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Meridian Homes

How we delivered Meridian Homes 4,583 leads and a 9X return on paid

Property & Construction · 12-month engagement
SEOGoogle AdsCRO

Partnering with Whitehat Agency has been one of the best decisions we've made for our digital growth. Their team took the time to truly understand our business goals and delivered a strategy that exceeded every expectation. We've seen a huge increase in high-quality leads and overall online visibility. Their expertise in both SEO and Google Ads has been instrumental to our success.

Frank Bayssari
CFO, Sales & Marketing Manager, Meridian Homes
Meridian Homes — home builder SEO, Google Ads and CRO case study by Whitehat Agency
01
9X
Return on ad spend
From paid campaigns
02
4,583
New leads
Across 12 months
03
142
Keywords on page one
Sustained organic visibility
01 · Challenge

A clear vision, a stalled pipeline.

Meridian Homes had a clear vision — to be the go-to destination for Australians seeking stylish, affordable homes. The problem was the digital channel between them and that customer. Inconsistent results from previous agencies, weak organic visibility on the searches that drive home buyers and an under-leveraged paid programme were all holding the brand back.

The brief was to build a powerful, scalable growth engine — capable of compounding leads, year after year.

Pre-engagement baseline
Home builder search · AU
Past agencies
Patchy
Mixed results, slow growth
Lead flow
Patchy
Pipeline not compounding
Organic search
Limited
Key terms not ranking
Paid programme
Under-leveraged
Low return on spend
02 · Approach

Paid, organic and CRO — one compounding system.

We rebuilt the paid programme around high-converting buyer segments and ran a full-funnel SEO overhaul underneath. Real-time reporting dashboards and CRO frameworks were stood up at the same time so winning channels could be doubled down on, fast.

Every workstream was orchestrated as one system — paid, organic and CRO compounding each other across 12 months.

The growth playbook
4 workstreams

Hyper-targeted paid campaigns

Restructured the entire Google Ads programme to target high-converting buyer segments, optimising landing pages and ad copy to drive action — not just clicks.

Technical and content SEO overhaul

Deployed a full-funnel programme: fixed backend issues, lifted site architecture and scaled content around the high-volume keywords that drive home-buyer intent.

Data-driven optimisation

Stood up real-time reporting dashboards and CRO frameworks to track performance and fine-tune for maximum lead flow.

Integrated channel execution

Unified paid and organic into one compounding growth system — consistent gains, not channel-by-channel spikes.

03 · The result

9X return, 4,583 leads, 142 page-one keywords.

Across 12 months, paid was returning 9X — turning ad spend into long-term revenue. 4,583 new leads flowed into the sales pipeline and year-on-year website traffic was up 84%, unlocking new audiences through search.

142 keywords had ranked on page one — dominating the high-intent searches that drive the Australian housing market.

Return on ad spend · 12-month ramp
Google Ads + GA4
9X
return on ad spend
12 months
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Results

The numbers that moved the market.

A leading home builder, a fiercely competitive housing SERP and a 12-month build. Here's what a tightly orchestrated paid-plus-organic-plus-CRO programme delivered.

01
9X
Return on ad spend
From paid campaigns — turning ad spend into long-term revenue.
02
4,583
New leads
Generated across 12 months, filling the sales pipeline with qualified prospects.
03
+84%
Website traffic YoY
Year-on-year growth, unlocking new audiences through search.
04
142
Page-one keywords
Dominating high-intent searches across the Australian housing market.
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