Websites for trades
Websites for tradies
A tradie website has one job: turn someone who is already looking into someone who calls. That means quick on a phone, clear about what you do and where you do it, easy to contact, and wired into local search from the first line of code. Built for Australian trade and home-services businesses.
Why most tradie websites bring no work
They are not ugly. Plenty of them look fine. They fail at the four things a person standing under a wet ceiling actually needs, and then they fail the search engine for the same reasons.
Built for a desktop
Nearly every trade search happens on a phone. If the number is not thumb-reachable and the page does not paint quickly on a bad connection, the visit ends before a word of the copy matters.
Vague about the work
Quality workmanship, fully insured, free quotes. Every competitor says the same words, so none of them do any work. What you actually do, for whom, and where, is what gets ranked.
No easy way to say yes
One contact form at the bottom of the page, no number in the header, no way to text. Most people who want a tradie want to call now, not fill in a form and wait.
Invisible to search
No page per service, no page per area, no schema, no profile connected to it. A site nobody can find is a brochure that charges you hosting.
What tyso builds instead
Every build is custom coded, not a theme with your logo dropped on top. Mobile first, quick, wired for local search from the start, and yours outright once it is paid off.
Design that reads like your business
Big honest type, real photos of your own work, and room to breathe. The look is doing a job: it is the two seconds where someone decides whether you seem like the person who turns up.
A page per service, a page per area
The pages that rank are the specific ones, so the site gets built with them from the beginning rather than bolted on a year later. Each one is written for a person first, a search engine second.
Speed treated as a feature
Hand-built and light. Load time is one of the few things Google grades directly, it grades it on mobile, and it is also the difference between a call and a back button.
Yours, outright
You own the site, the domain and the Google profile. No rented platform, no lock-in, and nothing that quietly disappears the month you stop paying somebody.
What can be checked
One live build, one measured result, and an audit that goes and looks. tyso is a one-person Canberra studio launched in 2026, so the list is short on purpose.
A build that is live
Sophisticated Manes is a tyso build, live in production, and it went from 3 Google reviews to 10 in its first month live.
Quoted by Google's AI Overviews
ANT Painting, whose search presence tyso runs, was cited by Google's AI Overviews on 7 of 22 painting questions we measured in August 2026.
An audit that goes and looks
The free audit reads your site, measures your mobile speed with Google PageSpeed, and asks an AI assistant who it recommends in your suburb. That is the honest read on what you have now.
The working, written up
How it starts
With the free audit on the site you already have, even when the plan is to replace it. It scores what is there and lists the findings worst first, so the rebuild case gets made with evidence instead of opinion.
- Run the audit on the site you have now.
- Read what is broken, and what it would take to fix.
- Check the published prices on the cost guide. Nothing is quoted on request.
Questions about the build
What should a tradie website include?
A page for each service you sell, a page for each area you cover, your number visible on every screen, real photos of your own work, and reviews. Underneath that: schema markup, fast mobile loading, and a Google Business Profile connected to it.
How much does a tradie website cost?
It depends on the page count, whether copy and photos already exist, and whether search work is included. Every tyso price is published rather than quoted on request, so the whole list, plus what the rest of the market charges, sits on the tradie website cost guide.
How long does a tradie website take to build?
The build is rarely the slow part. Content is. Once photos and details are in hand, a three to five page trade site is days of work, not months. Found and Chosen puts a clock on it: live in 14 days from content day, or your money back.
Do I own the website?
Yes. You own the website, the domain and the Google Business Profile, which is created under your own Google account. No rented platform and no lock-in, so cancelling anything later does not cost you the site.
What makes a tradie website design actually work?
Restraint, mostly. Big readable type, real photos instead of stock tradies, one obvious action per screen, and speed treated as part of the design. Tradie website design is not decoration: it is the two seconds where someone decides whether you look like the person who turns up.
See how your site actually scores.
The audit reads the site you have now and shows the score before it asks for an email. If it is fine, keep it. If it is not, you will know exactly why.
Rather talk it through? Book a call.