SepticByers Septic Service
9Xorganic traffic
91 to 799 visits a month
- more ranking keywords (36 to 395)
- 11X
- more ranking keywords (36 to 395)
- conversion rate
- 23.1%
- conversion rate
Web design in Hilo, Hawaii
Hilo web design that puts job photos and the call button on a phone screen.
Hilo service businesses get a website planned around repair and replacement pages, since 53.9% of Hilo's homes were built before 1980.
- Repair and replacement pages
- Job photos with the scope named
- A call button within reach
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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
Hilo web design, answered
A Hilo website built for the phone in a customer's hand
Lithium Marketing designs and builds WordPress websites for Hilo service businesses so a customer on a phone can see a finished job, understand the service and call without pinching the screen. The call button, the work photos and the quote form sit where a customer looks first.
The median home value in Hilo is $483,000, so a visitor is deciding who to trust with a valuable house. Photos of finished work, a service list and reviews do more than a stock image ever will; the proof has to be on the first screen, not buried under a menu.
Search in Hilo
The page a Hilo customer lands on
A Hilo customer searches for the trade and the town, then chooses from the businesses on the page. The website has one job at that moment: show the work, name the service and make the call easy on a phone.
A generic services page makes that choice harder. Separate pages for repair, replacement and installation let a customer land on the work they need, and the quote form can ask for the detail your team needs without turning the first contact into a job application.
| Search | Searches a month | Cost per click |
|---|---|---|
| web design hilo | under 10 | not reported |
| web designer hilo | under 10 | not reported |
| website design hilo | under 10 | not reported |
Source: Google Ads keyword data, average monthly U.S. searches. "Under 10" = below Google’s reporting floor.
- Map Pack
- On the page, below other results
- Search ads
- 1 recorded
- Local listing reviews
- 5 to 76 Google reviews each
- Directories in the top 10
- Better Business Bureau, Facebook, Yelp
- AI Overview
- Not shown
- People also ask
- Shown
Source: one Google results page for “plumber hilo”, as Google showed it to a searcher located in Hilo. Search ad counts exclude sponsored local listings. Results shift by searcher and day.
The Hilo market
Older houses and the pages that show them
Hilo has 17,750 occupied homes. Hilo's median home was built in 1978, and only 6.8% of Hilo's homes went up in 2010 or later, so the pages that matter most are repair and replacement, each with a real photo and a caption from the house. New construction is a smaller section.
Settlement stretches from Hilo Bay to Waiākea-Uka. A service-area page that names those parts of town reads like a company that works there, and a customer can tell whether their street is covered.
- residents (ACS estimate)
- 50,404
- residents (ACS estimate)
- housing units
- 19,265
- housing units
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- 66.1%
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- of homes built before 1980
- 53.9%
- of homes built before 1980
- median home value
- $483,000
- median home value
- people in the Hilo-Kailua, HI micropolitan area
- 210,043
- people in the Hilo-Kailua, HI micropolitan area
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau 2025 population estimates, ACS 2020–2024 and 2023 County Business Patterns.
Trades in Hawaii County
The county trades and the screens they need
Hawaii County has 58 residential remodelers, 14 roofing contractors and 21 painting contractors. A remodeler needs a gallery with scope and finish; a roofer needs repair and replacement pages with photos of real roofs; a painter needs surface-by-surface examples.
The site should carry the work you want more of, with separate pages by job type. A small crew can start with two service pages and add the rest when the calls support the work.
County Business Patterns
Trade and home service businesses in Hawaii County
Establishments by industry, 2023
- Landscaping services78
- New home builders70
- Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors64
- Residential remodelers58
- Electrical contractors48
- Excavation and site preparation contractors38
- Painting contractors21
- Pest control companies15
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 County Business Patterns (NAICS establishment counts).
The build
The build, from photos to launch
You approve the pages and the phone layout before anything goes live.
1
Share the job photos
Pick the jobs that show your range and send the photos, the services you sell and the towns you work in. The wording starts from those.
2
Review the phone layout
You see the phone layout in the design review: call button, work photos, quote button. The desktop version follows the same order.
3
Test every path
Forms, phone links, page speed and tracking get checked before launch, with GA4 and call tracking connected.
4
Switch the addresses over
Old links point to the new pages, the site opens to the public and you get a walkthrough recording for future edits.
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
Byers Septic: a website with search and ads behind it
Byers Septic Service is the case on the card. Lithium built the website and also ran the SEO and Google Ads behind those numbers, so the card reflects all three. Drake Snodgrass, who runs the garden center Drake's 7 Dees, gives the quote beside it.
Septic“Lithium has moved us to page 1 in Google search organically. Prior to working with them we spent a huge part of our marketing budget on paid search. Website redesign was a great experience.”
Drake SnodgrassDrake’s 7 DeesOther Hawaii web pages
Websites for the rest of the islands
An Oahu customer searches a different market, so the pages linked below show how web design changes there. The Hawaii link at the end covers the rest of the state.
Published price
The website price and the work behind it
$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
What to settle before a Hilo site build
Still curious?
Call (503) 766-5964 or email [email protected].
What does a Hilo website cost?
A typical service business site is $5,000. A larger build with many service pages, project galleries or location pages gets a fixed proposal after a discovery call, so you know the number before work starts.
Who owns the website and the domain?
The domain and the site are yours. We set up the hosting and WordPress install under your business, and the login details come to you at launch, so a change of agency does not take the website with it.
Will a new site hurt our Google rankings?
A rebuild does not have to reset the site's history. The pages that already earn links or traffic get matched to their new addresses, and Search Console gets watched through the switch. Positions can still shift, so no one can promise the same order, but the pages with links and traffic stay connected.
Can our team edit the site after launch?
Editing is part of the handoff. At launch you get the WordPress login and a short recording that shows how to change a heading, a photo or a service page. 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 do you need before the first design review?
A short kickoff call sets the pages, and the first design review comes after we have your job photos and a list of the services you sell. You see the phone layout first, then the desktop, and you approve each page before launch.
Free action plan
Get a Hilo website plan from your job photos
Bring the site you have now and photos from a few finished jobs. On a short video call, a co-founder will map the pages, the phone layout and what the rebuild will cost.
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
(503) 766-5964
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