me
landscape irrigation companies near me
landscape irrigation contractors near me
landscape sprinkler companies near me
landscaping and irrigation services near me
lawn irrigation installation companies near me
lawn sprinkler installation companies near me
lawn sprinkler system installation companies near me
lawn sprinkler system installation near me
rainbird sprinkler system repair near me
sprinkler and lawn care near me
sprinkler system installation companies near me
sprinkler system installation near me
sprinkler system repair companies near me
underground sprinkler system installation near me
water sprinkler system installation near me
Trees Keywords
landscaping and tree service near me
tree and lawn care near me
tree and landscape services near me
tree and landscaping companies near me
tree and landscaping services near me
tree removal and landscaping service near me
tree service and landscaping near me
Weeding Keywords
landscape weed control companies near me
weeding landscaping services near me
Xeriscapes Keywords
xeriscape companies near me
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