The Challenge of of Startup Growth

What’s good for the user is good for search. The biggest challenge of the SEO audit for On One Studios (and all companies) is maintaining a customer-focused approach when optimizing.

Every action in the audit must answer the question: how does this help the user on your website? Each tweak needed to embody the core drive of the company.

We came up with a human-centric SEO strategy to guide my approach. The web audit was designed to address three critical issues:

Understanding the company’s core value proposition and drive.

Great tactics mean nothing without a proper guiding strategy. Before I started any optimization, I spoke with management on what constituted the company’s core drives. By understanding their unique selling proposition, I could write copy that reflected their goals.

Addressing website architecture problems with user-centric best practices.

The website needed to make sense to customers. From URL structure to homepage navigation, I needed to make sure each click on the website made it easy to get to a sale.

Identify competitor SEO strategies to implement off-page SEO tactics.

A key pillar of getting a site to rank is the number of backlinks pointing to it. I needed to create a comprehensive, white hat backlink strategy to boost the site’s domain authority. By looking at who our competitors were linked (and linking to), I got a sense of the types of backlinks I was looking for.

This client did not have any formal digital marketing infrastructure across it's seven brands within Europe. They had no organizational framework or digital center of excellence to house their digital marketing frameworks. Additionally, they did not have any SEO program, and needed to expand search visibility across six European countries, where their target market resides.

eMerchant Authority was a start up which was looking to generate leads in a hyper competitive industry Merchant Processing.

Like most industries, the building industry is VERY competitive. Builders often have very high marketing budgets and utilize this spend on SEO + ads via established agencies.

The reason why they came to us over other agencies is that we're an agency owned and run by digital marketers, not salespeople.

In a competitive market, it is very hard to find a solution that makes you stand out - we know that you don't win at marketing by following the crowd.

New Choice Homes wanted innovation and clever ideas rather than simply rolling out a standard search campaign and SEO plan.