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SEO for Home Builders & Architects

Want to Attract More Buyers? Do It with SEO for Architects and Home Builders

The way people look for and purchase homes has changed drastically over recent years—90% of buyers now turn to the internet to solve all their housing needs, from finding out how to get a mortgage to making that final decision. In fact, 53% of buyers start their search online, frequently on a search engine. Since 55% of searchers click on one of the first three entries of Google’s search results, if your website isn’t in the top three, you’re losing listings to your competitors. That’s where SEO comes in.

Go to Google and search, “custom home builders city, state”, or “architects city, state”.  If you don’t see your website listed on the first page, you’re losing leads and sales to your competition. Blue Corona can help.

Why Choose Blue COrona for Your Builder SEO Services?

Why choose Blue Corona? We know:

  • How to navigate through housing discrimination regulations and comply with NAR internet advertising policies
  • How to develop long-lasting relationships with home buyers
  • How to best position your agency or company’s brand in your marketplace

With us, you get more than SEO campaigns—you get SEO results. You can trust that our team of digital marketing experts has extensive experience helping architects, remodelers, and custom home builders generate more qualified website traffic and convert more website visitors into leads and booked jobs. Scroll down to learn more, or contact us now!

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SEO for Home Builders: What's Included

The best home builder SEO companies (like Blue Corona) handle the day-to-day of monitoring and improving your online footprint, including making your website more visible in the search results and differentiating your brand across the web. We do this by following the process below.

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1COMPLETE A COMPETITOR ANALYSIS

  • Establish your baseline for website code and structure, content, local visibility, and off-site citations
  • Stack you up against local competitors currently outranking you on the web for your home building services
  • Analyze architect and home builder keywords and search terms, monthly search volumes, and more in your market area
  • Create actionable revenue goals and corresponding sales-driving SEO plan

2OPTIMIZE WEBSITE CONTENT AND CODE

  • Install advanced Google Analytics and call tracking
  • Make your home builder website fast, secure (optional but recommended), and mobile-friendly
  • Edit your website’s code and structure to be in line with best SEO practices
  • Edit and optimize your existing website pages for search visibility and content
  • Perform conversion rate optimization on all website elements (like contact forms, buttons, and navigational links) to ensure an optimal experience for your customers

3CREATE NEW WEBSITE CONTENT AND CREATIVES

  • Publish targeted, well-written website content that improves your local search rankings for home builder keywords and provides a seamless user experience
  • Create SEO-optimized creative content assets like housing infographics and listing video tours
  • Optimize and create content for voice search and digital assistants

4OPTIMIZE AND CREATE LOCAL CITATIONS (LOCAL SEO)

  • Locate and audit existing citations across online directories like Yelp, Facebook, Zillow, Trulia, and more
  • Optimize your company’s Google My Business page for your business address or service area, phone number, maps listing, and business hours
  • Optimize your company’s Facebook page for local SEO best practices
  • Discover, manage, and monitor local citation and backlink opportunities to build authority

5ANALYZE, MONITOR, AND REPORT MONTHLY PROGRESS

  • Provide transparent revenue attribution and easy-to-understand monthly reports on the status and results of all your SEO campaigns, as well as what’s coming next
  • Provide reports on tracked incoming phone calls, and analyze separately tracked phone lines for each marketing channel (optional add-on, but recommended)
  • Monitor analytics on a daily basis to watch for anomalies, hacks, penalties, or other sales-damaging events
  • And more!

6TRACK AND TWEAK YOUR HOME BUILDER SEO CAMPAIGN

  • Monitor your home builder keyword rankings, organic traffic, calls, and leads
  • Monitor the keywords rankings of your competitors
  • Monitor your top three competitors
  • Monitor real estate keywords and search trends
  • Continually optimize and pivot your campaign for better performance over time

SEO for Architects & Home Builders: What You Get When You Work with Us

If you’re like most architects and custom home builders, you probably get 100 emails a day promising to rank your website at the top of Google. Like most things in life, if it sounds too good to be true, it IS! With millions of self-proclaimed “SEO experts,” it can be difficult to distinguish fact from fiction, but we can help you make sense of it all. We provide total transparency and we deliver SEO results in terms you can actually understand (not digital marketing jargon)!

Three things are required if you want your website to rank above your competition for your top keywords and phrases:

  1. Your website code needs to be fast, secure, mobile-friendly, and easy for search engines to find, read, index, and rank.
  2. Your onsite content (copy/text) must establish your company as an authority in the home building industry.
  3. Your offsite factors (ex. links from other authoritative sites) must be optimized to reinforce your site’s authority.

When you hire Blue Corona, we’ll audit your website and overall online presence and build you a plan to improve the factors above. The end result, for many of our clients in the building industry, is an exponential increase in website traffic, leads, and sales! We have the case studies and success stories to back up our claims.

For example, Bruce Wentworth, a top architect located in Chevy Chase, MD, hired us to optimize his main website as well as his blog, AsktheArchitect.org. Non-branded organic search traffic to his main website, a key measure of builder and remodeling SEO success, has increased more than 500% since Bruce hired Blue Corona. Traffic to his blog increased from less than 100 visits per month to over 1,900 – in less than 6 months!

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Our Home Builder SEO Process in More Detail

Step 1: Comprehensive Website Tracking & SEO Audit

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You can’t maximize what you don’t (accurately) measure. Accurate tracking is the foundation of every service Blue Corona provides. We market our clients’ businesses as if we owned them ourselves. In order to provide you with intelligent decisions about your advertising, marketing, SEO and website, we must first look at your marketing the same way a CPA would look at your financials. Most digital marketing companies brag about rankings and traffic. Guess what? Neither of these metrics matter if you’re not seeing increases in profit, revenue, and booked jobs from organic searches (for terms other than your company name!).

SEO is a zero-sum game, meaning that in order for your website to move higher up in the organic search results, you must leapfrog websites currently ranking better than you. One of the most common questions architects and custom home builders ask us is, “how much SEO do I need?” You can’t (intelligently) answer this question without first doing a thorough analysis of the other architecture firms and custom home building companies in your area.

A typical architect/home builder SEO audit includes:best home builder keywords

  • A business intake so that our account managers see your business from an owner’s perspective
  • Analytics and SEO software implementation (we use a set of tools no other SEO company has)
  • Home builder keyword research and identification
  • Competitor analysis
  • Analysis and evaluation of your website code, structure, and content
  • Analysis and evaluation of your company’s presence online linkscape, social media, and more

The output of our SEO audit process is an overview report and SEO strategy, which our team will present to you (allowing time for extensive Q&A).

Step 2: Foundational Improvements to Your Website’s Content and Code

SEO strategy for home builders and seo for architects: what to expectArmed with the data derived from the SEO audit process, the second step in the SEO process is to make any foundational improvements required to facilitate your ongoing SEO success. For example, to rank well on Google you need well-optimized onsite content; however, if your website is not coded and structured correctly, the search engines will never see the great content you create. If code and site structure issues are identified during the SEO audit process, you must be fixed before any content optimizations occur.

Although every situation is unique, typical foundational improvements include things like revising your website’s title and meta tags, renaming various web pages, giving your website files a more logical structure, improving your website speed (load speed is a known ranking factor), enhancing your local SEO by creating more geographically relevant content, and even recoding your website onto a content management system (CMS).

Step 3: Content Creation and Marketing that Resonates with Today’s Homebuyers
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With the right foundation in place, and armed right keywords, the next step in the SEO process is to update the content on your website and, when necessary, create new website pages. Contrary to what you might think, Google doesn’t rank websites—it ranks web PAGES. Each page of content on your site gives you an opportunity to rank for a specific set of relevant keywords.

It might be helpful to think of your website as if it were a fishing boat, each page of content is like a baited line thrown into the Internet sea of fish. More lines in the water (pages on your website) equals more fish (visits, leads and sales!)! The content of your website must be targeted to your top keywords, but it also must establish your company as THE authority for what you do in markets you do it.

Most architects and custom home builders hate creating website copy! That’s okay—we know the industry and we know how to generate effective digital marketing results. Blue Corona has professional copywriters (in-house, U.S.-based employees that work directly for Blue Corona) that specialize in creating unique, original, relevant and authoritative content specifically for architects and custom home builders.

Step 4: Optimization of Offsite Factors

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The final step in the SEO process is to optimize your overall footprint on the web. Think of links from other authoritative websites (manufacturer’s pages, local chambers of commerce or the BBB) as votes of authority or digital recommendations. More links from high-authority sites equals more search engine visibility; however, you must recognize that not all links are created equal! Buying links with the intent to manipulate Google’s ranking algorithms is forbidden and doing so can get your website banned from the search rankings. The right way to attract links to your website is to earn them by creating unique and remarkable content—content that is truly valuable to your prospective customers!

Learn more about how Blue Corona can help your architecture firm or custom home building company grow with SEO! Download one of our case studies or get a free website analysis today!

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Top Company SEO FAQs

What is SEO?

SEO is the process of editing and creating website content and code that ranks well on search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo. First, your website must be coded so search engines can find and crawl it. Your website also needs to be fast, secure, and mobile friendly. Second, you need web page after web page of unique, remarkable, and optimized content. Third, you must gain citations, links, and references from other relevant and authoritative websites.

What’s included in SEO services?

In all SEO packages, we include:

    1. A digital competitive analysis
    2. Website content and code optimization
    3. New website content and creatives
    4. Local citation optimization (local SEO)
    5. Measurement and analytics reporting
    6. Continual tracking and tweaking of your campaign

Should I hire an SEO company?

An SEO company handles the day-to-day tasks of monitoring your online presence so you can focus on other aspects of your business. If you don’t have the time or resources to comb through pages upon pages of analytical data, rankings, and traffic patterns and then have the means to optimize accordingly, you need an SEO company.

How much do SEO services cost?

Blue Corona’s SEO process starts with a website audit – an ongoing SEO campaign may or may not follow (ongoing SEO occurs approximately 85% of the time). Website audits are customized for individual businesses, so the prices vary, but the typical range is $2,500 – $3,500 (audits for larger “enterprise” websites can be considerably more). Ongoing SEO ranges from consulting to “do it for me” SEO services where Blue Corona’s team acts like your own in-house SEO department (for a fraction of the cost of having your own SEO team). Ongoing SEO ranges from $2,000 per month on the low end to $10,000 (or more) per month on the high end. What should really matter is your return on marketing investment (ROMI). Sure, $5,000 per month may sound like a big investment for a local business, but if your ROMI turns into $50,000 per month, it’s worth the investment. A word of caution: you get what you pay for. If you sign up with a cheap SEO company that offers low monthly payments and includes a “free” website, you may be leasing a space on their proprietary platform, meaning you lose your website and all your work once you leave. Avoid outsourced or second-language SEO work.

How long does SEO take?

If you’ve got a good SEO partner, you can generally see results between 3-6 months, but certain industries with highly competitive keywords can take up to a year to see traction. Don’t give up, though—once you get going, your results will snowball.

How does Blue Corona track SEO success?

If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. You can’t win the game if you don’t know the score. Despite a million quotes which suggest that you can’t maximize your business success unless you track your results, most business owners and marketers are still not accurately tracking their advertising, marketing, website, or SEO. Most online marketing companies treat tracking and reporting as an afterthought—the last step. At Blue Corona, it’s the first step in every SEO engagement.

Is Blue Corona a certified Google Partner?

Yes.

CASE STUDY
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What Makes Blue Corona Different

At Blue Corona, we try and let our clients speak for us. Take a look at our search engine optimization reviews and hear straight from them why we are the best SEO company for your needs. Above all, everything we do comes from the perspective of a business owner, and we treat your business like our own.

Let’s get down to the details. We can offer you a few guarantees other SEO companies can’t:

  • You don’t have to worry about long-term contracts. We won’t handcuff you for a specific amount of time. Ever.
  • You’ll own every single deliverable, from your website to your content. Some SEO companies won’t let you keep your work when you leave. Not us.
  • You’ll optimize your marketing costs. Everything we do is tracked, measured, and analyzed for improvements. This lowers your costs and raises results.
  • You get the peace of mind that we will bend over backward for you. SEO is a long-term investment, which is why we believe in building partnerships, not acquiring clients.
  • You get a dedicated Account Manager to be your guide, as well as a support team that includes an analyst, web designer/developer, and a dedicated (U.S.-based) copywriter.
  • You get detailed monthly reports (you can actually understand) that connect SEO performance to your bottom line.

Our Happy Clients

I would 100% recommend Blue Corona to any new, aspiring HVAC, plumbing, electrical service, home services type business that is looking to expand the footprint of Internet marketing truly because the sense of, they're not like your every other internet marketing company. They're not going to sell you a bill of goods and over-promise and under-deliver. They're going to under-promise and over-deliver.

Ross Albert, Owner
Arctic Air Conditioning

There's been plenty of times where we would sit back and look at things and go, "Hey, you know what? That's probably the best decision we made in a long time." I would definitely recommend [Blue Corona] to other service companies because I want to see how other people like me and my family here at work succeed.

Bill McManigal, Sales & Marketing Manager
Blind & Sons

"Blue Corona has been our marketing agency for over a year now. They have provided great services and strategies for accelerating our business growth. Most importantly, they are willing and able to adapt our marketing strategy to help us succeed in our industry. Our account manager has been awesome! She is and has been such an asset to Reliable Power Systems."

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Reliable Power Systems

"Since working with Blue Corona our lead quality and profitability have skyrocketed! They give you advice on what is best for you rather what would line their own pockets. I have also been impressed by the quality of services (ad copy, amazing web design) and constant communication and tracking Blue Corona offers. Our account manager is truly a pleasure to work with. She is great at setting expectations and delivering results. I have worked with many marketing agencies and have...

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"We have been partnering with Blue Corona for a couple of years now, and we are very pleased with the results. From the initial phase of learning our company's challenges and needs to the development of an effective online marketing strategy, working with the entire BC team has been a pleasure. The results have been tangible, and we're seeing an increase in leads and website visits across the board. One important asset BC brings to the table is their team's...

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"I’m very happy with the progress of Blue Corona’s SEO and pay-per-click campaigns for my garage door business. Blue Corona has helped improve our online visibility and generate more leads."

Bill McCormick,
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"I've been with Blue Corona for over a year now. Hands down one of the best decisions I made for my business. The improvements they've made to my website, SEO, and general lead flow are so much better than previous companies I've worked with. One of the main reasons I chose them is they made decisions based on data and facts. Everything we do is measurable and they hold themselves accountable to the goals we collectively established. While all of...

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"The switch to Blue Corona for our digital marketing needs was the best switch our team ever could have made. Our account manager is the best. She and her team are constantly staying a step ahead of industry trends and keeping us informed of best practices for our brand. We have seen tremendous results in a short time since beginning our partnership with Blue Corona, and we look forward to a long and fruitful relationship with their phenomenal team."

Raven Love,
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"I work for an Ohio HVAC, plumbing, electric, and indoor air quality company. Blue Corona has been nothing but helpful. We've used their services for several years and never had any issues. They've helped us improve PPC, SEO, social media, Local Services ads, and anything in between. I would 100% recommend using their services."

Jenell Marsek,
Blind & Sons

"Blue Corona has proven to be an integral marketing partner for our team. They handled our website revamp, as well as have continued to work with us to optimize our SEO, create campaigns, and evaluate our lead volume. Not only have we appreciated their professionalism, but we are so thankful for their assistance in facilitating our online growth."

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