Websites for trades
Your work's good.Your websiteshould say so.
I build websites for plumbers, sparkies, builders, fabricators and mobile trades — then do the search work that puts you in front of someone looking for that exact job, in your area. One person, fixed price, live in two weeks.
You already know something's not right. Let me guess which bit.
Sound familiar?
Any of this you?
- You searched your own trade and your own town and you weren't on the first page. Two of the blokes above you do worse work than you do.
- Everything you offer sits on one page, so Google has a single thing to match against forty different searches.
- You cover eight suburbs and your website mentions one.
- There are three hundred photos of your work on your phone and none of them on your website.
- Someone rings at eight at night, you're at dinner, and there's no other way for them to reach you.
- Half your quote calls are with people who didn't know your prices or your area and were never going to book.
- You're paying for leads on a directory site that should be coming to you directly.
- Your site looks a decade old, and you can feel a $12,000 quote being second-guessed because of it.
Any one of those you could live with. Here's what the lot of them costs you.
What it's costing
Do the sum yourself.
I don't know your numbers. You do. Put your own in and see how long the site takes to pay for itself.
- One call-out
- $250Blocked drain, tap swap, fault find
- One mid-size job
- $1,800Hot water swap, switchboard, small reno
- One big job
- $12,000Bathroom, rewire, full fit-out
- The website
- $1,990Once. Not monthly, not per lead.
If it brings in one job a month you'd otherwise have missed, it's paid for before the second invoice. Directory sites charge you for every lead whether it turns into work or not — this one you own.
That's the problem. This is what I do about it.
What I build for trades
The bits thatactually matter.
A page for every service
Nobody searches "plumbing services". They search "blocked drain" plus the name of their town. One real page per job, written in the words people actually type.
Pages for the suburbs you cover
Only the ones you genuinely service, and each with something real on it. Five honest area pages beat forty copied ones — and forty copied ones get you penalised.
A quote form that works at 8pm
Photo upload included, so they can show you the problem instead of describing it badly over the phone.
Your Google listing done properly
For a local trade the map results usually matter more than the website. Services, hours, areas, photos, and a system for getting reviews.
Your photos, working for you
Off your phone, compressed so they load fast, captioned so Google knows what the job was.
Fast on a bad signal
Under two seconds on mobile data. Your customers are standing in a flooded laundry, not sitting at a desk.
Want to know exactly what happens? Every step from the first call to going live, and what I need from you.
How it worksFair question at this point — who else have I done this for?
Recent work
One, shown honestly.
I'm new under the Monalux name, so there's one trade project here rather than twelve. It's real, it's in progress, and you can judge the craft from it.
Helix Industrial
Sharpening
A one-man precision sharpening shop — saw blades, annular cutters, drill bits. Built from a one-page style guide into a full brand: colour system, type scale, a sawtooth motif taken off the product itself, and a six-page site written for machinists instead of translated for laypeople.
Demo build
And one builtto show the standard.
Alannah's Lawn Mowing isn't a real business. I built it end to end so you can see how a trades site actually behaves before you've spent a cent on one — video hero, six services with real prices on them, a gallery of work, plain pricing and a quote form that still works at 8pm.
Demo only — fictional business, real build.
Right. The number.
What it costs
Prices, openly.
Fixed, quoted up front, and they don't move once we start. Half to begin, half before it goes live.
Good if you're a one-man operation with two or three services.
A page per service, quote form, reviews. What most trades need.
Adds pages for each area you service. Best if you cover a wide patch.
Looking after it afterwards is from $49 a month — hosting, updates when your prices or areas change, and a check on the search setup every quarter. Three months minimum, then cancel whenever. Or take the files and go; they're yours either way.
You don't have to decide anything today.
Start here
Send me your site.I'll tell you what I see.
Free, no obligation, and you'll get something useful out of it whether or not you ever hire me. I'll run twelve checks and write up what I find in plain English — including the fixes you can do yourself without me.
No website yet? Easier again. Book the call and we'll work out what you need.