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
Web design for Lowell contractors
Lowell contractors get a site built around their job photos, a call button that works on a phone, and the domain in their name.

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Old houses, real photos
75.1% of Lowell’s homes were built before 1980, which shapes the work a contractor here is asked to do. Lithium Marketing designs WordPress websites for Lowell service businesses around that reality: photos of finished work on the housing stock in your part of the city, a page for each service, and a call button a customer can hit with one thumb.
New housing is rare here: 4.6% of Lowell’s homes were built in 2010 or later, and the median home went up in 1953. If a buyer is weighing a repair, a renovation or an addition to a house that is already standing, the site should lead with the projects that look like theirs.
Search traffic and the phone
A website is where the traffic from a Google search or an ad ends up. “Landscaping lowell” draws 170 searches a month, and a visitor from one of those searches decides in seconds whether the site looks like the company that can do the job.
Assume the visitor is on a phone, sometimes in a truck between jobs. The first screen has one job: make the call easy. That means a number at the top, a tap target a thumb can hit, and a form that asks for a name and a number before it asks for a paragraph.
| Search | Searches a month | Cost per click |
|---|---|---|
| web design lowell | 10 | not reported |
| website design lowell | 10 | not reported |
| web designer lowell | 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 lowell”, as Google showed it to a searcher located in Lowell. Search ad counts exclude sponsored local listings. Results shift by searcher and day.
What the houses are worth
Lowell’s median home value is $429,200, and 43.2% of occupied homes are owner-occupied. A contractor asking that owner to trust them with a renovation needs finished work on a similar house, with the scope written down, before the quote form asks for anything.
The neighborhoods differ enough to matter. Belvidere is mostly residential south of the Merrimack, and Pawtucketville runs from older streets around University Avenue and Mammoth Road to newer ones near Varnum Avenue. A site that names those places, and shows work from them, reads like a company that works there.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau 2025 population estimates, ACS 2020–2024 and 2023 County Business Patterns.
Project trades and repair trades
Middlesex County lists 1,145 residential remodelers, so a Lowell remodeler is one of many companies a homeowner can call. The site’s job is to make the choice easier: a gallery page for each project type, a short scope note on every project, and a quote form that asks about the room and the timing before it asks about money.
Repair trades need a different first screen. A plumber or an electrician should put the phone number, the service area and the hours at the top, then the photos and reviews below. Painters, 291 in Middlesex County, sit between the two: they need a fast quote path and a gallery that shows preparation, not only the finished wall.
County Business Patterns
Trade and home service businesses in Middlesex County
Establishments by industry, 2023
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 County Business Patterns (NAICS establishment counts).
The build
The photos decide the design, and the build waits until every form and call link works.
You pick the finished jobs that look like the work you want more of, and we sort them by service and neighborhood.
You review the phone layout first, then the desktop version, with the call button, service list and project photos in the order a customer reads them.
We write the copy from your service list and the areas you cover, then build the pages, forms and tracking on WordPress.
Every old address that has traffic gets a redirect, forms and call links get tested, and you get a short walkthrough for changing text and photos yourself.
What every Lithium website includes
The same eight parts go into every website build, wherever the business is.
Website, search and ads
Lithium built the website for Drake’s 7 Dees, a garden center, and ran its SEO and Google Ads as well, so the card reflects all three. Dave Turin of the excavation company Dozer Dave recommends co-founder DJ Van Zanten in the quote beside it.
Garden center380%more organic traffic
in one year
“I highly recommend Dj Van Zanten if you need any help with your website and your internet marketing.”
Dave TurinDozer DaveNearby website pages
If your work crosses into Cambridge, Lynn, Boston or Quincy, or north into Nashua and Manchester in New Hampshire, each of those cities has its own web design page from Lithium. The links below carry that city’s housing and search figures, and the Massachusetts page covers the rest of the state.
Published price
$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.
The price above covers most builds. A site with a page for every service and every neighborhood you cover gets a fixed proposal after a discovery call, and you see that number before any work starts.
You do. The domain, the hosting account, the WordPress install and the content sit in your name, so the site goes with you if you ever stop working with us.
They keep working. Every old address with traffic or links gets a redirect to its replacement before launch, and we check Search Console for the first weeks to catch anything Google reads differently.
You can. WordPress puts the text and photos within reach of anyone on your team, and the walkthrough shows where. The optional $99 a month plan keeps the site hosted with daily backups, installs software and security updates and handles basic changes, so you can pass that work to us or keep it in house.
Six to nine weeks from kickoff to launch for a typical site. The schedule depends on how quickly the photos, the service list and the approvals come back, so the first call sets the dates.
Free action plan
Start with three photos of your best finished jobs and your current site address. A co-founder will map the pages those photos belong on, and the cost, on a short video call.
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