Case study · Smithrock Roofing, Winston-Salem NC

From 40 clicks a month to a compounding search engine.

Smithrock Roofing is a family-owned roofing, gutter, siding & window contractor
in North Carolina’s Piedmont Triad. They joined Mongoose in August 2025. Every number on this
page comes from their Google Search Console account.

22,600+
Google clicks in 16 months
5.78M
Search impressions
100×
Monthly clicks, start → peak
250+
Articles published
joined Mongoose · Aug 2025 22.6K Apr ’25 Aug ’25 Jan ’26 Aug ’26 Cumulative Google Search clicks · Google Search Console, Apr 2025 – Aug 2026

Where they started

In the four months before joining, smithrock-roofing.com averaged about 40 Google
clicks per month
— a solid local reputation (5.0 stars, hundreds of reviews) that
search simply couldn’t see. Competitors with decades-old domains owned every roofing query
in the Triad.

No content, no keyword coverage, no schema: the classic strong-business,
invisible-website gap.

What we did, in order

Aug – Nov 2025

Turned on the content engine

Keyword research across every service and city, then consistent weekly publishing:
researched articles with images, FAQ schema, and internal links, straight to their
WordPress site. No drafts waiting on anyone.

Dec 2025

Compounding kicked in

Impressions crossed 240,000 a month as Google started trusting the site across
hundreds of new queries. Clicks followed the same bend.

Jan – May 2026

Layered on the optimization loop

Automatic title & meta rewrites on pages with weak click-through, internal links from
high-traffic articles to money pages, refreshes of declining content, and consolidation
of overlapping articles so pages stopped competing with each other.
Monthly clicks peaked at 4,183 in May.

Jun – Aug 2026

Built for AI search

llms.txt, a full schema suite, and weekly tracking of what ChatGPT, Gemini & Perplexity
say when homeowners ask who to hire. AI crawlers made 5,000+ visits in the first
month of tracking
.

Month by month

4,183 Apr ’25 Aug ’25 Jan ’26 Jul ’26

Monthly Google Search clicks. Grey bars are the four months before the engagement.
Roofing search demand is seasonal — spring storms peak it, late summer cools it — which is
exactly why the system keeps publishing and optimizing year-round.

The part nobody else’s case study has

When homeowners ask AI, Smithrock is in the answer

We track what AI assistants actually say. Asked for a
certified CertainTeed contractor near Winston-Salem, ChatGPT names Smithrock and cites their
website as a source:

“Here are several CertainTeed certified roofing contractors near
Winston-Salem, NC: Smithrock Roofing…”

— ChatGPT with web search, August 2026 · cited source: smithrock-roofing.com/roofing/
  • 5,000+ AI crawler visits per month — ChatGPT, Claude & Perplexity bots reading the site
  • llms.txt + structured business facts — the site is machine-readable, so AI gets the story right
  • Weekly share-of-voice tracking — we measure mentions & citations, not vibes

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