What Should a Handyman Website Include?
Most handyman websites are built once and never touched again. They list a phone number, a few services, and a stock photo of a toolbox.
That was fine when the phone book was the competition. Now a homeowner checks three sites before they call anyone, and the one that looks the most trustworthy wins the job.
Here is the checklist I use. Nine items. If your site has all nine, you will beat almost every handyman in your area, because almost none of them do this.
Your headline has about three seconds to answer one question: does this person fix my problem, near me?
"Quality Workmanship Since 2009" does not answer it. "Handyman Services in Round Rock and Georgetown" does.
Name the service. Name the area. That is the whole job of a headline.
Under it, add one line that says who you help and what changes. Something like: "Small repairs, honest quotes, and work that gets finished the first time."
A homeowner is not shopping for a handyman. They are shopping for the end of a problem they have been staring at for six weeks.
Most handyman leads still come by phone. Your number should sit in the top right of the header on desktop and be tappable on mobile.
Do not bury it in a contact page. Do not make it an image. Make it a real link so a phone dials it with one tap.
If you answer calls yourself, say your hours next to the number. If you miss calls during jobs, say that too, and offer a text option. Homeowners forgive a missed call. They do not forgive silence.
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A list of services is the second most visited part of a handyman site. Make it specific.
Not "carpentry." Instead: door repair and replacement, trim and baseboards, cabinet adjustment, shelving, drywall patching, deck board replacement.
Specific lists do two things. They help a homeowner recognize their exact problem, and they help you show up when someone searches for that exact repair.
Say what you do not do as well. "We do not handle electrical panels or roof replacement." That one line saves you a dozen wasted calls a month and makes you look more professional, not less.
Three reviews with first names and towns beat a wall of anonymous stars.
Pull your best reviews from Google and place two or three on the home page, near the services list. Include the customer's first name and their neighborhood if you have permission. Local names read as real.
If you are newer and short on reviews, use what you have. One specific review that describes the job is worth more than five that say "great work."
Proof does not need to be impressive. It needs to be believable.
Stock photos hurt you. Homeowners have seen the same smiling contractor on forty websites.
Take photos with your phone at the end of each job. Wide shot, then a close shot of the detail. Ask permission first and most people say yes.
Six real photos beat sixty stock ones. Show the work, not the tools.
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A lot of homeowners will not call a stranger. They will fill out a form at nine at night.
Add a short request form. Name, phone, the problem, and photos if they want to attach them. Four fields, no more. Every extra field costs you leads.
Better still, add a real booking calendar so they can pick an estimate window themselves. That removes the back-and-forth entirely.
List the towns and neighborhoods you serve. Not a radius in miles, actual place names.
This is how homeowners search, and it is how search engines decide which local businesses to show. If you cover Round Rock, Georgetown, Pflugerville and Cedar Park, write those words on the page.
The hardest part of handyman marketing is not getting the lead. It is answering it while you are holding a drill.
Set up an automatic reply that goes out the moment someone submits the form. It should confirm you got the request, say when you will respond, and give them your number if it is urgent.
Then set a second message for two days later if you have not booked them yet. Most handymen never follow up once. Following up twice puts you ahead of nearly everyone.
None of this requires a redesign. Most of it is copy, photos and one form.
Work the list top to bottom. Headline, phone, services, proof, photos, booking, service area, follow-up. Each one removes a reason for a homeowner to close the tab and call somebody else.
Action Plan
- Rewrite your headline to name your main service and your town.
- Make your phone number tappable in the header.
- List ten specific repairs you handle, and two you do not.
- Add three named reviews to your home page.
- Replace every stock photo with a real one from a finished job.
- Add a four-field request form.
- List the towns you serve by name.
- Turn on an automatic reply and a two-day follow-up.
Not sure which of these is costing you the most work? Take the free Marketing System Scorecard. Twelve questions, about a minute, and you will see where you get found, booked and paid, and where you leak.
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