SepticByers Septic Service
9Xorganic traffic
91 to 799 visits a month
- more ranking keywords (36 to 395)
- 11X
- more ranking keywords (36 to 395)
- conversion rate
- 23.1%
- conversion rate
Web design for Downey, California
A Downey website that shows the work and keeps the call one tap away.
Downey service businesses get a WordPress site they own, with project photos, a phone-first layout and a quote form the estimator can use.
- Project photos, not stock
- A call button above the fold
- Site, domain and content yours
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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
Downey web design, in plain terms
A Downey website has to speak to older houses
82.9% of Downey’s homes went up before 1980, which puts repair, replacement and remodel work at the front of what a contractor here sells. Lithium Marketing designs and builds WordPress websites for Downey service businesses around exactly that: the jobs that keep an older house running, on a page a customer can read on a phone.
Almost nothing here is new. Only 2.0% of the housing went up in 2010 or later, and the median home dates to 1959, so a gallery full of new construction says little to the customer standing in an older house. The build puts your own jobs first, each one captioned with the work it took.
What a visitor does on a phone
The first screen decides whether they call
“Web design downey” draws about 10 searches a month, and the trade searches that feed a contractor’s site run far higher. A customer on a phone needs two answers fast: can this company do my job, and how do I reach them?
The directories are already in the results. When we checked the page for “plumber downey”, Facebook, Thumbtack and Yelp all ranked in the top 10 below the Map Pack, so a customer may meet your business on a profile you do not control before seeing your site. The site has to be better than the profile: your photos, the full service list and a quote form that takes a minute.
| Search | Searches a month | Cost per click |
|---|---|---|
| web design downey | 10 | not reported |
| web designer downey | under 10 | not reported |
| website design downey | 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
- 13 to 571 Google reviews each
- Directories in the top 10
- Facebook, Thumbtack, Yelp
- AI Overview
- Not shown
- People also ask
- Shown
Source: one Google results page for “plumber downey”, as Google showed it to a searcher located in Downey. Search ad counts exclude sponsored local listings. Results shift by searcher and day.
Housing and what it changes
Why the photos matter more than the wording
Downey’s 34,876 occupied homes hold a median value of $796,600. A purchase that size makes trust part of the page: photos of your own jobs, reviews with names on them and a named owner do more than a tagline.
The county is a different market. Los Angeles County’s median home value is $834,200 and its median year is 1965, so a portfolio that mixes county projects should say which city each one came from.
- residents (2025 estimate)
- 108,468
- residents (2025 estimate)
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- -5.1%
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- housing units
- 35,919
- housing units
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- 51.1%
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- of homes built before 1980
- 82.9%
- of homes built before 1980
- median home value
- $796,600
- median home value
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau 2025 population estimates, ACS 2020–2024 and 2023 County Business Patterns.
Trades that need galleries
Project pages for the trades that build and finish
Los Angeles County has 3,775 residential remodelers and 1,747 new home builders, and both sell projects that need more than a paragraph. A remodeler’s site needs a page per project type with photos of the finished rooms, and a builder’s needs a short list of what it builds and where.
Paint and carpet sell differently. Painting contractors number 839 in the county, and finished rooms are the proof, so the gallery carries the weight; the county’s 130 carpet and upholstery cleaners sell on a phone call and a straight answer about timing.
County Business Patterns
Trade and home service businesses in Los Angeles County
Establishments by industry, 2023
- Residential remodelers3,775
- Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors2,765
- Electrical contractors2,286
- New home builders1,747
- Landscaping services1,300
- Painting contractors839
- Roofing contractors487
- Pest control companies435
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 County Business Patterns (NAICS establishment counts).
How the build runs
A Downey website, from photos to launch
Every stage gets your sign-off, and nothing goes live until the forms and phone links have been tried on a real phone.
1
Work out what the site has to sell
We go through the jobs you want more of and the photos you already have, then agree which services earn their own pages.
2
Draw it on the smallest screen first
The layout starts with the phone: the call button, the photos and the estimate form sit where a thumb reaches, and the desktop version follows.
3
Build it, then try to break it
The build goes onto WordPress, and every form, phone link and page gets tested before a customer sees it.
4
Move the old pages across
Old addresses are redirected to their new pages, tracking goes live, and a short video shows you how to change the text 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
A septic case
Byers Septic Service, and the website, SEO and ads that came with it
Kevin Atiyeh of Atiyeh Bros, a carpet and rug business, gives his own account of working with Lithium beside the Byers Septic Service case. Byers is a septic company, and its card reports what a website, SEO and Google Ads produced together.
Septic“Lithium Marketing has done a good job with understanding our Company and what we specialize in and applying that to our digital marketing.”
Kevin AtiyehAtiyeh Bros CarpetAround Downey
Websites for the cities on the same streets
Your site can carry a page for every city you serve, which is how a two-city contractor stops reading like a one-city one. The web design pages below cover the cities around Downey, and California covers the rest of the state.
Published price
The price of a website for a Downey 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.
What pushes a build past the typical price?
Page count drives it, and photos come second. A builder with a deep project archive needs each gallery written and captioned, while a one-van plumber needs a handful of pages. The fixed proposal prices the build you need, and you see the number before work starts.
Will we own the site at the end of it?
You will. Domain, hosting, the WordPress install and the content are all in your name, so another agency could take over without rebuilding anything.
What happens to the pages that already rank?
Old addresses with links or traffic get redirected to their new pages, and Search Console is checked before and after the switch. Any rebuild moves positions around; what limits the damage is keeping each trusted page pointed at the same content it had before.
Can my team edit the site after launch?
Your team gets the editor, not a developer’s job: text, photos and finished jobs all change from the dashboard. A short walkthrough video after launch shows where each of those lives. The optional $99 a month plan covers hosting, daily backups, software and security updates and basic website changes.
What should I have ready before the first call?
A handful of finished-job photos, the services you want more of and a rough list of the cities you cover. The copy and the page plan come from those plus one conversation, and you sign off on both before a build starts.
Free action plan
Get a Downey website plan built from your job photos
Send a link to the site you have now, plus a few photos of completed work. A co-founder will review both with you on a short video call and tell you what a new build would take.
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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