Sent Your Way ONE TRADIE PER AREA

OWN A SITEOUTRIGHT. OR PAYANOTHER WAY.

By Brendan Barnhill · Published · Updated

Most businesses take the standard deal: the site stays with me and every enquiry it gets is sent your way for $50 a week ex GST. This page is for the other cases. If you want a site on your own books, I build one you own outright. If you would rather pay for results than a fixed fee, there is pay per enquiry. If you want a fixed number and nothing to run, there is a flat monthly fee. All three are agreed in writing before anything starts.

Check my area See the standard deal

One main site, five more front doors.

Your main site ranks where you are based. The pages work the suburbs around it, each one written for that suburb, and every enquiry they produce comes back to you. Nothing competes with your site; it feeds it.

Your main site in the centre, five suburb pages around it, enquiries flowing back to the centre SUBURB PAGEONE TRADE, ONE AREA SUBURB PAGEONE TRADE, ONE AREA SUBURB PAGEONE TRADE, ONE AREA SUBURB PAGEONE TRADE, ONE AREA SUBURB PAGEONE TRADE, ONE AREA YOUR MAIN SITEEVERY ENQUIRY LANDS HERE
Green marks are enquiries · Every one goes to your phone and inbox, not to a marketplace

Sponsor plates on the fence, not a new shopfront.

A local page sits alongside your main site and points back to it. It does not replace your website and it never competes with you, because it is yours, or its enquiries come to you alone.

Your main website as the home ground, with three local pages on the fence for nearby suburbs, each linking back to it and sending enquiries to your phone YOUR WEBSITE HOME GROUND · WHERE YOU ARE BASED SUBURB ONE SUBURB TWO SUBURB THREE LOCAL PAGE · LINKS HOME LOCAL PAGE · LINKS HOME LOCAL PAGE · LINKS HOME
Elevation · One home ground, a plate on each fence you want work from · Every enquiry goes to your phone and inbox

Most local businesses rank where their office or yard is, and fade out two or three suburbs away, even when they would happily take the work there. That gap is what a local page fills. I built and ran these for my own account across five states before offering them to anyone, so the method is already tested on real suburbs: the territory check, the suburb detail that makes a page genuinely local, and the enquiry handling that does not lose an enquiry.

Found on Google, and in the AI answers.

More customers now ask ChatGPT, Copilot or Google’s AI Overview who to call, and the assistant names one or two businesses. Those answers are drawn from pages the assistant is allowed to read, that sit in Google’s and Bing’s indexes, and that state the local facts plainly. Every page I build is made for that, at no extra cost, because it is the same work as ranking well.

  • Open to the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google and Bing
  • Indexed in Google and Bing, with IndexNow so Bing and Copilot hear about every change
  • Schema for your trade, services, suburbs and common questions
  • Answer-first writing and real suburb facts from ABS Census data
  • An llms.txt guide that tells AI models who you are, what you do and where

How AI assistants pick a business, and what I build for it →

Three ways to do the deal.

Pick the one that suits how your business likes to pay. If none of them fit, tell me what would, and I will shape it with you.

OPTION 01

Build it. You own it.

I build the page set for your trade and your area, then hand it over. It is your asset, on your books, in your name.

  • Domain registered in your business's name
  • The main local page plus the suburbs around it, written for that area
  • Enquiry form to your phone and inbox, tested before handover
  • Search Console and Analytics set up and handed to you
  • Links back to your main site, so it adds to it
  • Built for AI search as well as Google: open to AI crawlers, in Bing and Google, schema and an llms.txt guide

Best if you want an asset, not a subscription.

You pay: a fixed build price, quoted up front

OPTION 02

Pay per enquiry. Exclusive.

I build and run the page, or you take one of my existing grounds in your area. Every enquiry it produces goes to you and nobody else.

  • One business per trade per area: the ground is yours alone
  • A set price per genuine enquiry, agreed for your trade first
  • Spam and out-of-area enquiries are not charged
  • Every enquiry logged with time and details, so the count is never argued
  • No build fee and no lock-in: if it is not working for you, it stops

Best if you want to test an area, or prefer paying for results.

You pay: per genuine enquiry, nothing else

OPTION 03

Flat monthly. Exclusive.

A flat monthly fee for every enquiry from a local page that is exclusive to you. The domain, the page and the referral service stay with my company, so there is nothing for you to build or maintain.

  • Predictable monthly cost, whatever the enquiry count
  • One fixed number for the budget
  • Want to own one later? Switch to option 01 and I build a page set in your business's name
  • Or shape it differently: several suburbs on one deal, a mix of monthly and per enquiry, or working with your existing marketing person

Best if you want one fixed number and nothing to run yourself.

You pay: a fixed monthly fee for the enquiries

Prices are quoted per trade and area, after the free area check · All prices ex GST · Everything agreed in writing before work starts

How I would work with you.

I would rather work with a good local operator than build against one. Here is how it runs, start to finish.

  1. A free area check

    You tell me your trade and the suburbs you want more work from. I look at who is actually ranking there and how hard it would be, and tell you straight whether a page is worth it. Sometimes the honest answer is no, and I will say so.

  2. Pick the option, agree the numbers

    Build price, price per enquiry or monthly fee, plus what counts as a genuine enquiry and how either of us can end it. All in writing before I start, nothing added later.

  3. I build, you check it

    Your business details, your licence number, your photos and your service list, reviewed by you before anything goes live. Nothing is published that you would not say to a customer.

  4. It goes live and enquiries come to you

    Straight to your phone and inbox, from the page, with no middleman taking a cut of the conversation. You quote and do the job the way you always have.

  5. I review it with you

    At 90 days I go through what came in and what it was worth to you. Keep going, add a suburb, switch options, or stop: your call.

The first ninety days.

What happens, in order, and what you are asked to do at each stop. Rankings move on weeks and months, not days, and nothing on this rail is a promise of a result. It is a promise of the work.

  1. Free area checkYou send your trade and suburbs. I look at who ranks there and tell you straight if a page is worth it.
  2. Agreement in writingOption, numbers, what counts as a genuine enquiry, how either of us ends it. You sign nothing you have not read.
  3. Build and your reviewYour details, licence number, photos and services. You check every word before it goes live.
  4. LiveSubmitted to Google and Bing, open to the AI crawlers, form tested to your phone and inbox.
  5. First enquiriesUsually weeks, not days. New pages take time to settle. Every enquiry is logged with time and details.
  6. 90-day reviewI go through what came in and what it was worth to you. Keep going, add a suburb, switch options, or stop.

What I will not promise.

This business is built on being straight with people, so here is the fine print up front.

I cannot promise a ranking or a mention in an AI answer, and nobody honest can: Google and the assistants decide that, and a new local page usually takes a few months to settle. I will not promise a number of enquiries either. What I can promise is the work done properly, the numbers shown to you openly, and one business per trade per area, so I will never build a page that competes with a business I am working with.

If I already run a page for your trade in your area, it is looking for one local business to send its enquiries to, and that could be you. The free area check will tell you.

Check my area.

Tell me your trade and the suburbs you want work from. I will come back to you myself, not a call centre, with an honest read on the area.

Or contact me directly: 1300 429 512 · or the form above

Phone or email is enough, you do not need both. Your details go to me only, are used to reply to this enquiry, and are handled under the privacy policy. All prices quoted are ex GST. No ranking, enquiry volume, AI mention or income is guaranteed.

Check my areaCall 1300 429 512