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Show up on Maps for the areas you will really travel to for site visits.

Local SEO for an architecture practice is the Google Business Profile, the pin on a studio door nobody can find, and the areas you name as your working radius. GullySales sets the Profile up for a studio rather than a shop, fixes the directions and builds the review ask into handover.

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Scope, fee, reporting and term are agreed in writing after we have read your brief and spoken to you.

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What local SEO means

Local SEO is the work of making your business show up for searches that name your town or locality, such as a service plus an area name. GullySales sets up locality pages, local citations and map listings so nearby customers find you before a competitor across town.

Also for architecture firms

Sales and marketing for architecture firms, the overview.

Last updated 5 Oct 2026. Rules for this trade differ by state and professional body, and they change. We describe restrictions in general terms, so check the current position with your own council or adviser before you publish anything.

For architecture firms

Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.

  • “A first-floor studio in a residential lane is hard to find”

    The client coming for a first meeting circles the block twice, because the pin sits on the main road and there is no board at the gate. That arrival shapes their opinion before they see a drawing.

  • “Your catchment is where you will drive for inspections”

    A practice in Jayanagar taking a plot in Mysuru is committing to that road through the whole construction stage, so the areas on the Profile should be the ones you will genuinely serve.

  • “The review arrives long after the enquiry did”

    A client can write honestly about you only once they have lived in the house, which is a year or more after they signed. Ask at handover or nobody asks at all.

What we do

What we deliver for architecture firms.

Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.

  1. A Business Profile built for a studio, not a shop

    Category set to architect, hours a studio actually keeps, and photographs of finished projects and the working studio instead of a stock exterior.

    Result: The listing looks like a practice somebody would commission.

  2. A pin and directions a first-time client can follow

    The pin moved to the right gate, with the floor, the lane and the nearest landmark written into the description.

    Result: Nobody arrives late and irritated to the first meeting.

  3. A stated working radius

    The cities and areas you will travel to for site visits, named on the Profile and repeated on the contact page so a distant enquiry knows where it stands.

    Result: Enquiries come from plots you would actually take on.

  4. A review ask built into handover

    A short request made at the handover meeting, when the client is standing in the finished house and the link is ready on a phone.

    Result: Reviews come from clients with something real to say.

  5. Profile calls and direction taps counted on their own

    Enquiries from the listing tracked apart from portfolio enquiries, so a Maps call is not confused with a referral.

    Result: You know whether the listing is earning its place.

How the result is measured

  • Map pack ranking
  • Local search visibility
  • Enquiries by locality

Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.

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What Google weighs here

How a plot owner nearby finds an architect, and what to fix first.

Primary category
Set Architect as the main category. Add interior designer only if you take interiors as a separate paid job. A mixed profile draws furniture and decor searchers who will never sign a design agreement.
Project types as services
List villa design, apartment layouts, plan sanction drawings and renovation, whichever you do. Add Vastu-compliant planning only if you offer it. Each entry should say what the client receives, not the style you admire.
Where you will inspect
Name the districts and layouts you drive to for site visits, since a plot owner wants the architect who can reach the plot. Match the list to the pages on your website, so the profile and the site agree.
Council and institute credentials
State your Council of Architecture registration as it appears on the certificate. If you are a member of your Indian Institute of Architects chapter, say so on the profile and the chapter's member list.
Houzz and Justdial
Houzz suits residential portfolios, and Justdial brings the plot owner who starts with a phone search. Claim what already exists, remove duplicates, and keep the firm name identical to your letterhead.
Handover review
At the key-handover, send the client a link to review the studio, not only the house. Ask for the project type to be named, such as a villa or a renovation, because searchers read for that.

Who it is for

This is written for these architecture firms.

  • Residential and villa architecture practices
  • Commercial and corporate campus architecture firms
  • Hospitality architecture practices
  • Institutional architecture firms, schools and hospitals
  • Interior-architecture hybrid practices
  • Sustainable and green building specialists
  • Practices working on government and public sector tenders
  • Boutique single-principal practices

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • You want a guaranteed Google ranking or a guaranteed number of leads. Nobody honest can promise either.
  • You need enquiries by next week and have nobody to answer them.
  • You want posts and reach reported, not enquiries and orders.

How it works

From your first message to the first report.

No open-ended retainer. Every step gives you something in writing.

  1. First

    Your brief

    You tell us what you need in a few short steps: your business, what you want, where enquiries come from and how they are handled.

  2. After the brief

    A conversation and a written scope

    We read it, then talk with whoever handles your enquiries. If you want our help, the scope, the fee and the reporting come in writing, and nothing starts before you have read them.

  3. Before work starts

    Baseline recorded

    Enquiries by source, reply time, conversion and cost per order, written down so every later report has an honest comparison.

  4. After the baseline

    The first fix goes live

    The fix we agreed to start with is put in place and measured against the baseline, whether that is reply time, a follow-up sequence, the page buyers land on or the handover between marketing and sales.

  5. As agreed

    Report against the baseline

    What moved, what did not, and what changes next, in plain words. How often you get it is set in writing before work starts.

  6. At renewal

    Renew on the numbers

    The term ends and you decide whether to continue from the results. The length is agreed in writing before anything starts.

How the local seo work runs

  1. 1

    Audit every listing

    We check the Google Business Profile and directory listings for every branch against what should actually be shown.

  2. 2

    Complete and correct

    Profiles are filled in fully and inconsistent details are corrected across every directory found.

  3. 3

    Build location pages

    Each branch gets a page written for its own area, not a copy of the head office page with the address changed.

  4. 4

    Set up review handling

    A simple process for requesting and responding to reviews is put in place with whoever is closest to the customer.

  5. 5

    Report and adjust

    Map actions and enquiries per branch are reported, and branches falling behind are prioritised the next month.

Why us

Why owners pick GullySales over an agency.

  • Marketing and sales, as one job

    Most agencies stop at the enquiry. We also fix what happens after it: the reply, the follow-up, the quote and the CRM.

  • The person on the first call does the work

    No account managers in between. You are never handed to someone you have not met.

  • A baseline before anything starts

    Your numbers are written down on day one, so every later report compares against something honest.

  • The fee in writing, split three ways

    Our time, your media spend and production on separate lines. You always see what goes to us.

  • No guarantees we cannot keep

    The term is agreed in writing and never a default twelve months. We never promise a ranking or a lead count, because nobody controls those.

  • One office, and we say so

    Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru. We work across India by call and WhatsApp and travel when a session needs to be in person.

#257, 3rd floor, Sri Nanjundeshwara Complex, Nagarbhavi 8th Block, Outer Ring Road. How we work.

Your brief

Tell us what you need, and we will read it before we call.

Eight short steps about your business, what you want and who decides. Most questions are a tap, and you can skip any you would rather answer on the call.

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FAQ

Questions owners ask before they call.

Not here? More answers, or ask on WhatsApp.

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We work across the state. Is a Maps listing still worth it?
Yes. The listing answers the search made nearby, and the working radius on it tells someone farther away that you travel. Both are true at once, and the Profile is where you say so.
Our studio is a room in the house. Should we publish the address?
Only if you are willing to receive a client there. Otherwise set it as a service area business, keep the address hidden and name the areas you work in.
Can we add photographs of a client's house to the profile?
Only with the client's written permission, and without the address, name plate or family in the frame. Many owners will agree to interiors only. Caption by project type and locality, never the street. A refusal costs you one photograph, and a complaint costs you the relationship.
A former partner started a listing under our old firm name. How do we deal with it?
Claim your own profile first, then report the other as a duplicate or misleading through Maps, with the partnership deed or registration papers showing the name is yours. If the partner also uses the name offline, settle that in writing, because Google will not decide who owns a name.
How soon would we see more enquiries?
Fixing follow-up discipline is mostly a habit change, so it can start helping as soon as your team follows the new process. Ranking for project-type searches and building referral relationships takes sustained work over a longer stretch.
Do we need to respond to every tender?
No, only the ones matching your team's real capacity and experience, since a mismatched proposal wastes effort on both sides.
How much does it cost?
There is no price list, because the work differs by business. The fee is scoped after we have read your brief and spoken to you, and put in writing before anything starts, split into our time, your media spend and production.
How long is the contract?
The term is agreed in writing after we have spoken, along with the fee and the reporting. It is never a default twelve months, and renewal is decided on the numbers against the baseline recorded at the start.
Who will actually do the work?
The person you speak to before anything starts. We work from one office in Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru, with no account managers in between.
What do you need from us?
Your brief, and a conversation. After that, access to whatever this work touches, such as your website, your accounts or your enquiry record, and time with the people who handle your enquiries.

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