Who links to an architecture studio apart from the design magazines?

The people and firms connected to each building. Suppliers whose products were used, the engineers and contractors on the team, the client if it is a company or a public body, the institute you belong to, festivals and universities. Magazines bring prestige among colleagues, while these links are read by people about to build.

A manufacturer wants to publish our project as a case study. Should we agree?

Usually yes, on four conditions. The studio is named correctly and linked to the project page, the photographs are used within the photographer's licence, the owner of the building consents, and you see the text before it appears. A case study that calls the product the hero and forgets the design is worth correcting before it goes online, not after.

Architecture portals let us upload projects ourselves. Are those links worth the time?

For your best few projects, yes. Portals with real editors are read by colleagues, juries and some clients, and a profile there confirms that the studio exists and builds. Their links are often marked so that search engines give them little weight, so we treat them as a showcase and not as the centre of the work. Uploading every project everywhere is not worth an architect's hours.

Which page should a link to the studio lead to?

The page of the project being talked about, whenever there is one. That page explains the building, shows more of it and leads on to similar work. The home page suits a mention of the studio as a whole, such as a member directory. We keep project addresses permanent, so a link earned today still works after the next redesign.

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Link Building for Architecture Studios

An architecture studio's first links are often waiting with suppliers who publish your buildings as references for their windows or cladding and forget to name the architect.

Engineers, contractors and clients who worked on a project, and an open day or a local architecture guide, add links with real weight.

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Market realities

Online challenges for architecture studios

Generic pitches to editors and links aimed only at the homepage waste time, while the pages people actually check before they choose get nothing.

Window and cladding makers publish your building as their own

The firms that supplied the windows, the cladding or the frame often show a project as their reference, without naming the architect.

A polite request for a credit and a link is usually granted.
Engineers and builders on the same project keep reference pages that rarely link to the studio.

Open days and local guides that never mention the studio

Architecture open days, professional institutes and local guides to new buildings are read by future clients.

A studio that takes part and has a page about each building gives them a reason to link.
Without it, the building is admired and the studio stays anonymous.

What we do

Link Building approach for architecture studios

For architecture studios, we plan Link Building around sites that fit your topic, pages that earn clicks once the link is live, and a pace you can defend.

Makers and suppliers who show your building as their own

The firms that made the windows, the cladding or the timber frame often publish a project as a reference, with their product in the headline and the architect nowhere.

We find those pages and ask for the studio to be named with a link to the page of that project.
For new projects the request goes out with the photographs, since a maker who wants to use your pictures is glad to give the credit at that moment.

The team around a project: engineers, builders, clients

Every building has a list of people who worked on it, and most of them have websites with a page of references.

Structural engineers, landscape designers, contractors and craft firms can each name the architect, and you name them on your project page, which is simply an accurate credit list.
Commercial and public clients, such as a school, a winery or a town council, often describe their new building online and seldom think of a link to its designer until asked.

Institutes, open days and a local guide worth citing

Some links come from being part of the profession and of the place.

The chamber or institute directory, architecture festivals and open-house days where a building of yours can be visited, and the school of architecture where a partner teaches, all list participants.
A plain guide to obtaining permission in your area gets cited by local forums and builders. We do not buy places in lists of the best architects or links on portals that sell them.

Link Building process for architecture studios

Link audit

We check which sites link to you now, which links look doubtful and which of your pages deserve links first.

Who would link, and why

We list the businesses and organisations with a real reason to mention you, and the page each link should point to. For studios, we start with the manufacturers whose products went into your buildings and who feature them in their references, then engineers, builders and clients from the project team, and institutes and open days.

Outreach and content

We contact them with something worth linking to, and we never buy links.

Checking each link

We check every new link, the visits it sends and whether the page it points to gains ground in search.

Price: link building for architecture studios from €400 a month plus VAT for the basic scope, three-month minimum. A wider scope is quoted after a free audit.

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Measurable outcomes

How we measure results for architecture studios

We count links to project pages, and the enquiries about new commissions that those pages produced.

Questions about Link Building for architecture studios

Plain answers about Link Building, written for architecture studios.

The people and firms connected to each building.

Suppliers whose products were used, the engineers and contractors on the team, the client if it is a company or a public body, the institute you belong to, festivals and universities.
Magazines bring prestige among colleagues, while these links are read by people about to build.

Usually yes, on four conditions.

The studio is named correctly and linked to the project page, the photographs are used within the photographer's licence, the owner of the building consents, and you see the text before it appears.
A case study that calls the product the hero and forgets the design is worth correcting before it goes online, not after.

For your best few projects, yes.

Portals with real editors are read by colleagues, juries and some clients, and a profile there confirms that the studio exists and builds.
Their links are often marked so that search engines give them little weight, so we treat them as a showcase and not as the centre of the work.
Uploading every project everywhere is not worth an architect's hours.

The page of the project being talked about, whenever there is one.

That page explains the building, shows more of it and leads on to similar work.
The home page suits a mention of the studio as a whole, such as a member directory.
We keep project addresses permanent, so a link earned today still works after the next redesign.

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Link Building for Architecture Studios

Online challenges for architecture studios

Window and cladding makers publish your building as their own

Open days and local guides that never mention the studio

Link Building approach for architecture studios

Makers and suppliers who show your building as their own

The team around a project: engineers, builders, clients

Institutes, open days and a local guide worth citing

Link Building process for architecture studios

Link audit

Who would link, and why

Outreach and content

Checking each link

How we measure results for architecture studios

Questions about Link Building for architecture studios

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