TradeStead field guides
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Plain-English explanations for tradespeople comparing websites, search work and business systems. Each guide should help with a real decision or it does not deserve to be published.
Start with the customer’s question. Explain the trade-off. Show the next useful decision.
The first four guides
Build the foundation.
Diagnose the gaps.
This opening collection covers cost, essential structure, realistic local-search timescales and the path from visibility to a delivered enquiry.
How much should a trade website
actually cost?
The honest answer is not one universal number. Cost changes with the job the website is expected to do: introduce the business, compete for valuable searches, receive proper enquiries or connect the whole customer journey.
What should a proper trade website
include?
A good trade website is not defined by a fashionable homepage. It gives each important customer enough evidence to understand the service, trust the business and take the next sensible action.
How long does local SEO take
for a trade business?
There is no honest universal deadline. A new domain in a competitive city and an established business with strong reviews start from different positions. Progress should be judged through stages, not a promised ranking date.
Why is your trade website
not generating enquiries?
The enquiry can fail long before the form. First establish whether suitable customers can find the site, understand the offer, trust the business and complete the action—and whether the message actually arrives.
Where the guides connect
Learning should lead
somewhere useful.
Bring the question with you
Show us the website
you have now.
The free fit check identifies the present search, trust and enquiry gaps before recommending a build.