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Roofing Website Design

A roofing website has one job that most websites do not: survive the week when a storm doubles your traffic overnight and every visitor is in a hurry.

Roofing website design is the build of a site specifically for a roofing contractor — fast on a phone, with pages for each service and area, and built to turn a storm-season visitor into a booked inspection. A&B Consulting Group designs and builds these from Burr Ridge, Illinois, serving Chicago and the western suburbs, and remotely for clients in 17 states.

That shapes everything about how it should be built — speed, where the phone number sits, which pages exist, and what happens to a visitor who arrives at nine at night with water coming through a ceiling.

What a roofing site needs that a generic site does not

Most roofing traffic is mobile and urgent. The homeowner is standing outside looking at damage, or inside looking at a stain on the ceiling. They are not reading your about page.

  • Tap-to-call in the header of every page, plus a sticky call bar on mobile
  • A dedicated insurance claims page — deductibles, adjusters, what happens if a claim is denied
  • Storm damage landing pages that a campaign can point at, separate from the homepage
  • Service area pages for the towns you actually work in
  • Before-and-after galleries of your own jobs, compressed so they do not slow the page
  • A quote form short enough to finish one-handed: name, phone, what is wrong

Speed, and why it matters more here

Someone standing in a flooding room will not wait eight seconds for a homepage. Our builds load in under two seconds against the six to eight typical of an older WordPress site, which matters twice over: Google treats speed as a ranking signal, and the visitor you did attract stays long enough to find your number.

Storm weeks make this acute. A hail event sends a surge of traffic at once, and a site that slows under load loses precisely the highest-intent visitors you will see all quarter.

Built so campaigns have somewhere to land

The most common waste in roofing advertising is a campaign pointed at the homepage. A homeowner who clicked an ad about storm damage should land on a page about storm damage, with the matching form and the matching phone number, not on a general introduction to your company.

We build those landing pages as part of the site rather than bolting them on later, so that when a storm comes through the campaign has somewhere to go on day one.

Rebuilding without losing the rankings you have

Most roofing sites we replace already rank for something, even if it is less than they should. The single most important technical step in a rebuild is mapping every existing URL to its replacement with a permanent redirect, so that accumulated search equity transfers instead of evaporating.

It is also the step careless migrations skip, and it is why some rebuilds visibly tank rankings in the weeks after launch. We inventory the old site first, map the redirects before anything goes live, and test them after the cutover rather than assuming they worked.

Your existing site stays live throughout. We only point the domain at the new one once it has been checked on real devices and the redirect map has been verified, which means the worst case is a delayed launch rather than a week of being invisible.

Showing the work when nobody can see the roof

Roofing has a problem other trades do not. Nobody walks past a finished roof and admires it, and there is no showroom. Whatever a homeowner can judge you on, they are judging online.

That puts unusual weight on three things: before-and-after photography of your own jobs, reviews pulled onto your own site rather than left on a profile, and project pages labelled by the town they were in so a homeowner in that town recognises the street. It is the closest thing to walking someone past your work.

Service Areas

Where we work.

In person across Chicago and the western suburbs, remotely for clients in 17 states.

Burr RidgeOak BrookOakbrook TerraceHinsdaleDowners GroveNapervilleLemontWillowbrookDarienWestmontLombardElmhurstLa GrangeWestern SpringsBolingbrookOrland ParkJolietChicago
FAQs

Roofing Website Design — questions we get asked

What should a roofing website cost?

Our builds start at $3,500, with maintenance from $150 a month. What moves the number is page count, how many service areas you want covered, whether we are writing the content, and whether we are migrating an existing site with redirects to map. You get a firm figure before work starts.

How long does a roofing website take to build?

Four to five weeks from kickoff to launch. The pace is usually set by content and photography on your side rather than development on ours, which is why we ask for both in the first week. Your existing site stays live until the new one is verified.

Will the new site keep my current Google rankings?

That is the point of mapping redirects properly. Every existing URL is pointed at its replacement with a permanent redirect so accumulated search equity transfers rather than evaporating. It is the step careless migrations get wrong and the reason some rebuilds tank rankings.

Do I need separate pages for each town I serve?

For the towns that matter commercially, yes. A single page listing thirty towns ranks for none of them. But thirty near-identical pages with the name swapped is a thin-content pattern Google recognises and can suppress the whole site for. Real pages for your best markets, expanded as you have projects to reference.

Can you build a page specifically for insurance claims?

Yes, and we recommend it. A homeowner filing a claim is asking about deductibles, adjuster meetings, scope disputes and denied claims. Those are searched directly, rarely answered well by roofing sites, and a page that answers them properly tends to both rank and convert better than another general estimate page.

Will I own the site?

Yes — domain, hosting account and code. We build on GitHub and Vercel in accounts that can be transferred to you. No proprietary builder holding the site hostage.

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