Chi Chi’s organic traffic was dwindling after a difficult period post site rebuild (changing platforms in the process) which ran head-on into the early months of COVID-19. As the fashion brand primarily was known for its dresses and partywear, the impact of COVID-19 was keenly felt. The site needed a brand new SEO strategy that would address the rot in terms of organic traffic.
Terrier set out building a strategy centred around three core ideas.
Structurally, the site was in need of a lot of TLC post-relaunch. The move to Shopify had caused a number of URL changes that severed a lot of the brand’s existing organic footprint. Terrier got the site to best practice across the board whilst also prioritising page load speed (key in Google’s upcoming algorithm changes).
From a content standpoint, the site was very low on valuable content. Fresh category texts were created across the site alongside optimised title tags, meta descriptions as well as over 900 fresh product titles (based around searchable terms such as colour).
Authority was the third area of focus with targeted outreach to micro influencers on an unprecedented scale doing the social signalling leg work. Hundreds of micro influencers every month were sent product in exchange for coverage. We ran a digital PR campaign to capitalise on the same search terms/topics in tandem with this activity.
The SEO activity generated the following results for Chi Chi:
Sons is an exciting new brand addressing problems in men’s health that aren’t spoken about, including male hair loss. They had a great product – a tailored monthly treatment package of hair loss products deliver discreetly to your door. However, they didn’t know how to make their product have an impact in their field and be seen by their target audience.
In order to reach Sons’ target audience, we conducted a full-scale outreach project across platforms – contacting men aged between 25-35 from a number of backgrounds and lifestyles. We offered a free Sons shampoo in return for influencer promotion to create brand loyalty and raise awareness of the brand amongst consumers.
Our outreach project proved succesful amongst Sons’ target audience, helping the brand to get the awareness it deserved following its product launch.
A total of 98 influencers have agreed so far: 84 Instragam users, 12 Bloggers and 2 Youtubers.
The brand has a potential audience of 549,551 unique followers that continues to grow.
We estimate that the brand has been seen by 102,944 users.
There has been an engagement of 3451 comments and likes.
Sacet has an ethical approach to diamond jewellery that deserved to be in the face of consumers. Based off the Sanskrit word for consciousness, sustainability is at the core of the brand’s ethos. However, the site wasn’t performing well in organic searches and the brand wasn’t ranking for lab-grown diamond-related terms – their most valuable selling point, naturally. Put simply: The brand was a leading force in an emerging industry, it just made little to no noise digitally – especially with regards to organic.
We wanted to make Sacet visible to their core audience group – simple. Our approach was split into building content, diversifying the backlink profile, spreading the word through outreach and technically getting the site into shape. From a content perspective, hundreds of highly-specific categories were keyword mapped and supplied with unique, keyword-rich category texts. In addition, the brand’s ethos was highlighted across the blog – fueling the site with even more content in the eyes of Google. We then set out developing the site from an authority standpoint. This was primarily achieved through building the authority of the site – we contacted over 600 influencers over a three-month period to create content around a piece from the Sacet collection. The brand needed to reach new audiences – influencer outreach allowed us to do this in an authentic, user-generated way.
The Sacet site now has a consistent monthly stream of organic traffic built up from highly-relevant keywords. The site now ranks in the top five for almost all lab-grown diamond-related terms. In addition to these, the site now has an organic presence across a variety of broader jewellery-based terms. There has been a 250% increase in organic traffic over the last six months compared to the previous time period last year. Through influencer marketing, the brand now has a high level of brand awareness and advocacy amongst its primary audiences.
Here’s a breakdown of the numbers:
Total Instagram stories live: 181
Instagram audience reached: 561k
Total Instagram audience(s): 4.2m
Total Instagram posts live: 83
Active engagements: 87k
Total influencer collaborations: 135
London City Smiles is a great dental practice at the heart of the Islington, but its site wasn’t allowing that to be known by users. The site’s navigation was unorganised and the content was confused – this was affecting user experience and preventing people from conversions.
We conducted a complete update of the site – re-working its navigation, creating clearer drop down menu options and rewriting every treatment page. These improvements were conducted to improve the user experience and encourage conversions.
The changes we made to the London City Smiles site improved the user experience by making the site easier to navigate and the content clearer to follow. Improving these areas led to considerable gains to the site’s traffic flow:
My Car Credit is an accessible car finance company at the forefront of its industry. However, their site indicated differently – it was losing traffic dramatically year-on-year and the conversion rate was quickly heading in the same direction.
We had a complete overhaul of the site’s content, optimising existing pages and creating dozens of FAQ-related articles to inform users about the brand. This content was then used to create a series of new YouTube videos. To make all of this work count, we also increased the site’s link profile through seeded infographics to improve its authority.
Our comprehensive approach to content increased the site’s visibility in organic searches almost immediately. This drove organic traffic to the site and increased the conversion rate, making a U-turn of the consistent year-on-year decline that the site had experienced.
Paladone is the biggest brand nobody had heard of (until recently). The brand began life back in 1994 and has grown into the UK’s premier innovative, trend-based gift & merchandise company. They create some of the best gifts on the market but they struggled with advocacy, especially amongst target B2C audiences. The problem lay largely with lack of visibility the brand had on platforms such as Instagram and YouTube. Put simply: The brand had a lot of fans, they just didn’t know it yet.
We conducted a mass scale outreach project to raise awareness of the brand across Instagram contacting thousands of influencers. Every content creator we contacted was specifically chosen with one of the brand’s core audience profiles in mind. This was a collaborative process between us and the internal marketing team. We then created a timeline of specific pushes for select products – mini-campaigns within themselves, as such. This tailored approach allowed the brand to rapidly build up authentic brand awareness and advocacy. We are an SEO-first agency, so the added bonus of a growing natural, trustworthy backlink profile – both follow and nofollow – was not by chance. The mix of Instagram social signalling and link building balanced each other out.
The goal of the project was brand awareness and we built this with an enormous number of highly-relevant people who otherwise may not have known about Paladone. A high percentage of influencers had seen, bought or gifted products from Paladone without realising it.
Here’s a breakdown of the numbers:
Total Instagram stories live: 735
Instagram audience reached: 863k
Total Instagram audience(s): 3.52m
Total Instagram posts live: 200+
Active engagements: 46.5k
Total blog collaborations: 10
Blog views reached: 28.2k
Total influencer collaborations: 249
Trunki is a popular brand that deserved to have that reflected with their target audience. However, when we began working with them, their visibility on Instagram and YouTube was too low and their was no blog content from clients linking back to the site.
We launched a full-scale outreach project across Instagram and YouTube, as well as with bloggers. We focused in on Trunki’s main product (the Trunki itself) to get the ball rolling. Following on from some strong content collaborations with successful influencers and bloggers, we created additional outreach around other products. This also enabled us to build relationships for the circulation of vouchers, news, discounts and promotions.
We saw some incredible numbers from our outreach projects, improving Trunki’s advocacy with their target audience:
Instagram influencers: 77
Total Instagram audience reached: 980k
Total Instagram engagements: 17.5k
Bloggers: 22
Total blog views reached: 63k
YouTube influencers: 6
Total YouTube views reached: 3.5k
Total influencers worked with: 142
Trunki’s site was in need of attention. Traffic to the site had stagnated (especially from organic sources) rankings were dwindling and the brand was relying on paid searches, which was burning up valuable spend for the business. The trouble lay with their content and optimisation – in lots of areas this was lacking and in others there were duplication issues.
We hit the ground running with content. We created category texts, integrated the blog onto the site (which was previously on a separate domain) and rewrote all the duplicate content to be completely unique. We also reworked a large amount of the keyword mapping to make sure that there was a better response to valuable search terms. As a leading recruitment agency, Cobalt constantly connect with potential employees and recruiting employers alike. However, the Cobalt site’s conversation rate was poor and had the potential to be far stronger. In addition, the site suffered from a low rate of organic users entering the site from any page other than the homepage. The bounce and exit rates (from organic search) were correspondingly high.
The content and optimisation of the site brought it in-line with best practice, improving its structure, size and organisation.
Digital advertising is defined by its multiplicity. Whether you’re an established brand or a start-up, the number of different routes you can take in digitally promoting your brand is (almost) endless.
Well, most of the time.
Liquid Ice approached us to help launch and promote their brand new e-liquid and vaping hardware store. Launching a new ecommerce website in an area where all forms of online advertising are off-limits – such as e-cigarettes and vaping – is an incredibly difficult task.
No social ads. No PPC. No TrueView. No display ads.
Terrier set out drawing up a large scale, multi-channel outreach project. We specifically targeted the hundreds of micro-influencers in the European vaping community. In exchange for reviewing and posting content, influencers were able to sample the Liquid Ice range.
TFrom the off, we were keen to build an attribution model for every aspect of our outreach.
Every IG feed like and comment.
Every IG story.
Every view on YouTube.
Every blog post read.
To do this, we worked out our product cost (incl. P&P) and divided this by whatever our reach metric was. We worked out the monetary value depending on the specific format of each platform:
Instagram: PRICE (Product cost + P&P) / LIKES (Total IG likes on all posts by influencer)
YouTube: PRICE (Product cost + P&P) / VIEWS (Total YT views one each video by vlogger)
Blogs: PRICE (Product cost + P&P) / TRAFFIC (Total traffic on blog site over a month)
In regards to the blogs, we use a digital tool called SEMRush to estimate the amount of traffic that sees the product on the site over a month.
Our directed activity on this platform is cheaper and more effective than any other method. We estimate that our activity will have a reach of over 800,000 people. Using conservative conversion rates, we estimate that this reach will guarantee a recall of over 100,000 users, and garner a direct engagement of 53,000 users.
Put simply, Instagram ads are too expensive and time-consuming, in light of these results.
Bloggers
Our activity with bloggers has a dual-effect: it reaches potential customers and improves the Liquid Ice site. We reached over 100,000 users through blog reviews, and at the same time gained trusted links to the Liquid Ice, improving its link profile and authority.
YouTube
Our activity with the e-liquid vlog community gained 5,000 views of videos purely reviewing our products.
They also provide vital no-follow links which balance the link profile of the site. This helps the strength of the Liquid Ice site to look natural and be respected by Google.
The KiK site had once performed extremely strongly in organic search listings, and reliably brought in a healthy revenue. However, over 2016 the brand lost this momentum. A decrease in revenue was paired with falling organic search listing figures.
Terrier began exploring methods to build the site’s authority. Technical issues, such as page load speed, were identified and addressed. The site was updated with fresh, reworked content. To increase brand exposure, Terrier contacted hundreds of influential vaping reviewers, experts and vloggers from around the globe. These relationships promoted the KiK brand across a variety of respected channels.
KiK’s organic traffic listings rose back to the figures achieved previously.
Over 80 vloggers, bloggers & Instagram users agreed to review the product.
The brand got a top 3 ranking for the term “e cigarettes” in Google.
Overall sales from organic search increased 46% year on year.
