With some small SEO improvements, your website could be bringing you even more construction clients than it is now. Taking a closer look at how your site performs will help you spot opportunities for improvement and decide which ones are worth your time.
Audit Your Site
The easiest way to zero in on areas that need improvement is by running your site through one of the many free or paid website SEO auditing tools online. Google’s URL Inspection Tool can show you coding errors that could prevent your site from ranking well or even from being indexed at all. Use Google’s Pagespeed Insights to make sure the main components on your most important pages, such as your home page, portfolio, and email sign-up pages, load within three seconds.
Check that your content is organized logically and focuses on the right keywords. If you’re targeting commercial remodeling clients, but your content doesn’t include many of the phrases those clients might search for, you have a problem. To get an idea of your Google ranking, sign out of your Google account and search for targeted phrases you hope to rank for.
Prioritize Your Improvements
Some improvements, such as correcting major coding issues, might require help from a website designer, but there’s still a lot you can do on your own. If you find your content isn’t well SEOd, you might want to re-write some of it. In particular, optimize your titles and subheadings. “Tips for Adding Storage to Your Office Building” is better than a clever, but vague title. Organize your content into SEO-friendly “silos” or categories and subcategories. For example, your blog posts about upgrading office building storage, meeting rooms, lighting, and so on can all be linked to from the main category of office building remodeling.
If the images in your project gallery load slowly, compressing them into smaller files can help speed things up. Also consider using a content delivery network (CDN), such as CloudFlare, for faster content delivery.