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
SEO in Knoxville, Tennessee
SEO for Knoxville service businesses, built to turn searches into phone calls.
Lithium’s Knoxville SEO starts with the Map Pack, builds the pages behind it, and reports every month in calls and booked jobs.
- A page for every service
- Map Pack and profile work
- Reports counted in calls
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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
Knoxville SEO, answered
Where Knoxville SEO should start
Knoxville service businesses get local SEO from Lithium Marketing, and the first month goes into the Google Business Profile because that is what a caller sees first. When we checked “plumber knoxville”, the Map Pack sat above the organic results. The categories, hours and photos on that profile are what a searcher checks before calling, so they get set before the service pages are written.
Knoxville runs from the river out past West Town Mall, and a business that looks strong near its own shop does not look the same across the city. Area pages for South Knoxville, West Knoxville, East Knoxville and North Knoxville give Google a page to match each search, and the service pages answer the job itself.
Search in Knoxville
What Knoxville searchers type before they call
Knoxville trade searches run deep: 2,900 a month for “plumber knoxville”, 1,300 for “pest control knoxville” and 1,000 for “roofing company knoxville”. A business that sells three kinds of work needs three pages, each one written for the customer searching that job in Knoxville.
For “plumber knoxville”, Facebook and HomeAdvisor held top-10 organic spots, so a customer may meet your business on a directory before your own site. Keep the name, phone number and service list identical in both places, so the listing sends the visitor to a site that matches it.
| Search | Searches a month | Cost per click |
|---|---|---|
| seo knoxville | 140 | not reported |
| seo agency knoxville | 10 | not reported |
| seo company knoxville | 10 | not reported |
| seo services knoxville | 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
- 1 recorded
- Local listing reviews
- 151 to 2,900 Google reviews each
- Directories in the top 10
- Facebook, HomeAdvisor
- AI Overview
- Not shown
- People also ask
- Not shown
Source: one Google results page for “plumber knoxville”, as Google showed it to a searcher located in Knoxville. Search ad counts exclude sponsored local listings. Results shift by searcher and day.
The Knoxville market
Older homes, steady growth and the pages they need
58.9% of Knoxville homes were built before 1980, and the median home dates from 1974. Repair, replacement and upgrade searches come from those houses, so a plumber, an electrician or a painter should have a page for each kind of job those homes need.
Knoxville added 6.0% to its population between 2020 and 2025. A bigger population means more searches across more parts of town, and area pages are how a business answers them by name.
- residents (2025 estimate)
- 202,021
- residents (2025 estimate)
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- +6%
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- housing units
- 96,441
- housing units
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- 46.6%
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- of homes built before 1980
- 58.9%
- of homes built before 1980
- median home value
- $239,700
- median home value
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau 2025 population estimates, ACS 2020–2024 and 2023 County Business Patterns.
Trades in Knox County
What Knox County’s trade counts mean for search
Electrical contractors number 107 in Knox County, and “electrician knoxville” draws 590 searches a month. An electrician with a page for panel work, a page for rewiring and one for service calls gives Google three answers where it had one.
Knox County’s deepest trade groups are bigger still, with 172 landscaping businesses and 156 residential remodelers. In a field that crowded, the page with finished-job photos, a clear service list and reviews that mention the work gives a searcher a reason to pick yours.
County Business Patterns
Trade and home service businesses in Knox County
Establishments by industry, 2023
- Landscaping services172
- Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors169
- Residential remodelers156
- Electrical contractors107
- New home builders107
- Excavation and site preparation contractors63
- Pest control companies44
- Painting contractors41
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 County Business Patterns (NAICS establishment counts).
The SEO plan
The order of SEO work in Knoxville
Fix what Google cannot read, then give it pages that answer the search.
1
Clear the technical blocks
Crawl errors, slow templates and broken internal links get fixed first, and technical changes usually show movement within 30 days.
2
Rebuild the profile
The Google Business Profile gets every service, the service area, fresh photos and a review request your crew can send after a job.
3
Pages for services and neighborhoods
A page for each service you sell and each part of Knoxville you cover, written for the customer searching that job in that neighborhood.
4
Listings and links
Citations stay consistent on the directories that show up for your searches, and new links point at the pages that already earn calls.
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
A restoration company’s website and SEO
Robinson Restoration brought Lithium in for a new website and SEO, and its numbers sit on the card below. Drake Snodgrass, who runs the Drake’s 7 Dees garden center, gives his own account of working with Lithium.
Restoration“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 DeesAround Knoxville
SEO for the cities around Knoxville
A Knoxville business that also sells in Chattanooga or Murfreesboro can check those cities’ SEO pages for their own search data. Richmond and Lexington in Kentucky are covered the same way, as are Sandy Springs and Athens in Georgia. The Tennessee page has the full list.
Published price
Knoxville SEO retainers, priced by scope
$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
Before you hire an SEO company in Knoxville
Still curious?
Call (503) 766-5964 or email [email protected].
What moves the monthly SEO price?
The number of services and neighborhoods you want covered, how far behind the site is and what a booked job is worth to your business. A plumber with one location and a steady repair trade has less to cover than a company selling five services across the county, so the single-location business sits lower in the range above.
How long until the calls pick up?
Technical fixes usually move within 30 days. Local and long-tail rankings typically take 60 to 90 days, and the report counts calls and leads from month one, so the call trend shows before the rankings catch up.
What does the contract look like?
The usual service agreement starts with six months, then runs month to month with 30 days’ notice. Six months is the window local rankings need to build, which is why the first term is longer.
Can you promise a Map Pack spot?
Map Pack placement is Google’s call, not ours, so we do not promise one. The work we control is the profile, the service pages, the listings and the review requests that give a business its best chance. The monthly report shows what changed.
What do you need from us to start?
Your service list, the neighborhoods and cities you cover, access to the Google Business Profile and the jobs you want more of. We write the pages from a call with you and the photos you send.
Free action plan
Ask for a Knoxville SEO plan with the first fixes named
Point us at your site and your Google Business Profile, plus the services that deserve more calls. On a short video call, a co-founder will pull both up and point to the pages and fixes to start with.
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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