Zenlio Local

Websites for trades that stop you losing work to rivals with worse reviews but better websites.

Done-for-you websites that get owner-operators found in Google, so the right local customers call you first, not the rival with worse reviews. You focus on the work. We handle the web. Built fast, properly, no agency nonsense. (Found in AI search like ChatGPT and Gemini too.)

10
Working days from form to live site
£0
Hosting cost, included in all plans
2 hrs
Response time on every enquiry
Free tool

Not sure if you need a new site? Find out what your current one is costing you.

Two numbers, eight questions. A live revenue gap: and a reason to act.

Calculate my revenue gap →

You're great at what you do. But Google doesn't know that yet.

Most owner-operators rely on word-of-mouth, paid directories, and hoping the phone rings. Meanwhile, customers are searching Google every single day for exactly what you do, and finding your competitors instead.

It's not because they're better. It's because they have a website that shows up. The bar isn't high. But you have to be in the game to win.

And now there's a new channel: AI search. When someone asks ChatGPT "who's a good dentist in Bristol?" or "best plumber in Leeds?", it pulls from websites structured the right way. Most local business sites aren't. Yours will be.

90%
of customers search online before booking a local service
46%
of all Google searches have local intent behind them
8.5bn
"near me" searches a year on Google in the UK
900m
weekly ChatGPT users, a new channel to win
Who it's for

Owner-operators in six worlds (and counting).

If your customers are local and trust matters more than scale, we're probably right for you. Drop us a line if you're not sure.

Trade-specific pages: websites for electricians, websites for plumbers, websites for builders, roofers, joiners, websites for landscapers, painters and decorators, heating engineers, tilers, bathroom fitters, locksmiths, plasterers and kitchen fitters. Local to us? Basingstoke, Fleet, Farnborough, Winchester, Andover, Reading, Newbury, Camberley, Farnham, Guildford, or anywhere in Hampshire.

What you get

A website that actually wins you work.

Not a template with your name dropped in. A proper, custom-built site engineered to rank in your area for your services.

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Built for your area

Area pages for the towns your work actually comes from, each one written from real jobs, reviews and local detail. When someone in Oxford searches for what you do, your Oxford page shows up. Not twenty copies with the town name swapped, which Google treats as spam.

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SEO from day one

Every page is keyword-targeted with proper meta tags, schema markup, internal linking, and content structured for search engines. No retrofitting. No plugins. Built right from the start. How we do local SEO →

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AI search ready

Your site is structured so ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity can read it, understand it, and recommend you. Most local business websites block these AI systems. Yours welcomes them. How we do AI search →

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Mobile-first with click-to-call

Over 70% of local searches happen on phones. Your site loads fast, looks sharp on any device, and has your phone number front and centre so customers can call with one tap.

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Lead capture that actually works

Every page has a clear path to contact you. Forms have a proper "what happens next" sequence, confirmation page, instant auto-reply, so customers know they're in good hands the moment they hit submit.

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Monthly reporting

On Professional and Growth plans, a clear monthly report showing how many people found your site, which pages are performing, and what we're doing to push things forward.

Optional add-on

Get found on Google Maps, too.

Your website gets you found in search and AI answers. A Google Business Profile gets you into the map pack and the reviews box: the part that shows up first when someone searches for your trade nearby. We set the whole thing up so it actually works.

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Claimed and verified

We claim and verify your profile from scratch, or untangle one that's already a mess. Set up as a service-area business if you work from home, so your address stays private.

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The right categories

Primary and secondary categories chosen properly, so Google knows exactly what you do and who to show you to. Most profiles get this wrong and quietly lose the map pack.

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Services and areas filled in

Every service you offer and every area you cover, written up for you, not left half-blank. The more Google knows, the more searches you can show up for.

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Photos done right

Your work, your van, your team, laid out the way Google rewards with more views. Profiles with proper photos get a lot more calls than ones without.

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Listed everywhere that counts

Your name, address and number matched across 10+ trusted directories, so Google trusts your business is real and ranks it higher.

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Reviews made easy

A simple, ready-to-send way to ask happy customers for reviews: the stars next to your name that win the next job before they've even called.

£250 one-off, on any plan

Add it to any plan →

Already included on the Growth plan. Add it to Starter or Professional for a one-off £250. More on Google Business Profile →

How it works

From zero to live in under a week.

No jargon. No faff. Three simple steps and your website is out there working for you.

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Tell us about your business

Fill in a simple online form: your services, the areas you cover, your qualifications, and a bit about you. Takes about 10 minutes. That's all we need to start building.

02

We build your site

We write and build every page, homepage, service pages, area pages, blog posts, contact page, all optimised and ready to go. You review it, we make any tweaks, done.

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Go live and get found

We launch your site, submit it to Google, and start the ongoing work of publishing content and building visibility. You start appearing in results. Most clients see their first enquiries within 4-8 weeks as Google indexes and ranks the new pages, then it builds from there.

Recent work

Real sites, for real trades.

Before you look at pricing, see what the finished thing actually looks like.

Finished garden built by Etonic Landscapes, a hard landscaping business in Warsash, Hampshire. Zenlio built their 38-page website to show ten years of this kind of work.
Etonic Landscapes · Hampshire
Ten years of craft, matched by the website

Had no website at all. Now booked up months ahead on 2-3 leads a week straight through the site.

Victorian terrace restored by JAG Construction, a renovation team in East London. Zenlio built their 35-page website to show the detail in work like this.
JAG Construction · East London
A premium builder, with a site as careful as the work

A 35-page site for an East London period-property builder, built to show the detail and answer the buyer's questions.

See all case studies →

Simple pricing

Three plans. All transparent.

All plans include hosting, SSL, and a fully built website. No hidden costs.

Build fee paid upfront. Monthly starts on launch. 3-month minimum, then cancel any time. All prices accurate at time of writing, May 2026.

Starter
Starter
For new businesses or anyone who needs to be online quickly with the basics done properly.
£1,250
one-off build fee
+ £79/month
  • 15-20 page website
  • 5-6 service pages
  • Area pages for up to 6 towns you work in
  • Lead capture contact form
  • Schema markup & meta tags
  • Mobile responsive
  • Hosting included
  • 1 content update per month
Start with Starter
Growth
Growth
For businesses ready to dominate their patch. Everything managed, every detail covered.
£3,950
one-off build fee
+ £199/month
  • Everything in Professional, plus:
  • 4 blog posts per month (not 2)
  • Google Business Profile setup
  • Citation building (10+ directories)
  • 2 GBP posts per month
  • Citation & NAP monitoring
  • Competitor monitoring
  • Detailed monthly recommendations
  • Same-day response on requests
Choose Growth

Not happy with the first draft? We redo it free.  ·  Not live within 10 working days? Your first month's hosting is free. How our pay monthly model works → Every price, including WordPress and add-ons → Keeping your current site? Get a £395 audit →

No forms to wade through first. Tell us your trade and postcode, we'll call you back within 2 hours and talk it through. Ready to crack on and want to skip the call? Send the full brief (about 15 minutes).

Weighing up monthly against upfront? Here's the honest maths. Comparing quotes? See what every option really costs over three years.

Got a WordPress site you want to keep?
We look after those too.
Care plans from £95 a month, hosting included. Fixed-price fixes from £295. Or a lean new WordPress build if you want to edit it yourself.
WordPress for Local →
For when you're ready for more

The site got you found. Momentum keeps you chosen.

Once the site's doing its job, Momentum is the bit most website plans stop short of: someone chasing the reviews, someone turning finished jobs into posts, someone actually on it every month, not just watching the numbers go by. Prefer to do it yourself? Here's how to get more Google reviews.

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A review after every job

The moment a job's finished, we send the customer a simple way to leave you a review. The stars next to your name win the next job before they've even called.

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Every review answered

Good or bad, every review gets a reply within 48 hours. Nobody trusts a business that never answers back.

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Your work, turned into posts

Every new project, page, or article we write up for your site gets turned into a ready-to-post photo and caption for Facebook and Instagram automatically. At least 4 a month, more in a busy month, built from your real work, not stock photos.

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A proper monthly catch-up

Not just an emailed report. Fifteen minutes on the phone each month to walk through what's working and what's next.

Add Momentum to your plan →

From £395/month, on top of any plan, Starter, Professional, or Growth. 3-month minimum, then cancel any time.

From the very beginning, he was professional, easy to communicate with, and really took the time to understand what I wanted... I’m delighted with the finished website and wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Dan to anyone looking for a talented, reliable, and knowledgeable web designer.
Robert Burns ★★★★★ · Trebor Restoration · Google review
Free tools

See where you actually stand.

Two free tools that show you what customers and AI search engines find when they look for your business. No signup, no pitch.

How to stop paying for every lead through Checkatrade or Bark.

What the platforms actually cost once it's added up, and a practical way to wean off them without cancelling anything tomorrow.

Read the guide →

How to handle enquiries when you're the only one answering the phone.

A one-person business can't answer every call the moment it comes in. What actually stops that costing you the job, and what doesn't.

Read the guide →

Great reviews, no website: the jobs you're quietly losing.

You can be the best-rated tradesperson in town and still lose work to someone with fewer stars and a better website. Why reviews and a website do two different jobs, what happens in the eight seconds before someone calls, and the maths most people never run.

Read the piece →

Why your website isn't getting you calls.

A quiet phone isn't one broken thing, it's six, and they fail in a rough order. The honest autopsy, split into "nobody's landing" and "landing and leaving", so you spend your money fixing the right one first.

Read the piece →

What a tradesperson's website actually needs to do.

The story of building a 38-page production site for Etonic Landscapes, a Hampshire hard-landscaping studio. What we built, why each decision matters, and what most agencies miss when they build for trades.

Read the build story →

Why one page isn't enough for your trade.

A single homepage can't rank for every job you do or every town you cover. Why service pages and area pages win the work a one-pager never will, and the structure that actually gets you found in Google and AI search.

Read the piece →

DIY website vs done-for-you: an honest look.

Building your own website feels free. Here's the real cost of DIY for a busy tradesperson, where it genuinely works, and the day it quietly becomes the expensive option instead of the cheap one.

Read the piece →
Common questions

Straight answers.

Yes. If your current site isn't bringing you work, we'll build you a new one from scratch and redirect your existing domain to it. You keep the same web address, your customers won't notice a thing, but Google will see a dramatically improved site. How a redesign works →

No. You fill in a 10-minute intake form about your business, the services you offer, areas you cover, and a bit about yourself. We write everything: page content, blog posts, meta descriptions, the lot. You just review it and say "looks good" or "change this bit."

Your site will be live within 10 working days. Google typically starts indexing new sites within days. Most clients see their first enquiries from the website within 4–8 weeks. Rankings and traffic build steadily over 3–6 months as we publish ongoing content. Why most websites take longer →

When someone asks ChatGPT, Google Gemini, or Perplexity "who's a good electrician in Southampton?" or "best B&B in the Cotswolds?", those AI tools search the web and recommend businesses based on what they find. If your website is structured the right way, you get recommended. Most local business sites aren't set up for this. Yours will be from day one. More on this in the blog.

You can cancel the monthly plan any time after the 3-month minimum, with 30 days' notice. The website you've paid for is yours, we'll hand over all the files. We don't lock you in. We keep clients by delivering results, not by holding their site hostage.

Directories are fine for some leads, but you're sharing every lead with several other businesses and paying a monthly fee or per-lead cost for the privilege. Your own website brings you direct enquiries from people who've already decided they want to contact you. It also builds an asset you own, a directory profile disappears if you stop paying.

Not at all. You fill in one form, we do everything else. You don't need to log into anything, learn any software, or update anything yourself. If you want a change, you tell us and we do it. That's the whole point of done-for-you.

Get in touch. The model works for most owner-operator businesses where customers are local and trust matters more than scale. If we're a good fit, we'll tell you. If we're not, we'll point you somewhere better.

More answers on prices, ownership and process: see all FAQs →

Let's talk

Get a callback, or send a quick message.

No pressure, no hard sell. Leave your trade and postcode and we'll call you back within 2 hours, have a quick chat about what you need, and tell you honestly whether we're a good fit.

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07737 548 072
Mon–Fri 9am–5:30pm
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Still weighing it up?

See how Zenlio compares to the alternatives.

vs DIY builders →Wix, Squarespace and the weekend build, against a site that’s done for you and gets found.vs designer vs agency →The cheap web designer, the £3,000 agency, and the honest third option.vs Checkatrade & Bark →Rent shared leads at a rising price, or own a site that brings work direct.vs Yell →A year-long managed package, or a website you own from £79 a month.

See all comparisons →

More from Google

Rated 5.0 from 6 reviews on Google. Read them all →

★★★★★
“I can’t thank Dan enough for the website he created for my business! His skill, attention to detail, and approach to every stage of the build were outstanding. No question or concern was ever too much trouble... His web design and IT expertise are second to none. If you’re looking for a truly professional website, I highly recommend [Zenlio]!”
Ryan Lewis · Etonic Landscapes
Google review
★★★★★
“They quickly identified the gaps and created a website which we can be proud of... The results have illustrated this - we have received a massive increase in website traffic, inbound enquiries as well as receive in-person comments from our clients.”
Matt Kerr · Your Personal Trainers
Google review
★★★★★
“Dan’s attention to detail was excellent! He’d thought of everything - from colours and typeface to user experience. Dan has built a site that looks good and works well... This is exactly the boost that my business needed - thank you!”
Odessa Sherreard
Google review