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SEO in Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Hattiesburg service businesses get SEO built around the trades they sell, a Google Business Profile that matches and a monthly report in calls and leads.

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Hattiesburg SEO, answered
Local SEO for a Hattiesburg service business begins with the searches people here already make for its trade. “Plumber hattiesburg” draws 590 searches a month and “pest control hattiesburg” draws 260, so Lithium Marketing writes each trade its own page.
Hattiesburg is a university town, and the rental side of the market deserves its own page. A page that answers a property manager's questions about access and who approves work earns its place beside the owner-facing pages.
What Hattiesburg searches for
Electricians, garage door companies and landscapers each draw 140 searches a month for their main phrase. Each one sells a different job, so each one needs a page that speaks to its customer, not a list of every service.
The local results for “plumber hattiesburg” carried 56, 174 and 49 reviews, and Facebook, MapQuest and Yelp sat in the top ten. A customer comparing those listings sees the review counts before the page copy, so the profile and the site have to tell the same story.
| Search | Searches a month | Cost per click |
|---|---|---|
| seo agency hattiesburg | under 10 | not reported |
| seo company hattiesburg | under 10 | not reported |
| seo services hattiesburg | under 10 | not reported |
| seo hattiesburg | under 10 | 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 hattiesburg”, as Google showed it to a searcher located in Hattiesburg. Search ad counts exclude sponsored local listings. Results shift by searcher and day.
Hattiesburg's geography
Hattiesburg is the principal city of the Hattiesburg Metropolitan Statistical Area, which holds 158,014 people across Covington, Forrest, Lamar, and Perry counties. A business that serves the whole metro can give each town its own page, while the Hattiesburg pages keep the city searches pointed at the work you do here.
The city line and the county line are not the same. Forrest County holds most of Hattiesburg, and the west side of the city reaches into Lamar County, so a page list built by county will miss addresses that belong to the city.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau 2025 population estimates, ACS 2020–2024 and 2023 County Business Patterns.
Trades in Forrest County
Forrest County lists 25 plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors, more than any other trade group in the county. A plumber's page has to answer the questions a customer asks before calling: what the visit includes, how fast the crew can come and which parts of town it serves.
The smaller groups are worth naming too. The county has 8 electrical contractors, 8 pest control companies and 4 roofing contractors. A roofer with one page for repairs and one for replacement gives a customer a clearer choice than a single list of everything the company does.
County Business Patterns
Trade and home service businesses in Forrest County
Establishments by industry, 2023
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 County Business Patterns (NAICS establishment counts).
The SEO plan
One job at a time: make the site readable, put the trades on the profile, then earn links to the pages that bring calls.
Google has to be able to read the site before anything else counts, so broken links, slow templates and crawl errors get fixed first.
Photos, services and the service area go onto the Google Business Profile, and finished customers get an easy way to leave a review.
Each trade you sell gets a page, and the parts of Hattiesburg and the nearby cities you cover get area pages.
Citations get checked on Yelp, Facebook and MapQuest, and the link work points at the service pages with the most calls behind them.
What every SEO retainer includes
The same eight parts go into every SEO retainer, wherever the business is.
The client case
The card covers work Lithium did for Dixie Glass, a glass company on the Mississippi Gulf Coast: the site rebuild, the SEO and the Google Ads. Dave Turin, who runs Dozer Dave, an excavation business, gives the quote beside it.
Glass76%more conversions
January vs the January before
“I highly recommend Dj Van Zanten if you need any help with your website and your internet marketing.”
Dave TurinDozer DaveAround Hattiesburg
Mobile in Alabama, New Orleans and Metairie in Louisiana sit beyond the Mississippi line, and each has its own SEO page. So do Gulfport, Biloxi and Jackson. The state page links every city, and the search figures on each page show where the demand is.
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 page list sets most of it: how many trades and towns you want covered, how much repair the current site needs, and how much competition the searches carry. A one-truck plumber buying repair calls needs fewer pages than a company selling four trades across the metro, and the range above moves with that scope.
The monthly report starts counting calls and leads in the first month, before the rankings move. Technical fixes usually show movement inside 30 days, local and long-tail rankings typically follow in 60 to 90 days, and revenue tends to build from month four.
Not directly. Google decides which businesses appear in the map, so no agency can sell a spot there. What you control is the profile behind the listing: the categories, the service list, the photos and the review requests after finished jobs. The report shows which pages moved and which calls came in.
When the jobs and the searches differ, yes. A plumber's drain cleaning and a roofer's replacement estimate answer different questions, and one page that lists both gives Google and the customer less to match. Start with the trades that pay the bills, then add the rest.
A link to the site, the services you want more of, the towns you cover and access to the Google Business Profile. We write the pages and do the technical work; you review the plan and approve the service list before anything publishes.
Free action plan
On a short video call, a co-founder will put the page list and the profile work in order. Bring the site link, the trades that pay your bills and the towns you want calls from.
What we’ll cover
2000 NE 42nd Ave Ste D Unit 2370, Portland, OR 97213
Prefer to pick a time? Book a 30-minute call with DJ