Trades & services

When their geyser bursts at 9pm, they call whoever comes up first.

Trades work is urgent. Nobody browses. They search, they look at the top two or three, they check the reviews, they phone. Your site has about eight seconds to show a number and prove you are real.

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What a trades site needs

The polish matters far less than the basics being right.

Phone number and WhatsApp visible without scrolling
A separate page per service — "burst geyser repairs" is its own search
The suburbs you cover, named
Photos of your actual work, not stock images of American houses
After-hours availability stated plainly if you offer it
Fast on a mid-range phone on patchy data

Who we have built for

Garage door installers, ceiling and drywall contractors, plumbers, tyre fitment centres. The pattern is always the same: the work is good, the phone is the business, and being findable is the whole job.

The search happens at the worst possible moment

Nobody researches a plumber on a Tuesday afternoon. They search when water is coming through the ceiling, and they are typing one-handed with a bucket in the other. That changes what the page has to do: it has to load on bad data, show a number without scrolling, and say whether you answer after hours. Everything else is decoration.

A tap-to-call number in the first screenful, not in a footer
WhatsApp as an equal option — plenty of people will not phone a stranger
Your hours stated plainly, including whether after-hours costs more
The suburbs you actually reach, named, because "Cape Town" is not an answer

One page per job, not one page for everything

A general “Services” page competes for nothing. Someone typing “gate motor repairs” will not be shown a page that mentions gate motors in a list of fourteen other things. Each job you want work from gets its own page, its own heading and its own description — that is the single change that moves a trades site from invisible to found.

What your customers actually type

These are the searches that bring work to a business like yours. Every one of them is a page, a heading or a paragraph we build for deliberately.

“plumber near me”
“emergency plumber open now”
“burst geyser replacement cost”
“electrician 24 hour call out”
“gate motor repairs your suburb”
“blocked drain jetting”

Questions

I only have photos on my phone. Is that enough?

Usually yes, and honestly they often work better than stock images. Photos of your real jobs prove you exist. We will tell you if a photo is not usable.

Do I need a separate page for every service?

It is the single biggest thing that changes whether you get found. Someone searching "gate motor repairs" will not land on a general services page.

Should I put my prices on the site?

Usually a from-price or a call-out fee, not a full price list. Trades work varies too much to quote blind, but a page with no number at all makes people assume the worst and phone someone else. A call-out fee stated honestly filters out the tyre-kickers before they cost you a trip.

I work across the whole metro. Do I really need to list suburbs?

Yes, and it is one of the highest-return things on the site. People search with a place name attached. If the page never says Bellville, it will not come up for someone in Bellville, however far you are willing to drive.

What if I do not have a landline or an office?

That is normal and it costs you nothing. A mobile number and a service area work fine. What matters for Google Maps is that the number, name and area are identical everywhere they appear — site, profile and any directory listing.