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
SEO in Grand Forks, North Dakota
SEO for Grand Forks service businesses, with the profile and the pages run as one job.
Grand Forks service businesses get their Google Business Profile, a page for each trade and a monthly count of the calls the work brought.
- A Google profile built trade by trade
- Pages for both sides of the river
- Calls counted page by page
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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
The search result, read closely
Where Grand Forks SEO starts
Local search in Grand Forks begins with the Google Business Profile, since that is what a searcher meets before the website. Lithium Marketing works that profile, the service pages and the reviews as one job. When we checked the results page for “plumber grand forks”, the Map Pack came first and its three listings carried 458, 62 and 107 Google reviews. Those totals are the bar a new listing meets, so the first work goes into the parts a profile and a page can control: categories, services, photos and one page per trade.
44.9% of the city's homes went up before 1980, and repair or replacement work on that stock is what a plumber, an electrician or a roofer sells most weeks. A service page named for the job gives Google something to match for each of them.
Searches that name the city
Which Grand Forks searches earn a page
The trade searches here are specific enough to build around: “pest control grand forks” draws about 170 a month, and a search like that comes from someone who wants a treatment, not a directory. Below the Map Pack, Facebook and Yelp both reached the top 10 when we checked, so your profiles on those sites should carry the same name, phone number and services as your website.
Each service wins its own page for a different reason. A plumber's page answers the urgent question, a landscaper's page shows finished work, and a roofer's page settles the insurance and timing questions before the estimate. One page per service gives Google one thing to rank for each search.
| Search | Searches a month | Cost per click |
|---|---|---|
| seo company grand forks | 10 | not reported |
| seo agency grand forks | under 10 | not reported |
| seo services grand forks | under 10 | not reported |
| seo grand forks | 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
- 62 to 458 Google reviews each
- Directories in the top 10
- Facebook, Yelp
- AI Overview
- Shown above the results
- People also ask
- Shown
Source: one Google results page for “plumber grand forks”, as Google showed it to a searcher located in Grand Forks. Search ad counts exclude sponsored local listings. Results shift by searcher and day.
Where the work sits
Two river banks, one service area
Grand Forks sits on the western bank of the Red River of the North, and its twin city of East Grand Forks is in Minnesota. A contractor that works both banks needs area pages and a Google Business Profile service area that say so, and one that stays in North Dakota should keep the boundary visible so a Minnesota caller is not promised a visit the crew will not make.
The neighborhoods along the river developed first, and the newer street grid went in on the south and west sides of town. Area pages that name the parts of the city a business covers read like they came from someone who works there.
- residents (2025 estimate)
- 60,365
- residents (2025 estimate)
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- +2%
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- housing units
- 28,129
- housing units
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- 46.4%
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- of homes built before 1980
- 44.9%
- of homes built before 1980
- median home value
- $249,900
- median home value
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau 2025 population estimates, ACS 2020–2024 and 2023 County Business Patterns.
The county count
What the county trade mix means for a plan
Grand Forks County lists 31 landscaping services and 11 painting contractors. Both fields sell work a homeowner can see, so a finished project photograph does more than any adjective, and each kind of job a business wants more of should have its own page.
Seven roofing contractors are based in the county. A short local list does not make a page rank on its own, so the profile, the service pages and recent reviews still decide who gets called.
County Business Patterns
Trade and home service businesses in Grand Forks County
Establishments by industry, 2023
- Landscaping services31
- Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors29
- Residential remodelers28
- Electrical contractors25
- New home builders14
- Painting contractors11
- Excavation and site preparation contractors10
- Roofing contractors7
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 County Business Patterns (NAICS establishment counts).
How the retainer runs
A Grand Forks retainer, month by month
The profile gets attention first, because the Map Pack sat at the top when we checked, and the technical fixes run beside it.
1
Work the profile before anything else
Categories, services, photos, hours and the service area all get filled in, since the listing is what a searcher meets before the website.
2
Fix the technical floor
Crawl errors, template speed and broken internal links are cleared so the pages that follow can be read at all.
3
Build pages in revenue order
The trade that brings the most valuable jobs gets its page first, then the next, with area pages for the neighborhoods those crews cover.
4
Add reviews and links last
Review requests go out after finished jobs, links point at the pages that bring calls, and the monthly report counts calls and leads by page.
What every SEO retainer includes
The same eight parts go into every SEO retainer, wherever the business is.
- 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
A fence company result
F&W Fence Co.: a website, SEO and Google Ads
F&W Fence Co. sells and installs fencing, and Lithium handled the new website, the SEO and the Google Ads behind the numbers on its card. Kevin Atiyeh at Atiyeh Bros, a carpet and rug business, is quoted beside it.
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 CarpetNearby SEO pages
SEO for the cities around Grand Forks
Every town a crew serves can have a page on the site. The links below show what SEO looks like in Fargo, Bismarck and Aberdeen, South Dakota, and the state overview covers the cities left off this list.
Published price
What SEO costs a Grand Forks business
$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
Grand Forks SEO questions before you sign
Still curious?
Call (503) 766-5964 or email [email protected].
How do you set the monthly SEO price?
Three things: how many pages the work needs, how many trades you sell and what one won job is worth to you. A company selling repairs on a few services fits near the low end, and a company after whole-house remodels or commercial work lands higher because each page has to earn more.
When will more calls show up?
Two clocks run at once. Technical fixes usually show inside 30 days, local and long-tail rankings tend to follow over 60 to 90 days, and revenue usually compounds from month four. The report counts calls from the first month, so the trend arrives before the rankings do.
Do we need a storefront to appear in the Map Pack?
A service-area business can compete there without showing an address, because Google lets you list the areas you serve instead. Your profile, your reviews and the area pages carry the weight a storefront would. Google sets the order of those listings, and what Lithium commits to is the work.
Does the retainer include AI search work?
It is part of every retainer, not a separate product. Service pages open with a direct answer, carry schema markup and repeat the same business details as your profile, which gives AI tools a clean record of the business. Whether ChatGPT or Google's AI Overview cites you is theirs to decide.
Who writes the pages?
Lithium does. You send the service list, the towns and the photos of finished jobs, and we write the copy and build the pages. You review each one before it goes live.
Free action plan
See where your Grand Forks listings stand today
Send the site address and the trades you want more of. Before a short video call, a co-founder checks your Map Pack position and your profile, then names the pages and fields to start with.
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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