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Level10 Contractor Daily

The Website Formula That Generated 500 Leads/Month | The Level 10 Blueprint

πŸ“… October 22, 2025 ⏱️ 27:30 🎀 Rich Harshaw

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  • 0:00
    Intro: most contractor websites suck
  • 0:34
    #1 Identity, the secret sauce
  • 3:47
    #2 Thin themes vs bloated code
  • 5:24
    #3 A story-driven About Us page
  • 8:06
    #4 Power, precision, and passion
  • 10:47
    #5 Core values & the trust pyramid
  • 13:29
    #6 Nerd coding fundamentals
  • 15:07
    #7 Service area pages as soldiers
  • 17:16
    #8 Keyword dense, not keyword stuffed
  • 21:30
    #9 Fast mobile-first websites
  • 23:40
    #10 Whatever-it-takes responsiveness
  • 25:15
    Robins Construction 60-day turnaround & recap

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Rich Harshaw
Host, Level10 Contractor Daily

Key Takeaways

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Identity is the #1 differentiator: your website should communicate who you are, how you're different, why you're better, and what to expect β€” becoming the storehouse for your identity even when leads first find you through pay-per-click, canvassing or shows.

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Thin themes beat off-the-shelf themes: 60-80% of a purchased theme's code is bloat you'll never use, so Level 10 codes from scratch (15-30k lines vs 200-300k) for speed and reliability, aligned with Google's 2021 Core Web Vitals.

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A strong About Us page should tell your origin story and link it to your values (like Amsberry Painting's 11-year-old-knocking-on-a-door story), not read like dry Wikipedia facts.

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Write with power, precision and passion, and back core values with real stories and evidence (the 'trust pyramid') rather than slapping platitudes like 'we have integrity' on the page.

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'Nerd coding' β€” correct H1/H2/H3 tags, properly named images, geo-keyword pairs, right directories β€” sends the right signals to Google; audits show these fundamentals are botched far more often than you'd expect.

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Service area pages are soldiers on the SEO battlefront: create many, make them engaging standalone landing pages with products and identity, and code them correctly β€” Rich estimates only ~10% of sites do this fully right.

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Be keyword dense, not keyword stuffed: weave the right real-search keywords into coherent, persuasive copy humans actually read, plus build mobile-first sites that load under Google's 2.5-second standard.

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