Templeogue is a suburb of family houses, and the trade follows the houses. Templeogue Road crosses the Dodder at Templeogue Bridge and runs on through the village, a short stretch of pubs, pharmacies, hairdressers, takeaways and the small shops a settled area keeps going. Behind it are roads of semi-detached homes built out between the 1950s and the 1970s, most of them owned rather than rented, many of them extended. That is what website design in Templeogue is for: the shops on the road, and the plumbers, electricians, builders and landscapers whose vans are parked outside those houses every weekday. We live in Dublin and we come out to meet you, at the shop or at the kitchen table between jobs.
A week for a Templeogue trade
Monday a boiler in Templeogue. Tuesday a bathroom in Rathfarnham. Wednesday an attic conversion quote in Knocklyon, Thursday back in Terenure. A trade based here works a circle of a few miles, and the enquiries for that circle now come from a phone rather than a card in a shop window.
The person searching is a homeowner on a Sunday evening with a leaking tank, or a couple in a newly bought house off Templeogue Road who have just found out the wiring is older than they are. They type “plumber Templeogue” or “electrician Dublin 6W” or just “electrician near me”, and they ring whoever looks real: a page with the name, a mobile number that works when tapped, a handful of photos of actual jobs, and a few Google reviews from people on roads they recognise.
Where the enquiries come from
Templeogue runs on families, and families run on groups. Parents’ WhatsApp groups from the schools, the GAA, soccer and tennis clubs along the Dodder, and the local Facebook groups where someone asks for “a good tiler, Templeogue area” and gets six names inside an hour. Those names are then checked on Google before anyone picks up the phone. A recommendation with no page behind it loses to one with a page.
For the shops on Templeogue Road the pattern is simpler. People search the thing and the place (“pharmacy Templeogue”, “hair Templeogue village”), or they open Google Maps on the drive home from Rathfarnham or Tallaght and see what is open. Hours matter, because a parade that is wrong about its closing time loses the evening commute.
What the site has to get right here
Three things carry most of the weight. First, the area, said plainly: Templeogue, Dublin 6W, the D6W routing key, and the neighbouring places you cover written as a service area rather than a list stuffed into a footer. Second, real photos: the finished extension, the garden after, the inside of the shop, not stock. Third, the practical details, including where to park, because most customers here arrive by car or on the buses that run along Templeogue Road into town.
That is the groundwork in our Essentials plan: the site, the .ie domain in your own name, the Google Business Profile set up and verified, and a page you can edit yourself from your phone. For a trade, the structured data and the service-area wording do the quiet work of matching you to “roofer Templeogue” and “roofer Rathfarnham”.
Businesses here living on a Facebook page
Templeogue has a lot of one-person businesses that have never had a site: home bakers doing communion and birthday cakes, personal trainers running sessions in the park, dog groomers in a converted garage, mobile hairdressers, grinds tutors. Facebook and Instagram are fine for the people who already follow you. They do nothing for the parent who searches “cake maker Templeogue” on a Tuesday night, and that search is where the new customers are. A one-page site with your prices, photos and a WhatsApp button fixes it.
Plans and price
Essentials is €499 to set up and €50 a month. Complete, which adds bookings, payments, review requests and a chat assistant, is €1,499 and €100 a month. No contract, and you own the domain. The detail is on the pricing page, and the trade pages under websites for show what we build for each trade.