Featuring Some of San Diego's Top Architects, Designers and Builders
Local Companies Who Help Make San Diego "America's Finest City"
As I've written elsewhere, my goal for this site from the start has been to seek out the individuals and companies that make San Diego county such a treasured environment in which to live, work, and play, and to help promote their innovative and exciting work in the fields of architecture and design.
Our county really does have it all, from our world famous coastal communities that stretch from Imperial Beach to La Jolla, Del Mar, Encinitas, Carlsbad, and Oceanside, to our border communities of Chula Vista, Bonita, and the whole south bay, to north county's breathtaking rural regions that include Fallbrook, Vista, and Rancho Santa Fe, to the mountains of Idylwild and Palomar, and the deserts of Joshua Tree, Borrego, and beyond.
Few locales in the world can boast of such amazingly diverse topography and cultural influences. It is this diversity that gives the conscientious architect or designer endless opportunities to create environments that complement and accentuate the natural beauty that abounds all around us.
Within this thiriving group of communities one can find businesses both large and small that manufacture everything from custom wood window frames for the restoration trade, specialty glass products for architectural and decorative use, stone and tile for roofing, flooring, pools, and walls, prefab and custom built wooden decks, gazebos, and stairways, and so much more.
With all of this designing and manufacturing going on, there is no shortage of choices for implementation of these designs and installation of these products, from specialists such as stone and tile companies, glaziers, painters, electricians, and roofers to remodeling specialists and general contractors.
I Was Born and Raised in San Diego
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Steak and Seafood in the Heart of Old San Diego
My grandfather roamed the streets of Little Italy as a young boy dressed in baggy pants and a ball cap, befriending fishermen and their wives alike while his Serbian-émigré-via-Ensenada mother tended to the old San Diego Hotel that she owned in downtown San Diego.
The street smarts he acquired via daily osmosis in this rich cultural milieu contributed essential wisdom that bore fruit throughout his long life. His playful, evenhanded toughness, vice grip handshake, biannual whiskey fueled Las Vegas craps table triumphs, and legendary prowess at deep sea sportfishing were a stunning combination of pure manhood which had to be witnessed to be believed.
If You Build it in San Diego, You Should List it Here.
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Hello!
You're probably here because you want to bring more people to your website, and more clients to your design or construction related business. On the other hand, if you don't want to improve your business' image on the web, while also giving your website's search rankings a boost, then please stop reading now.
Some reasons why you should get listed here:
- I created this site to build your business's public profile in a positive way in the local San Diego area and beyond.
- All website registrations are handled by real people (me!) There is no automated registration system in place, in order to prevent fake spambot accounts from signing up and spamming the site with C1alis ads and the like.
- Every listing includes the option to enter your own custom meta tags, including the page title, description, and keywords, in order to increase your page's visibility to Startpage, Yahoo, Bing, Google and other search engines.
Choose the duration of your listing:
- ONE WEEK - FREE!: Get a free listing for 7 days just to try us out. This is a no obligation offer so that you may test the system and find out if it's a good fit for you. After the seven day trial has ended, you have the option to renew your listing for a longer term, which you can do through your control panel.
- ONE MONTH - $5: OK, actually 30 days... But for only five bucks you can give your listing more time to work for you.
- ONE YEAR - $50: Get the most from your listing by posting it for 365 days and get two months free compared to the monthly fee.
You can also further enhance your listing by choosing the Featured Listing option for an extra $5/month. This will add your listing to the modules on the home page and in the right sidebar of some pages, like the one to your right for example. More info about the various listings options can be found here.
Featured Articles:
Full length features are available on a first come, first served basis. Each feature is a one-on-one collaboration between myself and you or your staff, where we sit down and plan out all of the content, images, links, and other info ahead of its publication.
Some of Our Current Features:
To put in a request to get shown on our Features pages, please use the contact form here.
Best regards,
Vince
Improving SEO for San Diego Construction Companies
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How We Strive to Improve SEO for San Diego Construction Companies
By bringing quality clients to your business
Whether or not you already have a website for your San Diego construction business, if you are looking to get more exposure to a discerning audience, you have come to the right place - I built this website for exactly that purpose. I am a fourth generation San Diego native who loves my beautiful city, and it is my goal to help you enhance that beauty in every way possible.
Just a few of the reasons you want to be listed on this site:
- To take advantage of the extensive SEO features that I have built into the site. Since its launch, Build it in San Diego! is already climbing in Google's rankings for various search terms related to San Diego's construction trades, and your exposure will climb right along with it.
- To improve your own website's SEO performance by building a stronger backlink profile.
- To gain valuable business-to-business networking opportunities among the other businesses listed here.
- To receive direct exposure to prospective clients who come here looking for high quality goods and services in the building trades.
Multiple Levels of Exposure:
1. On the Features page:
https://builditinsandiego.com/features
- A single featured article with 3 photos = $150/year
- The article appears on its own page with up to 1,000 words and 20 photos
- Can be linked to any pages on your existing website
- The page metadata (page title, keywords, description, image alt tags, etc.) and URL can be customized to optimize SEO for better search results
- Each featured article also appears in the Showcase module front and center on the home page (see screen shot below)
2. In the "San Diego at it's Finest" module on the home page:
- Each image with description and link to a specific page on your site, per year = $20
- Start by using the contact form. I will send you a Paypal invoice for payment and you can then send me each image along with a description and the link.
3. In the Listings Section:
https://builditinsandiego.com/listings
You can sign up and post your ad right now! Paid ads can be paid for with secure PayPal payments built right in the form. Every listing includes the option to add as much text as you like, a YouTube or Vimeo video, and up to 12 photos.
- Free regular listings for 7 days
- 30 day regular listing = $5
- One year regular listing = $50 (two months free!)
OPTIONAL: Choose a Featured Listing and your listing will also show up in the Featured Listings module on the home page:
- 30 day Featured listing = $10
- One year Featured listing = $100 (two months free!)
As thanks for reading this far I am offering all of this for only $150:
- A permanent Featured Article with 3 photos (Normally $150 alone)
- One year Featured Listing (also shows up on Featured Listings module on home page) (Normally $100)
- Three images in the "San Diego at it's Finest" module on the home page, each with a description and link to a specific page on your site (Normally $60)
Purchased separately all of this would cost you $310. So, are you ready to get more business? Good!
To get all of the above for only $150: click here
To sign up and create your own listing: click here
GDS ColorFuse™ by Experience Glass for Kitchen and Bathroom Countertops
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Dazzling Solid Glass Kitchen and Bathroom Countertops
Experience Glass opened their doors in 1983, and though they specialize in cast/slumped glass, they are masters of all types of glass production. Their glass has been utilized for a wide variety of applications, and it can be installed in residential as well as commercial settings. Their most popular product is GDS Colorfuse™ Glass.
Architectural Etched Glass and Metal Works by Jay Curtis
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Art Glass and Metal has been producing etched/sandblasted glass in San Diego county for over 40 years. The origins of Art Glass and Metal were developed by creating ever more intricate etched glass and carved glass designs. Over the years and hundreds of commissions later, the techniques of casting and slumping glass and water-jet cutting have also been added to Jay's repertoire. These art glass techniques have enabled him to create a wide range of artistic styles, as evidenced by his large portfolio of original designs.
Overview of the process and ideas for applications of sandblasted glass
Sand blasted glass etching and sand carving are ways of creating images on glass. Sandblasting allows for greater variation through the use of different degrees of coarseness in sand, and also for depth blasting via additional time and pressure, giving the finished product a rich textured appearance.
Wood window frames, doors and crown moldings
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We replicate wood window frames, doors and crown moldings
for restoring old Craftsman, Spanish, Victorian buildings and homes
We know that in order to perfectly match the original windows in a historic building, they have to be made the same way they were originally built. That's why we use the traditional methods, historic machinery and real wood.
San Diego's Finest Stone and Tile Installations
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When we say "San Diego's Finest Stone and Tile Installations", we're not just blowing smoke - we've installed stone and tile in the homes of Theodor Geisel (Dr. Suess), San Diego Chargers running back LaDanian Tomlinson, San Diego Padre and Hall of Fame baseball player Tony Gwynn, local PGA golfing legend Phil Mickelson, and many more. Our work has been featured in Dwell Magazine and many other popular publications.
We are proud to be affiliated with a number of business groups, including being an A+ Accredited business with the Better Business Bureau. In addition to our A+ rating with the BBB, we are also proud to be affiliated with the National Tile Contractor's Association and the Blue Book Building and Construction Network.