THE BACKGROUND
The agency was operating in a specialist, highly-competitive niche in London, but with poor organic rankings for the most appropriate search terms, they were almost purely reliant on pro-active business development for new leads and business.
With little to no organic traffic driving leads and new business, the client was looking for an SEO project that could deliver improved rankings, increased traffic, more leads and a positive ROI.
THE STRATEGY
We decided to focus on the client’s marquee search terms and ’theme’ the website accordingly, in order to improve the chances of successfully achieving the top rankings for these terms.
Even with this targeted strategy, the competitive nature of the client’s niche meant that achieving the project’s objectives could still be a medium to long term project.
As the client’s primary focus was on generating business in London, we decided to incorporate a Local SEO project, with the aim of ranking their Google My Business profile on the map rankings for their target search term.
This would offer a short to medium term opportunity to start developing leads and new business and start working towards providing a positive ROI for the project as soon as possible.
THE FOUNDATION
Alongside the website optimisation, we also focused our attention on their Google My Business profile.
Their GMB profile was optimised to increase its standalone relevance for the target search term and also work with the website optimisation to present a combined focus on the target terms that would benefit both the organic and map rankings.
THE PROJECT
The development of links from high-quality, relevant website would be necessary to develop the site’s authority and ability to rank for the most competitive search terms.
This was achieved using the expertise of our in-house research and outreach team, to ensure we encouraged links to the website that would ensure the success of the project.
As well as developing the backlink profile for the website, the authority of the GMB profile was improved though the creation of the most appropriate citations for the business.
THE RESULTS
“Now we sit first on Google for a number of key search terms we were working on and still growing on secondary words. Our inbound leads have increased and we have more credibility as an agency.”
Within just 2 months we were able to rank the client’s GMB profile in the map pack for their main search term.
In just 10 months, we were also able to achieve the top organic ranking for the client’s main search term.
Not only that, we also achieved top rankings for two, more competitive, secondary terms – in both the organic and map results.
More importantly, and something all our SEO projects are focused on achieving, these top rankings drove more traffic and increased new leads for the client – with the added benefit of improving their visibility in a competitive sector.
THE FUTURE
“All our goals have been achieved and we are now looking to grow further in other areas.”
Moving forward, despite having achieved the client’s objectives, we continue to work with them to maintain their position.
Because of the way we work they can be confident in their long term rankings, safe in the knowledge that our approach not only survives the regular Google updates, but actually benefits from them, as you can see in the graphs above.
We are also exploring new avenues for additional traffic generation and lead development with them, and a recent content marketing project to develop their blog now drives almost as much traffic as their main rankings.
If your website could benefit from a proven approach to SEO that delivers improved rankings, better traffic and, more importantly, increased leads for your business, our SEO packages could be the answer.
Whatever your business, and whatever your online objectives for it, we are confident we can provide an SEO project that will help achieve them – just look at the final feedback from the client in this Case Study: