Customers rarely search for 'landscaper' in the abstract. They search for the job: lawn mowing, spring cleanup, mulch, sod, a retaining wall, a paver patio, leaf removal. Many of those searches arrive in waves through the year, and a profile that only says 'landscaping services' misses most of them.
What wins the click is usually the photos. Someone choosing between three companies on a map scrolls through the pictures, and a gallery of recent, finished, local work beats a picture of a lawnmower. Plenty of landscaping profiles got a burst of photos the week they were set up and very little since.
You also work across an area rather than from a storefront. A crew based on one side of town can rank well near the yard and barely appear in the neighborhoods where the better-paying installs are, and without measuring it you'd never know.