Website Design for Tradesmen in Guildford: What to Check Before You Pay

Start with who owns it

Before the design, the page count or the price, put one question to anyone who offers to build your website: when it is finished, is it mine?

Some trade sites are rented. The firm pays every month, and when it stops, the site and everything written for it goes. That can be a fair deal if you understand it. It is a bad surprise if you do not. Get the answer in writing.

Who builds trade websites for Guildford firms

Dean Keating, the publisher of this guide, builds websites for trades. The offer is £500, one-off. You own the site outright. There is no contract and no monthly fee. The site has 200+ pages built around your services and the areas you cover, and 12 months of SEO is included. You see a preview before it goes live.

He is based in Horndean, Hampshire, on the A3 south of Guildford, and builds for Guildford firms remotely. He does not have a Guildford office. See the £500 website build.

The sum behind 200 pages

Customers do not search for "plumber". They search for a job in a place: a boiler service in Merrow, a rewire in Stoughton, a loft conversion in Shalford.

So count it up. A firm with ten services that works in twenty places has two hundred combinations: the town centre, Burpham, Merrow, Stoughton, Onslow Village, Shalford and the villages beyond, such as Wood Street Village, Normandy and Chilworth. A page for each one is how a two-van business gets found across GU1 to GU4, not only on the street where it is registered.

A five-page site cannot do that, however good it looks.

What every page should carry

Your phone number, as a button. Most people looking for a trade are on a phone. One tap should ring you.

A short enquiry form that works. Test it yourself after launch.

Plain facts. What the job is, where you do it, how to book.

Your own photographs where you have them.

What to keep off the site

Do not let anyone add a registration, an accreditation, a price, a guarantee or a review count that is not true. It is your name on the site, and you carry the risk, not the designer. If you hold a registration, show it with its number. If you do not, leave the space empty.

The trades on Guildford.co

Guildford.co lists and ranks local trades on their Google ratings. See electricians, plumbers and heating engineers and builders. Those are the firms a customer weighs you against, so look at how they present themselves before you brief a designer.

We have a separate guide for each: websites for electricians, for plumbers and for builders.

Enquiries that arrive while you are on a job

A website brings enquiries in. Somebody still has to answer them. If you lose work because you cannot pick up the phone on site, read AI for trades in Guildford. That is a different service with its own pricing.

Compare before you choose

Our guide to who builds websites for small businesses in Guildford sets out the other routes, and how much a website costs explains the ways designers charge.

Contact

Call or WhatsApp Dean Keating on 07418 627304, or email dean@deankeating.com. See the Dean Keating profile on Guildford.co. Websites: ai-agent.deankeating.com and deankeating.com.

About this guide

Guildford.co is published by Dean Keating, who also runs the service described here. He is based in Horndean, Hampshire, not in Guildford, and works with Guildford businesses remotely. This guide recommends our own service, so compare it with other providers before you decide.