Barron County, Wisconsin
Contractor Website Design in Rice Lake, WI
Rice Lake is the biggest city in Barron County, 9,040 people at the 2020 census, on the lake the Ojibwe harvested wild rice from, where US 53 meets Highway 48 in the north half of the county. It's the shopping, medical and school hub for the towns around it, and a contractor here works the whole county and up into Washburn: Cameron and Barron down the road, Cumberland to the west, Birchwood and the lakes to the northeast, Spooner up 53. We've built sites for concrete coating and sealcoating companies that show up on Google a long way from their shop, and we'd build yours the same way.
From Rice Lake it's 7 miles to Cameron, 9 to Haugen, 13 to Barron, 15 to Cumberland, 18 to Birchwood, 19 to Chetek, 25 to Shell Lake, 26 to Spooner, 27 to Turtle Lake and 33 to Bloomer.
No setup fee No contract Live in about ten days
Rice Lake, WI
Town page- County
- Barron County
- People, 2020 census
- 9,040
- From Eau Claire
- 59 miles
- Nearest town
- Cameron, 7 miles
The problem
Showing up in the towns around Rice Lake
Say you put in docks and lifts out of Rice Lake. Someone in Chetek, 19 miles south on Highway 53 with six lakes around it, searches for dock installation and gets a list of names. If your site only talks about Rice Lake, you're not on it. Google gives Chetek its own list, and it fills that list with businesses that say they work in Chetek.
Google gives every town its own list. Someone in Chetek is looking at that list right now, and if you're not on it they're calling somebody else. Same in every other town you drive to.
Searching from Chetek, WI
One customer's before and after
A concrete coating company
River Falls, Wisconsin. Same 81 days before and after we rebuilt their site.
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more often on Google
3,864 to 22,885 - 5.9x
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more visits from Google
106 to 284 - 2.7x
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Towns they show up in
Wisconsin and Minnesota - 27
The town
Local SEO in Rice Lake, WI
Local SEO means showing up when someone in one particular town searches for your work. It starts with a page that's about the town.
Rice Lake started as a Knapp, Stout & Co. logging camp around 1868. The Menomonie lumber company had bought up the forest around the lake in the 1860s, and in 1870 it dammed the Red Cedar River to raise the water and make a better holding pond for its logs. The first railroad, the Chippewa Falls and Northern, reached town in 1882, and the city incorporated in 1887. The lake is still the middle of town: 859 acres, 19 feet at its deepest, split into two basins at the Sawyer Street bridge, with the water level held by a dam Barron County operates. The Omaha Road depot went on the National Register in 2007 and Franklin School in 2015.
Rice Lake Weighing Systems has built industrial scales here since 1945 and employs more than 600 people. The hospital, Lakeview Medical Center until 2018 and Marshfield Medical Center-Rice Lake since, has 40 beds and has been part of Marshfield Clinic since 2008. UW-Eau Claire's Barron County campus sits on 110 acres along the Red Cedar, and Northwood Technical College has a campus in town. The city grew from 8,320 people in 2000 to 9,040 in 2020. The median home here was built in 1974, about 700 of the city's 4,100 housing units predate 1940, close to 870 have gone up since 2000, and 45 percent of the homes are rentals. Footings go at least 48 inches down under Wisconsin code, and the freeze and thaw is hard on driveways, retaining walls and shoreline.
What keeps crews busy in Rice Lake
Docks and shoreline
Rice Lake is 859 acres in the middle of town, and Red Cedar Lake, 1,841 acres, is up the road toward Birchwood.
Concrete
Driveways, garage floors and slabs, with a frost line the code puts at 48 inches.
Roofing and siding
About 700 homes here were built before 1940, and the median home dates to 1974.
Painting, plumbing and flooring
About 45 percent of the homes in the city are rentals, and rentals turn over.
Sealcoating and paving
Lots along the highway and driveways in town, plowed all winter.
What you get
What SEO for contractors in Rice Lake includes
One price, $497 a month, and nothing on this list costs extra.
- Found in every town you work in: Rice Lake, Cameron, Haugen and the rest
- A website built for your business
- Leads by text and email, saved in your account
- Hosting, updates and backups
- Getting your pages listed on Google
- Changes and new pages whenever you need them
No setup fee, no contract, cancel any month. A new site starts from zero on Google and builds over the first few months. Give it that time.
Get startedAround Rice Lake
The towns around Rice Lake
Tell us the towns you work in and people searching there can find you. Around Rice Lake, that usually starts with these.
- Cameron, WI7 miles
- Haugen, WI9 miles
- Barron, WI 13 miles
- Cumberland, WI 15 miles
- Birchwood, WI18 miles
- Chetek, WI19 miles
- Shell Lake, WI25 miles
- Spooner, WI 26 miles
- Turtle Lake, WI27 miles
- Bloomer, WI 33 miles
Every dot is a town where a concrete coating company we built for shows up on Google. The ring is their home, River Falls. The nearest of them to Rice Lake is Chippewa Falls, 50 miles.
Trades
The trades we've built for
Concrete coatings and sealcoating are where the numbers on this site come from. The site works the same for any trade that drives to the job.
Concrete coatings and epoxy floors
Garage floors, shop floors, patios and basements. The Search Console numbers on this site come from a company that does this work.
Websites for this tradeSealcoating and paving
Driveways and parking lots. We've built for a sealcoating company too, and they get found the same way.
Websites for this tradeAny home service trade
Roofing, HVAC, plumbing, electrical, landscaping, fencing, remodeling. If you drive to your customers, the towns you drive to can find you the same way.
Every tradeQuestions
Questions people in Rice Lake ask
- Do I need an office in Rice Lake to show up in Rice Lake?
- No. Google's business profile lets you list up to 20 service areas, and a page on your site for each town covers the rest. A crew based in Cameron, Barron or out by Birchwood shows up in Rice Lake the same way, with a page about Rice Lake.
- I already have a website. Can you make it show up in Rice Lake?
- We replace it. Your web address stays the same, and the new site goes up in its place with a page for Rice Lake and one for every other town you work in, Chetek, Cumberland, Barron and Spooner included.
- Do you handle my Google Business Profile?
- It stays yours. We line it up with the site, so someone in Rice Lake who finds you on the map sees the same name, number and towns on your website, and the service areas on the profile match the town pages. When something on it needs changing, we help.
- How long until I show up in Chetek?
- A new page starts from zero, and it usually takes a few months to build up. Chetek is a smaller town than Rice Lake, so its list is shorter, but it varies by trade. We don't promise a spot on Google. We build the page, tell Google about it, and keep it listed.
- Does the price change if I add lake towns like Birchwood and Chetek?
- No. $497 a month covers Rice Lake and every town you work in, and towns you add later go in for the same price. Birchwood and Chetek each get a page written for that town, the same as Rice Lake. No setup fee, no contract, cancel any month.
Ready to show up
in Chetek and every town around Rice Lake?
Your site can be live in about ten days. After that, someone searching in Rice Lake, or any town you drive to, can find you.