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
SEO for Huntington Beach service businesses
SEO for Huntington Beach service businesses that turns searches into phone calls.
Huntington Beach SEO pairs a complete Google Business Profile with service pages built to win the calls a map listing misses.
- A page for every service you sell
- Google Business Profile work
- Reports counted in calls and leads
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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
Local SEO, answered
How SEO turns Huntington Beach searches into calls
The map listing and the reviews behind it decide who gets the call when a Huntington Beach customer searches a trade, and Lithium Marketing builds that visibility for service businesses in the city. When we checked the search for “plumber huntington beach”, the map listings carried 391, 113 and 114 Google reviews, and any profile that trails those numbers has to earn the click on its pages.
“roofing company huntington beach” draws 390 searches a month, and the page that wins those is the one that names the material and shows the finished roof. One page per service, built around the question a customer types, gives each trade its own reason to be found.
Search demand
The searches worth a page of their own
“seo huntington beach” draws 40 searches a month and “seo company huntington beach” draws 10, which is small next to the trade searches the plan serves. The work follows the trades, not the agency phrase.
The map came first on the results page for “plumber huntington beach” when we checked, and Angi, Facebook and Yelp sat in the top ten beneath it. A business can rank and still lose the click to a directory, so the page has to answer the question the listing cannot.
| Search | Searches a month | Cost per click |
|---|---|---|
| seo huntington beach | 40 | not reported |
| seo company huntington beach | 10 | not reported |
| seo agency huntington beach | under 10 | not reported |
| seo services huntington beach | 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
- 113 to 391 Google reviews each
- Directories in the top 10
- Angi, Facebook, Yelp
- AI Overview
- Not shown
- People also ask
- Shown
Source: one Google results page for “plumber huntington beach”, as Google showed it to a searcher located in Huntington Beach. Search ad counts exclude sponsored local listings. Results shift by searcher and day.
The housing behind the searches
Older houses make repair pages the priority
69.2% of Huntington Beach homes were built before 1980, so the pages that matter here are repairs and upgrades, not new construction. A repipe or a panel upgrade page should carry photos from a job on a house that age.
In Orange County, 56.8% of housing was built before 1980, so the same repair pages apply when you serve the next city over. The searches do not travel: a customer who types Costa Mesa is not looking at a Huntington Beach page, so each city you cover needs its own.
- residents (2025 estimate)
- 191,451
- residents (2025 estimate)
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- -3.7%
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- housing units
- 82,624
- housing units
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- 55.4%
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- of homes built before 1980
- 69.2%
- of homes built before 1980
- median home value
- $1,100,000
- median home value
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau 2025 population estimates, ACS 2020–2024 and 2023 County Business Patterns.
The competitive bench
Who you compete with in Orange County, trade by trade
Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors alone number 1,028 in Orange County, with another 252 roofing contractors. A customer sorting through that many names picks the one whose photos and reviews match the job in front of them, so each service page should look like the work it sells.
A roofer with a page for each material, or a plumber with a page for each repair, gives a customer a reason to pick that page over a general service list. The specific page earns the click the general one loses.
County Business Patterns
Trade and home service businesses in Orange County
Establishments by industry, 2023
- Residential remodelers1,349
- Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors1,028
- Electrical contractors943
- Landscaping services738
- New home builders663
- Painting contractors450
- Roofing contractors252
- Excavation and site preparation contractors193
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 County Business Patterns (NAICS establishment counts).
The retainer
How the SEO retainer runs here
The site gets fixed first, then the pages and the profile, then the links that support them.
1
Check the site the way a crawler does
Broken links, slow templates and pages Google cannot index get fixed first. Technical fixes usually move within 30 days, before the content work has time to land.
2
Write the page for the search
Each service you want more of gets a page built around the question a customer types, with photos and a phone number that stays in reach.
3
Tie the profile to the pages
The Google Business Profile gets the right categories, service areas and photos, and each finished customer gets a simple way to leave a review.
4
Make the listings agree
The same name, phone and service list goes on the directories that matter, and a few links from local sources point at the pages you want found.
What every SEO retainer includes
The same eight parts go into every SEO retainer, wherever the business is.
- Technical SEO foundation
- Keywords tied to revenue per lead
- On-page SEO on every page
- Content that answers buyers
- Google Business Profile and citations
- Multi-tiered semantic link building
- Schema and AI search readiness
- Tracking and monthly reporting
Proof from a garden center
Drake's 7 Dees: a website, SEO and Google Ads on one case card
Drake's 7 Dees runs a garden center, and the website, SEO and Google Ads it bought from Lithium are the work behind the card below. Drake Snodgrass of Drake's 7 Dees describes the change in his own words beside it.
Garden center“Lithium has moved us to page 1 in Google search organically. Prior to working with them we spent a huge part of our marketing budget on paid search. Website redesign was a great experience.”
Drake SnodgrassDrake’s 7 DeesNearby markets
SEO pages for the cities around Huntington Beach
A service area that reaches into Costa Mesa, Garden Grove or Irvine can check each city's own search figures before adding a page. The county page zooms out, and the state page lists every California city.
Published price
Monthly SEO pricing for a Huntington Beach business
$1,300–$3,000
per month
Typical local SEO retainer, scoped against what a lead is worth to you, with AI search optimization included.
FAQ
SEO questions from Huntington Beach owners
Still curious?
Call (503) 766-5964 or email [email protected].
What moves the monthly SEO number up or down?
The range above covers most local retainers. Where you land inside it depends on how many services need their own pages and how much profile work the listing needs. The bottom of the range fits one service with a complete profile; the top fits several services and a thin site.
How soon does the SEO work start showing up?
Technical fixes usually move within 30 days. Local and long-tail rankings typically take 60 to 90 days, and revenue compounds from month four. Calls and leads are counted in the monthly report, so the early weeks give you a baseline while the rankings catch up.
How do you handle the map listing?
Google picks the order, so nobody can promise you a place. Lithium's job is the groundwork: accurate hours, the right categories, photos from recent jobs and pages that answer the questions customers ask. The report shows what those changes did to calls.
Do we keep the pages and the profile if we leave?
The site, its content and the profile are set up in your name, so they stay with you if the retainer stops. The pages remain on your domain, and the reviews stay on your listing.
What do you need from us each month?
Access to the site and the profile, plus a look at the calls that came in. You tell us which ones booked and which were wrong for the work, and that steers the pages that get attention next.
Free action plan
Ask for a free SEO plan for your Huntington Beach site
Bring the site and the two or three services you want to grow. On a short video call, a co-founder will point at the pages your search results are missing and what the first month covers.
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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