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
Web design for Chico trades
Chico web design that puts your finished work and a call button first.
Chico service businesses get a fast WordPress site they own, with project photos and a call button on the screen a customer opens first.
- Real job photos up front
- Tap-to-call on a phone
- Site and domain you own
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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
The site a Chico customer sees
A Chico website built around the work you finish
Lithium Marketing designs and builds WordPress websites for Chico service businesses. The site has one job: show the finished work and make the next step a tap. Only 12.1% of Chico's homes went up in 2010 or later, so most of the work your customers need is on older houses.
The site should show that experience before it asks for anything. Before-and-after photos of a re-roof, a repipe or a repaint on an older house do more than a stock image, and the quote form should ask for the property's age and the job's scope so the first call is not a repeat of the form.
Search in Chico
The directories in the Chico results
A customer comparing Chico contractors may meet your business on Angi, Facebook or Yelp before your site. The Chico page we checked put all three in its top 10. Whichever one they open first, the name, phone and service list should be identical, and the website is where the finished jobs can be shown in full.
That Chico page also showed people also ask, and those questions make good page headings. Answer what a repair costs, if you take rental work and how soon you can start, and the customer has less reason to go back to Google.
| Search | Searches a month | Cost per click |
|---|---|---|
| web design chico | under 10 | not reported |
| web designer chico | under 10 | not reported |
| website design chico | under 10 | not reported |
Source: Google Ads keyword data, average monthly U.S. searches. "Under 10" = below Google’s reporting floor.
- Map Pack
- On the page, below the ads
- Search ads
- 3 recorded
- Local listing reviews
- 63 to 5,000 Google reviews each
- Directories in the top 10
- Angi, Facebook, Yelp
- AI Overview
- Not shown
- People also ask
- Shown
Source: one Google results page for “plumber chico”, as Google showed it to a searcher located in Chico. Search ad counts exclude sponsored local listings. Results shift by searcher and day.
The Chico market
What Chico's housing stock asks of a website
Chico's housing is old enough that replacement work is normal: 44.5% of homes went up before 1980 and the median build year is 1983. A website for a Chico trade should show the systems it replaces, not only the finished room.
Chico's median home value is $468,100, and 75 new home builders work in Butte County. At that value, finish and detail are part of what a buyer checks before calling, so the site should show finished work, the towns you cover and a phone number a thumb can hit.
- residents (2025 estimate)
- 105,081
- residents (2025 estimate)
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- +0.5%
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- housing units
- 46,625
- housing units
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- 43.4%
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- of homes built before 1980
- 44.5%
- of homes built before 1980
- median home value
- $468,100
- median home value
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau 2025 population estimates, ACS 2020–2024 and 2023 County Business Patterns.
Trades in Butte County
Three trade groups, three different website jobs
Butte County has 93 residential remodelers and 34 painting contractors. Remodelers sell a sequence that runs for weeks, so their sites need project pages, a process page and a gallery sorted by room or job type. A painter sells a faster decision, so the photos and the estimate form do most of the work.
In Butte County, excavation and site preparation contractors number 30. Those sell planned projects, so the website should explain the first step, show completed work and make it easy to send plans or a site address.
County Business Patterns
Trade and home service businesses in Butte County
Establishments by industry, 2023
- Residential remodelers93
- Landscaping services93
- New home builders75
- Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors63
- Electrical contractors61
- Painting contractors34
- Excavation and site preparation contractors30
- Roofing contractors26
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 County Business Patterns (NAICS establishment counts).
The build
The Chico website build, step by step
You see the pages before they go live, and every form and phone link is tested first.
1
Photograph the finished work
Job photos, your service list and a list of towns are enough to start; the copy comes out of those and the kickoff call.
2
Set the page list
You approve the services, towns and project types that get a page before design starts.
3
Start with the phone screen
The call button, photos and quote form are placed for a thumb, then the desktop layout follows.
4
Open the site with tracking live
Old links are forwarded, every form and phone link is checked, and a recorded walkthrough covers the edit screens.
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
Proof
A septic company's site, rebuilt around real jobs
Byers Septic Service came to Lithium for a website, SEO and Google Ads, and the card reflects that combined work. Kevin Atiyeh of Atiyeh Bros, a carpet and rug business, describes how Lithium learned his company and applied that to the marketing.
Septic“Lithium Marketing has done a good job with understanding our Company and what we specialize in and applying that to our digital marketing.”
Kevin AtiyehAtiyeh Bros CarpetAround Chico
Websites for the towns near Chico
A gallery for jobs in Roseville or Sacramento can mirror the housing and search context on those city pages below. The California page holds the rest of the state.
Published price
What a Chico website costs
$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
Chico website questions before a rebuild
Still curious?
Call (503) 766-5964 or email [email protected].
What does a new Chico website cost?
A typical service business site is $5,000, and most builds land at that price. A larger site with more service pages, project galleries or area pages gets a fixed proposal after a discovery call, before any work starts.
Who owns the website and the domain?
You do. The domain, hosting, WordPress install, content and photos stay in accounts with your name on them, and the site leaves with you if you ever change agencies.
How long does a build take?
Six to nine weeks from kickoff to launch for a typical site. The schedule depends on how quickly you approve the layout and send photos, and you see each stage before the next one starts.
Will a new site hurt our current rankings?
We keep the old addresses working. Every URL with traffic or links points at its replacement before launch, and the new pages link to each other the way the old ones did. We check Search Console after the switch. Order can move while Google re-reads the site, and no one can promise it stays put.
What should we have ready before kickoff?
Three things: photos of finished jobs, the services you sell and the towns you cover. The kickoff call is where we go through them, and you approve every page before launch.
Free action plan
Send your Chico site for a free rebuild plan
Your current site address and photos of three finished jobs are the whole brief. A co-founder will turn them into a page list and a fixed price during a short video call.
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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