Who Builds Websites for Tradesmen in Woking? What to Check First
A Woking trade business can work across the town centre and a ring of villages and estates around it. Here is what a website needs to win work across that patch, what to ask any designer, and the £500 one-off build from the publisher of this site.
See the £500 website build ↓Who builds websites for tradesmen in Woking?
Dean Keating, the publisher of Woking.co, builds websites for trade businesses. He is based in Horndean, Hampshire, and works with Woking businesses remotely: you are sent a preview to check before the site goes live on your domain. The build costs £500, paid once. You own the site outright, there is no contract and no monthly fee, it has 200+ pages built around your services and the areas you cover, and 12 months of SEO is included. See the £500 website build.
That is our own service, so we have written the rest of this guide to be useful whoever you hire.
Ask who owns it before you ask anything else
Some trade owners only find out when they try to leave that they were renting their website on a monthly contract, and that it goes when the payments stop. So put these to any web designer before you pay:
Do I own the website and the domain name, or am I renting them? If I stop paying you, what happens to the site? Is there a contract or a minimum term? How many pages am I getting, and are they written for my services and my area? Is SEO included, and for how long? Who makes changes once the site is live?
Your patch is bigger than the town centre
A Woking tradesperson rarely works in one spot. The borough has the busy Woking town centre at its heart, Horsell to the north-west, Knaphill to the west, the large planned estate of Goldsworth Park, St John's along Goldsworth Road, Old Woking to the south-east, Westfield on the south side, Sheerwater in the north-east and West Byfleet beyond it. Woking itself is in the GU21 and GU22 postcode districts, and West Byfleet is in KT14.
Customers in each of those places search using their own place name. A site that only says "Woking" on the home page is not what someone in Knaphill or West Byfleet is shown. A page for each place you cover, and a page for each service in each place, is how a one-van firm appears across the whole patch. That is where the 200+ pages come from.
What the site needs on it
One page per service. "Boiler repair", "bathroom fitting" and "emergency call-outs" are separate searches, and a single services page cannot answer all three.
A phone number and a working form on every page. Most visitors are on a mobile. They should be able to ring you or send an enquiry without hunting for it.
True details only. Your real services, your real area and your own photos if you have them. Do not let anyone put a qualification, a price or a review count on your site that is not true. The risk is yours, not the designer's.
Plain answers. Search engines and AI assistants such as ChatGPT lift short, direct answers from web pages. A site that says clearly who you are, what you do and where you do it is easier for them to recommend.
When a website is not worth it
If recommendations keep you as busy as you want to be, you may not need a site. It becomes worth having when you want more enquiries from your own area, or want to stop paying for leads. A site that ranks for your services in your areas keeps working while you are on a job. Our guide Does a Woking business need a website? goes through both sides.
More for Woking trades
We have separate guides for electricians, plumbers and roofers, and one on how websites are priced.
Woking.co does not publish a ranking of web designers, so we cannot hand you a local shortlist. Ask two or three firms for a written quote and compare what each includes.
Quick answers
Who builds websites for tradesmen in Woking? Dean Keating, the publisher of Woking.co. He is based in Horndean, Hampshire, works with Woking businesses remotely, and builds websites for trade businesses for £500 one-off.
What do I get for the £500? A site you own outright, with no contract and no monthly fee, 200+ pages built around your services and the areas you cover, and 12 months of SEO.
Will I see the site before it goes live? Yes. You are sent a preview to check first.
Why would a small firm need 200 pages? Because customers search for a service in a place. A page for each service, each place and each service in each place lets one business show up in Woking, Horsell, Knaphill and the rest of its area.
Is there anything to pay each month? Not for the build described here. It is a single payment with no contract and nothing recurring.
What is the first thing to ask a web designer? Whether you will own the website and the domain name, or rent them.
About this guide
Woking.co is published by Dean Keating, whose business also builds the websites described here. This guide recommends our own service, so read it as you would any business describing itself, and compare it with other designers. A free listing on Woking.co is separate and does not depend on buying anything.
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