Seven parts: a page per process and material; a gallery of real parts with permission; certifications held, origin stated plainly; an RFQ path that takes drawings; search and paid ads for the processes engineers type; LinkedIn to named buyers; and a repeat-work habit. Measure RFQs you can quote, turnaround, win rate and repeat customers.
A fabricator's site is judged by an engineer in a few minutes; specifics win that judgment.
How engineers and buyers choose a fabricator
An engineer with a new part, or a buyer moving work from an unreliable supplier, searches for a process and a material, opens a few fabricators' sites and checks five things: can this shop do the process, in this material and thickness, to this tolerance, at this volume, with these certificates. The shops that answer those quickly get the RFQ; the ones with a gallery of stock photos and "quality, service, value" get closed. Everything below makes the five answers easy to find.
Part 1: A page per process and material
Give each process its own page, with descriptive URLs that mirror the structure, which Google's SEO starter guide recommends because parts of the URL can appear as breadcrumbs. Six things on each page:
- The process: laser, plasma or waterjet cutting, press brake forming, rolling, welding, machining, finishing, assembly.
- Materials and thicknesses: the alloys and gauge or plate ranges you run.
- Tolerances and part size: what you hold, on what size of part.
- Equipment: the machines and their capacity, named.
- Volumes: prototypes, short runs, production, as you take them.
- The next step: the RFQ form, with drawings welcome.
Part 2: A gallery of real parts, with permission
Photos of parts you have made, organized by process, material and industry, with a sentence on what was hard about each, are the strongest proof a fabricator has. Show them only with the customer's permission, and blur or omit anything they treat as confidential. A part gallery written by the people who made the parts shows the first-hand expertise Google's helpful content guidance asks about, and it is what engineers look at first.
Part 3: Certifications held, and origin stated plainly
List the quality and welding certifications your shop holds today, with scope and expiry, and any registrations a sector requires; never imply one you do not hold, because buyers in regulated sectors check. If you claim "Made in USA", the FTC's Made in USA Labeling Rule requires final assembly or processing in the US, all significant processing in the US and all or virtually all components made and sourced in the US. If any material or processing comes from elsewhere, state the origin plainly instead.
Part 4: An RFQ path that takes drawings
Ask for what you need to quote: drawings and models (with the file types you accept), material, quantity per release and per year, required date, finish and certificates. Say who will review the RFQ and when you will reply, and offer an NDA for drawings that need one. Route RFQs by process to the estimator who handles them, and count RFQs that arrive complete enough to quote. Quote turnaround is marketing too: the first fabricator to send a credible quote often wins the job.
Part 5: Search and paid ads for the processes engineers type
Engineers search for a process plus a material or constraint ("stainless laser cutting", "aluminium TIG welding", "heavy plate rolling") and often a region. Each search should land on the matching process page. Pew Research Center found in March 2025 that Google users who saw an AI summary clicked a traditional result 8% of the time, against 15% without one, as its report describes; specific process pages are the kind those summaries cite. Paid search on process and region terms brings RFQs fast; for scale only, WordStream's 2026 benchmarks, as reported by ppc.land, put the average cost per click across 13,474 US search campaigns at $5.42 and the average cost per lead at $66.69. Our performance marketing service runs paid search by process and region.
Part 6: LinkedIn for named buyers
The buyers of fabricated parts are a named list: purchasing managers, supplier quality engineers and design engineers at the OEMs and contractors in your region and sectors. LinkedIn's ad targeting reaches members by job title, company, industry and seniority. Use it to show a capability or a new machine to those roles, and to warm accounts before a visit.
Part 7: Turn first jobs into repeat work
A fabricator's best customers are repeat customers. After a first job, follow up on delivery and quality, ask what the next part is, and keep in touch with useful updates: a new capability, a new material, capacity opening up. That email is commercial email: in the USA the FTC's CAN-SPAM guide requires accurate headers, a postal address and an opt-out honored within 10 business days, with penalties up to $53,088 per email, and in Canada CASL requires consent first.
How to measure it
Each month, by process and region: RFQs complete enough to quote, quote turnaround time, quotes won, first jobs that became repeat customers, and revenue from repeat customers. Visits and followers are context. When RFQs rise and wins do not, look at turnaround and price before the marketing.
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