FAQ Contractor Website Design, Custom Design, Effective, Affordable

Frequently Asked Questions:

Why would a contractor need a website?

How long does it take to design my website?

What is the total cost to get a website?

How can a website save me money?

Will I be required to sign a longterm contract?

How do you customize my website?

What if I don't have a company logo?
What information do you need to get started?
What is an SEO Designed Website?

Why would a contractor need a website?

Contractors need a great website to answer simple and commonly asked questions, showcase some of their projects, generate new clients and make it extremely easy to generate more referral business.

A well designed website will be the hardest working, most valuable employee you'll ever have. It will be up and working 24 hours a day 7 days a week sharing you and your services with any potential clients.

When people are looking for information typically they want it as fast as possible... Instantly is best. When someone in your local area jumps onto a search engine to search for someone providing your services who do you want them to find...? You or your competitor?

How long does it take to design my website?

We now have a lead time of 2 weeks.Your website will be designed with the properly structured search engine designed foundation, which will play a large role in the success of your marketing efforts on the web. The structure of your site will include keyword themed site structure, a search engine friendly URL, optimized pages, meta tags, and page headings. This is part of every site we build. We believe that the only way to start any website is with the proper foundation that will make marketing easier, quicker, and more successful.
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What is the total cost to get a website?

We offer different website design packages to fit different budgets. Our monthly service fee includes a complete, secure, and optimized hosting service, which includes web email packages, and the php contact page requests redirects. The site control maintenance panel is available for you to make any changes to your site.
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How can a website save me money?

When someone in your area needs a contractors services I will almost guarantee you the majority of them will go online and start their search there or will want to review information about a contractor before they call. They want to find the information they are seeking instantly or as fast as possible.

The phone book can be time consuming to get out and look you up, but research shows some people still use the yellow pages but go to the web for more information because the Yellow Page ads cannot provide close to the level of information that even the most simple of websites can at a fraction of the cost.

How can you save money on the Yellow Page ad or any print ads? You get a smaller ad with your new website address. The money you save on Yellow Pages and any other print ads that you currently run, should easily pay for your website. When potential clients find you they will be able to learn about you and what you do immediately by going to your website.

Saving time: How much time do you waste in a day answering some of the simple yet commonly asked questions associated with your business?
A website makes it easy for your clients and potential clients to get their questions answered 24 hours a day. Your cell phone doesn't need to ring endlessly and you can spend more time on the activities that produce your income.

Build Trust: Customers will understand more about you and your company, this makes the initial contact to be more relaxed.
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Will I be required to sign a longterm contract?

No, a monthly hosting fee is payable each month for the following month. You may cancel at anytime during the month and your site will be continue to run until the end of the month at which time it will be deactivated and you will not be charged for the following month.
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How do you customize my website?

Based on the package you select - your website will be designed with the following:
Your logo and/or company name
Your company colors
Your company information like phone number, address, year company was founded, number of employees, etc.
Your photos
Your customer testimonials
Contact bid request page

Initial customizing of a website template is completely free. If you request additional pages that are not standard with the package, we will provide you with a quote for the additional work. As time goes on and, let's say your phone number changes or you want to add a new customer testimonial, we will we give you 3 free edits each year. If you wish edits additional to these 3, we will provide you with a quote for each request.
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What if I don't have a company logo?

No problem. We offer logo design services.
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What information do you need to get started?

In order to build you the best website possible there is a few items you're going to need to provide.

#1. Little Bit About You/Your Company - Just a paragraph or two on who you are, your company, how long you've been in business for and what you do.

#2. Logo & Or Color Scheme - If you have a company logo already or a very specific color scheme you are using please let us know. Your website will reflect it. If not, let us know if you have one in future plans or we could possibly even create something for you.

#3. Services You Provide - You'll have a page or two of the website devoted to the services you provide. You know exactly what it is that you do and if you can provide a listing of the services you offer we can formulate the website copy based on your list. Provide the details for anything specific you might want mentioned on the website.

#4. Pictures - If you've got some pictures of you on the job, your crew, your past projects etc... Please provide them. If you can provide them in the largest file size possible it helps us to create clean crisp graphics for your website. Provide the pictures with a very short caption for each. This gives your website more credibility with your visitors and let's them check out some of your work without having to ask you for a list of references.

#5. Testimonials - If you've been in business for a few years chances are extremely high you've got a few testimonials that have been sent to you from happy clients. If you have any please provide them as they greatly enhance your credibility.

What is an SEO Designed Site?

SEO or Search Engine Optimization is establishing online presence for your website. The focus of SEO is optimizing your website in the best manner possible for searchable results for prospective clients as well as the underlying coded portions of your website that drives search engine spiders into your site so that you get indexed in the major search engines. In plain terms that means getting your website to the first pages of the internet when someone is searching for your product.

Broken links, improper content, stuffing your site full of keywords targeting your products or services can work against you. A website needs to be massaged and kept limber, if your website sits stagnant for too long, and is not cared for, it will loose ranking and loosing ranking will result in the loss of potential business.