Three options. Only one actually works for your business.
You're a metal specialist competing against generic roofers on every search
Metal roofing is a craft business stuck inside a generic-roofer search market. The customer Googles 'roofer [suburb]' or 'reroof [suburb]' and the top results are general roofing contractors who'll do tile or metal, badly, for whichever costs less. The genuine metal specialist (twelve years on Colorbond Trimdek, Klip-Lok standing-seam tooling, AS 1562 compliance, Lysaght and Stratco relationships, a portfolio of bullnose-and-curved heritage jobs) sits on page two because the generic mob spend the marketing budget. The split is brutal: residential reroof at $80-$180/m² standard Colorbond, $120-$280/m² standing-seam, plus the rural shed market at $50-$120/m² and the commercial warehouse tier at $80K-$500K per job. Each is a different customer, a different keyword, a different ad. The standing-seam architect customer has nothing in common with the Klip-Lok shed customer in Mudgee, and a generic 'metal roofing' page wins neither. Meanwhile the Master Builders Association membership, the AS 1562 metal-roofing compliance, the Workcover and Working-at-Heights endorsements never make it onto the website that the architect is actually looking at.
Good metal-roofer marketing is three things kept separate from generic roofing. A profile-by-profile service hub: a Colorbond Trimdek page for the residential reroof customer, a standing-seam page for the architect specifying a $120K-$280K residence, a Klip-Lok page for the commercial-warehouse tier, a Custom-Orb and bullnose page for the heritage owner, each one with the manufacturer brands (Lysaght, Stratco, Fielders, Bluescope, Metroll, Revolution Roofing) named and the AS 1562 + AS 1397 + AS 4534 compliance called out. A suburb-page library per profile, because 'standing seam roof [suburb]' is a different search to 'Colorbond reroof [suburb]' and they need separate landing pages. And a preferred-installer pipeline (Lysaght, Stratco, Fielders) plus the Master Builders Association, Housing Industry Association and Australian Steel Institute membership badges across the trust strip, so the architect doing due diligence sees a genuine metal specialist, not a generic roofer in disguise. Get this right and the warehouse-reroof tenders start coming direct.
Six agents, working in your accounts.
Account Lead, Web, SEO, Advertising, Social Media, and Content. One platform, one bill, you approve the work.
Builds your annual plan around the three customer splits that actually pay: residential reroof and extension at $80-$180/m² standard Colorbond plus $120-$280/m² premium standing-seam, rural shed and farm-building at $50-$120/m², and commercial warehouse and factory at $80K-$500K. Briefs the other agents so the standing-seam architect work, the Trimdek shed work, the Klip-Lok warehouse work and the bullnose heritage work each get their own keyword set and landing page rather than fighting for a generic 'metal roofer' positioning.
Imports your existing site so you stop paying for hosting plus a CMS subscription, and ships a clean profile-by-profile structure (Trimdek / standing-seam / Klip-Lok / Custom-Orb / bullnose / curved) instead of one generic 'metal roofing' page. Spins up a new suburb page per profile in five minutes every time you start covering a new postcode, with the AS 1562 + AS 1397 + AS 4534 compliance front and centre and Master Builders Association, Australian Steel Institute membership in the footer. To your live site in two taps.
Goes through your live site for the things that actually move metal-roofer rankings: 'Colorbond reroof [suburb]', 'standing seam [suburb]' and 'Klip-Lok [suburb]' on separate H1s so the profiles don't cannibalise each other, metal-roofing schema with AS 1562 and manufacturer-brand markup (Lysaght, Stratco, Fielders, Metroll, Bluescope, Revolution Roofing), internal links from suburbs into the right profile page, and a Google Business Profile reconfigured as a genuine metal specialist not a generic roofing contractor. Auto-applies the low-risk fixes.
Launches separate Google Ads campaigns per profile: Trimdek ads at the volume-end residential CPC, standing-seam ads at a higher bid with the architectural-finish hook, Klip-Lok ads aimed at the commercial-warehouse buyer, Custom-Orb and bullnose ads at higher CPC for the heritage specialty. Drops broad 'metal roofer [city]' bids entirely (generic-roofer bait). Switches Meta on only for standing-seam and heritage, which sell visually.
Turns every job into a post in your real accounts: a Mosman Colorbond standing-seam reroof, a Mudgee Trimdek shed, a Penrith Klip-Lok warehouse, a Glebe Custom-Orb heritage verandah. Builds the pan-detail and ridge-cap credibility that wins the architect choosing between you and a generic roofer who 'also does metal'. You upload one photo per job (preferably from the ridge), the agent drafts the caption with the profile, the manufacturer brand and the AS standard named, you approve.
Drafts the long-form pieces architects and homeowners Google before they spec a metal roof: 'Colorbond Trimdek vs Klip-Lok standing-seam: which for a 2026 reroof', 'how much does a standing-seam roof cost per square metre in [your city]', 'AS 1562 metal-roofing standard explained for homeowners', 'Lysaght vs Stratco vs Fielders for a residential reroof'. Two drafts a month, in your voice, that pull architects and homeowners onto your site weeks before they spec the job.
Your first 30 days.
- Annual plan tilted to the three splits that actually pay: residential reroof (standard Colorbond $80-$180/m² plus premium standing-seam $120-$280/m²), rural shed at $50-$120/m², commercial warehouse and factory at $80K-$500K
- Profile-by-profile site structure live: Colorbond Trimdek, standing-seam architectural, Klip-Lok commercial, Custom-Orb and bullnose heritage, Spandek industrial, Zincalume coastal
- Google Business Profile rebuilt as a 14 to 18 postcode metal-specialist service-area business with 23-item service list, Metal Roofing Contractor primary category, and Master Builders Association, Australian Steel Institute and Australian Industry Group membership in the description
- AS 1562 + AS 1397 + AS 4534 metal-roofing compliance, AS 1170 wind-load compliance and Workcover plus Working-at-Heights and asbestos-removal endorsements wired into every service page footer
- Suburb profile pages indexed across your three highest-value postcodes for standing-seam, with separate pages for Trimdek and Klip-Lok in the rural and commercial postcodes
- Lysaght, Stratco, Fielders, Bluescope, Metroll, Bondor and Revolution Roofing manufacturer relationships named in the trust strip on each profile page, with preferred-installer outreach in flight
- Profile-split Google Ads live (Trimdek at residential CPC, standing-seam at a higher architectural CPC, Klip-Lok aimed at the commercial-warehouse buyer, bullnose and curved at heritage CPC)
- Metal-roofing schema deployed with AS 1562, AS 1397, AS 4534 and manufacturer-brand markup
- Ridge-and-pan caption library running three times a week with the profile, manufacturer brand and AS standard named in every post
- 'Colorbond Trimdek vs Klip-Lok standing-seam', 'AS 1562 metal-roofing standard explained for homeowners' and 'Lysaght vs Stratco vs Fielders' explainers drafted for approval
Metal roofers lose to the generic mob not on workmanship, but on visibility. A specialist with twelve years on Trimdek and Klip-Lok, full Lysaght and Stratco relationships, Master Builders Association membership and AS 1562 compliance is invisible to the architect specifying a $280K Mosman standing-seam if the first Google result is a generic roofing contractor who'll do tile or metal, badly, for whichever costs less. Owning that visibility per profile, in every postcode the truck covers, is the only marketing that actually moves the diary off the commodity end and onto the standing-seam end.
Agencies are too dear to actually ship the profile-by-profile site, the suburb-page library and the preferred-installer outreach for $3.5k a month. DIY tools are cheap but you tune the bids in the ute at 8pm and the standing-seam landing page never gets built. In-House is the third option: for $299 a month the agents ship the pages, launch the profile-split ads, post the ridge-and-pan jobs, and brief Lysaght and Stratco for the preferred-installer lists. You stay in the driver's seat, two taps to approve, minutes a day. Stop losing the standing-seam architect to the bloke who 'also does metal'.