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Brass Tacks Plumbing
Plumbing and heating · with GrandRanker since August 2026

How Brass Tacks Plumbing went from 135 to 520 Google clicks a month

Their buyers search Google and ask AI before they buy. We wrote 76 articles that answer those questions, from "water heater brands" to "stop water leak", and published them on brasstacksplumbing.com.

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Google clicks a month
+285%
135 to 520
Clicks on articles we wrote
249
65% of all new clicks
Sites linking in
62 → 123
referring domains
Articles on page one
29
of 76 published

Google clicks a month, whole site

Source: Google Search Console, rolling 28 days, to Nov 8
135520
Aug 21Now
First article, Aug 29 Articles published per week

How it happened

  1. Aug 29
    First article goes live on their site
  2. Oct 16
    50 articles live
  3. Oct 31
    123 websites link to them, up from 62
  4. Nov 8
    76 articles. 520 Google clicks a month

What we did

Every step ran inside GrandRanker. No agency, no freelancers.

Wrote and published
76articles, 180,000 words
28 guides28 how-tos3 best-of lists7 comparisons10 cost guides
Researched
76

searches their buyers make, like "water heater brands"

Ranked
29

articles on the first page of Google

Authority
123

websites link to them, up from 62

Every week

We ask ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude their buyers' questions and check who gets named.

Articles bringing the most clicks

Open any of them. They are live on brasstacksplumbing.com.

Live on their site: "7 Best Water Heater Brands for Hard Water in 2026"Written and published by GrandRanker
Screenshot of "7 Best Water Heater Brands for Hard Water in 2026" on brasstacksplumbing.com

Why one tool beat hiring an agency

Brass Tacks Plumbing runs a business, not a content team.

Volume an agency can't match

76 articles on one flat monthly plan. No per-article invoices.

Built for Google and AI at once

Clear answers, FAQs and schema. The same pages rank on Google and get cited by AI assistants.

Nothing to manage

Research, writing, publishing, links and AI tracking run on autopilot.

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