GlassDixie Glass
76%more conversions
January vs the January before
- ads conversion rate
- 15.57%
- ads conversion rate
- organic traffic
- +18.2%
- organic traffic
Web design in Portland, Maine
Portland, Maine web design for trades that work on old houses.
Portland, Maine service businesses get a WordPress site they own, with finished jobs by trade and a call button within thumb reach.
- Photographs of finished jobs
- A form that reaches your inbox
- WordPress you can edit
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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
The site is the first visit
What a Portland, Maine website has to show first
A customer choosing between three contractors looks at a website for two things: work they recognize, and a reason to trust the crew. Lithium Marketing builds WordPress sites for Portland, Maine service businesses, and every site puts the finished job in front of that reader first.
Portland, Maine’s median year built is 1946, and 76.4% of its homes went up before 1980. If your work happens in those houses, the site should be able to say so: the fix named, the neighborhood named, and the photograph from the job.
Search in Portland, Maine
Where a Portland, Maine website earns its keep
A website sits at the end of every other channel. “web design portland me” and “website design portland me” each draw about 20 searches a month, which is small next to the trade phrases, because a customer does not shop for a designer; they shop for a plumber. The site earns its place when someone who found you in the listings or an ad lands on a page that answers the job.
The phone is where the visit ends. A visitor standing in a driveway wants the number, the services and the photographs, in that order, and every extra tap costs you the call. We test the site on a real phone at kickoff and again before launch, with the form and the tap-to-call checked on the handset your customers carry.
| Search | Searches a month | Cost per click |
|---|---|---|
| web design portland me | 20 | not reported |
| website design portland me | 20 | not reported |
| web designer portland me | 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 the ads
- Search ads
- 3 recorded
- Local listing reviews
- 26 to 1,100 Google reviews each
- Directories in the top 10
- Angi, Facebook, Reddit, Yelp
- AI Overview
- Not shown
- People also ask
- Not shown
Source: one Google results page for “plumber portland me”, as Google showed it to a searcher located in Portland. Search ad counts exclude sponsored local listings. Results shift by searcher and day.
The Portland, Maine market
The housing stock, and what it does not tell you
The median home value in Portland, Maine is $489,600, and only 5.7% of the city’s homes went up in 2010 or later. That tells you most of the housing stock is older, not what any one house needs. If your work is repairs, upgrades and additions in older houses, put those pages and photographs first; if you want new builds, show the ones you have finished.
Cumberland County’s median year built is 1976, and 54.9% of its homes went up before 1980, against the city’s 1946 and 76.4%. The county is not one housing market, so photograph the towns you serve; the peninsula’s stock is not everywhere. Portland, Maine is the most populous city in the state, and the towns beside it are markets of their own, each worth its own page and photographs.
- residents (2025 estimate)
- 69,911
- residents (2025 estimate)
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- +2.2%
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- housing units
- 36,559
- housing units
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- 46.9%
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- of homes built before 1980
- 76.4%
- of homes built before 1980
- median home value
- $489,600
- median home value
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau 2025 population estimates, ACS 2020–2024 and 2023 County Business Patterns.
Trades in Cumberland County
A gallery for project work, a phone number for repairs
The two project trades need the fullest sites. Cumberland County counts 264 residential remodelers and 127 new home builders, and each sells a decision that can take weeks, so the site carries more than a phone number. A remodeler wants a gallery sorted by job. A builder’s page has room for plans, lots and the finish schedule a buyer can send to a spouse.
A repair trade reads the other way. The county has 152 electrical contractors. If the call starts with something broken, the number goes at the top, the service area under it, and the photographs wait until the customer has called once.
County Business Patterns
Trade and home service businesses in Cumberland County
Establishments by industry, 2023
- Residential remodelers264
- Landscaping services254
- Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors203
- Electrical contractors152
- New home builders127
- Excavation and site preparation contractors97
- Painting contractors83
- Roofing contractors21
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 County Business Patterns (NAICS establishment counts).
The build
How a Portland, Maine site gets made
Nothing goes live until you have seen the pages, tried the forms on a phone and said yes.
1
Set the site up in your name
Domain, hosting and the WordPress install go into accounts you control before the first page is designed.
2
Send the jobs you want more of
Finished-job photographs, the work you want more of and the towns you serve. We write the copy after one call and a look at what you send.
3
Start with the phone layout
The phone layout comes first, so the call button and the request form sit under the customer’s thumb.
4
Build it, test it, hand it over
Every form and phone link is checked by hand, tracking is connected, and the site goes live with a Loom walkthrough.
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
A website with search and ads behind it
Dixie Glass: a website that came with search and ads
Dixie Glass has served the Mississippi Gulf Coast since 1946, and the card’s numbers come from a new website, SEO and Google Ads; all three produced them. Daniel Busby of Willard Power Vac is quoted beside it.
Glass“Lithium Marketing has been amazing for our business. They have greatly increased our web traffic and helped us land hundreds of jobs. Before we started using Lithium we were sitting on page 8 in google. We are now sitting in the top spots in all the areas we do work.”
Daniel BusbyPresident, Willard Power VacAround Portland, Maine
Sites for the towns a Portland, Maine trade covers
Every city below has a web design page, and a town page on your own site is where that work ends up. Three are in Maine and the other three are in New Hampshire, and the All Maine cities link opens the full state list.
Published price
Website pricing for a Portland, Maine service business
$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
Before you replace a Portland, Maine website
Still curious?
Call (503) 766-5964 or email [email protected].
What does a website cost, and when does it cost more?
Typically $5,000 covers about 90% of the builds Lithium does. What pushes it up is size: a gallery per trade, a page per town, or dozens of finished jobs to photograph and write up. If yours is larger than the typical service business site, the proposal states a fixed price before anything starts.
Who owns the site and the domain?
You do, and it is set up that way from the start. The domain, the hosting account, the WordPress install and the content sit in your name, so nothing has to be migrated if you leave. You keep the walkthrough and the logins.
What happens to our search traffic during a rebuild?
The pages Google already trusts get redirected to their new addresses, and we check Search Console around launch for anything that breaks. No one can promise a ranking holds exactly where it was. A planned move with the old URLs mapped is the part Lithium controls.
Can we change the site ourselves after launch?
Yes, and it is plain WordPress: text, photographs and finished jobs all change without code. A private Loom video walks you through your own site. If you would rather hand that work off, the optional $99 a month plan covers it: hosting, daily backups, software and security updates, and basic changes.
How long does a build take?
Six to nine weeks from kickoff to launch for a typical service business site. The timeline depends on how fast the photographs, the service list and the approvals come back, and the proposal sets the dates before work starts.
Free action plan
Send three job photographs and see the pages they would fill
Share your current site, three photographs of finished work and the trades you want more of. A co-founder walks through the pages those photographs would fill and what the build would cost on a short video call.
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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2000 NE 42nd Ave Ste D Unit 2370, Portland, OR 97213
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