Garden centerDrake’s 7 Dees
380%more organic traffic
in one year
- Google Ads conversion rate
- 26.4%
- Google Ads conversion rate
- leads in 60 days
- 744
- leads in 60 days
Austin search engine optimization
SEO for your business in Austin starts with the Google Business Profile and the Map Pack, and every monthly report counts calls and leads.

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Austin SEO, start here
In Austin, local SEO starts with distance. Google gives weight to how near a business is to the person searching, and the city spreads across about 325 square miles of land, so a shop in one corner of Austin can be missing from the Map Pack on the far side of town. Lithium Marketing builds the service pages, area pages, Google Business Profile and links that carry a contractor’s name into the parts of Austin where it works.
When we checked “plumber austin”, the Map Pack came first on the page, ahead of every organic result. The leader in that pack showed 18,000 Google reviews, while the two businesses beside it showed 332 and 189. A count like 18,000 isn’t the price of entry, so the work goes into the profile, categories and pages that sit behind your reviews.
Austin search demand
Customers looking for the trades put the job and the city in the same search: about 1,900 searches a month for “electrician austin”, 2,400 for “garage door repair austin” and 2,400 for “pest control austin”. A pest control company with one general services page is asking it to compete for termites, rodents and mosquitoes at once. Separate pages give each of those searches its own answer, and each one can be linked from your Google Business Profile.
Yelp and a Reddit thread both ranked among the top 10 organic results for “plumber austin”. A customer who checks your Yelp profile after finding you should see the same name, phone number and services as on your website and Google profile, so that detail work is part of every retainer.
| Search | Searches a month | Cost per click |
|---|---|---|
| seo agency austin | 3,600 | $114.21 |
| seo company austin | 3,600 | $114.21 |
| seo austin | 3,600 | $21.06 |
| seo services austin | 590 | not reported |
Source: Google Ads keyword data, average monthly U.S. searches. "Under 10" = below Google’s reporting floor.
Source: one Google results page for “plumber austin”, as Google showed it to a searcher located in Austin. Search ad counts exclude sponsored local listings. Results shift by searcher and day.
Austin neighborhoods
An area page earns its place when it names ground you cover. Circle C Ranch sits southwest of Downtown, and East Riverside runs along the Colorado River. A page for southwest Austin that names Circle C Ranch, lists the jobs you do there and shows photos from them tells a homeowner there that you know the area.
Austin’s city limits also reach into Hays and Williamson counties, beyond Travis County. Searches name the city and the job, not the county, so your Google Business Profile service area and the area pages on your site should list the cities and neighborhoods you work in, and match each other.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau 2025 population estimates, ACS 2020–2024 and 2023 County Business Patterns.
Trades in Travis County
With 369 plumbing, heating and air-conditioning companies in Travis County, a profile that lists one category and a site with one services page won’t stand apart. We set the primary and secondary categories on your Google Business Profile and build a page for each job, from drain cleaning to AC repair.
For roofers, Travis County counts 141 roofing contractors, and “roofing company austin” draws about 720 searches a month. Give repairs, replacements and inspections their own pages, so each search lands on the answer it asked for, and add a page for each nearby city where you take roofing work.
County Business Patterns
Trade and home service businesses in Travis County
Establishments by industry, 2023
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 County Business Patterns (NAICS establishment counts).
Month by month
The early months fix and build; after that, the work follows the pages and searches that bring calls.
We run a technical audit of your site and a line-by-line check of your Google Business Profile, then fix speed, indexing and category problems before writing anything new.
Drain cleaning, panel upgrades, roof repair or whatever you sell most gets its own Austin page, and the parts of town you serve get area pages that name them.
We correct your business details on Yelp, Angi, Apple Maps and Bing Places so they read exactly like your website.
Links from Austin and industry sites point at the pages that bring work, and the monthly report shows calls and leads by page.
What every SEO retainer includes
The same eight parts go into every SEO retainer, wherever the business is.
Proof
Drake’s 7 Dees, a garden center, brought Lithium in for SEO, a new website and Google Ads, and the card reports what that combined work produced. The quote is from Matt Johnson, who ran the landscaping company On-Target Landscape.
Garden center380%more organic traffic
in one year
“Lithium Marketing is awesome to work with and the results you’ll get are outstanding. Once I started working with them I saw increase in my online presence and my sales increased too. I would highly recommend them to anyone looking for help with marketing!”
Matt JohnsonOn-Target LandscapeBeyond Austin
If Round Rock, Georgetown or New Braunfels is part of your territory, their SEO pages below show the searches that name each city, which tells you whether an area page there is worth writing. San Antonio, Killeen and College Station have SEO pages of their own, and every other Texas city sits behind the state link.
Published price
$1,300–$3,000
per month
Typical local SEO retainer, scoped against what a lead is worth to you, with AI search optimization included.
FAQ
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The price follows the workload. Covering one service in one part of Austin takes a few pages and a cleaned-up Google Business Profile. Covering storm, repair and replacement work across Austin, Round Rock and Georgetown takes dozens of pages, steady link building and listing work every month. We scope the retainer against the revenue each new customer brings you, and you see that scope in writing before you sign.
Month one usually brings movement from technical fixes, which tend to land within 30 days. Local and long-tail rankings typically follow somewhere between 60 and 90 days in, and from month four the revenue tends to build on itself. Every report shows calls and leads by page, so you’ll know which pages are pulling their weight long before then.
They help, but they don’t decide it alone. Google weighs how well your profile matches the search, how close you are to the searcher and how well known your business is, and reviews feed into that last part. Lithium helps you ask finished customers for reviews and reply to the ones you get. We guarantee the work, not a ranking.
It does: AI search readiness is built into every retainer and never sold separately. In practice that means pages that answer a customer’s question in the first sentence, schema markup that labels your services and service area, and business facts that match on every listing. Nobody can promise an AI mention; what the report tracks is calls and leads.
For most businesses, keep them on. SEO compounds over months, while ads typically bring first results within a week, so the two run side by side until the organic pages carry more of the load. The report shows calls from each, and budget moves only when those numbers support it.
Free action plan
Send your website, your Google Business Profile link and the three jobs you want more of. On a short video call, a co-founder checks how you show up for those searches across Austin and lays out the first month of work.
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