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 in Schenectady, New York
Schenectady web design that lets older-house work do the selling.
Schenectady service businesses get a WordPress site built to show older-house work, with the call one tap away and the domain in their name.
- Photos from older-house jobs
- Call button within thumb reach
- You keep the domain and files
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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 build, explained
What a Schenectady website has to do first
Lithium Marketing builds the site a Schenectady service business sends customers to: WordPress, fast on a phone, and written around the work the company sells. Schenectady's median home dates to 1941, so the pages that matter most here are the ones that show work on houses that age.
Schenectady's housing is old: 85.4% of it was standing before 1980, and 6.0% went up in 2010 or later. That is the housing a local trade works in, so a page of company history earns less than a gallery of finished jobs and a phone number that works on the first tap.
Search in Schenectady
What a Schenectady customer does before the call
Searches naming Schenectady for web design run about 10 a month, which is not a stream a business can live on. That is the point: the website is where the referral, the directory listing and the ad all land, and it has to work for a customer who arrives from any of them.
When we checked “plumber schenectady,” the map took the top of the page and three directories held places in the top ten. That makes the website the place a customer checks before calling: the profile is short, and the site is where the photos and the full service list live.
| Search | Searches a month | Cost per click |
|---|---|---|
| web design schenectady | 10 | not reported |
| web designer schenectady | under 10 | not reported |
| website design schenectady | 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
- 72 to 388 Google reviews each
- Directories in the top 10
- Angi, MapQuest, Yelp
- AI Overview
- Not shown
- People also ask
- Shown
Source: one Google results page for “plumber schenectady”, as Google showed it to a searcher located in Schenectady. Search ad counts exclude sponsored local listings. Results shift by searcher and day.
The Schenectady market
Old houses, rented houses and two kinds of page
45.6% of Schenectady's occupied homes are owner-occupied, and the rest are rentals. A landlord with a burst pipe usually wants a straight answer on timing and cost, while the owner who lives there wants to see the work, so two pages and two sets of photos help both.
A site built for both has to carry two kinds of proof: finished jobs for the owner, and clear timing, pricing and service area for the landlord. One page that lists everything the company does serves neither well.
- residents (2025 estimate)
- 69,471
- residents (2025 estimate)
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- +3.6%
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- housing units
- 31,417
- housing units
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- 45.6%
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- of homes built before 1980
- 85.4%
- of homes built before 1980
- median home value
- $168,800
- median home value
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau 2025 population estimates, ACS 2020–2024 and 2023 County Business Patterns.
Trades in Schenectady County
Which trades need galleries and which need a quote form
Schenectady County has 66 residential remodelers and 16 new home builders. The buyer for that work is comparing finished rooms, so a gallery sorted by job type does more than an about page, and the quote form should ask about scope before it asks for a phone number.
Excavation and site preparation contractors number 19 in Schenectady County, and 12 painting contractors work the county. A builder or a property manager can refer that work, so the site needs a page a professional can forward, not only a homeowner landing page.
County Business Patterns
Trade and home service businesses in Schenectady County
Establishments by industry, 2023
- Residential remodelers66
- Landscaping services66
- Electrical contractors42
- Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors41
- Excavation and site preparation contractors19
- New home builders16
- Roofing contractors14
- Painting contractors12
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 County Business Patterns (NAICS establishment counts).
The build
The path from job photos to launch day
Nothing goes live until the forms, the phone links and the tracking are tested, and you approve each stage before it moves on.
1
Bring the photos
You send finished-job photos, the services you sell and the cities you cover, and we turn them into page copy after a call with you.
2
Approve the phone layout
Most visitors arrive on a phone, so the small screen is designed and reviewed before the desktop version is drawn.
3
Build and test every link
The WordPress build goes up, every form and phone link gets tested, and GA4 plus call tracking are connected before launch.
4
Go live and learn the controls
Old URLs are redirected, the site goes live, and a private Loom walkthrough shows you how to make your own 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
A garden center's website, SEO and Google Ads
Drake's 7 Dees is a garden center that came to Lithium for a website, then kept it fed with SEO and Google Ads, and the card's numbers come from all three. The quote comes from Dave Turin of Dozer Dave, who recommends co-founder DJ Van Zanten for website and internet marketing work.
Garden center“I highly recommend Dj Van Zanten if you need any help with your website and your internet marketing.”
Dave TurinDozer DaveAround Schenectady
Websites for the cities around Schenectady
Housing stock and search figures differ from one city to the next, so each web design page below carries its own: Albany, Troy, Bennington, Rutland, Utica and Poughkeepsie. For the rest of the state, start at the New York page.
Published price
What a Schenectady business pays for a website
$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 Schenectady website
Still curious?
Call (503) 766-5964 or email [email protected].
What pushes a Schenectady website past the typical price?
The site's size decides it. A company with a deep project archive or a long list of cities to cover needs more pages and more copy than a standard service business site, and the fixed price for that comes before work starts.
Does the site belong to us at the end?
It does. The domain, the hosting, the WordPress install and every photo sit in accounts you control, and the site leaves with you if you ever change agencies.
Will a new site keep the rankings the old one earned?
Every old URL with traffic or links gets a redirect to its new page, and Search Console is checked around the switch. A rebuild can move positions, so the move is planned page by page and nothing is flipped in one go.
Can our staff edit pages after launch?
Nothing is locked behind a developer. Text, photos and finished jobs can all be changed in WordPress, and a private Loom walkthrough shows your team how. If nobody wants that job, the optional $99/month plan covers hosting, daily backups, software and security updates and basic website changes.
How long does a build take?
Six to nine weeks from kickoff to launch, with content and reviews moving the date. You approve the design and the pages, and we schedule the launch once every form and phone link passes.
Free action plan
Get a free website plan for a Schenectady business
Send a link to the site you have now and a few photos of finished work. A co-founder will go through the pages a new build needs, the cost and the timeline 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
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