Plumbing Websites: What Your Website Needs to Get More Leads

Running a plumbing business is different from running a traditional company. While the burger stand down the street may use its website to advertise its menu, your plumbing website needs to generate leads.

Unlike the burger stand, you measure your small business’s success in terms of calls and contact forms, not visitors to your storefront.

Think about it. When was the last time that your website generated 50+ web forms in a month? What about phone calls? Do you hear customers say, “I found you on Google?”

If your answer to any of those is anything less than yes, then this blog post is for you.

Read on to learn what your plumbing website needs to get more leads.

What Does a Bad Plumbing Website Look Like?

We tell all of our clients (especially Plumbers) that your website’s visitors should be able to answer these three questions within three seconds of landing on your site:

1. What is your company?
2. What services do you provide or offer?
3. How can they contact you?

It’s a well-known fact that in this digital age, consumers want the information that they are seeking now. Because of this, your plumbing company’s website needs to answer each of those three questions above without the user having to scroll down the page.

Get inspiration for your plumbing website on our Top 100 Plumbing Websites for Inspiration.

Now that we’ve told you what not to do let’s move on to what you should do to have a successful plumbing website.

13 Web Design Tips That Every Plumber’s Website Needs to Generate Leads

Follow these web design tips to generate more leads for your plumbing business.

1. Use A Professional Logo

Having a professional logo has multiple benefits. First, it shows your company as legitimate. If a consumer compares an ugly website with no logo to a professionally designed website with a crisp and clear logo, they will associate the nicer logo and website with a higher-quality company. Remember, image is everything!

You should consider investing in a professionally designed logo and brand before starting your website design process.

Need a professionally designed logo? We can help you with that.

2 Have a Clear Call to Action

A call to action (or CTA) is graphics, verbiage, or other content that directs users to take some sort of action. CTAs direct the visitor where to go next or what to do.

On plumbing websites, CTAs typically fall into one of two categories:

• Make a phone call
• Complete an online form

Consider placing a clear call to action (CTA) in your website’s header, making it easy for visitors to contact you or your company’s customer service representatives.

Learn why your CTA is critical.

3. Give an Easy Way to Request Your Services

Like the Len the Plumber Website example above, you want to make it as easy as possible for your users to contact you after reading your call to action.

If you look back at the image, you’ll see that Len the Plumber gives potential customers two ways to contact them: by phone and online.

4. Show a List of Your Services

Google’s entire mission is to provide users with the best answers to their search queries. You should as well. As soon as your target audience lands on your website, give them a clear list of the services that you offer (you can get as detailed as you’d like). (Remember the three questions in three seconds we mentioned?)

5. Use a Sticky Header

Sticky headers are all the rage these days, especially in plumbing website design.

A sticky header is a functionality that shrinks the header section of your website and makes it “stick” to the top of the page while the user scrolls. Sticky headers keep your menu in the visitor’s view at all times, making navigation easier.

Sticky headers help you generate more sales leads by keeping your contact information and call to action visible the entire time someone is on your website.

6. Have a Responsive and Mobile-Friendly Framework

8 out of 10 consumers will stop engaging with a website that doesn’t display well on their device. (Source: Adobe)

If a potential customer needs emergency plumbing and heating services and ends up on your website via their phone and it doesn’t display well, chances are they’re going to “bounce” right to your competition’s site.

We repeat: If your website doesn’t display well on tablets and smartphones, eight out of ten people will leave it and visit your competitor’s website instead.

To keep these sales leads to yourself, make sure your business website is mobile-friendly.

7. Use Clear and Original Imagery

It’s been said among web design professionals that a pixelated and blurry image is worse than having none at all.

Improperly-sized images are a sign of laziness and certainly aren’t user-friendly.

Instead, use professionally shot, high-quality images at the highest resolution possible for the highest clarity and professionalism. Keep in mind to use the exact size that the images are served at to maximize loading speed.

8. Use Images of Real People

One way to convey your plumbing company’s legitimacy and make homeowners in your service area feel safe in their own homes. At the same time, you perform a service is to have images of your technicians, team members, and trucks on your website.

If on your home page, a Meet the Team page, a blog post, or any other page on your site, a friendly face and a smile go a long way toward helping your website generate more leads.

Also, consider creating short introductory videos for each of your plumbers and staff. Embed these videos into “Meet the Team” or “Employee Spotlight” blog posts to make your brand more approachable.

9. Show off your Awards & Accreditations

Every home and business owner wants to hire a plumber who is well-respected in their community and the plumbing industry.

Show off your industry awards, recognition, media articles, and accreditations to generate even more leads from your plumbing website.

Here is a list of some badges, logos, and other items that we recommend that every plumber includes on their website (if applicable).

Remember to only use logos and badges from organizations that you are a member of and to adhere to their specific guidelines to using their logos online.

• State and local plumbing licenses
• Better Business Bureau
• Yelp
• Angi Super Service
• Best of Houzz
• Best of HomeAdvisor
• Other award badges and logos

But before you showcase your plumbing prowess with awards and accreditations on your site, consider how a diversified marketing strategy can improve your business even further. Showcasing accolades like state and local licenses, Better Business Bureau, Yelp badges, Angi Super Service Awards, Best of Houzz, and Best of HomeAdvisor recognitions signals trust and quality to potential clients. Yet, there’s more to explore beyond these traditional markers of success.

Get into our recent blog post, where we unpack strategies beyond platforms like Angi, focusing on digital innovation and community engagement for sustained growth. Discover more in our blog post for insights that could transform your plumbing business.

10. Have a Modern Website Design

Your plumbing website is your digital salesperson who works 24/7 to generate new leads and sales. You want to make sure you put your best foot forward (unlike bad sites 1, 2, and 3 above.). 

You wouldn’t have a sloppy salesperson, so why have a horrible website? Instead, invest in a professional plumbing website design, Search Engine Optimization for plumbers, content marketing for plumbers, social Media Marketing for plumbers, and any other digital marketing services for your plumbing lead generation.

The investment will pay for itself, we promise!

Operating on a tight budget? Read our guide to Super Easy SEO for Small Businesses and do your SEO yourself.

11. Show Competitive Differentiators

Even though you already know that your plumbing company is better than your competition, homeowners and business owners who haven’t ever heard of your company don’t.

To differentiate yourself from your competition and get noticed among all of the other plumbers, tell your customers why you’re the best plumber in your town, local area, or state.

Pro Tip: If you haven’t performed a SWOT analysis for your company, follow our guide to creating a SWOT analysis for your construction company.

12. Provide Coupons & Special Offers

If you offer exclusive deals and coupons to your customers, be sure to advertise them on your website.

Customers love saving money, and every penny saved on a tune-up, service call, installation, or maintenance plan goes a long way with customers and helps build customer loyalty.

Sure, coupons may mean less money in your wallet, but what you make up for it in customer retention and loyalty far outweighs the $10.00 you may have lost by giving a customer 10% off of their service call.

13. Provide a Click to Call Button

Some website designers say that you should only have click-to-call buttons for mobile devices, but we disagree.

With the popularity of touch screens, we make all of our links to any telephone number click-to-call.

By adding a simple HTML code like tel:225.505.3834, you can make it easier for visitors to call you from the links with your telephone number.

For instance:

Not click to call: 225.505.3834

Click to call: 225.505.3834

Sure, you want to keep your call to action present on mobile devices. By making it easy for phone users to tap their screens to call you, you make sure that you can convert mobile users on your plumbing website into leads with just a literal click of a button.