What does a
trade website cost?

The short answer

There are three ways to get a website for a trade business, and they cost very different amounts:

Option	What you pay	What you’re really paying with
Do it yourself on a website builder	A monthly subscription, plus your domain	Your evenings. And a site Google often ignores, because nobody wrote it to be found.
A freelancer or template shop	A few hundred to a couple of thousand pounds, once	Often no hosting, security or updates after launch. When something breaks, you’re on your own.
A local agency or done-for-you service	A few thousand pounds, often with a monthly fee	Should include pages written to be found, hosting, security, your Google profile and someone checking it every month.

None of these is wrong. The right one depends on whether your website is a business card or the thing that makes your phone ring.

What you’re actually paying for

A trade website that wins work isn’t a single page with your number on it. It’s:

• A page for each job you want more of. “Loft conversions” and “garage conversions” are different searches, so they need different pages.
• Your towns, named properly. This means real places in real sentences, not one page copied twenty times with the town name swapped. Google treats that as a doorway and ignores it.
• Your prices, or at least a range. People ring the business that gives them a number. A cost estimator does this for you, day and night.
• Hosting, security and updates. Without them a site slows down, breaks or gets hacked, with your name on it.
• Your Google Business Profile, set up and kept current, because that’s what shows in the map results.
• Someone watching it. This means Google Search Console, a sitemap, and a monthly check that you’re still being found.

The costs nobody puts on the quote

• Renewals. The domain and hosting renew every year, sometimes at a much higher price than the first year.
• Who owns it. Some cheap sites are rented. Stop paying and it disappears, sometimes with your domain.
• Fixes. A hacked or broken site costs more to rescue than it would have cost to look after.
• Your time. An evening a month on a DIY site is twelve evenings a year not spent quoting or with your family.
• A site nobody finds. This is the most expensive one of all. You pay for it and it never brings in a single job.

What GetAPage costs, and why there’s a monthly fee

Most trade and small-business sites we build are £2,500 to build, then £175 a month. That covers up to 15 pages, a cost estimator if you price by the job, a launch kit, and every month: hosting, security, updates, your Google Business Profile and SEO, with a visibility report. The minimum term is 12 months from go-live, then 30 days’ notice. If you leave, you keep your domain and a copy of the site. Everything is itemised on the prices page.

The monthly fee isn’t an optional extra. It’s the part that keeps the site online, safe and found. It’s like a van: buying it is one cost, and keeping it on the road is another.

Is it worth it?

Here’s one real example. Deeside Architectural Design went live on 23 July 2026. In the first seven weeks it brought five enquiries and two paid jobs. In Mike’s own words: “Almost my investment back in around 6 or 7 weeks.” Google’s AI now answers local searches with his prices, by name. The proof page shows the screenshots.

The sum that matters is simple: how many extra jobs a year would pay for the site? For most trades, it’s one or two.