How much does a general contracting lead cost with RankMeHi?

We have not set a fixed price for general contracting leads yet. It follows our published rule: no more than 5% of your average project, and never above the lowest price a lead marketplace charges for general contracting. The exact price is worked out from your own job sizes and written into the agreement before you sign. Before any lead there is a $490 founding-partner setup, which covers the design and build of a five-page fast site, and $99 a month for hosting, the tracking number and your lead ledger. Your first three approved leads are free, and you set a monthly cap before we start.

What counts as a billable lead for a general contractor?

A new customer, in your service area, asking about a project you take on, on a call over 60 seconds or through a form or text that describes it. Subcontractors and suppliers looking for work, past clients, wrong numbers and repeat contacts within 90 days are never billed, and a request for work you do not do, such as a small handyman job, can be rejected within seven days with one tap.

My projects take months to close. How is the lead price worked out?

From your own numbers. The price is capped at 5% of your average project, so it reflects the size of the work you actually do, and you pay it once per approved lead, not per month of the build. It is agreed and written into the agreement before you sign.

Do you work with more than one contracting firm in my city?

No. Leads are exclusive, so we take one partner per trade in each city. If your city is already taken we will tell you on the first call, and the fixed-price website project is still open to you.

General contractor marketing · pay per lead

Contractor marketing where a lead costs you nothing until you approve it.

A fast website for your contracting firm, local SEO and your Google Business Profile, built around the projects you want more of. After launch you pay only for the project enquiries you approve.

Get my per-lead price What counts as a lead

$490 founding-partner setup, $99 a month, first three approved leads free. One contracting firm per city.

5%
at most, of your average general contractors job: the cap on the price per approved lead, written in before you sign
RankMeHi partner terms, confirmed 27 Sep 2026
26%
have no tap-to-call link on the homepage
RankMeHi study of 662 Orange County business websites. Crawl 25 to 26 Sep 2026; PageSpeed Insights, mobile, 26 Sep 2026.
79%
of sites take more than 4 seconds to show their main content on a phone
RankMeHi study of 662 Orange County business websites. Crawl 25 to 26 Sep 2026; PageSpeed Insights, mobile, 26 Sep 2026.

Why general contractors lose calls

What a contracting firm's site has to do differently.

In one lineGeneral Contractors marketing from RankMeHi is a site, local SEO and a Business Profile built at cost, billed at a price set by the 5% rule per lead the contracting firm approves.

A remodel or an addition is one of the biggest cheques a homeowner writes, so they take their time. They look up your licence with the state board, ask for proof of insurance, study the photos and want to know who will actually be on site and how long the house will be torn up.

The site we build for a contracting firm answers those questions before the first meeting: project pages with photos and scope, your licence and insurance in the page text, the steps from design to final inspection, and a project form that asks for the address, rough budget and timeline so you can tell a kitchen remodel from a handyman request.

What we build

Six things every contracting firm site gets, written for your jobs.

The same build as our fixed-price project: designed in Figma, shipped as a fast static site, edited in a CMS your team can use. These are the parts specific to your trade.

01
Project pages with photos and scope
Kitchens, bathrooms, additions, ADUs and whole-house remodels, each with what was done, how long it took and the town it is in.
02
Licence, insurance and bonding up front
Your state licence number, insurance and bond, with a link to the licence lookup, where customers and AI search can read them.
03
A process page
Consultation, design, permits, build and final inspection, with who the customer talks to at each step.
04
A project form with budget and timeline
Address, project type, budget range, timeline and photos. You see the scope before the site visit and the enquiry lands in your ledger.
05
A permits and inspections page
Who pulls the permit, how inspections are scheduled and what the homeowner needs to sign, for the towns you work in.
06
Payment schedule and financing
How deposits and progress payments work, and financing options if you offer them, so the money question is answered before the call.

What you pay for

What counts as a general contractors lead, and what never does.

The rule is the same for every trade: a new customer, in your service area, asking about a service you offer, on a call over 60 seconds or through a form or text describing a real job. Here is what that looks like for you.

Billed at your written price

A homeowner in your area sends the project form for a primary bath remodel, with photos and a budget range
A new customer calls about adding a second storey and the call runs over a minute

Never billed

A subcontractor or supplier calling to offer their services
A past client calling about a punch-list item
A wrong number or a robocall
Anything you reject within seven days, one tap, no reason needed
Your first three approved leads

Cost of a lead

What a general contractors lead costs, side by side.

General contracting has no published price with us yet: it is set at no more than 5% of your average project and below the lowest marketplace price for the trade, then written into the agreement before you sign.

Ways a contracting firm buys leads
Aspect	Price per lead	Shared with others	You approve first	A site you keep
Shared-lead marketplaces in general	Set by the marketplace	Three to five businesses	No	No
Retainer agency	Same fee with or without leads	Usually not	No	Usually
RankMeHi pay-per-lead partner	Set by the 5% rule, first three free	Never, one partner per city	Yes, seven days	Yes

Marketplace figures are the public price ranges on their pricing pages, read on 27 September 2026. The RankMeHi price is the published partner rate. Compare cost per lead across trades.

Proof

What we can show, honestly.

We have not published a result for general contractors yet. The lead logs we can show are from an auto glass shop and a collision shop, and the method is the same: a fast site, a tracked number and a form that logs every enquiry. That is why the first partner in each trade gets founding terms.

See the lead logs we do have

How it works

From first call to first lead in 21 days.

Four steps, and the money only starts moving at step three.

01
Free audit and a yes or no
Day 1
We check your demand, who answers the phone and whether your city is open. You get a written audit of the current site either way.
You getA price per lead in writing, and a straight answer on fit.
02
Design and build at cost
Days 2 to 21
A five-page site designed in Figma and built on a static stack, with the tracking number, call recording and the quote form wired in. Live within 21 days of receiving your content or the setup is refunded.
You getA fast site that is yours to keep, and a Business Profile pointed at it.
03
Leads land in your ledger
From launch
Every call and form arrives within the hour with the recording or the form text attached. Reject anything with one tap within seven days.
You getExclusive leads, and the first three free.
04
One invoice a month
Monthly
One line per approved lead, after the month ends, under the cap you set. New service and area pages are added as the ledger shows what converts.
You getA bill that only grows when the phone rings.

Questions

Questions general contractors ask first.

: We have not set a fixed price for general contracting leads yet. It follows our published rule: no more than 5% of your average project, and never above the lowest price a lead marketplace charges for general contracting. The exact price is worked out from your own job sizes and written into the agreement before you sign. Before any lead there is a $490 founding-partner setup, which covers the design and build of a five-page fast site, and $99 a month for hosting, the tracking number and your lead ledger. Your first three approved leads are free, and you set a monthly cap before we start.
: A new customer, in your service area, asking about a project you take on, on a call over 60 seconds or through a form or text that describes it. Subcontractors and suppliers looking for work, past clients, wrong numbers and repeat contacts within 90 days are never billed, and a request for work you do not do, such as a small handyman job, can be rejected within seven days with one tap.
: From your own numbers. The price is capped at 5% of your average project, so it reflects the size of the work you actually do, and you pay it once per approved lead, not per month of the build. It is agreed and written into the agreement before you sign.
: No. Leads are exclusive, so we take one partner per trade in each city. If your city is already taken we will tell you on the first call, and the fixed-price website project is still open to you.
: We have not published a result for general contractors yet. The lead logs we can show are from an auto glass shop and a collision shop, and the method is the same: a fast site, a tracked number and a form that logs every enquiry. That is why the first partner in each trade gets founding terms.