Drywall, doors, TVs and shelves
Nobody searches for a handyman until something small breaks. Name the small things.
What the home page says
Section by section, in the order a visitor reads it.
Jobs I take
People search the job far more than the word handyman. List real tasks in their words, so someone with a sticking door knows they're in the right place.
Jobs I pass on
Panels, gas lines and structural work belong to licensed trades, and many states cap how big a job you can take without a contractor's license. Saying so builds trust, and it helps keep you inside your state's limit.
Send your list
Handyman work often arrives as a list. A long answer box for the whole thing, plus the town and best days, lets you group the jobs and price the visit.
How I charge
Your minimum, your hourly or flat rate, and whether materials are extra. It heads off the call about a single lightbulb, and it reassures someone nervous about an open-ended bill.
Who's coming
Customers are letting a stranger in, often when they're home alone. Show your face, your name and your truck, and say how long you've worked around town.
Regulars
Landlords, property managers and agents selling a house can have a punch list every month. A short line for them invites the steady work that fills a slow week.
How they search
- handyman near me
- handyman services
- tv mounting service
- drywall repair near me
- small home repairs
- door repair near me
- furniture assembly near me
- move out repairs
What earns their trust
- Your face and your name on the page
- Insurance, even where your state doesn't ask for it
- Which jobs you send to a licensed trade
- Your minimum and your rate, stated up front
- Real reviews that name the job you did
- Contractor license, where your state requires one for your size of job
- How you confirm the day, so people know you'll turn up
How it gets found
What moves a handyman up in a town's results.
List the task, in their words
A section on TV mounting, drywall and door repair matches what people actually type. Use their words, such as patch a hole in the wall, beside the trade's own.
Hide a home address
Google says a business run from home should clear its address and set a service area. Do the same on your site, so strangers don't get your house number. In Shingle, turn off Your address before you build.
Ask for the review the same day
A review that says he mounted our TV and patched the wall tells the next reader you do that. Send your review link the same day, while the job is fresh.
Keep the categories honest
Google's rule is to use as few categories as you can, and handyman work is one. A list of trades you aren't licensed for invites trouble and tells nobody anything.
How to sell one
Most handymen are one person with a truck and more referrals than paperwork. They rarely want a big website, and they'll say so. What wins them is a page that saves retyping the same answers on neighborhood apps, and heads off the one-lightbulb calls.
Keep it small. Show one page with their name, their job list and their minimum, at a price a single job covers. In Radar, search Handymen.
- “I'm one guy. I don't want more work than I can handle.”
- A site can ask for less. Set the towns, the minimum and the jobs you want, so the wrong calls have a reason to go elsewhere, and pause the form when you're booked.
- “I get everything from Nextdoor.”
- Keep it. Then paste one link in every reply instead of typing your rates again. It also works for the people who hear your name and don't use Nextdoor.
- “Will a website get me in trouble with the license board?”
- It can if it advertises work you can't legally take, and some states treat that as a violation. Check with your state's contractor board, list what sits inside its limit, and say you refer the rest.
- “I can't take on another monthly bill.”
- Tie it to one job, since a mounted TV and a patched wall can cover a small monthly price. If that's still too much this month, it isn't the right time, and that's fine.
Common questions
Can't find your answer? Read Shingle Help or email [email protected].
A small one, yes. People who hear your name look you up, and a single page with your jobs, towns, minimum and reviews answers them without a phone call. It can start as one page and grow only if you want it to.
The ones you want more of, in the words people use: patch a hole, fix a door, mount a TV, hang shelves. Add the jobs you don't do, especially licensed trades, and check your state's limit on job size before you list anything large.
Yes. Ask Shingle for a form with a long answer box, plus their town and best days. The list comes to your email and stays in your site's inbox. Forms hold words and no files, so ask for photos by text once you've replied.
On Shingle, the plan is $49 a month, or $39 a month billed yearly, for one live site with your own domain and 200 credits a month. Editing by hand and publishing cost nothing. It starts with a 7-day trial for $1, so you can build it and see it live in the first week.
No. When you build from your Google listing, turn off Your address and name your service area instead. Google gives the same advice for businesses run from home. The site can still show your towns, your phone and a form.
Read next
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- Website cost calculatorWhat each way of getting a site really costs.
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