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General contractors & remodelers · San Diego

Sites that win
the bid.

We build and market sites for San Diego general contractors and remodelers. Your customer is holding three quotes and deciding who to trust with a key to their house. The site is where that gets decided. Live in 7 days.

What a homeowner checks firstOn your site
CSLB license numberVerifiable
Bonded & insuredStated
Who pulls the permitsStated
Years in businessStated

The least glamorous section on the site, and the one that most often wins the job.

Stakes

You're not competing on price. You're competing on trust.

A homeowner comparing bids on a kitchen or an ADU is not looking for the cheapest number. They're looking for the one least likely to go wrong — the contractor who won't disappear mid-project, won't blow the timeline by four months, won't leave them fighting over a permit.

They will look you up before they call. What they find decides whether you're the safe choice or the risky one, and that judgment happens before you've said a word.

Credentials

Put the license number where they're looking.

Legitimacy signals belong high on the page and stated flatly, not buried in a footer:

  • CSLB license number, live and verifiable
  • Bonded and insured, with the coverage named
  • Years in business and where you're based
  • Whether you pull the permits
  • Workers' comp status
  • The trades you self-perform versus subcontract

A homeowner who's been burned before is reading exactly this.

Portfolio

A portfolio organized the way homeowners search.

Contractor galleries usually fail one of two ways: a wall of undifferentiated photos, or three projects from 2019.

Organize by what people actually look for — kitchens, bathrooms, ADUs, whole-home, additions, decks — and add the neighborhood. “Kitchen remodel in Encinitas” does two jobs at once: it tells a homeowner in Encinitas you work on their street, and it's how people search.

For each project, give the scope, the timeline, and the constraint you solved. A homeowner reading “we worked around a load-bearing wall the previous contractor had cut” learns more about you than twenty photos.

Leads

A lead form that doesn't waste your day.

Most contractor sites run a Name / Email / Message form and hand you a week of unqualified calls.

We build the qualifying questions in: project type, rough budget band, timeline, property address, whether they own the home, whether they have plans drawn. Fewer leads arrive. The ones that do are worth returning, and you already know what to say when you call back.

Local

ADUs, permits, and the San Diego specifics.

San Diego has its own regulatory weather — ADU rules, coastal overlays, historic districts, the permitting timelines everyone underestimates. Homeowners search all of it before they search for a contractor.

Pages that answer those questions honestly do two things: they rank for searches your competitors aren't targeting, and they demonstrate the local knowledge that makes a homeowner stop comparing bids. This is the single biggest content opportunity for a San Diego contractor, and almost nobody is taking it.

Beyond

More than a website.

A contractor's marketing problem is rarely the site alone.

Local SEO

On the searches that matter — project type plus neighborhood, where the competition is thin.

Google Business Profile

Including the review flow that decides which three contractors a homeowner calls.

Analytics & reporting

So you can see which project pages produce quote requests and which are decoration.

Google Ads

For the high-ticket categories, once the site is converting.

Proof

What we built for a San Diego contractor.

A local general contractor needed a portfolio site that worked as hard as a salesperson.

We built it around their own project photography, organized by project type and neighborhood, with license and insurance details on every page, a qualifying quote form, and scope-and-timeline detail on each project. Hand-coded, and it loads before a homeowner's patience runs out.

Process

Simple process, no surprises.

Step one

Share details

A short form: your services, your area, your hours, a few sites you like.

Step two

We build it

Custom, hand-coded. A live preview lands within 7 days.

Step three

You review

Unlimited revision rounds until it looks like your business.

Step four

We launch

Live, and ongoing support starts the same day.

$99/month covers the design, hosting, on-page SEO and two hours of edits every month. No contract, 30-day money back. Local SEO from $349 and Google Ads from $499 sit on top when you want them — all of it on the pricing page.

Questions

Common questions.

I don't have professional photos of my jobs. Is that a problem?
Less than you'd think. Honest phone photos of your own finished work beat stock imagery every time — homeowners can tell the difference instantly. Shoot in daylight, get wide shots, and we'll handle the rest.
Should I show pricing?
Usually not exact numbers, since every job is scoped differently. Ranges by project type help though — they save you the calls from people expecting a kitchen for $8,000.
How do I stop getting unqualified leads?
Ask more on the form, not less. Budget band and timeline fields lose you the people who were never going to hire you, which is the point.
Can the site be updated when I finish a job?
Yes — 2 hours of edits are included every month, which is comfortably enough to add projects as they wrap. Send photos and a couple of sentences and we'll post them.
What about ADU searches specifically?
Worth a page of its own. It's high-intent, high-ticket, and the search volume in San Diego is real. We'd build it as a dedicated page rather than a paragraph on your services page.

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