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Web design for South Portland contractors
Web design for South Portland contractors that keeps the site in your name.
South Portland contractors get a website that shows their work in older houses, puts the estimate first on a phone and stays in the business's name.
- Job photos your crew took
- Pages you can edit after launch
- Logins stay with your team
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$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 website has to show
A South Portland website built for older housing
Lithium Marketing designs and builds WordPress websites for South Portland service businesses, and the housing stock sets the page list. 60.8% of South Portland's homes were built before 1980, so the first screen should show repair, replacement and remodel work on older houses.
South Portland's median home value is $441,200, and 58.1% of the occupied homes are owner-occupied, so the site should speak to the owner who is paying for the work, with photos from the job itself, a service page that matches the job and a phone number and estimate form that work on a phone.
Search in South Portland
What a phone search does to a contractor's site
Most of the visits that matter arrive on a phone, often from a search that names the trade and the city. The web design table lists the phrases that name South Portland for website searches, and the results page for “plumber south portland” showed Angi, BBB and Yelp in the top ten, so a customer may meet a directory before the company's own site.
The site has to carry the same name, phone number and services as those listings, plus the thing a directory cannot show: photos of the work itself, the service explained in plain words and a form that accepts a photo from a phone.
| Search | Searches a month | Cost per click |
|---|---|---|
| web design south portland | under 10 | not reported |
| web designer south portland | under 10 | not reported |
| website design south portland | 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
- 1 recorded
- Local listing reviews
- 36 to 1,100 Google reviews each
- Directories in the top 10
- Angi, Better Business Bureau, Yelp
- AI Overview
- Not shown
- People also ask
- Shown
Source: one Google results page for “plumber south portland”, as Google showed it to a searcher located in South Portland. Search ad counts exclude sponsored local listings. Results shift by searcher and day.
The South Portland market
A working waterfront and a mall in one small city
South Portland's economy includes a working waterfront and the Maine Mall, the largest shopping mall in the state. If you take commercial work, the property manager who hires you reads a different page than the homeowner does, so commercial and residential work should not share one gallery and one estimate form.
Only 8.0% of South Portland's housing was built in 2010 or later, and the median home dates to 1968. With that housing stock, project pages should show repair, replacement and remodel work more than new construction.
- residents (2025 estimate)
- 27,007
- residents (2025 estimate)
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- +1.9%
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- housing units
- 12,782
- housing units
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- 58.1%
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- of homes built before 1980
- 60.8%
- of homes built before 1980
- median home value
- $441,200
- median home value
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau 2025 population estimates, ACS 2020–2024 and 2023 County Business Patterns.
Trades in Cumberland County
Which trades need galleries and which need the phone
Cumberland County lists 264 residential remodelers and 83 painting contractors, two trades that sell work a homeowner has to picture: a finished basement, a repainted exterior, a repaired porch. Their sites need project pages with before-and-after photos and a scope that tells the visitor what the job includes.
A plumber or an electrician sells a different decision. The visitor wants to know whether the company handles the problem, whether it can come out and what the call will cost, so the phone number and the service list belong at the top of the page.
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 website build
From the first photo to launch day
You approve the pages and the design, and nothing goes live until every form and phone link has been tested.
1
Send the work you want to sell
Choose the jobs and the photos that show them, including the older-house work a South Portland customer is likely to need.
2
Agree the page list
Services, towns and finished projects each get a place, and the estimate form asks only what your team needs to respond.
3
Review the design on a phone
You see the mobile and desktop layouts with the call button, the photos and the form where a customer will look for them.
4
Launch, redirect and give you the logins
Old addresses point to their new pages, tracking goes on, and the site and domain sit in accounts your business controls.
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 from a plumbing company
A plumber's website with SEO and Google Ads behind it
Sarkinen Plumbing took on a new website from Lithium, with SEO and Google Ads beside it, so the card reflects all three. Chris Martin of Mt. Hood Pro Painting adds the painting company's own view of working with the team.
Plumbing“Ever since we've used Lithium Marketing, our phone has been ringing off the hook and we can hardly keep up with the leads we get from Google, Facebook or through our website. Most of our leads other than referrals are through Google and it's all because of Lithium Marketing.”
Chris MartinMt. Hood Pro PaintingAround South Portland
Websites for the next town over
A contractor working in Cape Elizabeth or Scarborough benefits from a page that names the town, and the same web design page is ready for the Maine cities below and for Rochester, Dover and Concord across the state line. The New Hampshire cities keep their state in the name, and the Maine directory lists every city page.
Published price
The build price for a South Portland site
$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 South Portland rebuild
Still curious?
Call (503) 766-5964 or email [email protected].
What pushes a South Portland website past the typical price?
Size, mostly. A typical build runs $5,000, and a larger site with more service pages, project galleries or integrations gets a fixed proposal after a discovery call. The number moves with the pages you need, not with the town your business sits in.
Who holds the site and the domain when the build ends?
Your business does. The domain, the hosting account, the WordPress install and the content sit in accounts you control, and you get a private walkthrough for editing the pages. If you ever move to another team, the site goes with you.
How long does the build take?
Six to nine weeks from kickoff to launch for a typical site. Photos, page approvals and the copy review set the pace, and the timeline is agreed before work starts. Larger builds get their own schedule in the proposal.
Can we handle small edits ourselves once the site is live?
The editing is yours. A paragraph, a photo and a new project can all change from the WordPress dashboard, and the private walkthrough shows where each one lives. If nobody on the team wants that job, the optional $99 a month plan covers hosting, daily backups, software and security updates and basic changes.
Will a new site keep the rankings the old one earned?
Redirects carry the old addresses, and Google decides where the new pages land. Every old page with traffic or links gets a matching new page, the sitemap is resubmitted and Search Console is checked around launch. No ranking is promised; the redirect map and the checks are how the old site's history stays connected.
Free action plan
Show us the work your site has to sell
Send the current site and a handful of photos from finished jobs, including older-house work. A co-founder will review them on a short video call and come back with a page list, a price and a launch date.
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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