Websites for Gold Coast trades that say exactly which stretch of the coast you cover, show your Queensland licence properly, and make it plain whether you'll take a job over the border in Tweed.
The Gold Coast is long and narrow. It runs from the northern estates down the beaches to Coolangatta, with the hinterland behind, and the state border runs along its southern edge. A customer wants to know straight away whether you'll come to their end of it.
North (Ormeau, Pimpama, Coomera, Helensvale), central (Southport, Surfers Paradise, Broadbeach, Robina), south (Burleigh Heads, Palm Beach, Currumbin, Coolangatta) and inland around Nerang, Mudgeeraba and the valleys. If a small job in Coolangatta isn't worth the drive from Coomera, the site can say so politely.
Some of your callers live in New South Wales. If you work in Tweed Heads and beyond, list those suburbs and show the licence that covers the work. If you don't, one line saying Queensland jobs only saves you calls you'd have to turn down.
From early October to early April, Tweed's clocks run an hour ahead of the Gold Coast's. Writing your hours as Queensland time stops a Tweed customer ringing at what they think is eight o'clock and you think is seven.
New houses in the northern suburbs need fences, driveways, turf and gardens, extra power points, split systems, flyscreens and blinds. A section written for someone who has just got the keys speaks to them more directly than a general service list.
When the quote form asks for the suburb before anything else, you can see at a glance whether a job is in your patch. It also tells the customer you care where they are, which matters on a coast this spread out.
The name on your QBCC or electrical contractor licence, a line saying you're licensed, and the number, with your trading name alongside. A customer comparing quotes can then check each licence before choosing.
The City of Gold Coast is the second most populous council area in Queensland after Brisbane, and it's made up of 52 suburbs and 29 rural localities. It runs from the Albert River in the north, past Ormeau and Pimpama, down to Coolangatta, the southernmost suburb, where it meets Tweed Heads and New South Wales, with Nerang, Mudgeeraba and the valleys behind the beaches. For a tradie the useful question isn't whether you cover the Gold Coast, it's which part of it and how far you'll travel for a small job. The site should answer that before the phone rings.
Much of the city's growth is in the north. In the ABS population estimates for 2024–25, three of the four Gold Coast areas that added the most residents were northern ones: Hope Island, Pimpama – North and Coomera. New homes there need a run of work once the builder hands over the keys, from fencing and landscaping to air conditioning and security screens, so a page or section aimed at those suburbs by name is worth having if that's your kind of work.
Coolangatta and Tweed Heads sit side by side across the state line, and for half the year they keep different clocks: New South Wales observes daylight saving and Queensland doesn't. Work done on the NSW side falls under NSW rules. Many interstate licence holders can work there under automatic mutual recognition, but interstate building licensees are required to notify the NSW regulator before starting, so check your trade on the NSW Government's mutual recognition pages before your site offers Tweed jobs.
On the Queensland side, the QBCC's advertising rules apply to a website just as they do to vehicle signage: your licensed name, a statement that you hold a QBCC licence, and the number, easy to read. Electrical contractors have a matching requirement in section 188 of the Electrical Safety Regulation 2026. Homeowners can look you up in the QBCC licensee register, so the name on your site should match the name on the register, not only your trading name.
We're an Adelaide team, and we build for Gold Coast trades by phone and email. You tell us which stretch of the coast you work, whether you cross the border, and send your licence number and some job photos. We build the draft, you ask for whatever changes you want, and you pay once you approve it.
Our portfolio doesn't include a Gold Coast trade business yet. The nearest examples are a Queensland plumber on a single page, and an earthworks business in regional NSW whose site is led by its job photos.
Licensed Queensland plumber and gas fitter. One page with six services, a 13-photo gallery that swipes on a phone, testimonials and a protected contact form, which suits a sole trader who sticks to one end of the coast.
Visit the M.J. Debney site (opens in a new tab) See it in our portfolio
Bobcat and excavator operators in the Bega Valley, NSW, doing structural landscaping, licensed pool building and earthworks. A one-page site led by a swipeable 42-photo gallery and a testimonial carousel, for trades that win work on what customers can see.
Visit the Tomi's Bobcat site (opens in a new tab) See it in our portfolio
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Want numbers from a trade site? Western Sydney Stump Grinding has landed at least 62 jobs, about $46,500 of work, from a single-page site we built. Read the case study.
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Our suggestion for most Gold Coast tradies
$399
Services, a north-to-south suburb list, licence details, hours in Queensland time, photos, a quote form and tap-to-call on one page.
$899
A home page plus a services page and a page for new-home work in the northern estates or for jobs over the border.
$1,499
For businesses with crews covering the whole coast: pages for the north, central, south and hinterland, plus a page per service.
Yes. We're an Adelaide (South Australia) web design team and we work with businesses Australia-wide by phone and email, with current clients in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD. For a Gold Coast trade site we need your photos, your licence number, the suburbs you cover and a short call. We reply within 24 hours.
Whatever is true for you. If you work in Tweed Heads or further into northern NSW, list those suburbs, show the licence or registration that lets you work there, and state your hours in Queensland time. If you only work in Queensland, say that in one line near the suburb list.
For a QBCC licence, the name the licence is issued in, a statement that you're licensed, and the licence number; a trading name can appear as well, but not on its own. Electrical contractors show the licensed or registered business name, that they're licensed, and the contractor licence number. We put these in the footer of every page.
It can make you easier to find there. Naming those suburbs, and on a bigger site giving new-home work its own page, gives Google and customers something specific to match. Nobody can promise a ranking, and we won't, but a site that never mentions the northern suburbs gives them nothing to go on.
A sole trader who works one part of the coast is usually well served by the one-page site at $399. If you want separate pages for new-home work or for Tweed jobs, the 3-page site at $899 fits. Businesses with several crews across the whole city suit the 8-page site at $1,499. No GST is added.
Tell us which stretch of the coast you work, whether you cross into Tweed, and send a few job photos. We'll quote, build your draft, and you pay only when you're happy with it.
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