https://easydesignagency.com/ 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z https://easydesignagency.com/answers/call-button-or-contact-form/ 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z

For urgent trades the call button wins, the text button is second and the form is for the planned job. Where each goes on a phone and how short the form is.

https://easydesignagency.com/answers/do-pop-ups-cost-contractors-calls/ 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z

On a phone a pop-up covers most of the first screen and lands on the call button; the homeowner backs out. What the audit measures and what to use instead.

https://easydesignagency.com/answers/do-town-pages-work-for-contractors/ 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z

Yes, one at a time, when each page has something true about that town: a real job, a real review, the drive time. Twenty copies with the name swapped do not.

https://easydesignagency.com/answers/does-blocking-ai-crawlers-hurt-local-business/ 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z

Yes, for a contractor: a robots.txt or hosting rule that blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot or PerplexityBot stops those assistants reading your pages. How to undo it.

https://easydesignagency.com/answers/google-ai-overviews-for-contractors/ 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z

When Google answers a local search with its own summary, the companies it names come from the map and web results you already compete for. What changes.

https://easydesignagency.com/answers/how-fast-should-a-contractor-website-load/ 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z

Under 2.5 seconds to the first real content on a phone, by Google's own line; over 4 seconds is poor. How to check yours in a minute and what the gap costs.

https://easydesignagency.com/answers/how-many-google-reviews-does-a-contractor-need/ 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z

Enough to match the other names in the map pack for your trade and town, and recent. Why recency and replies beat the count, and how to ask.

https://easydesignagency.com/answers/how-to-test-your-website-speed/ 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z

The one honest free test: Google's PageSpeed Insights on the Mobile tab. What to paste, which two numbers to read, and the mistakes that flatter the result.

https://easydesignagency.com/answers/is-wordpress-slow-for-contractor-websites/ 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z

WordPress itself is not slow; the theme, the page builder and the plugin pile are. What makes a WordPress contractor site take six seconds on a phone.

https://easydesignagency.com/answers/should-a-contractor-website-show-prices/ 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z

For service trades, yes: the visit fee, starting prices and ranges win the call and screen out the wrong callers. When a range is right and when to hold back.

https://easydesignagency.com/answers/website-cost-vs-one-missed-job/ 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z

At typical ticket sizes one extra job a month covers a $700 to $1,300 site in most trades; in roofing and HVAC one a quarter does. The arithmetic per trade.

https://easydesignagency.com/answers/what-does-700-a-month-website-include/ 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z

Every item in the Standard Engine fee, line by line: the rebuild, hosting with a second copy, SSL, backups, updates and fixes, the speed promise.

https://easydesignagency.com/answers/what-is-llms-txt/ 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z

A plain-text file at yourdomain.com/llms.txt that tells AI assistants what the business is and which pages to read. Ten minutes to add; not a ranking signal.

https://easydesignagency.com/answers/who-owns-the-website-code/ 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z

Whoever the contract says, and most are silent. The four things to own in writing (domain, code, content, accounts) and what our terms say.

https://easydesignagency.com/data/method/ 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z

The device, the speed test, the first-screen tap test, the certificate check, the competitor set, the AI crawler check, and what is left out of every number.

https://easydesignagency.com/guides/contractor-website-cost/ 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z

The four ways contractor websites are sold, the real three-year cost of each, what is missing from the cheap one, and the questions that expose a bad quote.

https://easydesignagency.com/guides/google-business-profile-for-contractors/ 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z

What on a contractor's Google Business Profile moves it up the map (category, service area, reviews, photos, consistency) and what wastes an evening.

https://easydesignagency.com/guides/how-ai-answers-pick-contractors/ 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z

Ask ChatGPT, Google's AI or Perplexity for a roofer and you get three names. Where that list comes from, what gets a page quoted, which crawlers to allow.

https://easydesignagency.com/guides/the-first-phone-screen/ 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z

What has to be on the first screen of a contractor website on a phone, what we usually find there instead, and how a pop-up or buried number loses the call.

https://easydesignagency.com/guides/why-your-website-is-slow-on-phones/ 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z

Your site looks fine on the office computer and takes six seconds on a phone. Why, how to check it in 60 seconds, and what a slow load costs in jobs.

https://easydesignagency.com/hvac-websites/ 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z

What an HVAC website has to do on a phone when the house is 52 degrees: the call button, published repair prices, seasonal pages, the maintenance plan.

https://easydesignagency.com/plumbing-websites/ 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z

What a plumber's website has to do on a phone when there is water on the floor: call and text in one tap, an arrival time, flat-rate prices.

https://easydesignagency.com/roofing-websites/ 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z 2026-11-05T12:00:00Z

What a roofing website has to do on a phone to turn a storm search into a booked inspection: the first screen, the claim wording, the proof, the speed.