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If eight contracts fill your year, thirty enquiries a month is not a result. It is a workload. The job is fewer, better opportunities and a website that survives being checked.
What you can expect
Measured on opportunity value, not enquiry count
Project portfolios built as evidence
Honest about what a website can and cannot do in a tender
Service focus
A construction business might win eight or twelve contracts in a year and be completely full. That single fact breaks most of the marketing reporting sold into the sector. Thirty enquiries a month is not a good result if twenty-eight of them are homeowners wanting a garden wall and you build commercial fit-outs. Cost per lead is close to meaningless when individual opportunities range from a few thousand pounds to several million; averaging them produces a number that describes nothing that exists. What matters is the value and the quality of the pipeline, and how many genuine chances you get to quote for the kind of work you want. That means qualifying hard and early, in the ad copy, on the page and in the enquiry form, and accepting that a website which repels the wrong enquiries is doing its job even though the enquiry count has gone down.
The buying cycle is long and rarely involves one person. A commercial project may be scoped by an architect, priced by a quantity surveyor, shortlisted by a main contractor's procurement team and signed off by a client who never visited your website but was shown it in a meeting. Six months from first contact to contract is normal. Two years is not unusual on larger schemes. Through most of that period your site is not generating a lead, it is surviving scrutiny, because somebody will look you up before your name goes on a shortlist. What they need is evidence: completed projects with real photographs, the value bracket, the sector, the programme duration, the constraints you worked around and who you did it for. A project portfolio is the most valuable asset a construction firm owns online, and it is almost always the most neglected — a gallery of untitled images with no description of what was actually built.
Direct work and tendered work then behave nothing alike. Direct work from a developer, a landlord, a facilities team or a private client responds to search, reputation and referral, and a website genuinely influences it. Public sector and larger private tenders run through prequalification, where being shortlisted depends on documentation: SSIP-recognised schemes such as CHAS or SafeContractor, Constructionline registration, ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001 certification, insurance levels, financial standing, accident and enforcement history, and relevant past performance. Since the Procurement Act 2023 went live in February 2025, public opportunities and supplier core information sit on the Central Digital Platform and the enhanced Find a Tender service, so registering once and keeping that record accurate is part of the same job. Your website will not win a tender. It will be read by whoever compiles the shortlist, and a row of accreditation logos with nothing behind them is less convincing than a page explaining what each one covers and when it was last assessed.
Common challenges
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An agency reports rising enquiries and a falling cost per lead. The estimating team is drowning in domestic extension requests for work you do not do, the commercial pipeline is unchanged, and everyone is pleased with a dashboard that measures the wrong thing entirely.
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Twenty images with no context. No value bracket, no sector, no duration, no client type, no description of the difficult part. A quantity surveyor checking whether you have done anything comparable to their scheme cannot tell, so they assume you have not.
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Kitchen extensions and industrial units on the same navigation. The domestic content attracts enquiries you cannot profitably service, and it undermines you with the commercial buyer, who reads it as a firm that will treat their project as a sideline.
Service breakdown
Restructuring completed work into pages a buyer can assess: sector, contract value bracket, programme, procurement route, the constraints and how they were handled, proper photography and where permitted the client. Filterable by sector and value so somebody with a comparable scheme can find the two projects that answer their question in under a minute. This is usually the highest-return work available and the material already exists in your files.
Page copy, form design and ad targeting that state the work you take on, the value bracket and the geography. Fewer enquiries, more of them worth pricing, and less estimating time burned on jobs you were never going to bid.
Keyword work built around sector and specialism rather than volume terms, including the specific language used by architects, surveyors and procurement teams — which is rarely the language homeowners use.
Tight campaigns aimed at commercial intent, with sustained negative keyword work to strip out domestic, DIY, jobseeker and materials-supplier traffic. In this sector the negative list does more work than the keyword list.
Pages that explain what your certifications cover, current insurance levels, health and safety approach and quality processes, presented so a shortlisting exercise can verify them quickly rather than emailing to ask.
Tracking that follows an enquiry to tender, to award and to contract value, with the gap between spend and revenue stated openly, because a twelve-month cycle judged on monthly figures will always look like a failure.
We will review your site, your search visibility and your competitors, then send back the specific fixes worth doing first.
Why us
Filtering out unsuitable work is part of the brief, so the headline number usually drops before the pipeline improves. We say that at the start rather than explaining it afterwards.
Most construction firms hold years of project records, photographs and testimonials that were never published. Getting those online properly generally beats commissioning anything new.
Marketing will not get you through prequalification. It supports the parts a shortlisting panel looks at, and we will tell you where the limit is rather than sell around it.
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FAQ
Not necessarily, and in this sector it often means the opposite. If the site now states clearly that you work on commercial schemes above a certain value in a defined region, the homeowner enquiries stop. Those were consuming estimating time and never converting. The measure is how many opportunities you got to price for work you actually want, and what those were worth, not the total in the inbox. If both numbers fell, that is a problem and we should look at it. If one fell and the other held, that is the design working.
Expect the pipeline to move before the revenue does, and expect a gap of quarters rather than weeks. A scheme that first contacts you in spring might be awarded the following year, and the money arrives against a programme after that. The early signals worth watching are the mix of enquiries, whether the right job titles are reaching the portfolio pages, and how many invitations to tender or price you receive. Judging a construction campaign at ninety days on revenue tells you almost nothing.
Indirectly. Awards are decided through prequalification and evaluated submissions, not through your website — the practical route is registering on the Central Digital Platform and Find a Tender, keeping your core supplier information and accreditations current, and building a library of reusable evidence. Where marketing helps is that somebody on the evaluating side will look you up, and what they find should confirm rather than undermine the submission. Clear project evidence, current certifications and a site that does not look abandoned are the useful part.
Value brackets rather than exact figures are usually the right compromise: enough for a buyer to judge whether you handle work at their scale, without publishing commercially sensitive pricing. Client names depend on your contract — some prohibit it, main contractors often restrict it, and public sector work is frequently already a matter of public record. Where you cannot name the client, describe them by type and sector. A named sector, a value bracket and a programme length is far more useful to an assessor than an anonymous photograph.
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