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
SEO in Columbus, Ohio
Columbus contractors get SEO that starts with the Map Pack, adds a page for each service and neighborhood, and reports every month in calls.

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How it works
Lithium Marketing helps Columbus service businesses turn their search presence into calls through profile work and service pages. The placement of map listings makes the profile a priority: when we checked “plumber columbus”, Google put the pack above every website.
The four businesses in that observed pack had 645, 769, 2,300 and 21,000 Google reviews. If asking for reviews falls off your to-do list after a job, we help you make it part of the follow-up and respond to customers. Profile photos and service details also need to reflect the work you do now.
Search in Columbus
Pest control searches naming Columbus run about 2,400 a month. A treatment page should explain the pests you handle and how an appointment works. For electrical work, “electrician columbus” draws about 1,000 monthly searches; pages on repairs and panel upgrades help callers see which job they can book with you.
Below the pack, Angi, BBB and Thumbtack all ranked in the top 10 for “plumber columbus”, and Google showed a box of questions people also ask. Your name, phone and services should read the same on each of those directories, and your service pages should answer the common questions in plain words.
| Search | Searches a month | Cost per click |
|---|---|---|
| seo columbus | 390 | $19.70 |
| seo services columbus | 170 | $33.60 |
| seo agency columbus | 110 | $64.46 |
| seo company columbus | 70 | 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 columbus”, as Google showed it to a searcher located in Columbus. Search ad counts exclude sponsored local listings. Results shift by searcher and day.
Neighborhoods
Columbus is sometimes known as a “city of neighborhoods”, among them Clintonville, Franklinton, German Village, The Short North and Victorian Village. If you take jobs in a handful of them, give each its own area page naming the neighborhood, the work you do there and a recent job, so a search from that part of town finds a page written for it.
The Interstate 270 Outerbelt encircles most of the city, and Google weighs distance from the searcher when it fills the Map Pack. A shop on one side of the loop can show well nearby and drop out across town. If your crews work both inside and outside I-270, area pages for those neighborhoods and suburbs give you a second route in, through the organic results under the pack.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau 2025 population estimates, ACS 2020–2024 and 2023 County Business Patterns.
Trades in Franklin County
Franklin County has 182 electrical contractors, 111 painting contractors and 103 roofing contractors. Help a customer compare your business with others by showing completed work and explaining which repairs or projects you take. Those details belong on your profile and on the service page a visitor opens next.
A roofer’s repair page and a landscaper’s installation page need different answers. We ask what callers want to know before booking and put those answers near the contact button. The same review request routine can support either trade without promising how many customers will leave a review.
County Business Patterns
Trade and home service businesses in Franklin County
Establishments by industry, 2023
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 County Business Patterns (NAICS establishment counts).
Month by month
The profile and the technical fixes come first, and the pages and links that build on them follow.
We check how Google crawls and indexes your pages, fix speed and mobile problems and clear the errors holding them back; technical fixes usually move within 30 days.
Primary and secondary categories, every service, photos from Columbus jobs and a service area that matches your website, plus a simple routine for asking each customer for a review.
One page per service you want more of, and area pages for the neighborhoods and suburbs where you take jobs, each written for the person searching there.
We correct your business details on Angi, BBB, Thumbtack and the other directories in your results, then build links toward the service pages that bring the most calls.
What every SEO retainer includes
The same eight parts go into every SEO retainer, wherever the business is.
Results
Drake’s 7 Dees, a garden center, hired Lithium for a new website, SEO and Google Ads, and its card reflects all three together. Beside it, Daniel Busby of Willard Power Vac, an air duct, dryer vent and chimney cleaning company, talks about the web traffic and jobs his business gained.
Garden center380%more organic traffic
in one year
“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 VacNearby cities
An area page needs more than a city name: show the services and completed jobs you can offer there. The linked SEO plans cover Ohio cities and cross-border areas including Covington, Kentucky, Parkersburg, West Virginia, and Huntington, West Virginia. Choose the places you serve, or open the Ohio list to plan further ahead.
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
Still curious?
Call (503) 766-5964 or email [email protected].
The work your site needs and the revenue a lead can bring determine the scope within $1,300–$3,000 a month. We review missing service pages, technical problems and the areas you want to reach before quoting. That gives you a list of work to compare alongside the monthly fee.
Call growth has no fixed arrival date. For local and long-tail rankings, allow a typical 60 to 90 days; technical work usually starts showing movement within 30 days. Revenue tends to build from month four. We compare those changes with tracked calls so you can see whether better visibility is bringing business.
The first agreement runs six months, and after that SEO goes month to month on 30 days’ notice. Map Pack and organic gains take a few months to show, so the opening term covers that stretch, and after it you can stop whenever the results stop paying their way.
A smaller company can pursue the searches for its own specialties without trying to cover every job across Columbus. Start with the services you want and the neighborhoods you can serve well. Google controls map placement, so we make no promise of a spot; the proposal commits to specific work you can check.
Yes, every SEO retainer includes it at no extra charge. The pages we write for Google also get answer-first summaries, schema markup and business details that match on every listing, which AI tools such as ChatGPT can read more easily. No AI Overview showed for “plumber columbus” when we checked, and no one can promise an AI mention, so we judge the work by calls.
Free action plan
Share a link to your Google profile and name a Columbus service you want more calls for. Bring that search to a short video call with a co-founder; we’ll review what customers find and explain the profile and page work we recommend.
What we’ll cover
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