Case Study
SEO Blog
Strategy #2
Boost Organic Traffic With Engaging Content
Background
Objectives
A strategy so nice we had to try it twice (sorry, we couldn’t help it). After the incredible success of our first case study employing this strategy, we decided we wanted to demonstrate that we could reproduce it, and…. (spoiler alert)… we did.
To recap the objectives from the original case study, in short, we set out to boost organic traffic through an engaging blog. We wanted to leverage the blog to create a content repository of meaningful content that would help generate organic traffic.
PPC
Analytics
Call Tracking
Infographics
Actions
What We Did…
We leveraged the same basic strategy and tactical elements from the original case study. We used 8-10 blog posts per month, with 2 custom infographics and 2 custom videos. We also used social media and a small social media budget (about the same as before, around $500/month) to promote the blog content as it was released to the site.
We changed the topic strategy slightly, as we didn’t strictly adhere to topical posts. Topical posts were still a large part of the content we helped the client produce, but we also leveraged data from another medium: PPC. As a Pay Per Click client we had access to a ton of raw query data via Google Ads. We examined the raw query data for the previous year and pulled out any interrogative queries, i.e. – any user search that started with who, what, when, where, etc… We wanted to identify what our target demographic was asking, so we could sprinkle answers into our blog strategy. This was a very good idea…
Results
What Happened?
The results were (once again) off the charts. We once again hit a few topical home runs which really helped the over results. Having a few posts go viral definitely helps, but keep in mind – we’re only including organic visits in our analysis of results, as that was the objective (increase organic traffic). So even if something went viral on social, we still needed to demonstrate traffic spillover from organic – which we did.
We started with an organic traffic baseline of just under 1,300 in the month when we began our blog campaign. At the conclusion of our campaign 12 months later we had just under 26k unique visitors that month – a 20X increase in 1 year. The year over year increase in organic traffic was nearly 1500% (from 8k unique visitors to 125k). We also focused a little more on engagement this time around, paying special attention to whether or not the additional traffic was actually producing any ROI. It was somewhat expected that metrics like time on site and pages/visit went down – it’s the nature of topical content, it often just gets consumed and then users leave. However, we also noticed an organic increase in call volume of 233%, which is the clients main advertising objective (phone calls).
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(YoY) Organic Traffic Increase
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Organic Phone Calls
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