RestorationRobinson Restoration
26Xorganic traffic
79 to 2,200+ visits a month, SEO only
- organic visits a month
- 79 → 2,200+
- organic visits a month
- top-3 rankings
- 120
- top-3 rankings
Website design in Washington, D.C.
A website design company that helps Washington, DC contractors land more jobs.
You own the finished site and domain, and Washington, DC customers see your real jobs and can call you with one tap from any phone.
- Photos of rowhouse and condo jobs
- Tap-to-call at the top of each screen
- Site and domain in your name
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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
Why the site matters
A Washington, D.C. website built around the houses you work on
Lithium Marketing builds websites that show Washington, D.C. customers the kind of work your crew can do. The median Washington home was built in 1958, and rowhouses following Federal and late Victorian designs are prominent in the neighborhoods developed after the Civil War. If you work on these homes, we use your project photos and captions to explain the repairs or improvements you made.
Newer buildings are part of the city too. Of Washington’s homes, 16.5% were built in 2010 or later, and the Wharf on the Southwest Waterfront has seen several high-rise residential buildings go up along the Potomac. If you work in condos and apartments, give that work its own gallery and page, with answers on building access and management approval, so those owners see you know how their buildings run.
Searches that land on your site
What happens after a District customer clicks
Searches naming the city send visitors to whichever sites Google shows: about 1,000 a month for “landscaping washington dc” and about 210 for “roofing company washington dc”. A visitor from one of those searches can land on any service page, not only the home page, so each one needs its own phone button, photos and quote form.
Load time matters to every one of those visitors. Every Lithium site is built to target a main-content load under 2.5 seconds on a phone, with a tap-to-call button that stays on screen and a quote form short enough to finish with one thumb.
| Search | Searches a month | Cost per click |
|---|---|---|
| website design washington dc | 480 | $7.38 |
| web design washington dc | 170 | $3.47 |
| web designer washington dc | 70 | $11.81 |
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
- 5 recorded
- Local listing reviews
- 34 to 360 Google reviews each
- Directories in the top 10
- Reddit, Thumbtack, Yelp
- AI Overview
- Not shown
- People also ask
- Shown
Source: one Google results page for “plumber washington dc”, as Google showed it to a searcher located in Washington. Search ad counts exclude sponsored local listings. Results shift by searcher and day.
Houses and values
High home values and river flooding, and what they mean for your site
In a city where the median Washington house is worth $737,100, your site should explain how you handle work on the property. If a homeowner is comparing contractors for a major project, put your license and insurance details near the quote form, with the warranty terms you offer and photos of similar completed jobs.
Flooding of the Potomac River has been known to cause extensive property damage in the Georgetown neighborhood. If you do water cleanup, waterproofing or foundation repair, a flood damage page that names Georgetown and shows jobs you have done near the river gives those owners something specific to find.
- residents (2025 estimate)
- 693,645
- residents (2025 estimate)
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- +0.6%
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- housing units
- 361,014
- housing units
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- 41.5%
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- of homes built before 1980
- 69%
- of homes built before 1980
- median home value
- $737,100
- median home value
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau 2025 population estimates, ACS 2020–2024 and 2023 County Business Patterns.
Trades on the chart
Three trades, three home pages
Landscaping services and electrical contractors are tied at 22 each in the District of Columbia, and their websites should look nothing alike. A landscaper’s home page leads with project photos and a request-a-visit form; an electrician’s leads with the phone number, the license number and a list of jobs from panel upgrades to EV chargers.
Painting contractors are a smaller group, with 12 in the District of Columbia. For a painter, the gallery does the selling: sort it into interiors, exteriors and rowhouse facades, with the neighborhood under each photo.
County Business Patterns
Trade and home service businesses in District of Columbia
Establishments by industry, 2023
- Residential remodelers138
- Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors37
- New home builders24
- Electrical contractors22
- Landscaping services22
- Excavation and site preparation contractors14
- Painting contractors12
- Roofing contractors6
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 County Business Patterns (NAICS establishment counts).
Kickoff to launch
From kickoff to a live District website
Review the design and page list before the build, then test the finished site before launch.
1
Sort your best jobs
We go through your job photos with you, pick the ones that show older-house and condo work, and write each service page from a kickoff call, so you never write copy.
2
Lay out the phone screen first
We make the phone button easy to reach and keep the page readable on a small screen. The quote form and project photos follow in the order a customer needs them.
3
Connect tracking and schema
We add GA4, call tracking and schema during the build, then test forms and phone links before launch. Reports show calls and leads by source so you can judge the site’s performance.
4
Redirect old pages and go live
Old URLs point to their new pages, the site launches, and a private Loom video walks you through editing it 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
Results
A restoration company’s new website and SEO
For Robinson Restoration, Lithium rebuilt the website and provided SEO; the restoration company’s case study tracks its organic search growth. The accompanying testimonial belongs to Willard Power Vac president Daniel Busby, whose company cleans air ducts, dryer vents and chimneys. Read his description of the work in his own words.
Restoration“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 VacBeyond the District
Area pages for Virginia and Maryland jobs
Choose a nearby web design guide to plan the project examples your suburban customers should see. Start with Arlington, VA, or Silver Spring, MD, if you have work to show there; the remaining city links and District overview help you plan the rest of your site.
Published price
The cost of a website for a D.C. 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
Website questions from District owners
Still curious?
Call (503) 766-5964 or email [email protected].
What pushes a website past the typical $5,000?
Page count. A typical service business site comes in at $5,000; a much bigger build, with separate pages for each quadrant, each suburb and each kind of remodel, gets its own fixed quote before any work starts.
Do I own the website and domain?
You keep the domain, hosting account, WordPress installation and site content. They belong to your business, so a future agency can work with what you already own. We also provide a walkthrough so your team knows how to manage the site.
How long does a new website take?
Most builds take six to nine weeks from kickoff to launch. The page list and review process shape the schedule. Have your project photos and service details ready so we can agree on the work and explain what you will review along the way.
Can we edit the site ourselves after launch?
Yes. It runs on WordPress, so adding a finished job, swapping a photo or changing your hours needs no developer. Optional hosting and maintenance, $99 a month, covers software updates, daily backups and basic edits if you’d rather hand those off.
What should I gather before the kickoff call?
Start a folder of job photos, phone snapshots are fine, and add your license number, insurance details and the warranty terms you offer. Those go beside the quote form, and we handle the writing from there.
Free action plan
Get a page-by-page plan for your new D.C. website
Send the link to your current site and five or six job photos you’re proud of. On a short video call, a co-founder will sketch the page list with you and discuss the budget and expected build schedule.
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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