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SEO in Columbus, Ohio

An SEO company that turns Columbus searches into booked jobs.

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

  • Google profile tuned for the Map Pack
  • A page for every neighborhood you serve
  • Matching listings on Angi and BBB
F&W Fence Co. website homepage for fence installation, supply and repair
4Xmore ranking keywords for F&W Fence Co. (190 to 745 keywords)
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2010Lithium Marketing, established in 2010
$10M+Over $10 million in Google ad spend managed

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

How it works

What SEO looks like for a Columbus contractor

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.

Neighborhoods

A city of neighborhoods, and a page for each one you serve

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.

residents (2025 estimate)
938,396
residents (2025 estimate)
population change, 2020 to 2025
+3.6%
population change, 2020 to 2025
housing units
425,182
housing units
of occupied homes owner-occupied
44.1%
of occupied homes owner-occupied
of homes built before 1980
49.8%
of homes built before 1980
median home value
$252,900
median home value

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau 2025 population estimates, ACS 2020–2024 and 2023 County Business Patterns.

Trades in Franklin County

Standing out among Franklin County’s electricians, painters and roofers

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

  • Residential remodelers
    346
  • Landscaping services
    273
  • Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors
    240
  • Electrical contractors
    182
  • Painting contractors
    111
  • Roofing contractors
    103
  • New home builders
    73
  • Excavation and site preparation contractors
    56

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 County Business Patterns (NAICS establishment counts).

Month by month

The work behind a Columbus SEO plan

The profile and the technical fixes come first, and the pages and links that build on them follow.

1

Audit the site Google sees

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.

2

Rebuild the Google Business Profile

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.

3

Write service and neighborhood pages

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.

4

Line up listings and links

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.

See the full SEO service

  • Technical SEO foundation
  • Keywords tied to revenue per lead
  • On-page SEO on every page
  • Content that answers buyers
  • Google Business Profile and citations
  • Multi-tiered semantic link building
  • Schema and AI search readiness
  • Tracking and monthly reporting

Results

A garden center’s results from a website, SEO and Google Ads

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.

Drake’s 7 Dees garden center and landscaping website homepageGarden center

Drake’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
Read the case study
“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 BusbyDaniel BusbyPresident, Willard Power Vac

Nearby cities

SEO figures for the cities around Columbus

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

What Columbus SEO costs each month

$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

Columbus SEO questions from owners

DJ Van Zanten

Still curious?

Call (503) 766-5964 or email [email protected].

What moves a Columbus business up or down the SEO price range?

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.

How soon does SEO bring a Columbus business more calls?

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.

Is there a long contract for SEO?

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.

Can a smaller Columbus company compete with the heavily reviewed names?

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.

Is AI search optimization part of the SEO price?

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

Get a free SEO plan for the Columbus neighborhoods you serve

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

  • 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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Tell us a little about your business. Response within 24 hours.

  • 100% free, no obligation
  • Custom plan for your business
  • Response within 24 hours
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