PlumbingSarkinen Plumbing
2Xleads
on the same budget
- search visibility
- 3.75X
- search visibility
- ads conversion rate
- 27.37%
- ads conversion rate
Marketing in Wheeling
Wheeling businesses get a marketing agency that turns searches into calls.
Wheeling service businesses can hand the website, search, ads and phone to one team, with each service priced separately.
- A site built around your jobs
- Google Ads in your name
- A phone line that books appointments
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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
The plan
What a Wheeling marketing plan should cover
Lithium Marketing runs the website, the search work, Google Ads and the phone line for Wheeling service businesses. The metro area holds 134,089 people, so the towns across the river are part of the same market. A search that names your trade can end in a conversation with your team. Plumbers, HVAC companies, electricians, roofers, remodelers, landscapers and painters can use the same four pieces, in whatever order their own gaps call for.
Wheeling sits in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, directly across the river from Ohio and 11 miles west of Pennsylvania, so the towns a Wheeling business serves do not all share its state. Lithium is headquartered in Portland, with team members in Portland, Bend and Seattle, and we work with every client by video.
The four services
Four ways a Wheeling business gets found and called
Each card below opens the Wheeling page for that service, so you can see the work and the first step before you call.
Search work for Wheeling tradesService pages, a complete Google Business Profile and listings with the same name and number.Learn more A website built around your workFast pages, before-and-after photos and a quote request that works on a phone.Learn more Google Ads for the jobs you wantCampaigns built around the work your crews can take, with the account in your name.Learn more A phone line that answersAn AI receptionist that qualifies, books appointments and sends urgent calls to a person, plus custom automation scoped separately.Learn more
Search in Wheeling
What the Wheeling results page tells a trade owner
For the plumber search, the Map Pack came first when we checked, and no paid ads showed on that page. The three listings in the pack carried review counts of very different sizes, so a customer comparing plumbers can weigh more than a review total before your website gets a look.
That is one search on one day, and it sets the order of the work. A profile that matches the site and pages built around the jobs you want give Google more to match than one services page, and the ad budget is a separate decision from the profile work.
| Search | Searches a month | Cost per click |
|---|---|---|
| digital marketing agency wheeling | under 10 | not reported |
| digital marketing wheeling | under 10 | not reported |
| marketing agency wheeling | under 10 | not reported |
Source: Google Ads keyword data, average monthly U.S. searches. "Under 10" = below Google’s reporting floor.
| Search | Searches a month | Cost per click |
|---|---|---|
| garage door repair wheeling | 90 | $39.39 |
| pest control wheeling | 110 | $19.02 |
| plumber wheeling | 480 | $18.07 |
| electrician wheeling | 70 | $17.26 |
| landscaping wheeling | 110 | $2.98 |
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
- 18 to 373 Google reviews each
- Directories in the top 10
- Facebook, MapQuest, Thumbtack, Yelp
- AI Overview
- Not shown
- People also ask
- Shown
Source: one Google results page for “plumber wheeling”, as Google showed it to a searcher located in Wheeling. Search ad counts exclude sponsored local listings. Results shift by searcher and day.
The city’s housing
Old homes, steady repairs and a city that is not adding houses
Wheeling has 14,569 housing units, and 83.8% of its homes were built before 1980. That stock decides which pages matter: repair, replacement and retrofit work on houses that have been through several owners, not new construction.
Only 3.7% of Wheeling’s homes went up in 2010 or later, so the next customer is more likely to come from an existing house than a new one. 59.8% of occupied homes are owner-occupied, so a site that speaks only to owners leaves out the rental side of the market.
- residents (2025 estimate)
- 25,680
- residents (2025 estimate)
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- -4.9%
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- housing units
- 14,569
- housing units
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- 59.8%
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- of homes built before 1980
- 83.8%
- of homes built before 1980
- median home value
- $146,500
- median home value
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau 2025 population estimates, ACS 2020–2024 and 2023 County Business Patterns.
Trades in Ohio County
Thirteen remodelers, eight electricians and seven roofers
Ohio County has 13 residential remodelers, 8 electrical contractors and 7 roofing contractors. Landscaping brings 7 more, out of 1,320 establishments in the county.
Wheeling’s major industries include healthcare, education, legal services, entertainment and tourism, and energy, so a Wheeling trade can sell to institutions and businesses as well as homeowners. That is a second set of buyers for the same crew, and the pages should say so.
County Business Patterns
Trade and home service businesses in Ohio County
Establishments by industry, 2023
- Residential remodelers13
- Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors8
- Electrical contractors8
- Roofing contractors7
- Landscaping services7
- Painting contractors4
- Excavation and site preparation contractors4
- New home builders3
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 County Business Patterns (NAICS establishment counts).
The order of work
How the four services come together in Wheeling
The order changes by trade and by what your call history already shows.
1
Read the call log first
Your calls and forms show whether the gap is the site, the search work, the ads or the phone, before we recommend a fix.
2
Fix the one that leaks
If the site is slow or the profile is thin, that comes first, because the traffic you already pay for lands there.
3
Put the work you want on its own pages
Plumbing, roofing and remodeling get pages for the jobs you want more of, written for a Wheeling customer.
4
Answer what the other three earn
The receptionist takes the calls the site, search and ads produce, books appointments and transfers the urgent ones to a person.
Proof
A Portland-area plumber’s website, search and ads
Sarkinen Plumbing, a Portland-area plumber, hired Lithium to build a new website and run its SEO and Google Ads; the numbers on the card came from that whole engagement. Chris Martin of Mt. Hood Pro Painting adds a separate recommendation.
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 Wheeling
Marketing for the towns on both sides of the river
The out-of-state pills carry their state, because Wheeling sits where West Virginia meets Ohio and Pennsylvania. Pick the towns your crews reach; the West Virginia page collects every city Lithium covers.
Pricing
What a Wheeling business pays for each service
Lithium publishes a typical price for four of its five services, and AI automation is quoted after a free discovery call. Your proposal depends on scope, competition and ad spend.
Conversion web design
$5,000
typical project
Larger sites with more pages or integrations get a fixed proposal after a 30-minute discovery call. Six to nine weeks from kickoff to launch.
SEO
$1,300–$3,000
per month
Typical local SEO retainer, scoped against your revenue per lead.
Google Ads management
From $500
per month
Plus ad spend. Typical: $500–$1,500 a month in management, plus ad spend of $2,000–$5,000 a month.
AI receptionist
$179
per month
Fully managed. No contracts, cancel anytime. Live in days.
AI automation
Scoped
after discovery
Clear, upfront pricing after a free discovery call. Custom builds typically take 1–2 weeks.
Optional hosting and maintenance: $99/month. Secure private hosting on a dedicated high-speed server, daily backups, software and security updates, and basic website changes are all included. Most clients choose this option to keep their new website updated and running smoothly; it is not required.
Our usual service agreement starts with six months, then continues month to month with 30 days’ cancellation notice. Your written agreement sets the final terms. The AI receptionist has no contract.
- You own your domain, hosting account and website
- Six-month starting term
- We guarantee the work, not a ranking
FAQ
Before a Wheeling owner signs anything
Still curious?
Call (503) 766-5964 or email [email protected].
Where should a Wheeling owner start: the site, the ads or the phone?
Start where the gap costs you the most: a slow site, a thin profile, or calls that arrive when nobody can pick up. The site comes before more traffic, because search and ads both send people there. If the site works and the phone still needs cover, the receptionist is the first fix.
What if we only want Google Ads for now?
That is a common start. A Google Ads account can run on its own, and the call tracking on it still shows which ads produce calls, so adding the site or the receptionist later does not restart the measurement.
How does a Wheeling business work with a Portland team?
The work runs on video calls and email, with a co-founder on strategy and an account manager on the week-to-week questions. You see the published prices before work starts, and you meet a co-founder on a short video call first.
What stays ours if we stop working with Lithium?
Your business holds the Google Ads account, and we build the site in accounts you control. If you ever leave, the campaigns and the site stay put.
Which trades does Lithium work with around Wheeling?
Plumbers, HVAC companies, electricians, roofers, remodelers, landscapers, painters, restoration firms, garage door companies and pest control, among others. The work is built for a business whose customers search before they call.
Free action plan
Get a free plan for the calls you want more of
Bring your site, the trades you want more of and the towns you serve to a short video call. A co-founder will name the first service to fix and the pages to build first.
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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