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Contractors land on our pricing page and hit the same fork every time: there's a $499 one-time website on one side and monthly SEO plans from $497 on the other. Which one do you actually need?

Here's the honest answer — the same one you'd get if you called us, minus the phone call. It comes down to one question.

The One Question: Do You Need to Be Found, or Just Verified?

Every homeowner interaction with your business online is one of two moments:

That's the entire decision. Everything else is detail.

Take the $499 Website If...

What you're getting: a single-page, mobile-first professional site with your real job photos, license info, service area, click-to-call, and a lead form that goes to your phone. Proper SEO fundamentals are built in — real title tags, meta description, LocalBusiness schema — so you'll rank for your business name and have a fighting chance on your trade in your home town.

What you're not getting, and we won't pretend otherwise: a ranking machine. One page is one shot at ranking. It can't compete for "plumber in Doylestown" against a competitor with a dedicated Doylestown page. That's not a flaw in the product — it's the physics of how Google works.

Take a Monthly Plan If...

Quick plan math to set expectations: Starter ($497/mo) gets a 5-page site and foundations — right for a solo operator getting established in one town. Growth ($997/mo, our most popular) gets a 10-page site, aggressive keyword targeting, and full Google Business management — right for a shop that wants to own its area. Premium ($1,997/mo) adds multi-town targeting, Google Ads, and every channel at once. All month-to-month, no contracts, and you own everything — site, domain, Google profile — no matter what.

And the honest timeline, as always: SEO takes 3–6 months to show real movement. The website is instant; rankings are earned. Anyone promising page one in two weeks is lying to you. We'd rather tell you that before you pay us than have you find out after.

The Answer Most Contractors Don't Expect: Start With the $499 Site

Here's the part that makes this decision easy — every dollar of the $499 website credits in full toward any plan's build fee.

That changes the math completely. The $499 site isn't a competing product you might "waste" money on. It's step one:

The only contractors who should skip straight to a plan are the ones who already know they want Google as a pipeline and don't want to lose 3–6 months of ranking time getting there — because the SEO clock only starts when the full site structure exists.

The 30-Second Decision

Your SituationYour Move
No website, work comes from referrals$499 site. Today. This is the easiest call on this page.
Website exists but looks like 2012$499 site to replace it — then decide on SEO from solid ground.
Ready for Google to send leads weeklyGrowth plan. Structure + ongoing work, month to month.
Paying for shared leads right nowTalk to us first. Your current spend probably covers a plan that builds something you own.
Genuinely not sureFree audit or a quick call. We'll tell you which one fits — even if the answer is "just take the $499 site," which it often is.

Pick Your Lane — or Let Us Help You Pick

Both options are on the site with full pricing, no sales call required. Or tell us where your business is at and we'll reach out with a straight recommendation.