Renting a ranked website, explained

What rank and rent actually is

We build a website for one trade in one Maine town. Junk hauling in Bangor. Tree removal in the Kennebec area. Then we do the work to get it ranking on Google for the searches local people actually type. Once it is at the top and the calls are coming in, we rent it to one business that does that work in that area. You pay a flat monthly rate and every lead the site produces is yours. We keep ranking it. You keep answering the phone and doing the jobs.

The site stays ours. The leads are yours. That is the whole arrangement, and it is month to month, so you are never locked in.

Why it beats building your own site from scratch

You could hire someone to build you a site and run SEO on it. Plenty of contractors have. The problem is time. A brand new site is invisible. It can take six months or a year of steady SEO before it shows up on page one, and you pay for all of it while you wait, with no leads to show. If the SEO is not great, it never gets there at all.

A rental skips that wait. The site already ranks. People are already finding it and calling. When you rent it, we point the number at your phone and you start getting those calls right away. You are paying for a result that already exists, not a promise that it might happen later.

What you get and what you keep

When you rent one of our sites, here is what is yours for as long as you rent it.

• Every lead the site produces, with no per-lead fee and no cap during busy season
• A local tracking number that rings your existing phone, with every call recorded
• A plain monthly report that lists every call and form so you can see what you got
• Ongoing SEO to keep the site ranking, done by us at a lower rate than agency SEO on a site we do not run
• Exclusivity in your market, so the leads are never shared with another business

What you do not get is ownership of the site itself. You are renting the spot at the top of Google, not buying the building. If owning the site matters to you, we also do custom builds you own outright, but that is a different project.

How the forwarding number works

This is the part people ask about most, so here is the truth of it. The phone number on the site is a number we own. It is local to your area. When you sign, we point it at your existing phone. A customer calls the number, it rings your phone like any other call, you answer and book the job. Nothing gets installed. There is no app and no porting of your real number. The forwarding number simply rings through to you.

Because the call runs through our number first, it gets recorded and logged before it reaches you. That is how you get a monthly report with every call in it, and how you can listen back to any of them. If you ever stop renting, the number stops pointing at your phone. Your own number was never touched.

One business per market

Each site goes to one business and one business only. We do not rent the same site to two competitors, and we do not sell its leads to a national app on the side. When you rent the Bangor junk hauling site, you are the only hauler getting those calls. That exclusivity is the reason a rented site closes better than a shared lead service like Angi or HomeAdvisor, where four crews chase the same caller. You are never racing anyone for the call.

Rental or pay-per-lead, and switching between them

Renting the whole site is one of two ways to work with us. The other is pay-per-lead, where you skip the flat rate and pay a set price each time a real lead comes in. Renting is the better deal once the calls are steady, because you keep every lead including the busy-season spikes for one predictable number. Pay-per-lead is the lower-risk way to start, since you only pay when a lead actually arrives.

You can move between the two whenever it suits you. Slow winter, switch to pay-per-lead and only pay for what comes in. Busy summer, switch to the flat rental and keep every call. It is one email, month to month, no contract and no penalty either way. See how the numbers line up on the pricing page.