FenceF&W Fence Co.
4Xmore ranking keywords
190 to 745 keywords
- top-3 rankings (3 to 28)
- 9X
- top-3 rankings (3 to 28)
- core search conversion rate
- 27.78%
- core search conversion rate
Web design in Duluth, Minnesota
Web design for Duluth that turns a visit into a phone call.
Duluth contractors get a WordPress site with finished work up front, a call button one tap away, and the domain in their own name.
- Project photos grouped by trade
- A call button on every page
- A quote form for the work you want
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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
What the site has to do
What a Duluth website has to prove
77.8% of Duluth’s homes were built before 1980, so repair and replacement work is likely to be a large share of the jobs you quote. Lithium Marketing designs WordPress sites for Duluth service businesses with the project photos, service list and phone link a customer needs before they call.
The median Duluth home dates to 1951, and the median value is $242,700. A site that shows finished work on houses like those gives a homeowner a reason to trust you with the next project. Only 4.9% of Duluth’s homes were built in 2010 or later, which puts new construction at the edge of the page list.
What a search asks
What a Duluth search asks of your website
About 170 searches a month use “web design duluth”. The people behind those searches are comparing designers, and the site they land on is the first sample of your work. A slow page or a phone number buried below three screens loses them before the call.
Searches for “plumber duluth” reach 1,000 a month, and a customer who clicks a plumbing result wants a number, not a brochure. The site should put the phone and the service area at the top for a repair trade, and project photos and a quote form first for a remodeler.
| Search | Searches a month | Cost per click |
|---|---|---|
| web design duluth | 170 | $76.74 |
| website design duluth | 170 | $76.74 |
| web designer duluth | under 10 | 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
- 70 to 522 Google reviews each
- Directories in the top 10
- Reddit, Yelp
- AI Overview
- Not shown
- People also ask
- Shown
Source: one Google results page for “plumber duluth”, as Google showed it to a searcher located in Duluth. Search ad counts exclude sponsored local listings. Results shift by searcher and day.
Houses and hills
Houses on a hillside, and what that means for a website
Duluth’s topography is dominated by a steep hillside that climbs from Lake Superior to high inland elevations. The considerable development on the hill has given Duluth many steep streets, and a customer may not know which side of the hill a contractor works from. A service-area page that names the neighborhoods you cover answers that before the call.
St. Louis County is 71.2% owner-occupied, so many of the people hiring a contractor own the property. That changes the proof a site should show: completed work, a clear scope and the kind of house tell that owner more than a generic service list.
- residents (2025 estimate)
- 88,330
- residents (2025 estimate)
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- +1.7%
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- housing units
- 39,978
- housing units
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- 59.4%
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- of homes built before 1980
- 77.8%
- of homes built before 1980
- median home value
- $242,700
- median home value
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau 2025 population estimates, ACS 2020–2024 and 2023 County Business Patterns.
Trades and page types
Remodelers and painters need different pages
St. Louis County has 101 residential remodelers, and a remodeler’s site sells a project: scope, timeline, finished rooms and a quote form that asks the right questions. A single contact form that invites any job brings in the small repair calls a remodeler does not want.
Painting is a smaller field, with 20 contractors in St. Louis County, and the work is easier to show. Before-and-after photos, the kind of surface and the prep that went into it do more than a paragraph about quality. The same page structure works for a roofer or a landscaper: show the finished job and make the next step plain.
County Business Patterns
Trade and home service businesses in St. Louis County
Establishments by industry, 2023
- Residential remodelers101
- Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors76
- New home builders62
- Landscaping services61
- Excavation and site preparation contractors57
- Electrical contractors43
- Roofing contractors21
- Painting contractors20
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 County Business Patterns (NAICS establishment counts).
The build
The build, from photos to launch
Nothing goes live until we have tested the forms, phone links and tracking tags, and you see each stage before the next one starts.
1
Start with what you already have
The photos and the service list you already keep are enough to begin. We turn both into page copy, and you correct anything that does not sound like the company.
2
Lay out the call path
The first layout decision is where the number, the quote form and the project photos sit on a phone. You see that order before any page is built.
3
Build it on WordPress and test the links
WordPress is the platform. Before launch, we check two things: every form and phone link works, and GA4 with call tracking records where each call came from.
4
Make the move without losing old addresses
Old addresses point to the new pages. After launch you get a private Loom recording of your site, and the domain, hosting and content stay in your name.
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
The F&W card
A fence company’s new site and the work behind it
F&W Fence Co. is a fence company. The card covers a new website, SEO and Google Ads, and the numbers reflect all three. Kevin Atiyeh of Atiyeh Bros, a carpet and rug business, gives his own view of working with Lithium.
Fence“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 CarpetMore Minnesota builds
Where else Lithium builds websites in Minnesota
Each city below has a web design page built on its own housing and search figures, so you can see how another market’s houses shape the page list. The Minnesota page carries the rest.
Published price
The price of a new site for a Duluth business
$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
Duluth website questions, answered before the build
Still curious?
Call (503) 766-5964 or email [email protected].
What pushes a Duluth website above the typical price?
The typical build covers a service business with a home page, a few service pages and a contact page. More services, more towns and dozens of project photos push it higher, and a larger site gets a fixed proposal before work starts.
What do we own after launch?
Your name is on the domain, the hosting account, the WordPress install and the content. If the working relationship ends, none of it stays behind with Lithium.
How do you protect the rankings we already have?
The redirect map comes before launch. Every old address with links or traffic gets a new home, and we check Search Console on both sides of the move. A rebuild can shift rankings; nothing in the proposal promises they hold. The map keeps the pages that already earn links connected to the new site.
Do we need a developer to change a photo?
Editing is the easy part. Text, photos and a new finished job are all changes your team can make in WordPress. The Loom recording is a private walkthrough of your site, and the optional $99 a month hosting and maintenance plan covers hosting, daily backups, software and security updates and basic website changes for owners who would rather not touch it.
What should we have ready before kickoff?
A handful of finished-job photos is the main one. Add the services you sell, the places you cover and a kickoff call. We turn that into copy, you review the pages, and launch waits for your approval.
Free action plan
Get a Duluth website plan with the pages mapped out
Three or four finished-job photos and a link to the current site are enough to start. A co-founder will use them to sketch the page list, the price and the timeline on 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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