Summit Marine DevelopmentMarine construction website
Summit Marine Development website in a device mockup
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Summit Marine Development

Seawalls, docks and waterfront construction made easier to find and understand.

Layers in use / Build · Demand

Client

Summit Marine Development

Location

Panama City, FL

Timeline

June 2024 – present

Scope

Site rebuild · Rebrand · Local SEO · Google, LSA and Meta ads

Results

Ranking on page one for every core search term, often more than once

Google Ads and Local Service Ads outperforming the decades-old market leader

A brand identity now recognized across the Panama City waterfront

Summit Marine Development / Local SEO + Google + LSA + Meta.
Demand / Local SEO + Google + LSA + Meta
01 / The situation

What they arrived with.

Summit Marine Development builds and repairs seawalls, docks and retaining walls along the Panama City waterfront. They came to ZINC with no website, no search presence and no brand, in a market where one competitor had held both the organic and paid results for decades.

  1. 01

    Zero digital footprint: no site, no listings, no brand.

  2. 02

    A single entrenched competitor saturating organic and paid results.

  3. 03

    High-ticket, local, service-based demand with long consideration.

02 / The approach

What ZINC did.

  1. 01

    Built a site around seawalls, docks and retaining-wall services, using waterfront project imagery and clear estimate-inquiry paths.

  2. 02

    Created a marine-construction identity, logo and supporting graphics that connect the company’s waterfront work with its online presence.

  3. 03

    Developed local search and service content around seawall repair and dock construction in Panama City and the surrounding waterfront market.

  4. 04

    Google Ads and Local Service Ads tuned for high-intent searches, consistently beating the incumbent on click-through and cost.

  5. 05

    Meta campaigns built and tested to expand local awareness and recognition.

03 / The connected work

The layers in use.

01 / Active layer

Build

Site rebuild and complete brand identity for a marine construction company.

02 / Active layer

Demand

Local SEO plus Google, Local Service and Meta ads against an entrenched competitor.

03 / Outside this engagement

Intelligence

Reporting scope not part of this engagement.

The work in context

The waterfront work comes first.

Dock and seawall campaign artwork connects the service being searched for with the construction work customers can see.

GoogleSource ad previews
Summit Marine dock-construction campaign source preview sheet across Google placements.

Dock construction.

Dock campaign artwork from the original Google ad previews, with waterfront construction photographs and service copy.

GoogleSource ad previews
Summit Marine seawall and retaining-wall campaign source preview sheet across Google placements.

Seawalls and retaining walls.

Seawall campaign artwork from the original Google ad previews connects completed waterfront work with the service offer.

Website / Page by page

Waterfront services, across screens

Explore the homepage and dedicated seawall and dock service pages across desktop, tablet and mobile.

Home

Waterfront construction services, project imagery and estimate inquiries.

View page
Home page in its desktop layout
Desktop
Home page in its tablet layout
Tablet
Home page in its mobile layout
Mobile

Seawalls and bulkheads

A dedicated service page for shoreline protection and construction.

View page
Seawalls and bulkheads page in its desktop layout
Desktop
Seawalls and bulkheads page in its tablet layout
Tablet
Seawalls and bulkheads page in its mobile layout
Mobile

Piers and docks

Dock construction information and waterfront project imagery.

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Piers and docks page in its desktop layout
Desktop
Piers and docks page in its tablet layout
Tablet
Piers and docks page in its mobile layout
Mobile
04 / The work on screen

Built for the work.

Interfaces, campaign materials and deliverables from the engagement.

Summit Marine Development — Marine-construction brand book · identity, palette and typography
Marine-construction brand book · identity, palette and typography
Summit Marine Development — Eight-month performance comparison · landscape
Eight-month performance comparison · landscape
05 / Brand and collateral

Identity that holds up.

Summit Marine Development — Website · laptop view
Summit Marine Development — Website presentation
Summit Marine Development — Marine-construction brand book · identity, palette and typography
06 / The results

What changed.

  1. 01

    Ranking for every top keyword in the category, often multiple times on the same page.

  2. 02

    Paid campaigns deliver higher click-through and conversions at lower cost than the incumbent.

  3. 03

    A professional brand that backs the company’s authority with customers.

  4. 04

    From invisible to a recognized regional leader through search and paid together.

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