Who would link to a painting and decorating firm?

Paint and wallpaper makers through their lists of approved applicators, merchants, the designers and builders you work with, and joiners whose kitchens you spray. Beyond the trade, conservation groups and local media link when a project has a story. Each needs a page on your site that fits what they are talking about.

Which pages of a decorator's site should the links go to?

To the page that matches the reason. A maker of spray systems points to kitchen respraying, a designer to the interior you painted together, a history society to the write-up of the period front. Links spread over the service and project pages help those pages, whereas a pile of links to the home page helps little.

We painted a school hall without charge. Can that bring a link?

It can, if it is written up and the school is asked. Describe what was done, with photos and without children in them, and send the page to the school and the parents' association. Most are glad to say thank you in public. Do it because the hall needed painting; the mention is a welcome extra, not the purpose.

A tradespeople directory wants a yearly fee for a featured profile. Is it worth it?

As a link, no: a paid listing is advertising, and a link that was paid for should not be counted on. As advertising it may be, if people in your area really use that directory to find a decorator. Ask how many enquiries a featured profile brought to a firm like yours, try it for one period and count. We judge it like any other advert.

Plan for your industry

Link Building for Painting Companies

Link building for painting companies starts with suppliers who already vouch for you: paint brands with lists of approved decorators and merchants that name the firms buying from them.

Such an entry also tells a client that the paint will be applied the way its maker requires, which matters for the maker's warranty on exterior work.

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Painter finishing an interior wall with precise edges and careful attention to detail

Market realities

Online challenges for painting companies

Weak link building pushes up scores in SEO tools but does little for local trust around house painter and exterior painting quote searches or for the service pages that actually bring calls.

Your finished rooms shown on other firms' websites

Photos of good work travel, and some end up in another decorator's gallery with no credit and no link.

A client who finds the same room on two sites trusts neither of them.
The firm that did the work gains nothing from the picture it paid to take.

Local lists of the best decorators filled by whoever paid

Many local round-ups of recommended decorators are paid placements, and an honest firm is missing unless it pays too.

Buying such a place risks a link that search engines ignore or hold against the site.
Readers rarely know the list was paid for, so the firm that declined looks less established.

What we do

Link Building approach for painting companies

For painting companies, we plan Link Building around trusted local sources and the service pages people in your area actually need.

Paint makers and merchants that list approved decorators

Makers of trade paints, wallpapers and spray systems keep registers of approved applicators, and decorators' merchants name the firms they supply.

If you hold such an approval, we check that the entry exists, carries the right name and area, and links to the page about that system or finish.
A merchant you have had an account with for years will often list you among recommended decorators when asked, and a homeowner choosing paint at the counter is exactly who looks there.

Designers, builders and kitchen fitters who credit trades

A painter is rarely alone on a project, and the others publish the result.

Interior designers, architects and builders show completed projects on their sites. We ask for the decorating to be credited with a link to your page about that kind of work.
Kitchen fitters and joiners who send you units to respray are natural partners. A short page on each side that explains the joint service gives both a reason to link.

Old houses and community walls worth writing about

Some painting work interests people who will never need a decorator.

A careful account of repainting a period front in breathable paint, with what was found under the old coats, is the kind of page conservation groups and local history societies link to.
A village hall or a school corridor painted at cost is reported by the organisation and often by the local paper. Paid placements and bundles of directory links are not used.

Link Building process for painting companies

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 decorators, we photograph finished rooms with the client's consent and agree with the designer how both firms are credited before anything is published.

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 painting companies from €400 a month plus VAT for the basic scope, three-month minimum. A wider scope is quoted after a free audit.

Discuss your project

Planning a painting job with colour samples, protective covers and a talk about the scope

Measurable outcomes

How we measure results for painting companies

We count links from brands, designers and builders, and see if the finish pages they lead to start bringing requests for whole projects.

Questions about Link Building for painting companies

Plain answers about Link Building, written for painting companies.

Paint and wallpaper makers through their lists of approved applicators, merchants, the designers and builders you work with, and joiners whose kitchens you spray.

Beyond the trade, conservation groups and local media link when a project has a story.
Each needs a page on your site that fits what they are talking about.

To the page that matches the reason.

A maker of spray systems points to kitchen respraying, a designer to the interior you painted together, a history society to the write-up of the period front.
Links spread over the service and project pages help those pages, whereas a pile of links to the home page helps little.

It can, if it is written up and the school is asked.

Describe what was done, with photos and without children in them, and send the page to the school and the parents' association.
Most are glad to say thank you in public.
Do it because the hall needed painting; the mention is a welcome extra, not the purpose.

As a link, no: a paid listing is advertising, and a link that was paid for should not be counted on.

As advertising it may be, if people in your area really use that directory to find a decorator.
Ask how many enquiries a featured profile brought to a firm like yours, try it for one period and count.
We judge it like any other advert.

General questions about Link Building, the same for every trade, are in our FAQ.

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