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 Santa Maria, California
A website for Santa Maria contractors that turns visits into calls.
Santa Maria contractors get a fast WordPress site they own, with real job photos and a call button one tap away on a phone.
- Finished jobs where buyers look
- Tap to call on every screen
- The site and domain stay yours
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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
What the site has to do
What a Santa Maria website has to prove
46.7% of Santa Maria's homes were built before 1980, so a large share of the housing your customers live in is older. Lithium Marketing designs and builds WordPress websites for Santa Maria service businesses, and the project photos should be of houses like those, not of new builds.
The median home value here is $531,700, so a buyer is careful about who gets the work. Finished jobs from houses like theirs, reviews a thumb can reach and a page for each service carry more weight than a quote form at the top.
Searches that reach a site
The searches your site has to answer
About 40 searches a month name Santa Maria and web design, and those are the ones closest to hiring a designer. The bigger traffic comes from trade searches that land on your site after SEO or ads. A visitor who arrives that way should see a phone number and proof without scrolling.
Google's results for “plumber santa maria” put Facebook, HomeAdvisor and Yelp in the top 10, so the first look at a business can happen somewhere the owner does not control. Your own site is where the job photos, the full service list and the phone number have room to work.
| Search | Searches a month | Cost per click |
|---|---|---|
| web design santa maria | 20 | not reported |
| website design santa maria | 20 | not reported |
| web designer santa maria | 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
- None recorded
- Local listing reviews
- 224 to 297 Google reviews each
- Directories in the top 10
- Facebook, HomeAdvisor, Yelp
- AI Overview
- Not shown
- People also ask
- Not shown
Source: one Google results page for “plumber santa maria”, as Google showed it to a searcher located in Santa Maria. Search ad counts exclude sponsored local listings. Results shift by searcher and day.
The housing your pages show
The housing stock your pages should show
Only 10.3% of Santa Maria's homes went up in 2010 or later, so most of the city's housing is older stock. A gallery of recent work on houses that age says more to a Santa Maria customer than a photo of a new build.
50.2% of the city's occupied homes are owner-occupied, which leaves a large rental share in Santa Maria. A remodeler or a painter can sell to an owner choosing finishes and to a landlord or manager choosing access and timing, and a page for each keeps those estimate conversations apart.
- residents (2025 estimate)
- 111,390
- residents (2025 estimate)
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- +1.5%
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- housing units
- 30,482
- housing units
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- 50.2%
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- of homes built before 1980
- 46.7%
- of homes built before 1980
- median home value
- $531,700
- median home value
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau 2025 population estimates, ACS 2020–2024 and 2023 County Business Patterns.
Remodelers, painters and photos
Remodelers and painters need different pages
In Santa Barbara County, 228 residential remodelers and 112 painting contractors are two of the larger trade groups. A remodeler sells a project, so the site needs full galleries and a page per project type; a painter sells a room, so the page should show surfaces, preparation and a finished wall.
Santa Maria covers 22.81 square miles, so a single page cannot speak to every neighborhood in it. Name the parts of town you work in on your project pages, and the site reads like it belongs to the city.
County Business Patterns
Trade and home service businesses in Santa Barbara County
Establishments by industry, 2023
- Landscaping services261
- Residential remodelers228
- Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors185
- Electrical contractors142
- Painting contractors112
- New home builders109
- Roofing contractors51
- Excavation and site preparation contractors46
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 County Business Patterns (NAICS establishment counts).
Stage by stage
What the build looks like, stage by stage
Nothing goes live until every form, phone link and tracking tag has been tested on a real phone.
1
Map the pages first
We list the services and the places that deserve a page, and you approve the shape of the site before any design work starts.
2
See it on a phone
You review the design on a phone and on a desktop, with the call button, the form and job photos placed where a buyer's eye lands.
3
Build, test, connect
The build runs on WordPress, and forms, phone links, GA4 and call tracking get tested before launch.
4
Launch, then teach you the controls
Old addresses point at their new pages, and a private Loom recording shows you how to edit the site yourself.
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
One build, three services
A Gulf Coast glass company's site, search and ads
Dixie Glass has served the Mississippi Gulf Coast since 1946, and Lithium built it a new website, ran its SEO and managed its Google Ads, so the card reflects the three together. Marc Rickabaugh of Rickabaugh Construction adds his own account of a website update and SEO work.
Glass“We used the team at Lithium Marketing to update our website and increase our SEO. We couldn't have been happier with the results! We receive compliments about our updated website on a regular basis!”
Marc RickabaughRickabaugh ConstructionNearby city pages
Websites for the cities your crews also serve
A business in Thousand Oaks or Simi Valley gets the same service, and those pages carry their own housing and search figures. Every California city sits on the state page.
Published price
The price of a website for a Santa Maria 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
Questions to settle before a Santa Maria rebuild
Still curious?
Call (503) 766-5964 or email [email protected].
What pushes a Santa Maria build past the typical price?
Page count, mostly. A company selling several services across several towns needs more pages and more copy than a single-town, three-service business. The typical build is $5,000, and a bigger one gets a fixed price in writing before any work starts.
Do I keep the site if we stop working together?
The site is yours. Your name is on the domain, the hosting and the WordPress install, and the pages and photos belong to you, so nothing has to be rebuilt if the working relationship ends. Lithium builds a site you keep, not one you rent.
What happens to the pages Google already ranks?
Old URLs with traffic or links are redirected to their new pages, and Search Console gets a careful look around launch. Rankings can move after any rebuild, so the redirect map is the main protection for the pages that already earn traffic.
How do we add a new job photo next month?
It runs on WordPress, so adding a photo or changing a line of text takes no code. A Loom recording walks you through your own site, and the optional $99 a month plan adds hosting, daily backups, software and security updates and basic changes for when you would rather not touch it.
What do you need from us before design starts?
Three things: photos of finished jobs, the full list of services and the towns you work in. The words are ours to write. You approve the designs and every page before launch, so nothing reaches a customer without your say.
Free action plan
Ask for a free plan for your Santa Maria website
Show us the site as it stands and a few photos of work you are proud of. On a short video call, a co-founder walks the page list with you and puts a price and a date on the build.
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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