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Website design for contractors and trades

A burst pipe at nine at night does not get researched. It gets whoever answers.

Trades work splits into two completely different customers. One has an emergency and needs a phone number in under five seconds. The other is planning a renovation and will research for weeks. A site that serves only one of them leaves half the money on the table.

We build for both: urgent contact that is impossible to miss, and the depth — project galleries, process, licensing, reviews — that convinces someone spending twenty thousand dollars that you are the right call.

Impossible to miss the number

Tap-to-call fixed on screen throughout. For emergency trades this single element outperforms everything else on the site.

Service area pages

A real page for each town or district you cover, with the work you actually do there — not a list of fifty cities you have never visited.

Licensing, insurance, reviews

Licence numbers, insurance and real reviews placed where they answer the doubt, not buried on an About page.

Service areas, done honestly

The tempting move is to generate a page for every town within a hundred miles. Google recognises that pattern as doorway pages and it can suppress the whole site — we have seen it happen and we will not build it.

What works is a genuine page per area you actually serve, with real specifics: jobs you have done there, local building requirements, response times, landmarks. Fewer pages, each one substantial. Slower to build and it is the version that survives.

Photos of your own work

Stock photography of a smiling man with a wrench actively damages a trades site. Everyone recognises it, and it signals that you either have no work to show or are not really local.

Before-and-after shots from your own jobs are the most persuasive asset you have. Phone photos are fine — we clean them up. A gallery of twenty real jobs will beat any amount of polished copywriting.

Where the leads actually come from

For most trades, organic search takes months, and it is worth starting. But the fastest route to a ringing phone is Google Local Services Ads and call-only campaigns, where you appear at the top for emergency searches and pay per lead.

That requires a claimed and verified Google Business Profile, which only you can set up. The website makes those ads convert — but the profile is what gets you into the map results in the first place.

Common questions

Straight answers. If yours is not here, call and ask.

Should we list every city we serve?

No. Mass-produced city pages read as doorway pages to Google and can hurt the whole site. Build genuine pages for the areas you actually work in.

Can we take quote requests online?

Yes. Job type, address, photos of the problem and contact details, delivered to your inbox — so you can quote without a site visit where possible.

How fast can leads start coming in?

Organic search is a months-long build. Google Local Services Ads and call-only ads can produce calls within days, and the site makes them convert.

Do you display licence and insurance details?

Yes. Licence numbers, bonding and insurance are placed where customers look for them — usually near the contact and quote areas.

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