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
Web design for Columbia service businesses
Web design for Columbia that shows the work and keeps the call button in reach.
A Columbia service business gets a WordPress site it owns, built around finished-job photos, a fast phone experience and a call button that stays in reach.
- Finished-job galleries
- Click-to-call on mobile
- You keep the domain
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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 phone is the storefront
What a Columbia website has to prove before a customer calls
“web design columbia sc” draws 480 searches a month, and an average click on the phrase costs $18.88. Those people are shopping for a designer, not for a plumber. The customers you want arrive from a search, a directory or an ad and may decide in seconds whether to call, and Lithium Marketing builds WordPress sites for Columbia service businesses around that decision.
Columbia’s median home was built in 1980, and 15.7% of the city’s homes went up in 2010 or later, so a contractor here works on two kinds of house. The site should show both: a repipe in an older home and an install in a newer one, each with a line about what the job involved.
What people search before they call
A Columbia search that ends on your site
A customer may meet your business on a directory before your site: Facebook and Yelp both held a top-10 spot for “plumber columbia sc” when we checked. That profile should carry the same name, phone and services, and then hand the visitor to a website that says more than the directory can.
The homepage is not the only entrance. A customer searching one service lands on that service page; a customer searching a neighborhood lands on an area page. Each one needs the phone number, a job photo and the service explained in the first screen, because that is where the call is won or lost.
| Search | Searches a month | Cost per click |
|---|---|---|
| web design columbia sc | 480 | $18.88 |
| website design columbia sc | 480 | $18.88 |
| web designer columbia sc | 50 | not reported |
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
- None recorded
- Local listing reviews
- 187 to 667 Google reviews each
- Directories in the top 10
- Facebook, Yelp
- AI Overview
- Not shown
- People also ask
- Not shown
Source: one Google results page for “plumber columbia sc”, as Google showed it to a searcher located in Columbia. Search ad counts exclude sponsored local listings. Results shift by searcher and day.
Owners, renters and the work you show
What Columbia’s homes ask a website to prove
45.5% of Columbia’s 53,076 occupied housing units are owner-occupied, so a landlord or property manager may be the one calling. A page that explains how you handle a rental property, who approves the work and how you schedule around a tenant saves that caller a conversation before they ever dial.
The houses themselves suggest a second set of pages. Older homes need repair and replacement pages, newer ones need installation and warranty pages, and a contractor who sells both should not bury one behind the other. We split the work by the job a customer searches, then put the photographs that prove it beside the words.
- residents (2025 estimate)
- 147,035
- residents (2025 estimate)
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- +7.5%
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- housing units
- 62,021
- housing units
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- 45.5%
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- of homes built before 1980
- 49.5%
- of homes built before 1980
- median home value
- $264,300
- median home value
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau 2025 population estimates, ACS 2020–2024 and 2023 County Business Patterns.
The trades that shape the pages
How each Columbia trade should open its site
Richland County has 77 residential remodelers and 38 new home builders, and both sell work a customer cannot see yet. A remodeler’s site should open on a finished kitchen; a builder’s on a plan and a schedule. Both need to show what the finished job will look like before they ask for a call.
The emergency call needs a different page. A visitor with water on the floor likely wants a number, not a story, so the repair trades get the phone at the top, the service area under it and the hours in plain sight. Painting contractors, 26 in the county, need the quick quote path and the gallery side by side.
County Business Patterns
Trade and home service businesses in Richland County
Establishments by industry, 2023
- Landscaping services100
- Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors91
- Residential remodelers77
- Electrical contractors40
- New home builders38
- Painting contractors26
- Roofing contractors22
- Pest control companies22
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 County Business Patterns (NAICS establishment counts).
The build
The four stages of a Columbia website
You see the phone and desktop designs before the build starts, and every call button is tested before launch.
1
Start with finished jobs
Pick the projects you want more of. Photos and a note on what each job involved give us the raw material for the pages.
2
Approve the layouts
The phone layout carries the call button, a finished-job photo and the quote form in the order a customer meets them, and the desktop layout mirrors that order.
3
Build on WordPress and wire the tracking
The site gets built, every form and phone link gets tested, and GA4 and call tracking go in so each call and message carries a source.
4
Go live without losing the old pages
Every old address that earned traffic or links points to its replacement, the new site opens to the public, and a recorded Loom tour shows the edits you can make 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
Client work
Drake’s 7 Dees: a garden center site with SEO and Google Ads
Drake’s 7 Dees, a garden center, hired Lithium for a new website, SEO and Google Ads, and the card reflects that combined work. The quote beside the card is from Kevin Atiyeh at Atiyeh Bros, a carpet and rug company.
Garden center“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 Columbia
A website for every Columbia market
A build can include a page for every market you serve. Each city below has a design page with its own housing and search figures, from Rock Hill and Charleston, South Carolina, to Charlotte and Concord, North Carolina, and Augusta, Georgia. The state page collects them all.
Published price
The price of a Columbia website
$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
Before you replace a Columbia website
Still curious?
Call (503) 766-5964 or email [email protected].
Which choices make a Columbia website bigger?
Size is the usual reason. Dozens of finished projects, a page for every service, a page for every nearby city: each one adds writing and design. You see a fixed number for that larger build before anyone starts, so the only surprise is the scope you chose.
Who holds the domain and hosting when the project ends?
You do. The domain, the hosting account, the WordPress install, the pages and the photos sit in your name. The optional $99 a month plan is separate and covers hosting, daily backups, software and security updates, and basic website changes.
What happens to the old addresses at launch?
Old addresses keep working: anything with traffic or links gets pointed at its replacement, and Search Console gets watched through launch week. That protects the pages Google already trusts. Exact positions are not something anyone can promise, and we say so up front.
What happens when we need a small edit?
WordPress lets your team change a sentence, replace a photo or publish a finished job without touching code. The Loom tour walks through those edits, and the optional maintenance plan exists for owners who would rather not do them.
What makes kickoff faster?
A folder of job photos, the services you want to sell and the areas you cover. We handle the writing and the design, you approve each page, and nothing goes live until the last call button and form have been tested.
Free action plan
See the page list before you pay for a build
Your current site and a few photos of finished jobs are enough to start. The pages, the cost and the launch window get mapped with a co-founder over 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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