Web Design for Tradies

Your phone should ring before your van starts.

Local Electrical Solutions launched with no online presence. Within weeks they were in Google’s Local Pack across 10+ Sydney suburbs. Zero ad spend. Same architecture, every trade we build for.

Local Pack10+ suburbs
DeliveryUnder 1 week
Starting at$3,997
Lock-inNone

Word of mouth used to be enough.

Your dad ran the trade off mates and the Yellow Pages. You inherited the tools, the ute, and a customer list that has not been refilled in a decade. The old jobs keep coming. The new ones do not.

Every job that goes to a competitor with a faster website is a job your kids could have inherited.

“I had a Wix site for two years. Got nothing from it. Switched and the phone started ringing in the third week. Same business, same suburbs.”

Sydney trade owner, paraphrased

Most tradie sites are built once, by a cousin or a template service, then never touched. They look fine on a desktop and they choke on a phone. They have no suburb pages, no schema, no click-to-call, and no reason for Google to show them ahead of the franchise down the road. They are a digital business card, printed on the back of a brick.

The Math
plumber near me49,500/mo
electrician near me49,500/mo
plumber sydney8,100/mo
builder near me6,600/mo
electrician sydney2,900/mo
builder sydney2,400/mo
tradie websites1,000/mo
tradie marketing390/mo

Source: DataForSEO, April 2026. Sydney, AU. Eight of dozens of active trade search terms.

120,390 people a month, in Sydney alone, looking for a tradie. Position one captures 27% of them.

That is 32,505 visitors a month for whichever trade sits at the top of the page. The traffic exists. The question is whether the site that meets them loads in under a second and has a button big enough to dial with a workman’s thumb.

120Kmonthly Sydney searchesacross eight trade terms

Built for the phone. Where your buyer lives.

Eight in ten tradie searches happen on a mobile, often with one hand free. Every page we ship has a sticky click-to-call button that opens the dialler in a single tap. No forms in the way. No menus to fight with. The fastest path from search to ringing phone, by design.

Slow sites lose the job to the next listing.

Every second of load time loses 7% of mobile visitors. A WordPress trade site on shared hosting averages 4 to 8 seconds. We build on Next.js. Sub-second loads, 100/100 Lighthouse, the same architecture as TikTok and Stripe. Your visitor lands, sees the call button, taps it.

Code you own

Every line of code, your domain, your hosting. No platform fees. No 36-month lock-in. Take it to another developer tomorrow if you want.

Click-to-call on every page

Sticky dial button on mobile. One tap to ringing. The most important button on a tradie site, on every page, where your buyer can find it without thinking.

Real local SEO

Suburb-level pages, Google Business Profile alignment, schema markup for trade services. Built to rank in the suburbs you actually work in.

Pricing

Published pricing. No “book a call” games.

One job a month pays for the whole site. Most tradies see that in the first fortnight.

Starter

$3,997

Solo sparkies, plumbers, and trades getting online for the first time.

  • Up to 5 pages
  • Mobile-first build with sticky click-to-call
  • Local SEO + schema markup
  • 100/100 Lighthouse, 3 to 5 days
  • Full code ownership
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Professional

$5,997

Trades growing across multiple suburbs, ready to outrank the competition.

  • Up to 10 pages incl. suburb location pages
  • Service pages, before-and-after gallery, reviews
  • Hyperlocal SEO + Google Business Profile setup
  • After-hours quote form with SMS routing
  • 2 rounds of revisions
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Premium

$9,997

Established crews running 5+ vans across a region, scaling without losing leads.

  • Unlimited pages, full suburb coverage
  • Job booking system + callback queue
  • Xero or ServiceM8 integration
  • Priority support, unlimited revisions
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50% upfront, 50% on delivery. Maintenance from $197/mo. Express delivery starts the build the next business morning and ships in half the standard timeline.

How It Works

Four steps.
Under a week.

Chris Raad, founder of Studio Slate
FounderChris Raad

Built Local Electrical Solutions, the trade site that hit position one on Google in eight weeks with zero ad spend. Every tradie site he ships is built for jobs, not awards, and is owned by you forever.

Discovery call

15 minutes on the phone. We learn the trade, the suburbs you actually work in, the kinds of jobs you want more of, and your timeline. You learn whether we are the right fit. No pitch deck, no jargon.

Build and rank

We build the site on our proven trade architecture. Suburb pages, service pages, gallery, click-to-call. Schema markup wired in. Google Business Profile aligned. You review a staging link from the ute.

Launch and index

Final tweaks, content loaded, the domain switched with zero downtime. We submit the sitemap, fire the schema, and request indexing. Local Electrical was indexed within days. Yours will be too.

Maintenance, optional

Optional maintenance from $197 a month covers updates, hosting, monitoring, and content tweaks. Or take the code and run it yourself. Either way, you own everything from day one.

FAQ

Common questions.

Ready for a website that actually rings?

15 minutes on the phone. No pitch deck. We will tell you honestly whether your current site is the problem, and what we would do about it.