About ZuhaLabs
A short client list, on purpose
ZuhaLabs is a small web design and local SEO studio working with three trades across Australia. We build the site, then do the unglamorous work that puts it in the map pack for the suburbs you actually service.
Where we are up to, plainly.
ZuhaLabs is new. The work on this site is concept builds — complete, working sites we designed on spec for businesses in our trades, unpaid and unbriefed. Nobody has been talked into believing they are client case studies.
That is a fair reason to be cautious, so the first step costs nothing: a free audit of your current site and Google Business Profile, and you keep the findings whether or not you hire us.
Why three industries
Knowing one trade beats listing twenty
An agency that takes every industry has to guess how each one gets found. These three search in genuinely different ways, and a site that ignores the difference leaks enquiries quietly. Here is what the difference actually is.
Kitchen & bathroom renovators
Nobody books a bathroom renovation off one phone call. They open six tabs, scroll the before-and-afters on a phone at night, and decide with a partner three weeks later. The website is the showroom, so the gallery leads and the quote form follows the visitor down the page.
Roofers
The opposite problem. A leak is urgent, the search happens on a phone in the rain, and the map pack usually decides it before anyone reads a word. Tap-to-call above the fold, a page for every suburb the crew actually travels to, and a Google Business Profile that is treated as a real asset.
Builders
The longest sale of the three, and the one that turns on credibility. Years trading, projects delivered, licence and insurance visible without being hunted for — then project pages detailed enough that an enquiry arrives already half-qualified.
How we work
Four things we will not do
Most of what makes a web project go badly is decided before any design work starts. These are the four we rule out up front.
We will not take your competitor
One business per industry, per service area. If your area is already taken in your trade, you will be told in reply to your audit request rather than after the invoice.
We will not lock you in
The code sits in your GitHub, the domain and hosting are in your name. No proprietary page builder and no licence you have to keep renting. You can hand the whole thing to another developer whenever you like.
We will not invent proof
There are no stock testimonials, no borrowed client logos and no case studies for work we did not do. The portfolio is labelled Concept because that is what it is, and it stays labelled until real projects replace it.
We will not bill by the hour
Every project gets a fixed quote before work starts, based on page count and how many suburbs you want to rank in. No surprise invoice at the end, and no incentive for us to work slowly.
Start with the audit, not the invoice
Send your domain and the suburbs you service. You will get a written review of three things: how well your site loads on a phone, whether you turn up on Google search and Maps, and what is stopping visitors from calling you. No charge, nothing to sign.