BUILD.ie, Ireland's Construction Industry Search Directory.
Why join Build.ie?
- Increased enquiries for your services.
- Increased ranks on major search engines.
- Increased traffic to your website.
- Free Customer Care program and a dedicated Account Manager.
- Hundreds of handpicked and targeted keywords/searchable phrases throughout the year.
- Searchable categories, helping you to target your market effectively.
- When you join www.build.ie you also get to take full advantage of all the web traffic hitting www.build.co.uk, the UK Construction industry's No1 Search Directory!
ABC Certified
Results from the last ABC audit reveal over 119,770 unique browsers and 320,442 page impressions in October 2010 alone.
UK and Scotland Coverage
Got an office or depot in Scotland or England?
No problem, we've got that covered too. Build caters for the whole of the UK and Ireland with our other dedicated domain names of www.buildscotland.co.uk and www.build.co.uk
Build Features
- Search Optimised Listings
- Banners & Buttons
- Featured Company articles
- Weekly Newsfeed
- Plant licence
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- News Island
- Featured Product articles
- Daily UK Industry News
- Jobs section
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Eco Section
If you've got green credentials there's no better way to promote them than by getting yourself placed on Ireland's only construction industry search directory.
Our Eco tab features companies within Ireland with carbon neutral practices and those who cater for the renewable energy sector.
Tradesman Section
Visitors to Build enjoy free access to thousands of Tradesmen throughout Ireland. An additional method for Domestic customers to quickly source the content of interest to them and the services they require.
Plant Section
Our dedicated Plant section gives our visitors an opportunity to see machinery models of all types, with direct links to the dealers to Buy or to Lease.
Self build Section
This brings much more choice to our visitors especially people who are currently renovating, building or extending their current dwellings.
Jobs Section
Job hunters can search vacancies by keywords, category or by company name.
Your Search Optimised listing features
- Your full company contact details.
Including a clickable email link that works in conjunction with a wide range of Mail programmes.
- Your company logo.
This is linked to your website, social media page, another listing on build if you have a sister company, or we can lock it if you don't have your own website.
- A full page dedicated to your company description, listed products & services.
- Additional links to specific sections of your own website or another source.
- Images and Product shots.
- Fully searchable keywords and phrases that drive traffic from the major search engines online to your business.
- Optional embedding of promotional video material.
- Unique Username and password allowing you to access and edit your company description. Or you can simply drop us an email and we'll do it for you!
Sponsored Category Link
Truly targeted and straight to the point. Want everyone to know you are one of the top Architects in Dublin? Show them! Choose from hundreds of specialist categories and complementary regions, so when clients search that combination on our homepage they find you! We place a clickable Sponsored link featuring your logo and key information that takes customers straight to your Optimised listing.
Featured Product
Yet another opportunity to get your business on the front page, making headlines! Got a really unique product or using ground-breaking technology? Here's your chance to up-sell the benefits and tell the industry what makes you a top contender in the field.
Featured Product options are tailor made to 'up' your exposure on the Build site and further complement the flow of traffic to your website.
Button & Banner Advertisements
Clickable through to your website, or your Optimised Listing. Button advertisements rotate around the Build site to allow each of our clients the best possible exposure. Banners can be one single image or animated. Animation may include a limited number of frames in an infinite loop.
Buttons create 5 times more traffic than Optimised listings; putting them together is a powerful combination!
News Islands
Clickable through to your own website, or direct to your Build Optimised Listing. Your island can be one single image or animated. Animation may include a limited number of frames in an infinite loop.
Free weekly newsfeed e-shot
The newsfeeds are fresh and up to date and are emailed to over 5,000 subscribers and growing daily.
Subscribers range from Architects, Engineers, Builders, Tradesmen, Selfbuilders, Suppliers and Surveyors plus much more.
The news is a mixture of new product releases and newsworthy stories that offer knowledge and interest to all subscribers. The page consists of 32 static buttons and 2 banners.
The newsfeed buttons and banners are linked through to your website, driving even more traffic direct to you.
Having a button for 1 month ensures your button advert will be emailed out to 4,890 decision makers per month (this number is constantly growing).
No other construction website offers a direct email service.
Advertising Rates & Data
Basic Directory Listing - €120 per annum.
Single category listing with address and contact details with hyperlink.
Search Optimised Listing* - €375 per annum.
- Multiple category listing with embedded logo adjacent to your company description serving as a hyperlink.
- 4,500 character search engine linked description that fully enables search facilities throughout the site.
- Unique log-in details allowing you to update your content at any time, as often as required.
- You can also incorporate up to 6 product shots and 6 additional hyperlinks that encourage customers to click through direct to category specific sections of your website.
Sponsored Category Link**
- Guarantees your business a Top Three Position** in that category, ensuring maximum visibility of your listing.
- Includes your company logo and summarised service text to further highlight your companies profile.
- Position 1 = €750 per annum
- Position 2 = €600 per annum
- Position 3 = €450 per annum
*Companies must have a Standard Directory Listing in any category in order to upgrade to a Search Optimised listing.
** On a first come first served basis and subject to availability. You must also have an optimised listing in that category in order to sponsor.
Revolving Button Ad - €360 per calendar month
- 1 of 112 throughout the left and right hand sides of site, displaying 28 buttons per page on 40+ different sections comprising of 1000's of web pages.
- Rotated top to bottom and section to section for maximum exposure.
- Static Button Ad - 1 of 28 in each of the available sections.
- Depth x Width - 90pixels x 90pixels - 31.8mm x 31.8mm
Minimum contract for revolving banner and button ads is 3 months. Prices for shorter contract periods available upon application.
Featured Product - €300 Per week or €1200 Per month
- Dedicated section which has a prominent position on the home page for instant access.
- This can include photographs, editorial content, hyper links, company logo and contact details.
- Content is then archived on the site within the Products Directory.
Licence for Plant Hire and Plant Sale - €1080 per 6 months or €1440 per annum
- Categorised for hire and sale section.
- Allows you to post your products directly onto BUILD.
- Up to a maximum of 500 products per customer.
Custom Webspider (Jobs) - €960 per spidered website, per annum
- Custom written web spider to harvest information from the jobs section of your website and transferred to the BUILD jobs database for display.
- Features an accompanying embedded logo in our Recruiters section.
- Customer job entries are displayed in bold, at the top of the relevant sections within our database.
News Sponsorship/ Island ad - €1080 per calendar month.
- News Sponsorship gives your company the opportunity to brand one of our News Columns, along with a 200pixels x 200pixels island advert within our news stories.
- A text link advert will also appear within the daily news feed sent out from BUILD (18.5K daily subscribers and growing).
Inline Advert dimensions
- Depth x Width - 200pixels x 200pixels - 70.7mm x 70.7mm
Technical Specifications
- Button and banner ads: should be supplied as a JPEG or PDF and designed to size (72dpi, 90 pixels x 90 pixels) in screen colours (RGB).
- File size should not exceed 15kb for banner ads or 6kb for button ads.
- Banner animation may include any number of frames in an infinite loop.
- Buttons may not be animated.
Company Logos
A suitable company logo must be supplied as a JPEG or PDF. We will scale the logo down to optimal online viewing specifications.. File size should not exceed 6kb. Logos may not be animated.
If digital copy cannot be produced, the customer should supply a clean copy of the appropriate logo suitable for scanning, or in the case of banner and button ads, artwork to sizes 21.2mm x 165.1mm for banners and 31.8mm x 31.8mm. Accompanied by all relevant components and fonts.
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