Garden centerDrake’s 7 Dees
380%more organic traffic
in one year
- Google Ads conversion rate
- 26.4%
- Google Ads conversion rate
- leads in 60 days
- 744
- leads in 60 days
SEO in Kent, Washington
SEO for Kent service businesses, built around the profile and the pages behind it.
Kent service businesses get a complete Google Business Profile, a page for each service, matching listings and a monthly report counted in calls.
- A page for each trade you run
- A complete Google Business Profile
- The same details on every listing
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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
Kent SEO, answered
How search becomes a call in Kent
On the “plumber kent wa” results page, the Map Pack came first, above every organic listing, and no ads showed at all when we checked. Lithium Marketing reads that page the way a customer does: it completes the Google Business Profile, adds a page for each service and each part of Kent, and keeps the name, phone number and services identical on the directories that already rank.
Reviews are the other half. The three Kent listings in that Map Pack carried 38, 384 and 1,700 Google reviews, so the range is wide, and the smallest count still made the cut. A Kent business does not need the biggest review total on that page; a complete profile and pages that match the search give Google more to work with.
Search in Kent
The trade searches worth a page
Trade searches naming Kent are uneven: “plumber kent wa” draws 210 searches a month and “roofing company kent wa” draws 70. Every trade you sell needs its own page and its own Google Business Profile category, because a roofer and a plumber are not answers to the same question.
The rest of the results page rewards the same work. Facebook, MapQuest, Thumbtack and Yelp all appeared in the top 10 for the Kent plumber search, so your listings there need the same name, phone number and service list as your website. When a customer checks two or three of them before calling, consistency is what makes the call happen.
| Search | Searches a month | Cost per click |
|---|---|---|
| seo kent wa | 10 | not reported |
| seo agency kent wa | under 10 | not reported |
| seo company kent wa | under 10 | not reported |
| seo services kent wa | 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
- 38 to 1,700 Google reviews each
- Directories in the top 10
- Facebook, MapQuest, Thumbtack, Yelp
- AI Overview
- Not shown
- People also ask
- Not shown
Source: one Google results page for “plumber kent wa”, as Google showed it to a searcher located in Kent. Search ad counts exclude sponsored local listings. Results shift by searcher and day.
The Kent market
Three areas to write pages for
Kent splits into West Hill, the Valley and East Hill, and each one has its own housing and its own kinds of work. West Hill mixes homes and businesses along Interstate 5, the Valley is mostly industrial and commercial with some medium-density housing, and East Hill is residential with retail.
A service-area page that names those areas, plus Lake Meridian and the Green River, reads like a company that works there. Auburn, Renton, Federal Way, Covington, Des Moines, SeaTac and Tukwila all touch Kent, so the city pages Lithium builds should follow the map of where your crews already work.
- residents (2025 estimate)
- 134,871
- residents (2025 estimate)
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- -0.4%
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- housing units
- 49,652
- housing units
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- 57.2%
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- of homes built before 1980
- 38.5%
- of homes built before 1980
- median home value
- $587,800
- median home value
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau 2025 population estimates, ACS 2020–2024 and 2023 County Business Patterns.
Trades in King County
Two crowded trades in King County
King County holds 468 plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors and 477 electrical contractors, two trades where a customer can pick from a long list before calling. In a field that size, the profile, the reviews and the service pages have to line up before a searcher picks you.
Roofing is thinner on the ground. “Roofing company kent wa” draws 70 searches a month, and 206 roofing contractors work the county. A roofer with a page for repairs, a page for replacements and a profile that matches both can be specific in a way a general contractor cannot.
County Business Patterns
Trade and home service businesses in King County
Establishments by industry, 2023
- Residential remodelers1,651
- New home builders874
- Landscaping services843
- Painting contractors531
- Electrical contractors477
- Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors468
- Excavation and site preparation contractors234
- Roofing contractors206
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 County Business Patterns (NAICS establishment counts).
The SEO plan
What the monthly SEO work covers
We start with what keeps Google from reading the site, then build the pages and the profile, then build links to the pages that need them.
1
Clear the technical blocks
Broken links, slow templates and crawl errors are cleared first, since that work often shows results within 30 days.
2
Complete the Business Profile
The Business Profile gets every category, service, photo and service area it is missing, plus a short script for asking a happy customer for a review.
3
Write the service and city pages
A page for each service you sell and each part of Kent you cover, built around the questions a customer asks before calling.
4
Fix the listings, then build links
Yelp, Facebook, Thumbtack and MapQuest get the same name, phone and service list as the site, and the links we build go to the pages with the most to gain.
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
Proof
A garden center’s website, SEO and Google Ads
Drake’s 7 Dees hired Lithium for a garden center website, SEO and Google Ads, and the card carries the numbers from that combined job. Matt Johnson, from his time running On-Target Landscape, is quoted in his own words.
Garden center“Lithium Marketing is awesome to work with and the results you’ll get are outstanding. Once I started working with them I saw increase in my online presence and my sales increased too. I would highly recommend them to anyone looking for help with marketing!”
Matt JohnsonOn-Target LandscapeAround Kent
SEO for the cities around Kent
An Auburn or Renton search is not a Kent search, and the SEO pages below show what each nearby city asks Google for. The Washington page lists every city Lithium covers.
Published price
What Kent SEO costs each month
$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
What Kent owners ask before starting SEO
Still curious?
Call (503) 766-5964 or email [email protected].
What moves a Kent SEO quote up or down?
Two things move the quote: how many services you want a page for, and how far the site is from being ready. One service with a clean site lands near the low end of the range. Four services, a thin site and few reviews need more page work, more profile work and more links, so the quote climbs. The proposal puts your number beside that scope.
What should the first six months of SEO show?
Technical changes usually appear inside 30 days. Local rankings usually settle over 60 to 90 days, and revenue builds from month four as the pages age. The retainer starts with six months for that reason. Your report tracks calls and leads from the beginning, so the trend is visible long before the bigger numbers land.
What stays in my name if I end the retainer?
The domain, hosting account, WordPress install and content are yours, and the Business Profile belongs to your business. Ending the retainer does not switch anything off. You keep the pages and the profile, and Lithium hands over what it built.
What can you promise about Google rankings?
Only the work. Lithium builds the profile, the pages, the listings and the links, and reports what moved each month. Nobody can promise a position in the Map Pack or the organic results, because Google sets the order and changes it. If an agency promises you a spot, that promise is not theirs to make.
Is there a contract, and how does it end?
The usual agreement starts with six months, then runs month to month with 30 days’ notice. Six months is there because local rankings take time to build, and after that you can stop with a month’s notice. The AI receptionist is the one service with no contract at all.
Free action plan
Send your site for a Kent SEO review
Bring the site and the services you want to rank for. A co-founder opens your rankings on a short video call and points to the pages that need work first.
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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