Website Design for Electricians

What pages should an electrician’s website have?

An electrician’s website should have a page for each money job, such as switchboard upgrades, solar and batteries, EV chargers and split systems, plus an emergency page, a commercial page if you do that work, service area pages, and a licences and accreditations page. Small jobs can share one residential page. Every page carries your licence number.

Page	Who it’s for	What it needs
Switchboard upgrades	Owners of older homes, buyers and sellers	Signs a board needs replacing, price range, photos of before-and-after boards
Safety switches (RCDs)	Homeowners, landlords, sellers	Your state’s rules, such as WA’s two-RCD requirement for homes sold or rented
Solar and batteries	Research-heavy buyers comparing quotes	SAA accreditation, how the federal battery discount works, brands you install
EV chargers	New EV owners	Charger types, single versus three-phase, when a switchboard upgrade is needed
Split system aircon	Summer buyers, often urgent in heatwaves	ARC licence, unit sizes, install inclusions
Smoke alarms	Owners and landlords, especially in Queensland	Queensland’s 1 January 2027 interconnected photoelectric alarm deadline
Data and cabling	Home offices and businesses	ACMA cabling registration, data points, network cabinets
Emergency electrician	Power outages, burning smells, tripping circuits	Tap-to-call, hours you genuinely answer, after-hours rates
Commercial	Builders, property managers, businesses	Licences, insurance, sites you work on, maintenance contracts

Electrical buyers spend longer researching than most trade customers. A battery buyer will often read two or three installers’ pages before calling anyone. The page that explains the options clearly, shows real installs and states the accreditation up front usually gets the call.

Before going independent, Dyllan spent years inside a Perth SEO agency working on the websites of hundreds of local businesses, including electricians. The pattern to avoid is a single services page listing fifteen jobs, none of them explained well enough to rank or convince.

How should an electrician’s quote form work?

An electrician’s quote form should collect what you need to price the job without a site visit: photos of the switchboard and meter box, the type of job, and the details that change the price. A good form cuts wasted visits, and a customer who’s sent photos is more committed than one who’s filled in a name and number.

Useful questions by job type:

• EV charger. Car make and model, whether the property is single or three-phase if known, a photo of the switchboard, and where the charger should go, plus the rough distance from the board.
• Switchboard upgrade. A photo of the board with the cover open, whether the home has ceramic fuses, and what’s driving the upgrade, such as a sale, a new appliance or nuisance tripping.
• Battery. Existing solar system size and inverter brand if known, a photo of the inverter and meter box, and the latest power bill.
• Split system. Room size, where the indoor and outdoor units should go, and a photo of both walls.

Keep emergency pages different. Someone with no power or a burning smell needs a phone number, not a form. Put the call button at the top and the form further down for non-urgent jobs.

If you use job management software, forms can usually feed into it. Most apps such as ServiceM8 and Tradify can take enquiries by email or through integrations, so a website quote request can arrive as a lead without anyone retyping it.

How much does a website for an electrician cost in Australia?

Australian small-business websites typically cost about $2,000–$6,000 for a professional template-based build and $6,000–$15,000 for a custom lead-generation site, with hosting and maintenance adding $75–$400 a month. These are market ranges from published Australian cost guides, not our quote. For electricians, the price usually moves with the number of job pages and the forms.

Option	Typical Australian market range	What you usually get
DIY website builder	Monthly subscription plus your time	A few pages; job pages and licence placement are up to you
Tradie website subscription	From a few hundred dollars a year	Fast setup; check page limits and ownership
Template-based professional build	$2,000–$6,000	5–10 pages on an established platform, basic forms
Custom lead-generation build	$6,000–$15,000	Full job and area pages, photo-upload quote forms, integrations
Hosting and maintenance	$75–$400 per month	Hosting, security updates, backups and small changes

What pushes an electrical site up the range:

• More job pages. A business offering switchboards, batteries, EV chargers, aircon and data needs more written content than a domestic-only sparky.
• Photo-upload quote forms. Worth it for battery and EV work, but more involved than a basic contact form.
• Commercial sections. Capability statements, insurance details and project galleries for builders and facility managers.
• Integrations. Connecting forms to job management software or booking tools.

A solo domestic electrician rarely needs a custom build. A multi-van business competing for battery and commercial work in a capital city often does.

How must an electrician’s website show licence numbers?

Show your contractor licence number in the site header or footer so it appears on every page, in the format your state requires. WA, Victoria, Queensland and NSW all require electrical contractors to show their number in advertising, and WA’s guidance specifically lists web pages, vehicles and directory listings.

Do	Don’t
WA: show the EC prefix and number, for example “Lic. No. EC 4700”	Show the number without the EC prefix
WA: size it at about 50% of your largest lettering, as Building and Energy’s guideline suggests	Hide it in grey 10-point text at the bottom of the page
Victoria: show your REC number on the site, quotes and listings	Assume your personal electrician’s licence number is enough
Queensland: state your licensed or registered business name, that you’re licensed under the Act, and the licence number, as section 188 of the Electrical Safety Regulation 2026 requires	Use only a trading name with no licence details
NSW: show the licensee’s name and licence number for the correct category of work	Leave old directory listings and social profiles without the number
Show SAA, ARC or ACMA credentials on the pages where they apply	Use accreditation logos you don’t hold

Building and Energy’s guideline also notes that the EC licence is issued by the Electrical Licensing Board, so the number shouldn’t be presented as a Western Power or Building and Energy number.

This is a plain-English summary, not legal advice. Check your regulator directly for the current rule. Our guide to SEO for electricians has the full state-by-state table.

Who owns an electrician’s website, and what happens if you switch providers?

You should own the domain, hosting account and site content outright, so you can leave a provider without losing your web address or rankings. When electricians switch, two things usually go wrong: the domain is held by the old provider, or the new site launches without redirects and the old rankings disappear.

Before you sign with anyone, get these in writing:

1. The domain is registered to your business. For a .com.au, auDA’s rules require an eligible registrant, typically your business with its ABN. A developer can register it for you with your written permission, but in your business’s name.
2. The hosting account is yours, with your developer given access, not the other way round.
3. You own the content and photos. Job pages and install photos are the most valuable part of an electrician’s site.
4. You can take a full copy if you leave, with no exit fee.
5. Google accounts are yours. Business Profile, Analytics, Search Console and Google Ads, with providers added as managers.

If you’re replacing an existing site, the switch itself needs care. Map every old page that gets traffic or links to its new equivalent with a 301 redirect, keep the business name, phone and licence details identical, and resubmit the sitemap to Google after launch. A rebuild done this way should keep your rankings, and a better structure can then lift them.

How does an electrician’s website support SEO and Google Ads?

An electrician’s website supports SEO by giving Google a clear, fast page for every job and area you want work in, and supports Google Ads by giving each ad a matching landing page. A battery ad that lands on a battery page with your accreditation and a quote form converts better than one that lands on your home page.

The basics we build into every electrical site:

• Electrician schema markup. Schema.org has a specific “Electrician” business type. Marking up your name, phone, service area and hours helps Google read your details.
• Fast mobile pages. Compressed install photos and no heavy sliders, because most urgent visitors are on phones.
• Pages that link the way jobs connect. EV chargers link to switchboard upgrades. Batteries link to solar. Safety switches link to switchboards.
• Consistent business details. The same name, phone and licence number as your Business Profile and directory listings.

Paid clicks for electrical jobs aren’t cheap. Google’s Australian estimates put “electrician near me” at about $26 a click and “solar battery installation” at about $25, so a landing page that converts an extra one in twenty visitors makes a real difference to cost per lead. See Google Ads for tradies for the paid side, and website design for tradies for other trades.

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