Case study · Programmatic SEO · Trilingual
One team, one written fixed quote — across three languages.
A Malaysian contractor solving the category's core trust problem — homeowners juggling three unreliable contractors with surprise mid-project invoices — by positioning as one team, one written fixed quote, across three languages. Malaysia's home-services market is genuinely trilingual; most competitors serve only one language well.
- Client
- RumahPro (TRC Pak Holding portfolio company)
- Industry
- MEP + renovation contractor · KL / Selangor / JB
- Year
- 2024
- Service
- Custom websites
- Stack
- Custom front endNative trilingual routing (/ms/, /zh/)Programmatic page systemWhatsApp pre-fill
- Live
- rumahpro.my
The brief
Win the Mandarin- and Bahasa-speaking homeowner before the English-only competitor sees the lead.
Malaysia’s home-services market is genuinely trilingual (Bahasa Malaysia, English, Mandarin), and most competitors serve only one language well. The site had to rank and convert natively in all three, across three regional markets — while structurally answering the category’s biggest pain: surprise quotes from juggled contractors.
What we built
Native trilingual delivery + 12 services × 30+ areas + pre-filled WhatsApp.
Native trilingual routing — not a translation plugin, but proper /ms/
and /zh/ URL paths so each language version is independently indexable. On
top of that: 12+ service pages (plumbing, electrical, aircond, kitchen/bathroom/full-home
renovation, carpentry & joinery, waterproofing, painting & ceiling, appliance
repair, office fit-out, commercial refrigeration) × 30+ area pages across KL (Mont Kiara,
Bangsar, Cheras, Kepong…), Selangor (PJ, Subang/USJ, Shah Alam, Puchong, Kota
Damansara), and JB (Iskandar Puteri, Skudai). WhatsApp deep-links pre-fill the service
and area so the lead arrives qualified.
Architecture & SEO surface
Trilingual × service × region matrix — a moat that takes 3× the work to copy.
- Trilingual × service × region matrix — three languages multiply an already-large service/area footprint. A competitor would need to rebuild three times to match it.
- Single-contractor / full-MEP positioning written into every page — the structural answer to “why not three separate contractors.”
- Credibility on real Malaysian credentials — Suruhanjaya Tenaga (electrical), CIDB (construction), contractor insurance, written warranty, transparent 5-step flow.
- WhatsApp pre-fill removes lead effort and pre-segments by service + area.
Why it works
The 中文 homeowner segment is unclaimed territory by English-only sites.
The Mandarin-speaking homeowner segment in KL/Selangor/JB is large, high-value, and badly served by English-only contractor sites. Capturing 中文 search intent natively is unclaimed territory most competitors ignore — that’s where the cheap, high-intent traffic is. Combined with the “one team, fixed written quote” trust hook (the exact pain in this market), the build is engineered to win the customer before the call-out.
The build