SEO for Builders
The Longest Decision Anybody Makes About Their House
An extension is the most money most people will ever spend in one go on something they cannot see in advance. They will think about it for a year, get three quotes, look at everything you have ever built, and ask everyone they know. By the time they contact you they have usually been reading about it for months. That is a long time to be invisible, and it is also a long time to be quietly building the case that you are the one to use.
They Are Researching Long Before They Are Ready
The searches that eventually turn into a job rarely look like they will. People start with what an extension costs, whether they need planning permission, how long it takes and what happens to the kitchen while it is going on. None of that sounds like somebody ready to book. All of it comes from somebody who will book, within a year, and who will use whoever answered those questions best.
That is why a builder’s website works differently from every other trade in this sector. You are not catching somebody at the moment of need. You are being useful for months while they make their mind up, then being obviously credible when they are finally ready to ask. Photographs, project stories and straight answers about money do that. A page listing your services does not.
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We know that your sales cycle is measured in seasons rather than days, that people are deciding whether to trust you with their house and their savings at the same time, that planning permission confuses almost everybody, and that a portfolio of finished work does more selling in this trade than anything we could write.
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Extensions, By Type
Single storey, double storey, side return, wrap around. People search these specifically and each is a different job, a different budget and a different set of worries. One page called Extensions covers none of them properly.
Loft Conversions
Often searched separately from extensions and by people who have not yet worked out which they want. Dormer, hip to gable, velux. Head height, stairs, building regulations.
Renovations and Full Refurbishments
Longer, messier and harder to price, which is exactly why people research them so heavily. What the process looks like, in what order, and what it is like to live through.
Garage Conversions and Outbuildings
Smaller budgets, faster decisions, and far less competition. Often the first job a customer gives you before the bigger one two years later.
Do I Need Planning Permission
One of the biggest searches your trade has and one of the most confusing subjects for homeowners. Permitted development, when it applies, when it does not. Answer it clearly and people remember where they read it.
What It Costs Per Square Metre
Builders hate publishing this and customers search for it constantly. Ranges, what moves them, and why the cheapest quote usually is not. Explaining the number protects you from being compared purely on price.
What Actually Happens, Week By Week
Almost nobody has had building work done before. Setting out the stages, how long each takes, when the noise and dust happen, and what you do about it, removes most of the fear that stops people booking.
Payments, Stages and Protection
Deposits and staged payments worry people, with reason. Being clear about your schedule, your insurance and any guarantee scheme you belong to answers the question everybody has and nobody asks.
Project Pages, Not a Gallery
A grid of photographs is a gallery. A page per project with the brief, the problem, the solution, the timescale and the finished result is a story, and it ranks. Name the town in each one.
Before, During and After
The during photographs are the ones that build trust, because they show the bit customers are afraid of. Almost no builder publishes them.
Architects, Planners and Suppliers
You already work alongside people with websites. Those relationships are the most natural links available to your trade and hardly any builder has ever asked.
Reviews Tied to Project Types
A review from somebody who had a loft done reassures the next person considering a loft. Match them up rather than showing a single total.
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Your customer starts reading long before they are ready to spend. Content built only for people ready to book misses almost everybody who eventually books.
A photograph shows what you built. A project page explains what the problem was and how you solved it, ranks for the search, and does the selling before you arrive.
Cost per square metre is searched constantly and answered rarely. Publishing ranges and what moves them protects you from being judged purely on the cheapest quote.
Architects, planners, suppliers and manufacturers all have websites. Those relationships already exist and almost nobody in your trade has ever asked them for anything.
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Building work has the longest run up of anything in this sector. Somebody decides they want an extension, then spends months working out whether they can afford it, whether they need permission, what it would do to the house and whether they can face living through it. Only at the end of all that do they start contacting builders. Almost everything that decides who gets the job happens before you are ever contacted, which is either a problem or an opportunity depending on whether you are visible during it.
We work with builders doing extensions, loft conversions and full renovations, across Lancashire and nationwide. Before recommending anything we would ask which project types you actually want more of, because a builder chasing loft conversions and one chasing full refurbishments need different content, and doing both at once usually produces a website that is vague about both.
It is being found by homeowners planning building work, which mostly means being useful while they are still deciding. In practice that is pages for the specific project types you do, honest content about cost, planning permission and what the process is actually like, project pages showing work you have finished, and the local signals that put you in front of people nearby.
Word of mouth is the best work most builders get and nothing here changes that. Two things are worth weighing. A recommended customer will search you before they call, and what they find decides whether the recommendation holds up. And word of mouth only reaches people who know somebody who used you, which caps how fast you can grow and makes it hard to move into a different type of work.
Ranges and explanations, yes. Cost per square metre is one of the most searched things in your trade and hardly any builder answers it. Staying silent does not stop people comparing on price, it just means they compare without understanding what they are comparing. Explaining what moves the number is how you stop being judged against a quote from somebody who has left half the work out.
More than anything else on the site. People are buying something they cannot see in advance from somebody they have just met, and finished work is the only evidence available. The during photographs matter as much as the after ones, because the middle of a build is the part customers are frightened of, and showing it handled tidily answers that better than any paragraph.
Visibility usually improves within three to six months. Enquiries follow. Converting them takes longer than any other trade in this sector, because your customer is planning a year ahead and often waiting on finances or permission. That is worth setting out at the start so a quiet first quarter is not mistaken for failure.
No. Commercial and domestic buyers want opposite things, and on this site commercial contracting has its own page under property and construction. Keeping them separate stops the two competing, and it means a homeowner researching an extension does not land on a page written for a procurement manager.