Website Design
for Arborists.
A tree over the driveway is not a job people shop around on for a week. They search, they look for someone who is clearly qualified and insured, and they ring. We build sites that win that call.
Luke Dinan Turf & Tree Care
Arborist
What an arborist’s website actually has to do
Half your work is urgent and the rest is people who have been staring at a dangerous tree for months. Here is what we build in, because it is what wins both.
Be first to the storm call
A limb through the fence at six in the morning is searched on a phone and settled in one call. Your number sits in the header on every page, tappable, and after-hours enquiries land in your CRM with an instant reply rather than waiting for Monday.
Prove the insurance and the qualification
The fear is a bloke with a chainsaw dropping a limb through the roof and disappearing. Your public liability cover and your arborist qualifications, stated plainly on the page, are what separate you from him before anyone picks up the phone.
Give arborist reports their own page
Council permit applications, pre-purchase inspections and hazard assessments are a completely different customer to a removal, and a well paid one. Lumping it into a services list means you never turn up for the search that matters.
Show the gear and the finished site
The big money jobs, a gum hanging over a house, only go to crews who obviously have the kit. Photos of the elevated work platform, the chipper and the stump grinder, plus the cleaned-up site afterwards, because the mess is what people quietly worry about.
Let them send a photo with the enquiry
Half your quoting time is driving out to look at a tree. A form that takes photos, the rough height and the access lets you price the simple ones without leaving the yard and prioritise the ones worth a visit.
Name every town you travel to
You cover a wide catchment and nobody will ring if they are unsure you come that far. Spelling out the towns sorts the customer out, keeps you off two-hour round trips you did not want, and puts you in the local map results in each one.
How we build your site
Six stages from first conversation to a site that keeps bringing in work. Click through and see exactly what happens at each one.
Discovery
A free, no-obligation chat about what you actually need the website to do.
We go through your goals, the jobs you want more of and the ones you would rather stop getting. We look at who you are up against locally and what your customers want to know before they pick up the phone.
You come out of that conversation with a clear scope and a fixed monthly number. No discovery fee, no vague quote that quietly grows later.
- Your goals and best jobs mapped out
- A proper look at your local competition
- Clear scope and a fixed price up front
Research and planning
We work out what the site needs to say, and in what order, before anyone designs a thing.
We plan out the pages you need, the question each one has to answer, and the path from someone landing on your site to picking up the phone. Get that right and the design has an easy job.
This is also where the groundwork for showing up on Google goes in, so the site launches ready to be found instead of needing a rescue six months later.
- Every page planned around a real search
- A clear path from visitor to enquiry
- Groundwork for Google done early
Design and development
We design and build your homepage first, so you see the real thing rather than a picture of it.
You get a working homepage on a private link, not a flat mockup. Click through it, scroll it, open it on your phone, show it to whoever you trust for an honest opinion. It is far easier to give useful feedback on something real.
Once you are happy with the look and the feel, we build out the rest of the site to match it.
- Your homepage built first, not mocked up
- Review it live on any device
- The rest follows once you approve it
Optimisation and testing
We make it quick, check it everywhere, and change anything that is not right.
Most of your customers will meet you on a phone, often on patchy regional reception, so we cut the load time down until the site opens straight away. Then every page gets checked across phones, tablets and desktop.
This is also your round of changes. Reword a section, swap a photo, add the service you forgot about. Nothing goes live until you have signed off on it.
- Opens fast, even on poor reception
- Checked on every screen size
- Your changes made before anyone sees it
Launch
We handle the technical side so nothing breaks on the day.
Domain, hosting, security and the switch itself are all sorted for you. If you already have a website, we make sure every old page points to its new home, so the traffic and the Google rankings you have built up come across with you.
That last part is where most rebuilds quietly go wrong, and it is the difference between launching ahead and starting again from scratch.
- Domain, hosting and security sorted for you
- Your existing Google rankings carried across
- Live without downtime
Support and growth
A website without traffic is a car without fuel.
Hosting, updates, backups and monitoring are covered every month, so the site stays quick and secure without you thinking about it. Need something changed? Send an email and it gets done.
From there we push on your local search, your Google profile and your reviews, so the site keeps climbing and keeps bringing in work.
- Hosting, updates and backups handled
- Changes made when you need them
- Local SEO and reviews to keep it growing
Rated 5.0 by the businesses we build for
Lachlan has built a wonderful website for us. Very professional and helpful. Highly recommend We Are Hike. 5 stars!
Katrina Monigatti
Verified Google review
Lachlan is a true professional in every area of his business. He knows the ins and outs of developing a website and also can give best advice based on your business model. I highly recommend him for this and also his incredible efficiency and quick responses. He is also very patient, an attribute not many carry. I can't really fault anything through the process in which he helped me build and develop my website from start to end.
Dana Raleigh
Verified Google review
We approached Hike to discuss a functional website that could handle our club's online membership subscriptions, apparel sales, and event registrations. Since deploying, membership management and marketing have never been easier. We're now able to reach specific member types and sponsors at any time with the click of a button through MailChimp, and track the club's membership growth each year with real data. We'd highly recommend Hike for eCommerce website design and are very happy with the end result.
Michael Devlin
Verified Google review
Quite a large project Lachlan completed for us and very happy with the finished product. His support after the site went live has been great also.
Nathan Whitten
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Our website was created quickly and is of high quality and exceeded our expectations. Easy to deal with and quick to respond to our questions and ideas. The professional website created by We Are Hike is certainly the boost that our business required to showcase our services and increase sales.
Peter Cornthwaite
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I got in touch with We Are Hike to rework and update my electrical contracting website. I found We Are Hike to be very professional and prompt with the service and design, as well as easy to deal with. I now have them maintaining my website on a regular basis so I don't have to worry about it. Highly recommend them.
Michael Edwards
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Amazing to work with, met all requests and went above and beyond to ensure that I was happy with my end result. Great service and even better web design. My online store has never looked better and they were there every step of the way after completion.
Cody Edwards
Verified Google review
The team at We Are Hike built me a fantastic website, functional for customers and also for me to edit things on the back end. The guys are more than willing to help you with any questions even after the site was built, I highly recommend them for sites! They are professional, high quality and Melbourne based!
Rihanna Raleigh
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Great guy! Highly recommended.
Rhasheedmil Jarabe
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Straight answers before you commit
Still weighing it up? Call Lachlan and ask directly. No pitch, no pressure.
Plans start at $299 a month with no big upfront build fee. That covers the build, hosting, updates and support. The exact number depends on how many service pages you need and how wide your service area is.
Ready to grow?
Let's talk.
Get in touch and see exactly how the system would run for your business, lead to booked job.