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What Should an Electrician Website Include?

By Ansh Singh · Updated November 8, 2026 · 10 min read

Short answer: An electrician website should show your license number, one page for each main service, the towns you work in by name, real reviews and job photos, and a phone number people can tap. It should load fast on a phone and put all of this in plain text, so Google and AI tools like ChatGPT can read and quote it.

Key facts

The checklist has 15 items; a score under 10 means homeowners and AI tools may pass you over.
Show your license number in the footer, on the about page and in plain text.
Give each main service its own page, and name the towns you work in.
Zarla's 2026 study found AI-named businesses had a median of 444 Google reviews, against 192.
Google uses the mobile version of a site for indexing and ranking.
A site that blocks OAI-SearchBot will not appear in ChatGPT search answers.

Here is the full checklist. Go down it with your own site open on your phone.

The checklist at a glance

#	Item	Why it matters
1	License number, visible	Required in some states; answers "are they legit?"
2	Tap-to-call phone at the top	Most homeowners search on a phone
3	One page per main service	Each job people search for needs its own answer
4	Towns you work in, by name	How Google and AI match you to "near me"
5	Real reviews	The strongest link to being recommended
6	Real job photos	Proof you do the work
7	Insurance and warranty	The questions homeowners ask before they call
8	Emergency hours, if you offer them	"Emergency electrician" is its own search
9	Price ranges or how you price	Answers the first question everyone has
10	Permits and code	Shows you do it by the book
11	An about page with your name and face	People hire people
12	A short quote form	For people who will not call
13	Fast and mobile-friendly	Google ranks the mobile version of your site
14	Text in the page, not in images	Search engines and AI cannot quote a picture
15	Behind the scenes: schema, sitemap, crawlers allowed	Helps engines read the facts correctly

An electrician website is a small site that tells a homeowner who you are, what you fix or install, where you work and how to reach you. It is not a brochure. It is the page a homeowner opens right after reading your Google reviews, so it has to settle the doubts those reviews leave.

1. Your license number, where people can see it

Put it in the footer of every page and on your about page. In some states, showing it is the law. In others it is just smart.

North Carolina: a person who offers or does electrical contracting needs a state electrical contractor license, and a licensed contractor must display the license certificate at its principal place of business and each branch (NC General Statutes Chapter 87, section 87-43). Our North Carolina page has the details.
Texas: anyone who does electrical work needs a state license, with farm work as an exception (TDLR). A state license is valid statewide, though cities can still charge permit fees.
California: the Contractors State License Board says work of $1,000 or more, or work that needs a permit or employees, requires a license (CSLB).

Some states license at the city or county level instead. Check your own board for the advertising rules that apply to you. Even where no rule forces it, a visible license number answers "are they legit?" before anyone asks. If you are in Ohio, where the state board's licensing excludes residential buildings, see our Ohio page for how that works.

2. A phone number people can tap, at the top

Put your number in the header so it shows on every page, and make it a tap-to-call link on phones. If you take texts, say so. Someone standing in a dark kitchen after a breaker trips is not going to fill in a form.

If you miss calls while you are on a ladder, set up a text that goes out to the caller right away. Our guide on missed call text-back for electricians shows how.

3. A page for each main service

One "Services" page with a list of ten items is not enough. Give each main job its own page. For an electrician, that usually means:

Panel upgrades and replacements
EV charger installation
Whole-house rewiring
Generator installation
Lighting, inside and outside
Outlets, switches and GFCI
Troubleshooting and repairs
Surge protection

On each page, say what the job is, who usually needs it, how long it takes, how you price it, and whether it needs a permit. Add a few photos of that job. When someone asks Google or ChatGPT "who installs EV chargers near me," a page about exactly that is what gets found. See our notes on EV charger installer marketing and panel upgrade marketing.

4. The towns you work in, by name

"Serving the greater metro area" tells Google nothing. List the real towns and neighborhoods. If you work from home and customers do not visit you, you do not need to show your street address. Google says service-area businesses should hide their address on their Business Profile (Google Business Profile guidelines).

Only make a separate page for a town if you have something real to say about working there: jobs you have done, photos, local notes. Google's spam policies list "doorway" pages, including near-identical city pages, as a problem (Google spam policies). Ten copies of the same page with the town name swapped can hurt you. Read how to build electrician service area pages before you make more than a few.

5. Real reviews

Show your Google reviews on the site, with the reviewer's first name and the date. Link to your Google profile so people can see them all. Reviews matter for more than trust. In a 2026 study of trades in 10 US cities, the businesses ChatGPT or Google's AI named had a median of 444 Google reviews, against 192 for the ones that were not named (Zarla, 2026).

Use real reviews from real customers only. The FTC's 2024 rule bans fake reviews, including AI-generated ones (FTC, 2024). To get more of them, use a simple review request text after every job.

6. Real job photos

Your panels, your trucks, your crew. A before and after of a messy panel cleaned up does more than any stock photo of a smiling model holding a wire. Take them on your phone at the end of each job. Name the town in the caption. Never show a customer's address or a photo with their name on the panel label.

7. Insurance and warranty

Say that you are insured, and say what your warranty covers and for how long. These are two of the first things a homeowner wants to know. If the page answers them, you look like the safe choice.

8. Emergency hours, if you offer them

If you take after-hours calls, say exactly when ("24/7", or "until 10pm on weekdays") and whether there is an after-hours charge. If you do not take them, say that too. Clear hours stop wasted calls, and they help you show up for "emergency electrician" searches when you do offer it. Our guide to ranking for emergency electrician searches goes further.

9. Price ranges, or how you price

You do not have to publish a price list. But a line like "Most panel upgrades we do run between $X and $Y, depending on panel size and what is already there" answers the first question everyone has. If you would rather not give numbers, explain how you price: free estimates, a flat trip fee, or by the job.

Use your own real numbers. Do not copy a range from a national website that does not match your market.

10. Permits and code

Say that you pull permits when the job needs one and that your work meets the electrical code your area uses. Bigger jobs, like panel upgrades and EV chargers, often need a permit, and homeowners worry about inspections when they sell. One sentence covers it.

11. An about page with your name and face

Who owns the business, how long you have done electrical work, your license type, and a real photo. People hire people. It also helps Google and AI tools tie your business to a real, licensed person.

12. A short quote form

Name, phone, town, and "what do you need done?" That is enough. Every extra box loses people. Send the form to your phone as a text so you can reply fast.

13. Fast and mobile-friendly

Google uses the mobile version of a site's content for indexing and ranking (Google Search Central). Open your site on your phone on a normal cell signal. If it takes more than a few seconds to show anything, or you have to pinch and zoom to read it, fix that first.

14. Text in the page, not in images

A flyer saved as a picture looks fine to a person, but Google and ChatGPT cannot read the words inside it. Your services, towns, license number and hours should all be real text on the page. A quick test: try to highlight the words with your finger. If you cannot, a search engine may not be able to read them either.

15. Behind the scenes: schema, sitemap and crawlers

You do not need to do these yourself, but whoever runs your site should.

Schema markup. This is code that labels your business, for example as an Electrician, with your phone, towns and hours. Schema.org has a type for exactly this (schema.org Electrician). It must match what is on the page. Google says no special markup is needed to appear in its AI answers, so treat schema as tidy labeling and nothing more (Google, AI features).
A sitemap submitted to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools, both free.
Crawlers allowed. Your robots.txt should let in Googlebot, Bingbot and OAI-SearchBot, the crawler OpenAI uses for ChatGPT search. A site that blocks OAI-SearchBot will not appear in ChatGPT search answers (OpenAI crawler docs). More in how to get your electrical business recommended by ChatGPT.

What mistakes do electrician websites make most?

A "coming soon" page, or a site last updated years ago.
The phone number only in the footer, or only as an image.
A different business name or phone number than on Google.
Twenty town pages with the same text and only the town name changed.
Stock photos instead of real work.
No license number anywhere.

How do you score your own site?

Give your site one point for each of the 15 items. Under 10 means homeowners and AI tools are probably passing you over for an electrician whose site answers their questions. Start with items 1 to 5. They do the most work.

If you would rather not build it yourself, see a free demo site made for an electrical business.

Common questions

Do electricians need a license number on their website?

It depends on your state. Some states require the number in advertising, and North Carolina requires a licensed contractor to display its license certificate at each place of business (NC General Statutes Chapter 87). Check your state licensing board. Even where it is optional, showing the number builds trust.

How many pages should an electrician website have?

A solid small site has a home page, an about page, a contact page, and one page for each main service, so roughly 8 to 12 pages. Add town pages only when you have real content for each one. More pages are not better if they repeat each other.

Should an electrician website show prices?

Showing a range helps, because price is the first question most people have. Use ranges that match your own jobs, and say what moves the price. If you will not give numbers, explain how you charge, such as a flat trip fee or a free estimate.

Do I need a blog on my electrician website?

No, but short job write-ups and answers to common questions help you show up for more searches. One good page a month with real photos beats five thin posts. See our electrician marketing ideas for what to write about.

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About the author

Ansh Singh runs Contractor Websites. He builds websites for electricians, plumbers, roofers and other home service trades, and writes the guides on this site. More about Ansh Singh.

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