Free website templates for contractors and what they cost you
This page is for general remodeling contractors who tried a free website template. The real cost is lost leads—and that’s a website design problem.
You run a general remodeling business. You grabbed a free template to get online fast. It looks fine, but you never get calls from it. Every other contractor using that same template has the same five pages, none for the towns you work or the remodeling jobs people actually search for.
Free contractor templates give you a site that looks finished. But it’s the same handful of pages every other remodeler uses. There’s no page for the kitchen work you do in a specific town, no page for the bathroom jobs you want. Homeowners search those exact terms. When your site has nothing matching, Google sends them to a competitor who does. That’s why the template costs you leads every day.
Fixing this means building a real site structure. Every service you offer and every town you serve gets its own page. A general remodeler might cover kitchens, baths, basements, additions, and work in a dozen towns. That’s dozens of pages, each written plainly so it matches what a homeowner types. The job size depends on how many services and areas you list. It’s not a one-afternoon project, but it’s what turns a site from a brochure into a lead source.
Stop waiting for the free template to send leads. It won’t. This week, get a site that has a page for every remodeling job and every town you cover. Forget Leads builds that page set for general remodeling contractors, with click-to-call on every page. You can keep your template’s look if you want. The pages go under it. Call and tell them what services you offer and where you work. They handle the rest.
When it’s done, your site works for you. A homeowner searches ‘kitchen remodeling near me’ and finds your page for that exact job in their town. They call you, not a lead company. Your phone rings with your own leads, from your own site. No more paying for shares of someone else’s leads.
Other questions about website design for General Remodeling
which website builder is best for home-service companies?
Pick on pages, not templates. A site that ranks has one page per service, per town served and per customer question, each with your phone and form on it, plus structured data and a sitemap. We build sites that way, and we can add those pages inside a site you already have if it is sound.
how to create a home-service website?
Start with a list: every service, every town, every question you get on the phone. That list is the site. If you want to build it yourself, that is the map. If you do not have the hours, we build the pages from that list and keep adding articles monthly.