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Free field guide for contractors

Grow your well drilling business—starting with what customers can actually find.

A practical guide for well drillers, pump installers, water-testing companies and rehabilitation crews. Improve the basics first, then decide whether you need a broader enquiry system.

WDG directory snapshot · 16 October 2026

What the current directory records actually contain.

Measured directly from 6,328 published Well Drilling Guide listings with a directory-detail record in Canada and the United States.

55.4%3,503 listings include a non-empty business-website field.
62.1%3,929 listings carry an imported Google review count above zero.
46.3%2,930 listings contain a business-hours value with a clock time or an always-open notation.

Method and limits: one read-only count of WDG's own published listing fields; duplicate businesses may have more than one location. A blank field does not prove the business omits the information elsewhere, imported review counts can change, and stated hours are not independently verified. These are directory-field measurements, not traffic, lead or customer-result claims.

Do these before buying marketing

The free contractor checklist

  • Claim and correct your listingCheck the phone, website, licence information and address customers actually use.
  • Name the work you wantSeparate drilling, pump service, testing, rehabilitation and geothermal boreholes clearly.
  • Draw a realistic territoryList the counties, regions and driving distance where the job economics still work.
  • Make licence details easy to checkState what is current and let customers verify it with the relevant authority.
  • Build a repeatable review requestAsk after a successful job and invite the customer to name the service performed.
  • Test the mobile contact pathCall, email and request service from your own phone. Fix every delay or dead end.
  • Record the source and outcomeKeep how they found you beside the enquiry, quote and final result.
A practical decision

Directory visibility is useful. It is not the same as owning demand.

The directory may be enough

You need accurate visibility when a property owner starts looking.

  • Your schedule is already healthy.
  • Referrals provide enough suitable work.
  • Your listing and contact path are accurate.
  • You are not trying to expand one service or territory.
Broader marketing may help

You want more of a specific profitable project, not simply more calls.

  • You have crew and equipment capacity.
  • Your website does not explain your best work.
  • Good enquiries are hard to attribute or follow up.
  • You can define the territory and jobs you want.
Optional next step · Groundline Marketing

Marketing for water-well drilling and pump contractors.

Groundline helps contractors build an enquiry path they own: a usable website and measurement foundation where needed, then one focused growth channel for one service and territory. It does not resell shared leads, and a fit review can conclude that you should not hire an agency yet.

Same owner, separate businesses: Groundline Marketing is operated by the same owner as WellDrillingGuide. Hiring, declining or leaving Groundline never changes a directory listing’s approval, visibility, placement or treatment.

Questions

Before you click away

Does hiring Groundline improve my directory listing?

No. Agency purchase cannot change directory approval, visibility, placement or treatment.

Will WellDrillingGuide give Groundline my contact information?

No. Groundline receives your details only when you separately submit its form or contact the agency yourself.

Does Groundline sell shared leads?

No. Its work is designed to build a direct enquiry route owned by the contractor.

What does a fit review cost?

Nothing. It checks service, territory, capacity and economics before either side discusses a proposal.

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