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12 vs 1 median reviews, website vs none
45,428businesses benchmarked
6median Google reviews
37.3%have no website
The free 14-day trial

What a cleaning company actually needs to fill the schedule

Every service below is part of the free 14-day trial. Start with whichever one is costing you the most right now.

Google Ads management

Search campaigns built around the jobs you want, with call tracking so you hear what you pay for.

Free for 14 days

Facebook and Instagram ads

Offers to homeowners in your zip codes, retargeting, and creative that gets replies.

Free for 14 days

AI search optimization

Structured pages, consistent listings and plain-language answers so AI engines recommend you.

Free for 14 days

Local SEO and Google profile

Categories, services, photos, posts and Q&A tuned to win the map pack in your area.

Free for 14 days

Website design and rebuilds

Fast, tap-to-call pages for every service and city you work in, built in about a week.

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Social media management

A steady, on-brand posting schedule that makes the business look alive when people check.

Free for 14 days

Review generation and reputation

Ask-at-the-door scripts, automatic texts, tracking per tech, and replies to the bad ones.

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Missed-call text-back

Every missed call gets a text in seconds, and every lead gets followed up until it answers.

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Email and SMS campaigns

Seasonal offers and reminders to past customers, the cheapest jobs you will ever book.

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Bookkeeping and financials

Clean books, categorized spend and a monthly P&L so you know which marketing pays.

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Appointment setting

Trained callers booking commercial and property-manager appointments onto your calendar.

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Analytics and reporting

One dashboard: calls, leads, cost per lead and booked jobs by channel, updated weekly.

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Benchmark data

What 45,428 house cleaning companies look like on Google

Computed from public Google Business Profile listings across 51 states, refreshed monthly. Read the full report.

45,428
house cleaning companies in our Google Business Profile dataset
6
median review count
37.3%
have no website listed
59.5%
have fewer than 10 reviews

A cleaning company is not a normal local business. You do not sell one job, you sell a slot on a calendar that repeats every two weeks for three years. That changes every marketing decision on this site. A lead that books a one-time move-out clean and disappears is worth a couple hundred dollars. The same lead on a biweekly rotation is worth several thousand. Most of the advice aimed at cleaners ignores that difference, which is why so many owners end up paying marketplace fees for jobs that never repeat.

What is on the site

The benchmark report is built from 45,428 public Google Business Profile listings for house cleaning companies across 51 states. The median cleaning company has 6 reviews. 20.7% have none at all. 37.3% list no website. Read it before you spend anything, because it tells you exactly how small the bar is in your market.

The guides cover the parts of this business that move the calendar: getting reviews from clients you rarely see in person, a Google profile built for a service-area business with no storefront, Google Ads that chase recurring clients instead of one-off deep cleans, Facebook and Nextdoor, pricing that survives a payroll increase, and what to do when three cleaners quit in a month and your marketing has to slow down with them.

The missed-call calculator uses your own average ticket and monthly job count to show what unanswered calls cost. Cleaning companies miss more calls than most trades because the owner is usually holding a mop when the phone rings.

Who writes this

Steve Meitler edits the site and builds the benchmark data from public listings. Nobody pays for coverage here. More on the about page, and the standing offer is on the free trial page.

Guides

Field guides for house cleaning companies

1

Agency, freelancer or do it yourself: marketing help for a cleaning company

What each option really costs, the red flags in a cleaning marketing pitch, how Thumbtack and Angi fees compare, and why any offer should start with a trial.

2

The cleaning company calendar: busy months, dead months, and what to run in each

When cleaning demand actually peaks and drops, the January and August problems, offers that fill a slow week, and how hiring cycles have to match the marketing.

3

Pricing and quoting for house cleaning: recurring, one-time and move-out

How to price by frequency, present good-better-best, quote a move-out clean without losing money, take deposits, and why prices decide which marketing works.

4

Missed calls are the most expensive problem a cleaning company has

What an unanswered call costs a cleaning company, missed-call text-back setup, speed to lead, the answering options and what each one costs per month.

5

The seven things a house cleaning company website has to do

Tap-to-call, real prices, service and city pages, online booking, trust signals and speed, plus the five things to cut from the site you already have.

6

How to show up in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI answers as a cleaning company

What AI answer engines actually read about a local cleaning business, the pages and sentences they quote, and a practical checklist you can finish in a weekend.

All guides

Latest

From the blog

September is the best month of the year to sign recurring cleaning clients

Spring gets attention and fall gets the clients. Why September and October convert better for recurring house cleaning, and a four-week plan to use the window.

What a Thumbtack or Angi lead really costs a cleaning company

The full math on shared leads, why move-out work makes marketplaces look worse than they are, and the one number that tells you whether to keep paying.

Questions

Common questions

How many Google reviews does a cleaning company need?

Fewer than you think to beat the average, more than you think to win the map pack. Across 45,428 house cleaning listings the median is 6 reviews and 59.5% have under 10. In a real metro the three companies in the map pack usually sit past 100, which only 7.1% of cleaning companies reach. Aim for two new reviews a week, asked for by text the afternoon of the clean. The reviews guide has the scripts.

Are Thumbtack and Angi leads worth it for house cleaning?

They work as a starter, not as a business. Expect $15 to $40 per shared lead on Thumbtack and $25 to $60 on Angi in most metros, with the same lead sold to three or four companies. The math only works if those clients convert to recurring service. If your marketplace clients book one deep clean and vanish, you are paying $200 or more per recurring client and the platform owns the relationship. Details in the agency versus DIY guide.

Should I market for recurring clients or one-time cleans?

Recurring, with one-time as the front door. A biweekly client at $160 a clean is roughly $4,000 a year and stays 18 to 36 months. A move-out clean is $250 once. Run the ads and the offers that put a first clean on the calendar, then convert on the doorstep with a discount for booking the next visit before your crew leaves. See the pricing guide.

What does a cleaning lead cost on Google Ads?

Most companies land between $18 and $55 per call or form fill on search, with move-out and deep clean terms at the high end. Costs blow up when broad match sends you commercial janitorial, carpet cleaning and maid-service job seekers. Negative keywords, exact and phrase match, and a location radius you actually service fix most of it. See the Google Ads guide.

More questions

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  • Google Ads management
  • Meta (Facebook and Instagram) ads
  • AI search optimization (show up in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI)
  • Local SEO and Google Business Profile
  • Website design and rebuilds
  • Social media management
  • Review generation and reputation
  • Missed-call text-back and lead follow-up
  • Email and SMS campaigns
  • Bookkeeping and monthly financials
  • Cold-call appointment setting
  • Marketing analytics and reporting

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