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Link Building for Property Developers

A new development's first links can come from the firms that worked on it and show it in their portfolios: architects, contractors and garden designers.

Such a link also shows a buyer which named firms stand behind the building, and that counts for as much as the link itself.

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Property developer presenting the pre-sale plan and the project timeline in an office

Online challenges for property developers

Links do less than they could when they keep pointing to the homepage or broad pages, while buyers compare a much more specific property, project or stage.

Trust rests on proof of delivery and clear legal and financial facts

Buyers judge a project by its milestones, its permits and how openly you run it.

  • Weak proof makes buyers hesitate, even with a big advertising budget.
  • Evidence set out in order shortens long, careful decisions.

Portals list the development and link only to themselves

In the first months the project appears mostly on paid portals, whose listings send visitors to the portal's own contact form.

  • A buyer who searches the name of the development finds the portal's page above yours.
  • Each sale made through such a listing carries the portal's fee or an agent's commission.

Link Building approach for property developers

For property developers, we plan Link Building around the pages for each stage of the decision, each property or project and each area, so the links reach the place where buyers actually compare options.

The firms that built it already show their work

An architect, a general contractor and a landscape designer each keep a list of projects on their own website.

  • We ask them to add the development with a link to its page, and send the exact name, the address of the page and photos they are allowed to use.
  • Makers of windows, lifts and facades publish reference buildings too, and a developer who chose them is a reference worth showing.

News that the local paper prints anyway

A building site produces events a local editor wants: the first spade, the topping-out, a road or a playground the developer pays for.

  • For each we prepare the facts, a statement from a named person on your side and pictures, with a link to the page of the project and not to the home page.
  • The town hall, the district council and the bank that finances the purchases often list current developments, and we ask to be listed correctly.

Links to pages that outlive the last sale

A link to a project domain is lost when that domain is switched off after the handover, because nobody wants to pay for it any more.

  • We point every new link at the page of the project under your main website, and at the page of completed schemes, which keeps its value for the next launch.
  • Architecture awards and competitions publish their entries, so a scheme you are proud of is entered with its page as the address.

Link Building process for property developers

01

Link audit

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

02

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 developers, we first find the links earned by finished projects and recover whatever can still be pointed at a live page.

03

Outreach and content

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

04

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

Planning the launch of a property development with project milestones, financing and the steps a buyer goes through

How we measure results for property developers

Links are counted by whether they lead to company and district pages that stay online after the project is sold out.

Questions about Link Building for property developers

Plain answers about Link Building, written for property developers.

That it comes from a website buyers or the building trade really read, and that the site had a reason to mention you: it designed the building, financed it, reported on it or awarded it.

  • Such a link leads to the page of the project.
  • A link from a site with no connection to building or to the district is worth nothing to us.

Because nobody reads the sites those packages come from, and search engines treat paid links as a breach of their rules.

  • A development is on sale for a long time, and a penalty on the main website would hit every project at once.
  • We do not buy links, and we tell you when an offer you received is of that kind.

The page of the project now on sale and the page that shows completed schemes.

  • The first needs to be found while flats are available, and the second is what a careful buyer checks before trusting a developer.
  • Pages of single flats are poor targets, because they change or disappear, and the price list is reached through the project page anyway.

With a short note that makes it easy: the facts of the building, the correct name, the address of the page and a few photos cleared for use.

  • Most firms keep a list of references and add a good project gladly.
  • We never offer money for it, and we do not ask twice when the answer is no.

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

FAQ: Link Building

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