What a trade site needs to say

Harvest is an unincorporated community northwest of Huntsville in Madison County, and a lot of the businesses based there are trades: the truck is parked at the house, and the work is in Huntsville, Madison, Athens and the places in between. A site for a business like that has a particular job, because the customer is almost never in Harvest.

Say where you work

The first thing a customer checks is whether you come to them. A trade site has to name its towns, on a service-area page and in the copy, rather than saying "the Huntsville area" and hoping. The Google Business Profile for a business that goes to the customer is set up as a service-area profile, with the towns listed and the home address hidden, and the site and the profile have to agree.

Say what you do, one page each

A customer searching for a water heater replacement does not want a page that lists twelve services in a paragraph. A full website gives each service its own page: what the problem looks like, what you do about it, what it includes, and how to get a price. That is what the full package is for, and it is why most of the trade sites we build are full ones.

Make the phone easy

The number is tappable at the top of every page and the form goes straight to your inbox. The site is built to load fast on a phone, because that is where a trade customer is when they search.

Photo: U.S. Post Office in Harvest by Shannon McGee, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Harvest post office with the Harvest-Monrovia water tower behind it at sunrise

A site that says where you work

  • The towns you serve, named on the site
  • A service-area Google Business Profile that lists the same towns
  • A page for each service
  • A tappable phone number on every page
  • A form that lands in your inbox

What we build for Harvest

Three things a Harvest trade is likely to need, priced on their own.

A website

Five pages from $2,450, or a page for each service from $3,400. Written from your notes, your photos placed, the towns you serve named.

Local SEO and Business Profile

A service-area profile, listings cleanup and a monthly report of calls and form fills, from $500 a month. Google does not verify or endorse these services, and no ranking is guaranteed.

Hosting and care

Hosting, daily backups and updates from $47 a month, or $97 with up to two hours of small edits for the owner who has no time for the site.

A page for each service, priced in writing

A full website starts at $3,400 with an individual page for each service plus the standard pages. Ten or more pages take 4–8 weeks. A standard site, five pages up to eight, starts at $2,450 and most take 2–3 weeks. Either way you get the price and the timeline in writing before anything starts, you own the site and the domain, and there is no long-term contract. Just getting started or working with a tighter budget? Call us and we'll talk through options.

Common questions

Can the site list the areas I work in?

Yes, and it should. We name the towns you serve on a service-area page and in the copy, and set the Google Business Profile up as a service-area profile that lists the same towns with your home address hidden.

Do I get a price in writing?

Yes. After the first call you get the price and the timeline in writing, and nothing starts until you have it. The floors are $2,450 for five pages and $3,400 with a page for each service.

Does each service really need its own page?

For a trade with several distinct services, yes: a customer searches for one problem, and a page about that one problem answers them better than a list. For a business with one or two services, a standard five-page site is enough, and we will say so.

Get a price for your site

Tell us about your Harvest business and the towns you work in. You get the price in writing before anything starts.