American Plumbing Heating And Cooling
Jonathan Dean came to CI Web Group in a crisis — his domain held hostage and his site offline. One week after relaunching on Hydra OS, American PHC hit #1 on Google with a 3,240% jump in organic traffic.
Numbers that show up in the bank account.
When Jonathan Dean brought American Plumbing Heating & Cooling (americanphc.com) to CI Web Group, he wasn't shopping for a prettier website — he was putting out a fire. His previous marketing agency had let the company's domain expire and wouldn't hand it back, and the site had gone dark behind an invalid SSL certificate. Everything wired to that domain went down with it.
“The reason my website's down now is they didn't give me my domain back. Our LSA marketing is down right now because everything is attached to a website.”
The damage wasn't only technical. Jonathan had already watched revenue slide from a peak near $10M to roughly half that, and the former agency was demanding around $80,000 to release his domain, his Local Service Ads, and the tracking numbers his entire marketing program ran on. For a contractor chasing an aggressive growth goal across six Florida markets, an offline website wasn't an inconvenience — it was an emergency.
CI Web Group rebuilt American PHC from the ground up on Hydra OS, our AI-first, database-free static platform engineered for speed, security, and the way modern search actually works. Instead of a single-location brochure site, we built a true multi-location Florida strategy — more than 600 pages spanning Sarasota, Bradenton, Milton, Navarre, Pensacola, and Cape Coral, with each location wired to its own Google Business Profile, corrected 'Daikin Elite' branding, and unified WhatConverts call tracking. The homepage speaks to all of Florida so it never needs rebuilding as Jonathan opens new locations. Funded through Daikin co-op dollars, the site went live in about 30 days.
The results came fast. Within one week of launch, American PHC hit a #1 Google ranking and saw a 3,240% increase in organic traffic, with near-instant indexing of every new service and location page. It's the clearest proof yet of what happens when a contractor trades a fragile, hostage-prone legacy site for an AI-first platform built to be found — in both Google and the AI engines homeowners now ask first.
Built to load before they blink.
Lighthouse 13 (desktop), measured live on americanphc.com — Jun 2026.
SEO · AEO · GEO, by design.
- ›600+ service & city pages across six Florida markets
- ›Technical + on-page tuned to a 99 Lighthouse performance score
- ›Each location wired to its own Google Business Profile
- ›Near-instant indexing of new service and city pages
- ›Answer-first content with FAQ + service schema
- ›Structured entity data (JSON-LD) on every page
- ›Readable and quotable by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini
- ›Built to be cited for "plumber near me" questions
- ›Unique, local point of view — no spun content
- ›Geo-meshed service-in-city page architecture
- ›Map-pack optimized per Florida location
- ›Foundational authority engineered to compound
Experience, expertise, authority, trust.
- Corrected, verified Daikin Elite dealer status surfaced site-wide
- Multi-location authority — six Florida markets, each with its own Google Business Profile
- Unified WhatConverts call tracking and attribution
- Licensed & insured credentials (CAC1821761 · CFC1431919) shown up front
- 5-star review signals feeding local rankings
- Clear service + location entities that AI engines can verify
More than a website — an operating layer.
A statewide homepage hands each visitor a location-specific experience wired to that branch's Google Business Profile — so the site never needs rebuilding as American PHC opens new Florida locations.
One-tap calling, sticky CTAs, and forms wired into unified WhatConverts call tracking and attribution.
Daikin co-op-funded promotions and financing surfaced contextually to lift the value of every booked job.
Every one of 600+ pages ships as pre-rendered static HTML — nothing to slow it down and no database to hack.
A platform that grows with them.
Hydra OS is a database-free, AI-first static architecture — dramatically faster and more secure than the WordPress site it replaced, with an intelligence layer that keeps it optimizing itself as American PHC opens new Florida locations.
“You guys are industry leaders — I've seen everybody recommending you guys.”
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