SepticByers Septic Service
9Xorganic traffic
91 to 799 visits a month
- more ranking keywords (36 to 395)
- 11X
- more ranking keywords (36 to 395)
- conversion rate
- 23.1%
- conversion rate
Chicago website design
Chicago web design built to bring your business more calls.
A WordPress website your Chicago business owns outright, built around real job photos, with one-tap calling from any phone.
- Project galleries by job type
- Leads tagged by where they came from
- Hosting and domain in your name
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$10M+Over $10 million in Google ad spend managed
Businesses
we’ve worked with
Businesses we’ve worked with
- Willard Power Vac
- Sarkinen Plumbing
- Robinson Restoration
- Town & Country Glass
- Dixie Glass
- Byers Septic Service
- F&W Fence Co.
- Drake’s 7 Dees
- Rickabaugh Construction
- Hillsview Building
- Dozer Dave
- Mt. Hood Pro Painting
- On-Target Landscape
- Atiyeh Bros Carpet
- Lovett
- Westmore Construction
- Northwest New Homes
- Porter Sealcoating & Paving
- RescueHero Restoration
- Panda Plumbing
- Biermann Plumbing & Heating
- Ballistic Junk Removal
- Smart Doors LLC
- Peak Performance Roofing
- Deluxe Heating & Cooling
- Lifetime Exteriors
- Bruce Johnson Construction
- Madrone Painting
- Smart Tree Service
- Premier Gutter Cover
- NW Pacific Electric
- Universal HVAC
- Lenny Martin Painting
- Next Level Decks & Exteriors
- Prodan Construction
- Smooth Rollin’ Sealcoating and Paving
- Lovett Restoration
- Greenlight Titles
- G.W. Hartley IV
- Advanced Coatings
- Thomson Equipment
- MyADU
Your website’s job
What a Chicago contractor’s website has to do
Lithium Marketing builds WordPress websites that turn Chicago searchers into phone calls and estimate requests for contractors and home service companies. The photos should look like the city you work in: large swaths of Chicago’s residential areas away from the lake are characterized by brick bungalows built from the early 20th century through the end of World War II, and a remodeler, roofer or painter who has worked on them should put those jobs front and center.
The housing mix runs wider than bungalows. Houses, townhouses, condominiums and apartment buildings of every scale sit throughout Chicago, and a building manager looking for a contractor needs different proof than a bungalow owner does. Give each audience its own page and gallery so both find their kind of job within a tap or two.
Where your visitors come from
What happens after a Chicago customer searches
Two trade phrases, “electrician chicago” and “roofing company chicago”, bring in roughly 1,900 searches each every month. Those visits are paid for in ranking work or ad spend before they ever reach you, so every page has to load fast on a phone and show a phone number, an estimate button and a recent job before anything else.
Directories crowd the same results. Yelp and bbb.org both made the first page for “plumber chicago” when we looked. Your website can show what a directory profile can’t: dozens of project photos, a page for each service and the story of your company in your own words.
| Search | Searches a month | Cost per click |
|---|---|---|
| web design chicago | 1,900 | $20.95 |
| website design chicago | 1,900 | $20.95 |
| web designer chicago | 480 | $21.29 |
Source: Google Ads keyword data, average monthly U.S. searches. "Under 10" = below Google’s reporting floor.
- Map Pack
- The first thing on the page
- Search ads
- 1 recorded
- Local listing reviews
- 290 to 2,700 Google reviews each
- Directories in the top 10
- Better Business Bureau, Yelp
- AI Overview
- Not shown
- People also ask
- Shown
Source: one Google results page for “plumber chicago”, as Google showed it to a searcher located in Chicago. Search ad counts exclude sponsored local listings. Results shift by searcher and day.
The houses you work on
Older Chicago homes, and the galleries to match
The median Chicago home was built in 1953, and 75.2% of the city’s homes went up before 1980. Label each gallery job with the house type and what you found behind the walls or under the shingles, so the owner of an older place can see you have handled one like theirs.
Chicago’s median home value is $334,100, which gives an owner a lot to protect. Put your reviews, team photos and warranty terms right beside the estimate form, where that owner decides whether to call you.
- residents (2025 estimate)
- 2,731,585
- residents (2025 estimate)
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- -0.6%
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- housing units
- 1,277,054
- housing units
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- 46%
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- of homes built before 1980
- 75.2%
- of homes built before 1980
- median home value
- $334,100
- median home value
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau 2025 population estimates, ACS 2020–2024 and 2023 County Business Patterns.
Who’s on the chart
Matching the site to the kind of work you sell
Residential remodelers are the biggest group on the Cook County chart, at 2,888. A remodeling site wins on depth: separate galleries for kitchens, baths and basements, each with a short note on what changed. A painting contractor, one of 539 in the county, needs the same treatment, with interior and exterior work split apart.
Emergency trades reverse that order. If your calls come from burst pipes, dead furnaces or tripped breakers, put the phone number and your hours in the header of every page and keep galleries lower down, where they back up the call without getting in its way.
County Business Patterns
Trade and home service businesses in Cook County
Establishments by industry, 2023
- Residential remodelers2,888
- Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors1,377
- Landscaping services1,241
- Electrical contractors1,007
- New home builders565
- Painting contractors539
- Roofing contractors354
- Excavation and site preparation contractors167
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 County Business Patterns (NAICS establishment counts).
From kickoff to launch
Six to nine weeks to a new Chicago website
We write the copy, you approve the designs, and launch waits until tracking shows every call and form landing where it should.
1
Kickoff call and job photos
On a kickoff call we learn how you sell, which jobs pay best and where you work, and your finished-job photos plus that interview become the copy.
2
Mobile and desktop designs
You get mockups for phone and desktop screens and send changes until both look and read like your company.
3
WordPress build with tracking
The site is built in WordPress with GA4, call tracking and schema in place, and every form gets tested on real phones before your domain switches over.
4
Redirects, launch and a Loom video
Every old URL is redirected to its replacement before launch day, and afterward a private Loom recording walks you through editing pages yourself.
What every Lithium website includes
The same eight parts go into every website build, wherever the business is.
- Sub-2.5-second mobile load
- Mobile-first conversion path
- A clear first screen
- SEO-ready architecture
- Google Business Profile alignment
- Real proof where it converts
- Tracking tied to revenue
- Accessible and AI-search ready
What a rebuild did
How a septic company’s new site, SEO and Google Ads paid off
The card belongs to Byers Septic Service. Lithium built the septic company a new website and ran its SEO and Google Ads, so the numbers reflect the site together with the traffic sent to it. In the quote, Daniel Busby, president of Willard Power Vac, which cleans air ducts, dryer vents and chimneys, describes where his business stood on Google before Lithium and where it stands now.
Septic“Lithium Marketing has been amazing for our business. They have greatly increased our web traffic and helped us land hundreds of jobs. Before we started using Lithium we were sitting on page 8 in google. We are now sitting in the top spots in all the areas we do work.”
Daniel BusbyPresident, Willard Power VacBeyond the city line
Give each nearby city its own page
A contractor who also works in Naperville, Aurora, Joliet or Elgin, or in Kenosha and Racine on the Wisconsin side, should give each of those cities a page on the website. Start with the pages below to see how big each market is, then follow the Illinois link if your work reaches farther.
Published price
Website pricing for Chicago businesses
$5,000
typical project
Larger sites get a fixed proposal after a 30-minute discovery call. Six to nine weeks from kickoff to launch. You own the domain, hosting account, WordPress install and content.
FAQ
Website questions from Chicago contractors
Still curious?
Call (503) 766-5964 or email [email protected].
What makes a website bigger than the typical build?
Mostly the number of pages. The typical build covers your main services, a handful of area pages and a project gallery. Ask for a page on each Chicago community area you serve, or a separate gallery for every kind of project, and the site outgrows that; you get the price for the larger build in writing before anything starts.
Do I own the website and domain?
Yes. The domain, hosting account, WordPress install and every page and photo are in your business’s name. If you stop working with Lithium, the whole site stays with you, and there is nothing to buy back.
How long does a new website take?
Six to nine weeks from kickoff to launch is typical. The schedule is set at kickoff, and the biggest factor you control is how quickly you send job photos and sign off on designs.
Do you offer hosting and updates after launch?
Yes, as an option. Hosting and maintenance costs $99 a month, separate from the build, and covers secure hosting on a high-speed server, daily backups, software and security updates and basic website changes. Most clients choose it, but you are free to host the site anywhere.
Will I be able to add new job photos myself?
Yes. The site runs on WordPress, so adding a finished job, changing a service description or swapping a photo takes no code, and the Loom recording from launch covers each of those edits.
Free action plan
Make your website earn more Chicago calls, starting with a free plan
Tell us what your current site gets wrong, which jobs you want more of and where you work. Expect a short video call with a co-founder who reviews it and comes back with a page list, a price and a launch window.
What we’ll cover
- What’s working (and what isn’t) in your current marketing
- Site and funnel gaps that are costing you leads
- Local SEO and paid traffic opportunities
- Simple tracking and KPIs to measure success
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