FenceF&W Fence Co.
4Xmore ranking keywords
190 to 745 keywords
- top-3 rankings (3 to 28)
- 9X
- top-3 rankings (3 to 28)
- core search conversion rate
- 27.78%
- core search conversion rate
SEO in Montgomery, Alabama
SEO for Montgomery service businesses that turns searches into phone calls.
Montgomery service businesses get a page for each service and city, a Google Business Profile that lists them, and a monthly report counted in calls.
- A page for every service you sell
- Google profile and listings in sync
- 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
The map comes first
Why Montgomery searches start at the map
For “plumber montgomery al”, the Map Pack came first on the results page when we checked, above every regular listing. Lithium Marketing builds the Google Business Profile, the service pages and the listings that give a Montgomery service business a reason to be in that map and in the results under it.
Montgomery runs 159.854 square miles of land, so one shop address cannot serve every customer across town. Google weighs distance when it assembles the map, and area pages are how a business reaches the customers the map will not show.
Search in Montgomery
What the searches in Montgomery point to
Searches for SEO services that name Montgomery are small: about 30 a month across the phrases in the table below. The work still has to aim at your customers' searches, where “plumber montgomery al” draws 1,300 searches a month and “roofing company montgomery al” draws 390.
The three listings Google showed for “plumber montgomery al” carried 3,100, 845 and 104 Google reviews, and HomeAdvisor and Yelp held two of the top ten results. A buyer comparing those three can see the review counts at a glance, so the profile, the review requests and the listings get as much work as the page copy.
| Search | Searches a month | Cost per click |
|---|---|---|
| seo company montgomery al | 10 | not reported |
| seo services montgomery al | 10 | not reported |
| seo montgomery al | 10 | not reported |
| seo agency montgomery al | 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
- 104 to 3,100 Google reviews each
- Directories in the top 10
- HomeAdvisor, Yelp
- AI Overview
- Not shown
- People also ask
- Shown
Source: one Google results page for “plumber montgomery al”, as Google showed it to a searcher located in Montgomery. Search ad counts exclude sponsored local listings. Results shift by searcher and day.
The Montgomery market
Owners, older homes and pages that answer
Owners occupy 54.4% of Montgomery's occupied homes, and the median home is worth $161,900. A repair page has to answer the cost and timing questions a homeowner asks before the quote form, because the form is the last step, not the first.
Montgomery has 94,580 housing units, and 54.9% of them were built before 1980. Older homes break in specific ways, so a plumbing, electrical or roofing company needs a page for each repair it handles, not one page that lists everything.
- residents (2025 estimate)
- 195,300
- residents (2025 estimate)
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- -2.6%
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- housing units
- 94,580
- housing units
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- 54.4%
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- of homes built before 1980
- 54.9%
- of homes built before 1980
- median home value
- $161,900
- median home value
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau 2025 population estimates, ACS 2020–2024 and 2023 County Business Patterns.
Trades in Montgomery County
Which county trades need the most pages
The trade counts say where the pages should go. With 44 electrical contractors in Montgomery County, an electrician needs a page for panel work, one for fixtures and one for fault calls, because each search names a different job.
Landscaping is Montgomery County's third-largest group at 38 companies, and the work splits the same way: maintenance, installs and seasonal cleanups. One gallery page cannot answer all three searches, so each service gets its own page and its own project photos.
County Business Patterns
Trade and home service businesses in Montgomery County
Establishments by industry, 2023
- Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors53
- Electrical contractors44
- Landscaping services38
- New home builders27
- Residential remodelers18
- Excavation and site preparation contractors15
- Pest control companies12
- Roofing contractors11
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 County Business Patterns (NAICS establishment counts).
The retainer
What the monthly retainer pays for
Month one is the technical cleanup; the profile and pages follow, and links come last because they work on pages that already convert.
1
Clear the technical blockers
Crawl errors, broken links and slow templates get fixed first. That work usually settles inside the first month.
2
Rebuild the profile around the services
Categories, service descriptions, photos and the service area get filled in, and there is a simple ask for a review after each finished job.
3
Build a page for each service and city
Each page answers the questions your team hears by phone, so a search for panel work, fixtures or a fault call lands on its own page.
4
Earn links to the pages that convert
Directories get the same name, phone and services as the site, then links point at the service pages that already bring 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 fence company's website, SEO and Google Ads
F&W Fence Co. runs a fence business, and the numbers on the card come from the website, SEO and Google Ads Lithium built for it. Matt Johnson, from his time running On-Target Landscape, offers his own view of working with Lithium.
Fence“Lithium Marketing is awesome to work with and the results you’ll get are outstanding. Once I started working with them I saw increase in my online presence and my sales increased too. I would highly recommend them to anyone looking for help with marketing!”
Matt JohnsonOn-Target LandscapeAround Montgomery
The next city on your service map
A page for a nearby city only pays off when that city's searches justify it. Columbus, Georgia, Birmingham, Tuscaloosa and Atlanta, Georgia have their own SEO pages below with their own figures, and the state page lists every Alabama city we work in.
Published price
Montgomery SEO retainers and what moves the price
$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
What to ask before you sign an SEO retainer
Still curious?
Call (503) 766-5964 or email [email protected].
What does SEO cost for a Montgomery business?
The retainer runs $1,300–$3,000 a month. The number moves with how many services and cities you sell, how far behind your site and profile are, and what one booked job pays you.
How long does SEO take to move a Montgomery site?
Technical fixes usually show within 30 days. Local and long-tail rankings typically take 60 to 90 days, and revenue tends to build from month four. The report counts calls from the first month, so the trend shows before the rankings do.
What am I committing to?
Six months first, then month to month with 30 days' notice. The first term gives local rankings time to build; after that you can stop with a month's notice.
Can you promise a spot in the Map Pack?
The map is Google's call. Lithium can complete the profile, build a page for every service, match the listings and request reviews, but the order is not ours to set. The monthly report shows which positions moved and which calls arrived.
Is AI search part of the retainer?
The retainer includes it; there is no separate AI product. We put short direct answers at the top of each page, keep the business details identical everywhere, and add schema that labels the services and the service area. An AI mention is still not something anyone can promise, so the monthly report stays on calls and leads.
Free action plan
Find the pages your best jobs need
Send the site and the two or three jobs you want more of. A co-founder will look at what Google shows today on a short video call, then map the pages and listings that stand between you and those jobs.
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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