Drive Traffic Media
#10 in Home Services
Orange County–based digital marketing agency serving home-services verticals with SEO, PPC, web design, and social media.
- Founded
- 2009
- HQ
- St. Petersburg, FL
- Team
- 6-15
Founder
Meet the founder
Michael Brandt
Founder & CEO
Michael Brandt is the founder and CEO of Drive Traffic Media, established in 2009. With over 16 years of digital marketing experience, he specializes in social media strategy and web design for home services businesses.
Editorial
Editor’s take
Drive Traffic Media positions itself as a full-service digital marketing agency specializing in home-services verticals, with dedicated expertise across HVAC, plumbing, construction, and commercial cleaning. The agency is anchored by CEO Michael Brandt's 16+ years in digital design, giving their SEO, PPC, web design, and social media offerings a practitioner-led foundation that resonates with trade and service businesses. Orange County–based and home-services focused, Drive Traffic Media is a strong fit for contractors and service operators seeking a specialist agency with deep roots in the category.
What they do
Services
Search Engine Optimization
Local SEO aimed at home-services operators competing in Orange County and Los Angeles geographies, with an emphasis on Google Business Profile rankings and service-area pages for HVAC, plumbing, construction, and commercial cleaning keywords. The firm maintains a dedicated local-marketing team separate from its general SEO function.
PPC Advertising
Paid search management built around tight budget control for trades operators, with an in-house PPC group tasked with keeping costs-per-click predictable on high-intent queries like emergency HVAC repair and drain cleaning. Campaigns are typically paired with landing pages built by the firm's web team.
Web Design
Conversion-oriented websites for local service businesses, with the agency citing more than 20,000 hours of build time over the past eight years. Sites are designed to surface click-to-call, service-area coverage, and quote-request flows that matter to home-services buyers.
Social Media Marketing
Organic and paid presence across Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and X, used less as a brand-awareness play and more as a trust layer for homeowners vetting a contractor. Content is produced in-house alongside the agency's copywriting team.
Copywriting
Service-page, blog, and ad copy written to Google's content guidelines, with the aim of supporting SEO rankings for home-services verticals while keeping calls-to-action oriented toward booked jobs rather than generic lead forms.