The The Brief – SEO services

Fairly loose brief requesting the initial implementation of SEO and taking control of the marketing, and PPC campaigns while becoming the custodian of the website and e-commerce products listed.

Background information

This company had built a strong business dealing with OEMs and providing advanced process control and industrial automation products across a range of industry sectors.

The website was built some 5+ years ago and no-one had ever really maintained or monitored it.

The competitiveness of the marketplace digitally is intense with direct competition via Amazon and Ebay and 2-3 multi-national corporates – in direct competition for keywords.

The product range was extensive and technical and the client believed that the majority of transactional keywords were discovered through part numbers, as such their structure and product titles had been built on this strategy.

Timescale

An initial 6 month period provided to provide the necessary reports and visualisations, implement tracking and tackle the extensive technical debt that had built up within the site.

At the end of Q2 and on month 6 I advise the need to thoroughly assess the performance and current/actual state of the site as often the visibility and therefore, reasonable goals has changed significantly, this period of change also requires assessment against the KPIs set for the initial 6month period and adjustments made along with a longer-term sustainable growth strategy.

The Result

New GA4 container with extensive bespoke reports created in the GA4 Dashboard and explore reports.

Extensive reports and strategy documents, providing detailed analysis of where the two sites were at and what recommended actions should be taken.

Extensive work completed with their webhosts. This agency was not an SEO agency and the site was a custom-coded WordPress design. Impressing the importance of page speeds and core page vitals was the first challenge as it was not only affecting their organic SERPs but also causing them to lose out on position lost due to rank factors within their paid-for advertising.

Additional work was required on content – there was very little landing page material or material to share on social – so creating the interest factor an absolute must!

The industry being so specific required strategic approaches to try and remain out of view to the competition and also to achieve SEO visibility on the relevant sectors to the products and general keywords relating to categories that had been added to the site, some years post-build, these additions were in the form of product only and as such the visibility on these products was minimal due to content and structure.

Extensive work was done on the PPC and shopping campaigns – not least structuring the merchant feeds to include the necessary information for validity but also try and limit the amount of cannibalisation existing in the product pages due to structure.

Below are some screenshots providing performance results within a 6mo period. The market traditionally enjoys a strong January/February and GA4 was not implemented until 20th Feb. The UA reporting and event tracking was not complete and so August was set as the month to regroup on Q2 reports and set in place the necessary budgets and actions to capitalise on the strong work completed across all areas of SEO from March 2023.

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In addition, there were many housekeeping elements that needed to be addressed – this included things such as redirects, and alt tags whilst implementing reviews and schema.

Some summary stats of what experienced SEO can do in a short time-frame.

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• The domain rating has always been low – this is largely due to the niche sector and little or no prior SEO work completed.
• Referring domains improved organically
• Product specific Keywords identified as Valuable and visibility for these keyword pools improved
• Semantic or generic keywords that were vital to the sector yet not gaining any traction were improved.

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