Commercial glassTown & Country Glass
13Xorganic traffic
145 to 1,849 visits a month
- top-3 rankings, up from 1
- 109
- top-3 rankings, up from 1
- Google Ads conversion rate
- 29.9%
- Google Ads conversion rate
Web design in Elgin, Illinois
Elgin web design that makes the next step a phone call.
Elgin businesses get a WordPress site they own, built around real job photos and a call button that works on a phone.
- Photos of finished jobs
- A phone button a thumb can hit
- Your domain and your accounts
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2010Lithium Marketing, established in 2010
$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
Elgin web design, answered
A website built for the Elgin houses your customers own
The first screen a customer sees is usually a phone, and the decision takes seconds, because the customer is asking one thing: whether this company fixes what they have. Lithium Marketing designs and builds WordPress websites for Elgin service businesses, with the phone number where a thumb can reach it. The median Elgin home dates to 1977, so the pages worth building first are the ones about repair, replacement and remodel work on a house that has been standing for decades.
Older homes also mean projects that are hard to photograph well: a repipe behind a wall, a roof replacement, a kitchen that took six weeks. The site should show the work in the order a customer cares about, with the finished room first and the mess explained second.
Search in Elgin
What a visitor from a trade search needs to see
The phrase “web design elgin” is searched about 20 times a month, and that is not how a customer finds a contractor. They start with the trade: “landscaping elgin” draws about 260 searches a month, and each of those visitors lands on a page that either shows the work and the phone number or sends them back to Google.
That is why the build starts with the pages customers search for, not the page about the company. A service page carries the photos, the price of a first visit and the towns you cover, and the home page answers the same question in one screen.
| Search | Searches a month | Cost per click |
|---|---|---|
| web design elgin | 20 | not reported |
| website design elgin | 20 | not reported |
| web designer elgin | 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
- 296 to 733 Google reviews each
- Directories in the top 10
- Better Business Bureau, Facebook, Thumbtack, Yelp
- AI Overview
- Not shown
- People also ask
- Shown
Source: one Google results page for “plumber elgin”, as Google showed it to a searcher located in Elgin. Search ad counts exclude sponsored local listings. Results shift by searcher and day.
The Elgin market
Housing stock that decides the page list
Most of Elgin's housing is not new: 54.8% went up before 1980, while 7.3% dates from 2010 or later. Start the site with the work that older houses need, and put the date and the fix under each photo so a stranger can see what changed.
Kane County's median home dates to 1985, newer than Elgin's. A builder or a remodeler selling additions works on houses of both ages, so the gallery has to separate new work from repairs, and the labels have to say which is which.
- residents (2025 estimate)
- 115,476
- residents (2025 estimate)
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- +0.6%
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- housing units
- 40,523
- housing units
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- 71.9%
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- of homes built before 1980
- 54.8%
- of homes built before 1980
- median home value
- $273,000
- median home value
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau 2025 population estimates, ACS 2020–2024 and 2023 County Business Patterns.
Trades in Kane County
Two trades that sell with their eyes
Kane County lists 311 residential remodelers and 134 painting contractors, two trades that sell on how the work looks. A gallery that shows the finished room, the materials and the house it belongs to does more than a paragraph about craftsmanship.
Kane County also has 61 new home builders and 442 landscaping services. A builder sells plans and lots; a landscaper sells a season of maintenance, and each needs its own page.
County Business Patterns
Trade and home service businesses in Kane County
Establishments by industry, 2023
- Landscaping services442
- Residential remodelers311
- Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors222
- Electrical contractors150
- Painting contractors134
- New home builders61
- Roofing contractors57
- Excavation and site preparation contractors50
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 County Business Patterns (NAICS establishment counts).
The build
The order an Elgin build follows
The page list is agreed first, then the design, then the build; nothing goes live until a real phone has made a real call through the site.
1
Start from your own jobs
The photos come from you, along with the services and the towns you cover. We write the copy from those, and from one call about how the work runs.
2
Lay out the first screen
You review the mobile and desktop layouts, with the call button and the quote form where a customer looks first.
3
Test every form and link
The build runs on WordPress. We test every form and phone link before launch, and GA4 plus call tracking go in at the same time, so a call can be traced to the page that produced it.
4
Go live and teach the edits
We redirect every old address that still carries traffic, then the site opens to the public and a private Loom walkthrough covers the changes you will handle.
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
The combined work behind Town & Country Glass
Lithium built the website for Town & Country Glass, a Portland commercial glass company, and ran its SEO and Google Ads; the card carries the combined result. Beside the card, Kevin Atiyeh of Atiyeh Bros, a carpet and rug business, describes what working with Lithium is like.
Commercial glass“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 Elgin
A page for every town you serve
A website can give each town its own page, with local job photos and the services you sell there. Each nearby city below has a web design page, Kenosha in Wisconsin included, and the state page lists every other Illinois city.
Published price
What a new Elgin 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.
What pushes a website past the typical price?
A larger build: more pages, more service areas or a photo archive that has to be sorted and described. You get a fixed proposal for that larger build before any work starts, and the typical project price covers most service business sites.
Who owns the site after launch?
You own the whole thing. Your name is on the domain, the WordPress install, the pages and the photos, so the site stays with you if you move agencies.
Will a rebuild hurt our rankings?
Redirects cover every old address that still earns traffic or links, and Search Console is checked on both sides of the launch. Nothing guarantees the same positions, because the order is Google's, but the pages it already trusts are pointed at the new site.
Can we edit the site ourselves?
The site runs on WordPress, so changing a photo or a line of text takes minutes and no code. The Loom walkthrough shows you where everything lives. If you would rather not touch it, the optional $99 a month plan covers hosting, daily backups, software and security updates, and basic changes.
What should we send before the first call?
A link to the current site, a handful of job photos and the services you want more of. The kickoff call fills in the towns, and we write the copy.
Free action plan
Get a page-by-page plan for an Elgin website
A few photos of finished work and a link to the current site are enough to start. A co-founder reads both, then brings the page list, the price and a timeline to 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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