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Plumbing website maintenance
Plumbing website maintenance for companies that get emergency calls
A burst pipe at 2 AM means one search and one tap on a phone number. We keep your WordPress site online, fast and easy to call from.
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The problem
Where plumbing websites lose emergencies
The site is down and nobody knows
Without monitoring, an outage on a Saturday night can last until Monday. Every emergency search in between goes elsewhere.
The phone number is not a link
On many older sites the number is an image or plain text. On a phone it has to be one tap to call, at the top of every page.
Service-area pages are thin or broken
Pages for each town you cover are often copied, outdated or returning errors, which hurts how you show up in local search.
What you get
What we do for plumbing companies
Uptime monitoring
Automated checks around the clock, so an outage is caught when it starts.
Tap-to-call everywhere
We make sure the phone number is a working call link in the header on every page and screen size.
Fast emergency pages
Your emergency plumber, water heater and drain pages are tuned to load quickly on mobile data.
Service-area page care
We fix broken area pages and, on Grow, add new ones each month with content written for that town.
Form delivery checks
On Care and Grow the request form is checked after every update round.
Updates, security, backups
Weekly updates, firewall and malware scanning, and a daily off-site backup.
What an emergency customer does on your site
Someone with water on the floor does three things: searches, opens one or two results, and calls the first number they can tap. They do not read. The whole job of the page is to load at once and put the number in front of them.
Texas plumbers saw this at scale during the February 2021 winter storm, when frozen and burst pipes sent a wave of emergency searches across the state in a few days. The companies that got those calls were the ones whose sites were up and whose numbers were easy to tap.
What a plumbing website needs when the job is urgent
A burst pipe or a failed water heater is searched for on a phone, often at night. A plumbing website has a few seconds to show that you handle that problem, in that area, right now.
- A tap-to-call number on every page. Next to it, a short request form for people who would rather type.
- A page for each type of job. Leak repair, water heaters, drain cleaning, slab leaks and repiping are each searched for separately.
- The service area spelled out. List the towns you drive to, so the site can be found there and customers do not have to ask.
- The license number in view. Plumbers in Texas are licensed by the state, and showing the number is quick proof.
- Uptime that is watched. An emergency page that is down at 2 a.m. hands the job to the next company in the results.
We monitor the site around the clock, and on Care and Grow we check the request form after every update round. If your form has gone quiet, read why quote forms stop sending emails.
Care plans
Flat monthly price. Hosting included.
No contract. Cancel any month.
Maintain
For a site that works and needs to stay that way.
$79 /month
- Managed hosting, SSL, CDN
- Weekly updates, tested before going live
- Daily off-site backups
- Security and uptime monitoring
- Monthly report in plain English
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Care
For companies that rely on the site for quote requests.
$179 /month
- Everything in Maintain
- 2 hours of fixes and edits each month
- Quote form checked after every update
- Speed tuning to pass Core Web Vitals
- Same-day response
Grow
For companies that want more calls from search.
$399 /month
- Everything in Care
- New service and city pages each month
- Google Business Profile help
- Local SEO tracking and reporting
- 5 hours of fixes and edits, priority response
See everything the care plans cover, or read about our managed WordPress hosting.
FAQ
Questions about plumbing website maintenance
Do you answer our customers’ calls?
No. We look after the website. We make sure it is online and that your number and forms work, so the call reaches you.
Can you fix a site that is down right now?
Yes. The one-time emergency fix is $149, and if we cannot fix it you do not pay. No plan is needed for that.
Will you write pages for each town we serve?
On the Grow plan we add service and city pages every month, written for that area rather than copied.
Can you add a page for each plumbing service?
Yes. On Grow we add service and city pages each month. On Maintain and Care we publish what you send us.
What happens if our site goes down at night?
Uptime monitoring runs around the clock and alerts us when the site stops responding. We start on it as soon as we see the alert, and we tell you in plain English what happened.
What does plumbing website maintenance cost?
Plans are $79, $179 and $399 a month, with hosting included. There is no contract.
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