Home Improvement Marketing for Parker Howley

The results

  • E-commerce sales increased by 33% year on year sales in 2026

Website and SEO

  • Redesigned User Experience on the website, increasing online sales significantly year on year
  • 82 – Top 3 positions for traffic-driving keywords
  • 116 – Top 10 first page positions
  • Average ranking of 3rd position across all keywords
  • The website is outranking its closest competitors on over 75% of searches
  • Updated navigation
  • Rewritten product pages
  • New Blogs are added each month, building on content and securing positions for main product pages
  • Faster website hosting, product updates and maintenance

Paid Ads

  • Meta and Google AdWords campaigns are reporting very healthy ROAS.
  • Over Christmas one Meta campaign gave a ROAS of 6874.63%!

Social Media

  • Increased Instagram followers from 38,286 to over 60,000
  • Introduced a regular posting schedule, focusing heavily on Reels
  • Regularly filmed product and behind-the-scenes content in the showroom and workshop, giving customers an inside look at how their vanity units are made.
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Working with The Marketing Optimist is a pleasant surprise compared to previous website/marketing agencies, they listen to what we want and need, then develop strategies that us less tech savvy people fully understand, and have closely held our hand along the way.

The team, led by Richard, have vast experience in the areas of the business that we struggled with, and as such have helped drive traffic not only to our website but through to our enquiries email and phone line too,

I would highly recommend them to any business wanting to take the stress and hassle of website/marketing areas and want to grow their business.

Neil Bell

Director, Parker Howley

Effective Search Engine Optimisation for the market

In such a competitive search landscape, Parker Howley needed to ensure that their products outranked their competitors in the high end of the market. We got to grips with understanding the space, and the optimisation-related home improvement marketing techniques used by competitors.

There was no point trying to compete with DIY chains, as their quality and price point are not comparable to those of Parker Howley, and pages optimised for key terms commonly associated with cheaper products would likely result in high bounce rates.

Parker Howley Case Study

Effective Search Engine Optimisation for the market

In such a competitive search landscape, Parker Howley needed to ensure that their products outranked their competitors in the high end of the market. We got to grips with understanding the space, and the optimisation-related home improvement marketing techniques used by competitors.

There was no point trying to compete with DIY chains, as their quality and price point are not comparable to those of Parker Howley, and pages optimised for key terms commonly associated with cheaper products would likely result in high bounce rates.

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SEO strategy process

We began our SEO process with an audit, reviewing the whole website, looking at the user experience, process flow through the site, and the content required to help the site rank.

Based on the initial products the client wanted to focus on, we conducted keyword research, resulting in a range of key terms with buying intent and significant search metrics, which we included with the audit.

In a zoom meeting, we talked it over with the client to ensure we had created a clear SEO strategy that successfully aligned insights about the client’s products, operations and industry, with our technical know-how and optimisation best practices.

Throughout the process, our SEO manager would work with the client to plan based on the next group of products they wanted to focus on.

This is a process unique to this client, based on how they like to work. Explore this page to learn more about the SEO process that helps most of our clients compete in their search landscapes.

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Writing Optimised Copy

Armed with the products the client wanted to push, and the keyword research conducted, our copywriter would create discovery documents for the client.

These documents outlined the broad outline of a particular page, and featured a range of bullet pointed questions to the client, which they would answer with bullet points.

Our copywriter then used these documents to craft optimised home improvement marketing copy for the client’s website pages and blog content, that served both the user and search engines. This process was then repeated with new products informed by the client’s focus.

We have now updated 20 pages on the site, including a number of blogs which help to shore up ranking positions and provide valuable content for customers.

Since beginning the optimisation process, we have achieved:

  • 82 – Top 3 positions for traffic-driving keywords
  • 116 – Top 10 first page positions
  • Average ranking of 3rd position across all keywords
  • The website is outranking its closest competitors on over 75% of searches
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Social media Ads and Google AdWords

Social media ads and Google AdWords campaigns also play a vital role in Parker Howley’s home improvement marketing mix.

Before we could run these campaigns successfully, we spent some time ensuring that all Parker Howley’s back-end systems were able to record and measure conversions and Return on Ad Spend (ROAS).

When profiles on Facebook, Instagram (Meta) and Google Analytics had been initially created, the background “wiring” hadn’t been completed properly, so activity wasn’t being correctly measured. This means there was no way to know how effective campaigns had been in the past.

This involved lots of detective work and discussions with the support team at Meta and Google to resolve.

  • Meta and Google Adwords campaigns are now reporting very healthy ROAS.
  • Over Christmas one Meta campaign gave a ROAS of 6874.63%!
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Social Media sucess for Parker Howley

We took over Parker Howley’s social media management, which is mainly focused on Instagram, in April 2024, when the account had 38,286 followers. Today, we’ve grown the page to 50,300 followers.
 
Since then, we’ve introduced a regular posting schedule, focusing heavily on Reels, something that was previously lacking. We filmed behind-the-scenes content in the workshop, giving customers an inside look at how their vanity units are made.
 
The page is now consistently active, with three posts per week. These include a mix of videos, customer photos, and workshop footage, helping to build trust and engage the audience.

Parker Howley manufactures exquisite bespoke bathroom vanity units from their workshop in Yorkshire. They sell a wide range of bespoke vanity units in a wide range of materials, colours and sizes that can be personalised to customers’ exacting tastes, along with basins, taps and other bathroom accessories.

Their beautiful designs are loved by interior designers, celebrities and discerning customers alike, and are regularly featured in high-end interiors publications. The business’s main routes to market are its e-commerce website, showroom and direct trade sales to interior designers and developers.

Home improvement marketing, and bathroom vanity units in particular, is a very competitive area with a wide range of competitors, ranging from cheap and cheerful high-street chains and DIY stores, to high-quality designers. Parker Howley’s bespoke vanity units sit firmly in the high-quality end of the market.