HomeKONCEPT is a Polish Architectural & Interior Design firm that designs residential buildings, including houses and other living spaces. In 2019, they reached out to us for help in driving more prospective clients to their website.
Another objective was to help the Client’s website generate more income. To accomplish this goal, we had to introduce some technical SEO improvements and enhance the overall user experience on the website.
I totally love working with HomeKONCEPT! We’re on a tight budget, so their support and teamwork are super important. HomeKONCEPT really gets us – they’re all about our ideas, long-term thinking, and considering the big picture. We’ve even discussed marketing-related things like Social Media and PR, and how they impact SEO. They’re all in when it comes to creating content. And it’s paying off big time! The Client is seeing a real boost in conversions.
Moreover, our collaboration is amazing! We’ve got this awesome, constant communication going on, mainly with one person, which makes our dialog way more convenient. We’re excited about getting even better results after launching the new website (Spoiler alert! I’ve seen the mock-ups, and it’s going to be amazing! 🔥).
We started with our standard procedure: running keyword analysis and doing an SEO audit. This helped us identify the key areas to focus on initially and create an effective SEO strategy to deliver the best possible outcomes for HomeKONCEPT.
We were working in a super smooth collaboration with our Client. Whenever HomeKONCEPT introduced a new category page or needed us to improve the rankings of an existing one, mostly because it holds significance at a given time, our task was to:
This collaborative approach clearly bore its fruit. Below is an example of the impressive results we achieved in the “modern villas” category (green color – current position, red – initial position):
Once the SEO audit and keyword research were completed, we moved on to working on the home page.
Our SEO audit revealed that the home page of HomeKONCEPT was redirected to the category page devoted to home plans – https://www.homekoncept.com.pl/projekty-domow. Placing the home page in a subdirectory has more downsides than advantages, as it generally weakens the overall strength of the website. Additionally, the redirection resulted in a longer chain of redirects between versions (e.g., HTTP → HTTPS), leading to slower page loading time.
To fix that, we suggested making a couple of changes to the chain of redirects. As a result, the home page got visibly stronger, and one of the target keywords, which is “projekty domów”, became more stable. Before, this keyword constantly changed its matches, meaning it wasn’t assigned to one page.
At the start of our collaboration, the keyword was a bit all over the place:
After fixing the redirection problem, it’s the home page that is being sown for the very keyword.
When we were done with the home page and redirects, we could start working on linking.
We found a large number of links leading to external destinations (e.g. Social Media and partner websites) without the proper “rel=’nofollow’” attribute. This was definitely one of the reasons why HomeKONCEPT was losing its website’s authority and strength. To change that, we used the “nofollow” attributes on those links.
We also applied the attribute to a few internal links, like “projekty domów” (EN “house plans”) in the menu to eliminate the problem of cannibalization.
To further enhance the website performance, we carried on with optimizing the internal linking, ensuring proper anchor texts.
Links marked red indicate the links with added “nofollow” attribute:
At that stage, most technical aspects of website optimization were handled successfully. This allowed us to shift our focus to content, helping it do its job.
HomeKONCEPT had a company blog that was bringing in some organic traffic, but it wasn’t fully using its potential. Most of the blog post topic ideas often lead to content duplication. So, instead of working to the website’s advantage, those new blog posts had a negative impact on the website’s visibility. On top of that, the blog posts weren’t often properly optimized.
To address this issue, our Content Team did two things:
To boost website authority, our Content Team suggested preparing a few industry-specific articles showcasing HomeKONCEPT’s expertise, such as legal regulations related to home construction. Another type of content that aimed at making the website more trustworthy for the target audience and search engines was the lifestyle guides for home decoration and furniture. Those pieces of writing were created together with our copywriters.
Each article and blog post was individually optimized for the chosen keywords. They were also formatted for better readability and enriched with internal linking.
Visual content is super important for businesses like HomeKONCEPT as this is what gets people excited about choosing a home plan and blueprints. That’s why we had to figure out the perfect balance between making the images small enough to load fast and being still big enough for customers to easily read and explore every detail in the plans without feeling overwhelmed.
Undoubtedly, graphics, images, and in general the digitalized representations of homes play a huge role in the home architecture industry – there is barely another way for people to make up their minds and select a home plan without seeing the options first.
That’s why our task was to make the images and graphics satisfy the preferences of clients and search engines.
While optimizing the images, we noticed that many photos lacked alternative descriptions, which we handled straightaway. After finishing this stage, we provided HomeKONCEPT with guidance on how to add and formulate alt descriptions to their visual content.
Result? More of the images published on the Client’s website show up on Google Images.
Alongside running the on-site process, we were also working on increasing the number of backlinks. The main aim was to make the Client’s domain stronger and more authoritative.
Here are the domain metrics before our collaboration with HomeKONCEPT:
Below is the number of referral domains and backlinks leading to the Client’s website:
For comparison, below there are website metrics after implementing our customized SEO strategy for HomeKONCEPT:
and the number of referral domains and backlinks leading to the Client’s website:
What’s important to notice: The decrease in the number of backlinks isn’t always a bad thing. In this particular case, it actually signifies a backlink clean-up, which promotes a stronger backlink profile. The removed backlinks include suspicious links originating from Asia.
The cooperation with HomeKONCEPT was truly successful and resulted in positive outcomes.
RESULT 1 Significant visibility growth
RESULT 2 More organic traffic
It’s worth noting that when we began working together, the website was facing a downward trend in year-over-year organic traffic. Luckily, through our mutual efforts, we successfully turned things around and managed to reverse that decline.
RESULT 3 Increase in revenue
Over just six months (September 2020 – February 2021), in a year-over-year comparison, organic traffic rose by 34.66%, and revenue from organic traffic surged by 108.60%!
Working with Delante has had a profound impact on our company. I really appreciate the fact that I work with just two specialists – one handling SEO and the other dealing with SEM. Together, we discuss any changes and plan our next steps, while also staying responsive to ongoing site developments. This dynamic combination of SEO, SEM, and our internal operations has delivered excellent results for HomeKONCEPT.
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