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WordPress SEO Case Study: Boosting Sales by 123% in Just 6 Months

Introduction

This eCommerce SEO case study examines the SEO strategy implemented for a client in an X industry who has chosen to keep their website domain confidential due to specific industry-related concerns. Our focus was on enhancing the website’s visibility and organic keyword rankings through a customized SEO strategy. The project entailed a comprehensive audit and analysis of the current SEO setup, followed by strategic adjustments to improve organic search performance.

 

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When the client first approached us, their website was in a precarious state, having been previously managed by an SEO agency. Unfortunately, the prior agency exploited our client’s limited SEO knowledge by implementing questionable strategies, including creating numerous spammy links and relying on low-quality AI-generated content while neglecting crucial technical aspects of SEO.

Our primary goal was to rectify these past mistakes and improve the website’s overall health score. This involved a comprehensive cleanup of the spammy backlinks and the AI-generated content that did not meet our quality standards.

We were committed to restoring the website’s integrity and enhancing its technical performance. Our SEO strategy was laser-focused on boosting the rankings of key terms for the website’s collection pages, particularly within the Canadian market.

300%

Boost in Organic Traffic

123%

Increased Conversion Rate

6 Months

Timeline

Strategy

๐–๐ž๐›๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ž ๐‚๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ง๐ฎ๐ฉ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐Ž๐ฉ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง

In addressing the challenges faced by the client’s WordPress website, we collaborated with their WordPress developers and implemented a series of critical enhancements to streamline functionality and improve user experience.

Initial efforts focused on optimizing the site’s infrastructure. This included removing redundant plugins that were slowing down the site, updating the WordPress core and other essential components to ensure security and compatibility, and performing JS and CSS minification to reduce load times.

Beyond these technical improvements, our strategy also targeted the website’s conversion optimization issues. We identified several barriers within the user journey that could potentially deter a visitor from becoming a customer. For instance, the purchase process involved unnecessary steps that complicated checkout, leading to potential customer drop-off.

We also found orphan pages that lacked proper navigation, making valuable content inaccessible to users, and contact pages that were not user-friendly. To resolve these issues, we streamlined the checkout process, ensuring a smoother transition from product selection to purchase.

Next, our experts restructured the site’s architecture to integrate orphan pages and revised the layout of contact pages to make them more intuitive. Additionally, we strategically placed clear and compelling calls-to-action (CTAs) across the website to guide users toward conversion goals.

 

๐Š๐ž๐ฒ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐‘๐ž๐ฌ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐œ๐ก

Next, we performed comprehensive keyword research to uncover potential opportunities for collection pages, aiming to boost our rankings across various industry-relevant keywords. This process also led us to discover numerous product-related search terms as well. A key finding from our research was the identification of multiple location-based keywords. These keywords presented minimal keyword difficulty, yet they attracted significant search volumesโ€”an ideal scenario for targeted collection-pages creation.

These insights motivated us to develop 10 to 15 dedicated location pages. The outcome was remarkable: ๐Ÿ—๐ŸŽ% ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฌ๐ž ๐ฉ๐š๐ ๐ž๐ฌ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐š๐œ๐ก๐ข๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐จ๐ฉ ๐ซ๐š๐ง๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ, maintaining the number one position for an extended period. This strategy enhanced our visibility in search engines and significantly increased our organic traffic, underscoring the effectiveness of our targeted SEO approach.

 

๐‚๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ

In crafting the SEO strategy for our client, we recognized early on the unique challenges posed by their industry. The nature of the content meant that educational and governmental institutions typically dominated top rankings on search engines. This insight was crucial as it shaped our approach to not relying solely on blog posts for driving organic traffic. Despite these hurdles, we identified a powerful opportunity to enhance the website’s overall topical authorityโ€”a critical factor for long-term SEO success.

Our plan centered on creating 20 to 30 pieces of high-quality, manually written content. Each piece was crafted to be comprehensive and insightful, ensuring that the information provided was valuable and thoroughly interconnected through strategic internal linking.

 

๐‹๐ข๐ง๐ค-๐๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐๐ข๐ง๐ 

At this stage, we concentrated on the crucial area of link-building, which presented unique challenges given the industry’s restrictions. Our approach avoided the common pitfall of acquiring low-quality, spammy links from irrelevant or penalized websites, which can harm rather than help organic rankings. Instead, we targeted websites with proven traffic and a clean history, focusing on opportunities for guest posts and link insertions. Although these options came at a higher cost, they provided significant value by associating our client’s website with credible sources and enhancing their overall link profile.

 

๐Ÿš€ Results

๐Ž๐ซ๐ ๐š๐ง๐ข๐œ ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ ๐ข๐ง๐œ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ž๐ ๐›๐ฒ ๐Ÿ‘๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ%: In a remarkable six-month period, I observed a significant boost in organic traffic

 

๐Ÿ—๐Ÿ“% ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฅ๐จ๐œ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ฉ๐š๐ ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ซ๐š๐ง๐ค #๐Ÿ: we successfully secured the number one position on search engine results pages for the majority of our collection page keywords.

 

๐Ž๐ซ๐ ๐š๐ง๐ข๐œ ๐ฌ๐š๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ค๐ฒ๐ซ๐จ๐œ๐ค๐ž๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐›๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ‘%: Over the past six months, we’ve witnessed a remarkable transformation in our organic sales, which have skyrocketed by 123%. This significant growth is another direct result of our strategic SEO efforts.

 

 

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