About The Client
OGIO is a well-established global brand known for its high-quality bags, backpacks, and accessories. The company offers a diverse range of products, including backpacks, duffel bags, travel bags, golf bags, laptop cases, and various accessories. With a focus on functionality, style, and durability, OGIO continues to be a prominent name in the active lifestyle market.
Challenges Faced:
Despite the successful execution of SEO strategies, OGIO faced several challenges during the process:
- Slow Indexing of Product & Collection Pages: Despite optimizing meta titles, descriptions, and structured data, new product and collection pages took longer than expected to get indexed by search engines, delaying visibility and traffic growth.
- Fluctuations in Organic Rankings: After implementing keyword integration strategies and content optimizations, there were frequent fluctuations in rankings, making it challenging to maintain stable positions for high-priority keywords.
- Reoccurring Technical SEO Issues: Even after fixing 404 errors, duplicate content, and structured data issues, some technical errors reappeared due to CMS limitations and frequent website updates, impacting search performance.
- Backlink Quality vs. Quantity Dilemma: While working on off-page SEO, acquiring high-quality backlinks remained a challenge, as many authoritative websites had strict policies, limiting link-building opportunities.
- Local SEO Limitations for GMB Optimization: Despite optimizing the Google My Business (GMB) profile, local search visibility did not improve as expected due to intense competition and frequent changes in Google’s local ranking algorithm.
- Traffic Diversification: While most of the traffic came from non-branded, generic keywords, OGIO needed to balance brand-related traffic and organic growth from non-branded searches.
Strategies Implemented:
OGIO’s SEO strategy focused on enhancing organic visibility and driving revenue through effective keyword targeting, on-page optimization, and off-page activities.
A. On-Page SEO Activities:
- Keyword Targeting – Focused on transactional and commercial intent keywords to attract high-converting traffic.
- On-Page Optimization – Optimized product and collection pages with relevant meta titles, descriptions, and H1 headings.
- Technical Fixes – Resolved 404 errors, and duplicate content issues, and implemented proper canonical tags.
- Core Web Vitals & UX Improvements – Enhanced website speed, performance, and user experience.
- Content Marketing & Blog Optimization – Published optimized blogs and improved product image visibility using alt attributes and alt text.
- Internal Linking Optimization – Strategically placed relevant internal links on product, collection, and blog pages, using keyword-rich anchor text aligned with user intent to enhance both navigation and SEO performance.
- Structured Data Implementation – Integrated product schema to highlight key details like price, availability, and reviews for rich snippets, while also adding article and FAQ schema to enhance SERP visibility, click-through rates, and user engagement.
- Competitor Benchmarks – Conducted keyword gap analysis to identify high-value keywords competitors ranked for but were missing from our portfolio, refining our content strategy.
Additionally, monitored competitor backlink profiles to uncover authoritative domains for strategic link-building opportunities.
- Local SEO – Created & optimized local GMB profile by enhancing the profile, adding targeted keywords to enhance brand visibility & awareness.
- High Impact Queries & Pages Analysis – Utilized SEMrush, GSC, and GA to identify high-impact pages and queries driving significant traffic. These insights enabled focused optimizations for maximum growth contribution.
- Low CTR Pages Analysis & Optimization: Identified key business pages with low CTR and refined meta tags, headers, and content to align with user intent better. These enhancements boosted click-through rates and overall organic performance.
B. Off-Page SEO Activities:
- Backlink Building – Acquired high-quality backlinks on niche websites with high DA & PA & minimal spam scores and used a diversified list of 15+ activities such as Guest outreach, Quoras, Social sites, Classifieds, Articles, Web 2.0, Forums, and image submissions, etc.
- Domain Authority Growth – Enhanced overall domain authority by diversifying and strengthening the backlink profile, leading to improved search rankings and increased trust from search engines.
- Organic Traffic Growth – Implemented robust off-page SEO strategies to boost rankings, drive targeted traffic, and improve the website’s overall organic visibility.
- Competition Analysis – Analyzed high-traffic pages of key competitors at the keyword level and conducted backlink gap analysis to uncover strategic opportunities for improvement.
Lost Backlink Analysis – Identified and removed negative and spammy links, while actively recovering valuable lost backlinks to reinforce and strengthen the overall backlink portfolio.
Results:-
The following are the key results from Dec’23 to Nov’24, highlighting the impact of strategic SEO efforts on organic traffic, revenue growth, and search visibility:-
1. SEO Performance Metrics
- Impressions surged by 372%, highlighting a significant boost in search visibility.
- Clicks more than doubled, demonstrating the strong impact of SEO efforts.
- The average position improved from 20+ to 14 across all keywords, while CTR reached 1.5%, suggesting opportunities for further optimization to enhance click-through rates.
2. Keywords Performance:
- 91% of traffic came from non-branded keywords.
- The number of ranked keywords grew steadily, with a strong presence in the top 10 positions.
- The site gained multiple SERP features, improving its search presence and driving more organic traffic.
3. Keyword Intent Breakdown: ~70% of the keywords are commercial and transactional, indicating strong relevance from an eCommerce perspective.
- Informational: 27%
- Navigational: 3%
- Commercial: 27%
- Transactional: 43%
4. Organic Sessions
- Organic sessions showed a remarkable 78% growth, highlighting significant improvements in visibility and reach.
- Incremental increase in traffic, reflecting consistent engagement and continued SEO effectiveness.
5. Organic Revenue Trend:
- Organic revenue grew steadily by over 185%, reflecting robust growth.
- The highest surge occurred from the sixth month onwards, with revenue more than doubling during that period.
6. Discovered and Lost Linking Domains
- The graph shows a consistent acquisition of new backlinks over the past 60 days.
- The rise in linking domains contributes to improved SEO rankings and search engine trust.
7. Backlink Types and Link Attributes
- 70% of backlinks come from image submissions, indicating a strong visual content strategy.
- 83% of backlinks are follow links, enhancing domain authority and organic search performance.
8. Domain Authority
- DA increased by 4 times in a year, indicating continuous improvement in the site’s credibility.
- Ongoing link-building efforts contributed significantly to boosting the website’s domain authority and overall SEO performance.
Key Takeaways from OGIO’s SEO Case Study:
- Organic search traffic increased by 78%
- Organic revenue grew steadily by over 185%, reflecting robust growth.
- OGIO ranked for 1,000+ keywords, with more than 70% having commercial or transactional intent, indicating higher conversion potential.
- 91% of traffic came from non-branded keywords, highlighting strong SEO performance.
- Impressions surged by 372% & Clicks more than doubled, demonstrating the strong impact of SEO efforts.