When someone needs
the trades you staff, you should be the
first name they find.
We help industrial-trade staffing agencies get found online - so more clients call you first and more tradespeople come straight to you. No more fighting over the same tired job-board leads.
Every day, contractors and plant managers go online looking for welders, fitters, and other trades - the exact people you staff. Whichever agency shows up first gets the call and gets the job. Right now, that's probably not you. We fix that. We set up your website so that when someone searches for the trades you place, in the areas you cover, your agency is the one they find first.
Every time you pay a job board, that same lead gets sold to three other agencies too. So you're all calling the same person, cutting your rate to win, and hoping you dialed first.
And your website? For most agencies, it's one page that barely shows up when someone searches - unless they already know your company name. You're paying to rent leads instead of building something that brings them to you.
Same lead sold to three other agencies at the same time
Your website only shows up if someone already knows your name
Every month you stop paying, you stop getting leads
You're cutting rates just to win the call you already paid for
The agencies winning today get found first - on purpose.
We make sure that when someone needs the trades you place - anywhere you work - your name is the one they find first. No storefront needed. No map listing. Just your agency, showing up in every city, for every trade you staff.
These leads belong to you. Nobody else gets the call. And it keeps working every month, even when you're not running ads or paying boards.
Clients find you before they even know your competitors exist
Every city you work in, every trade you place
Leads that belong only to you - never shared
Keeps working long after the initial setup is done
Three things. One goal.
More Filled Reqs.
We don't market dentists or pizza shops. Just agencies like yours - so we already know your world. Certifications, shutdowns, safety records, time-to-fill. That focus is why it works.
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Get You Found Online
When clients and tradespeople search for the trades you staff - in every city you cover - we make sure your agency shows up first. We set up a page for every trade you place and every area you cover, so you appear when people search. City by city, trade by trade. No storefront or map listing needed.
How we get you found
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A Website That Actually Brings You Work
Most staffing sites just sit there. We build one that does two jobs: makes it easy for clients to send you reqs, and easy for tradespeople to apply - with your credentials and safety record front and center. Built to convert both audiences, not just look nice.
Websites that bring in work
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Social That Attracts Clients & Candidates
LinkedIn and Facebook built for trade staffing. Content that demonstrates technical credibility - AWS certifications, weld procedures, safety records - while surfacing open roles in the specific trades you place. Positions your agency as the specialist, not another generalist.
Social media - LinkedIn - Facebook
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Free Organic Pipeline Audit
We map every specialty - geography search your agency is invisible for, then quantify the exact pipeline opportunity - client reqs and candidate applications. Delivered in 48 hours. No commitment, no sales pressure. Just data.
Free - 48 hours - No commitment
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Technical SEO & JobPosting Schema
We implement JobPosting structured data on every candidate page so your listings appear in Google's job-search experience. Clean indexing, canonical tags, Core Web Vitals, and a site architecture that lets your page matrix scale to hundreds of pages without cannibalisation.
Technical SEO - Schema
How it works
From "Nobody Finds Us" to "The Phone's Ringing" - in Four Steps.
No long contracts before we prove anything. No jargon. Just a clear sequence from where you are now to where you want to be.
Step 01
Free Check-Up
We show you exactly what work you're missing - which trades and which cities people are searching for, where your competitors show up and you don't. No cost, no commitment, no fluff.
Step 02
Build Your Foundation
We set up a website that brings in work - with clear paths for clients to send reqs and tradespeople to apply. Your certifications, safety record, and trade expertise front and center.
Step 03
Get You Showing Up
We create a page for every trade you place and every area you cover. Within 2-3 months you start appearing when people search. By month 6, it's steady and keeps building.
So every trade gets its own pages, its own certifications, its own busy seasons. Never one-size-fits-all. Click your trade to see exactly how we approach it.
Trade 01
Welder Staffing Agencies
Structural, pipe, combo, TIG/MIG. Refineries, fabricators, shipyards. Turnaround and shutdown seasons covered - the high-value work competitors miss.
Structural, reinforcing (rebar), ornamental, rigging. High-rise, bridges, stadiums. We know the credentials contractors check before awarding the call.
Plant, controls, construction. MV/HV and instrumentation specialists. We surface the licenses and compliance records clients need to see before saying yes.
Job boards are a bill you pay forever. This you own.
Job boards are fine for filling a gap fast. But every dollar you put into getting found online keeps working long after a job-board dollar is gone. Over a year, that's real money back in your pocket.
Job Boards
Getting Found Online
Who gets the lead
You and 3 competitors
Only you
When you stop paying
You've got nothing to show
Your pages keep working
Cost over time
Every month, forever
Set up once, pays off ongoing
The lead
Rented
Yours
Job Boards
Same lead sold to your competitors at the exact same time
You're cutting rates just to win the call you already paid for
Stop paying today - stop getting leads tomorrow
Price goes up every year. You get no more for it.
Getting Found Online with RankTheTrades
Every call comes only to you - never split with a competitor
Your pages keep working even when you're not running ads
One filled req usually covers a full month of our work
Found everywhere you send crews - all 50 states, no office needed
Agencies that stopped renting their leads - and started owning them.
These aren't made-up numbers. These are staffing-desk owners who were in the same spot you're in now.
"In month 4 we ranked #1 for 'structural welder staffing Houston.' By month 6 we had 3 new client reqs from that single page. We hadn't touched Indeed in weeks. The free audit alone showed us 120 searches we had zero coverage for."
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Ryan M.
Owner - Gulf Coast Welding Staffing
"We placed ironworkers in 9 states and had zero pages for any of them. RankTheTrades built the matrix. We now rank in 6 of those states, job-board spend is down 40%, and every lead that comes in is exclusively ours."
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Terry K.
President - Ironclad Staffing Partners
"The audit showed 180 searches we were invisible for - searches procurement teams actually use. No general agency had mentioned this strategy. Six months later we have pages for each one. Candidate quality improved too."
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Diane S.
Director - National Pipefitter Group
Is this right for you?
This is built for you if-
You run a trade staffing agency and place skilled tradespeople
Your website barely shows up unless someone already knows your name
You're sick of bidding against competitors for the same job-board leads
You staff across several states and want to be found in all of them
You'd rather own your leads than rent them month after month
You send crews all over - Gulf Coast, Midwest, wherever the work is. Your marketing should reach that far too.
The way we set things up, you show up in every market you serve without needing an office or a local listing in each city. One agency, found everywhere you want to be, for every trade you place.
All 50 StatesNo Office Required6 Trades
Common questions
Straight Answers, No Runaround.
How long before this works? +
You'll usually start showing up for the easier searches within 2-3 months. Real, steady results tend to land around the 3-6 month mark - and it keeps building from there.
Do I need a Google listing or a storefront? +
Nope. We set you up to be found across the whole country, not just on the local map - so you're not tied to a physical location. If you staff in Texas, Ohio, and Louisiana, people searching in all three will find you.
We already use job boards. Do we quit them? +
No. Keep them while we get you ramped up, then lean on them less as more work starts coming to you directly. The goal is to stop depending on them, not drop them overnight.
Is this worth it for one agency? +
One filled req usually brings in more than a month of our work costs. Once the work starts coming in, it pays for itself - and then keeps compounding.
How are you different from a regular marketing company? +
We only work with trade staffing agencies. We do the specific things that get you found that general marketers skip - and we already know your business. We know what a combo ticket is, why turnaround season matters, and what a contractor checks before saying yes.
See exactly what you're missing - free
Find Out What Work Is Slipping Past You Right Now.
We'll show you which trades and cities people are searching for - and where you're nowhere to be found. No cost, no obligation, no generic sales pitch. Takes 10 minutes to ask for. We do the digging.