Tampa's #2 Plumber on Google
Scored A Flat-Out F On AI Visibility.
We asked ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews who they'd recommend for plumbing in Tampa. One of Google's top-ranked plumbers barely registered. Here's the full live scan of Tampa plumbing companies — Google Maps rank versus what AI engines actually say.
The gap in one company: Tampa Bay Plumbers is #2 on Google. AI barely knows they exist.
Tampa Bay Plumbers LLC ranks #2 in Tampa's Google Maps plumbing results — a top-of-the-page result most people would call before scrolling further. But when we ran their site through the same live AI Visibility scan used for every business on this page, they scored 20 out of 100, with zero ChatGPT citations and a bot-protection flag that blocked a full crawl. That's a Google #2 and a near-zero AI score — happening to the same business, at the same time. This is exactly the gap this index exists to expose: your Google Maps rank tells you nothing about whether AI is sending you customers.
#2
20/100 · 0 ChatGPT citations
10 Tampa plumbing companies, fully scanned.
Ranked by AI Visibility Score — a composite of ChatGPT citation rate, AI Overview / Perplexity / Gemini visibility, backlink authority, and structured-data signals. Google Maps rank shown alongside for comparison. Full methodology below.
| Rank | Business | Google Maps Rank | AI Visibility Score | Grade | ChatGPT Citations | Domain Authority |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Llona Plumbing | #10 | 74/100 | B | Cites you — 5 mentions found | 33 |
| 2 | Red Cap Plumbing, Air & Electric | #7 | 72/100 | B | Cites you — 68 mentions found | 19 |
| 3 | The Clean Plumbers - Tampa | #1 | 69/100 | C | Cites you — 9 mentions found | 19 |
| 4 | EVERYDAYPLUMBER.com | #3 | 64/100 | C | Cites you — 8 mentions found | 19 |
| 5 | Premium Plumbing | #6 | 59/100 | C | Cites you — 2 mentions found | 22 |
| 6 | All Hours Plumber | #8 | 49/100 | D | Cites you — 1 mentions found | 28 |
| 7 | Olin Plumbing Inc. | #4 | 40/100 | F | No citations found | 16 |
| 8 | Grable Plumbing & Air | #5 | 40/100Partial scan — some on-site checks could not be completed | F | No citations found | 21 |
| 9 | Benjamin Franklin Plumbing | #9 | 39/100 | F | Cites you — 6 mentions found | 22 |
| 10 | Tampa Bay Plumbers LLC | #2 | 20/100Partial scan — bot protection blocked full crawl | F | No citations found | 22 |
10 more Tampa plumbing companies are in the scan queue.
Rankings update live as scans complete — no placeholder scores- Alvarez Plumbing & Air ConditioningPending
- Cass Plumbing, Inc.Pending
- Mr. Rooter Plumbing of TampaPending
- Formula Plumbing South Tampa, FLPending
- Roto-Rooter Plumbing of TampaPending
- Ultimate Plumbing Solutions LLCPending
- CDS Service Co TampaPending
- Matt's Plumbing ServicesPending
- Excellent Plumbing ServicesPending
- Pro Plumbing Services CorpPending
How these scores are calculated
Every score on this page comes from a live check, not a formula pulled from thin air — the same signals AI engines actually weigh when deciding who to recommend.
- ChatGPT citation testing — real prompts ("best plumber in Tampa?") run against ChatGPT, counting how often and how specifically each business gets named.
- Brand entity & schema markup — whether a business's site declares itself clearly to machines via LocalBusiness schema and structured data, or leaves AI engines guessing.
- Backlink authority — domain authority as a proxy for the trust signal AI models lean on when choosing which sources to cite.
- AI crawler access — whether bot protection, JavaScript walls, or blocked crawlers are quietly preventing AI engines from ever reading the site (as seen with Tampa Bay Plumbers' partial scan).
See the full methodology page for more detail.