Analytic Research & Digital Content Planning Strategy

 Research & Strategy for Strine Environments

Helping my father’s renown green architectural business, Strine Environments in Canberra brings its many rewards. This project I decided to use almost a week worth of analytic and trend research to help form this strategy. Canberra is an ideal spot for green homes, as it has annual extreme variances in temperature from -6 degrees Celsius with snow to sometimes 39 degrees Celsius in summer and bushfires. Canberra and its greater regional residents are widely renown for being highly educated, tolerant, green and not only politically conservative, but also conservative of the environment and sustainable thinkers.

Trends analysis:
Green is in – environmental is out. Sustainability is in.  When looking at climate focus on cold climate, Australians look in June-August when cold. Kit home out seeds green builder/arch. More people look for builders over architects then kit homes.  Cheap is more popular than green. But once inside green world it is a small percentage looking at cost. Green builder is more popular than green architect. The term architectural or architect isn’t so popular on keywords – but is a term sought after more against kit homes. A green builder is sought more than an architect. Polished concrete is a hot topic. Kit home then energy efficient then green then solar in popularity of terms. Quality is 25% of Kit home.

Hot trends: kit homes, log homes,  cold climate, energy efficient, green homes, polished concrete floor
Recommend: merging kit home/modular home with eco/green and run three campaigns, 2 x separate and 1 x merged.
the terms kit home are 9 times more popular than modular. Architect designed prefab homes.
sustainable kit homes.

Other trends found in keyword analysis: designer, new, sustainable, eco friendly, environmentally friendly, sustainable development, prefab homes, concrete Melbourne, concrete paint, new kitchen, passive solar, solar rebates, insulated panels, kitchen/concrete bench tops  for more see Opportunities for Keywords after short tail graph.

When comparing homes as a product in AU:

1. kit homes
2. log homes
3. Prefab homes
4. eco homes
5. sustainable homes
6. modular homes
7. eco prefab homes

People look:
for house plans and floor plans 10 times more than designs.
There does seem interest to target these short tailed searches kit home plans (489), modular house plans (210).
“Small” modular homes is not a term Australians look for. Searching for environmentally friendly house (3600) is more popular to environment house plans (320) or materials (320).

Energy Efficient:
Some people can’t spell efficient and spell it efficient with 210 visits per month. Energy efficient design has 1000 and 12.3% of results coming from AU. While energy efficiency is a wide found term – once placed with homes/houses results drop. For instance; kit home (100,000) dominates eco friendly home (2,900), eco prefab home (1,600), prefab (12,000), energy efficient housing gets (720) from energy housing (1600). Aussies prefer eco “friendly” home (2900) to green home design (880) and green building design gets (590) yet more than houses on a global scale; 12,100 versus 6,600.

Areas of Home Design:
kitchen (49,500) is most sought after then bathroom (22,200) and bedroom (18,100), living room lacks due to complexity of details. 9,900 searches are for a “new” kitchen per month. Concrete polished has (14,800) searches. Kitchen bench tops (14,800) and kitchen concrete bench tops (1,900) shows that of bench top searches that 12.9% of Aussies are seeking polished concrete. Australians don’t say counter (720) they say bench top (1,600). Aussies love polished concrete bench tops. There is a small niche for concrete house design (210) and people searching Concrete designs (2,400).

Renovations:
People prefer photos of bathrooms when researching and plans of kitchens.
More people look for bathroom renovations than house renovations. Only 33.3% of people think to add the word improvement to their search – could target this word for narrowed market and greater results.

Retirement/Downsizing:
While downsizing (110) might be a new market – second story had (390) per month. Feng Shui comes up  1900 as quite popular- potential article. Green living as well. 60,500 people are searching for homes retirement a month in AU. This is a massive result to head in. Retirement plans (8100) could also be targeted through  Google ads or by adding house or home. 7,000 people from outside of Australia look at retirement options here in Australia, 14,800 people within Oz. Retirement lifestyle has 1600 another area to target ads.