Websites for Excavation: $250/month, live in 7 days

Excavation websites that keep your iron moving

20 minutes. No pressure. See exactly what your site would look like.

Excavation work comes from two very different buyers. Builders and GCs shortlist subs from a desk; they want your equipment list, your insurance basics, and proof you show up. Homeowners with a drainage problem or a lot to clear have no idea who to call and search in plain English. Neither one can see how good your operators are from a search result. Both judge you by your website.

Modern Websites builds excavation sites that serve both. A capability page with your machines and capacity, separate residential and commercial tracks, service pages for grading, land clearing, trenching, drainage, and pads, and a quote form that asks the right site questions up front. Live in 7 days, $250 a month, no agency retainer.

You know better than anyone what an idle machine costs per day. The website's only job is keeping the schedule full, and the math is short. One graded building pad or one land-clearing job covers the site for a year. That's the whole pitch, and we'd rather make it in a 20-minute demo call than a slide deck.

What's costing you jobs

Where excavation contractors lose work online

GCs shortlist subs from their desks

Estimators and supers vet excavation subs online before an invitation to bid ever goes out. No capability page, no equipment list, no insurance basics visible, and you're quietly dropped from lists you never knew existed.

Homeowners don't know what to search

They type 'yard grading,' 'water pooling in yard,' or 'land clearing cost,' not 'excavation contractor.' If your site doesn't have pages matching those plain-language problems, that steady residential work flows to whoever does.

Your fleet is your credibility, and it's invisible

A real equipment page tells a builder your scale and capacity in ten seconds. Without one, they assume one man and a rented mini-ex, and size the opportunities they send you accordingly.

Gaps between projects eat the margin

The big jobs come through relationships, but the gaps between them are where the year's profit leaks out. Steady inbound requests (a pad here, a driveway cut there) keep machines and payroll productive between the anchors.

The build

What your excavation website includes

Trade-specific features on top of the full standard stack: hosting, SSL, mobile-first design, SEO setup, edits, and email on your domain.

Capability and equipment page

Your machines, attachments, and hauling capacity laid out the way an estimator checks for them. Real iron, honestly listed: it's the fastest credibility you can put online.

Split residential and commercial tracks

A homeowner path that speaks plain English and a GC path that leads with capabilities and insurance, because those two visitors need completely different first pages.

Service pages for every kind of dirt work

Site prep, grading, land clearing, trenching, drainage correction, driveways, ponds, and demolition prep, each with its own page and its own shot at the search.

A quote form that asks site questions

Acreage, access, timeline, and photos of the site. You show up to walk jobs that are real, quoted closer to right, and skip the tire-kicker site visits.

Project gallery with the machines in frame

Before, during, and after: cleared lots, cut pads, finished grades. Homeowners see the transformation; builders see the operation behind it.

Licensed, bonded, insured block

The screening basics every commercial buyer checks, stated plainly with your license info, so passing the vet takes seconds instead of a phone call nobody makes.

Standard on every build: hosting + SSL · mobile-first · on-page SEO · ongoing edits · Google Workspace email · analytics · lead follow-up · review requests

After the click

Win more excavation jobs from the calls you already get

Your website gets homeowners to call. These four services make sure the call turns into a job. Two are included in every plan, and we run all of them for you.

Included

AI text and email follow-up

Excavation quotes don't close themselves. Every open quote gets a friendly follow-up until the homeowner decides, and every new lead gets a text back in seconds.

Included

Google reviews on autopilot

After every residential site prep, your customer gets a text with a direct link to leave you a Google review, and every review gets a reply drafted in your voice.

Growth plan

AI phone agent

Calls you can't get to, on a job or after hours, get answered in your company's name and booked straight onto your calendar.

Growth plan

A new SEO article every week

A new article on your site every week, written for excavation customers in your service area and the questions they actually ask.

How follow-up, reviews and the phone agent work →

The math

One residential site prep pays for over a year of your website.

Example: a residential site prep runs around $4,500. Slide the number to your own average and check the math yourself.

Your average job value$4,500

One extra job pays for

18 months

of your website, over a year at $250 a month.

And one missed call can be that job. See how every call gets answered →

The process

Live in 7 days. Here's how.

1
20-minute demo call
We show you what your site could look like (your trade, your area) and answer everything. No pressure, no slide deck.
2
We build it in 7 days
Design, writing, pages, SEO, email: all handled. Lead follow-up and review requests get set up the same week. You send a logo and job photos if you have them; we do the rest.
3
Launch call: you go live
We walk through the finished site together, make final tweaks on the spot, and take it live on your domain. On the Growth plan, we test a live call with your phone agent too.

Straight answers

Excavation website questions, answered

How do excavation contractors get more work?

Two channels: relationships with builders and GCs, and inbound residential searches for grading, clearing, and drainage. A good website feeds both: it gets you past commercial vetting and captures the plain-language homeowner searches. Modern Websites builds excavation sites with both tracks as standard, for $250 a month.

What should an excavating company website include?

An equipment and capability page, separate pages for each service you run, your real service area, a project gallery, insurance and licensing basics, and a quote form that collects site details. That combination wins homeowner jobs directly and keeps you on commercial bid lists silently.

Is a website worth it for a small excavation company?

Run the numbers: one residential grading or clearing job is typically $2,000 to $8,000, and the website is $250 a month. If it brings you one real job a quarter, it's paying for itself several times over, and the commercial vetting benefit costs nothing extra. Modern Websites has no setup fee and runs month to month, so the downside is one month.

Can my website bring in commercial bid invitations?

It keeps you on the lists. Bid invitations still come through relationships and reputation, but when an estimator checks out a sub they've heard about, the website decides whether the invitation actually goes out. A capability page with your fleet and insurance basics is often the difference.

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Your excavation website, live in 7 days.

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