21. Case study: Local business 25 enquiries per month from natural search £1,500 per month investment 150% ROI over 12 months
22. Case study: B2B service Ranked on 1 st page of Google for 30+ keywords Doubled leads to 100 per month in 6 months £3,000 per month investment with 200% ROI
23. Case study: Retail brand Doubled e-commerce sales to £1,200,000 400% ROI in 12 Months From £150,000 Investment
24. Case study: Luxury service 5,000 leads from SEO & PPC campaigns £3,500,000 in annual sales revenue £350,000 investment 1000% ROI
40. More Links… Higher Rankings… Greater Traffic… 2.42% TOTAL 3 rd Page 4.37% TOTAL 2 nd Page 89.71% TOTAL 1 st Page 6.05% 4 th 8.47% 3 rd 11.94% 2 nd 42.25% 1 st % of Click Throughs Natural Ranking
41. Use link research tools to find how many links your site has compared to your competitors’
42. Case Study: Link Power 413,730 websites link to Adobe Reader Most websites use link text “click here” Adobe ranked 1st for keyword “click here” Without the keyword being on their site!
43. articles, directories, linkbait, blogs, social media, authority The perfect link mix 1 part value 1 part volume 1 part variety Dashes of relevance
46. SEO Results Traffic Conversions Conversion ratios Channel comparisons Cost per acquisition Number of visits to conversion Average order value Sales value Lead volume Blog/Email subscribers Rankings Brand awareness Website reputation Website optimisation Market share Reduce PPC spend ROI Metrics
50. ROI SEO is a long-term investment Growth rate is dependent on budget/competition/technical constraints Value increases significantly after 6-12 months
51. Challenges Investments are £500 - £20,000/month Unmade changes cause slow results Campaigns are 6 – 12+ months
Do you have analytics? Do you have webmaster tools?
Who are your current customers? Where do you want orders from? What customers would you like more of? What products do you provide? What are your most popular products? Why do people buy from you rather than your competitors? What locations do you cover?
The BMW website was banned by Google for black hat search engine optimisation practices. This seriously impacted their marketing… and subsequent sales… and reputation. Only use white hat SEO techniques.
Can you make changes to the server and add new content? [Request example for your site].
[Request example for your site].
So how can you get more links?
With all those new websites and your competitors targeting the same keywords. Rankings will go up & down, this is normal. We report on your rankings and use these insights to identify which keywords to prioritise based on their shifts in the rankings
Project management of keyword research, competitor research, technical issues, content optimisation, link acquisition & reporting is ongoing and usually involves managing lots of different stakeholders. We provide an update of completed activity with a plan of upcoming activity to enable you to follow progress and integrate with other campaigns & developments.
Do you have a budget for SEO? What’s your overall marketing budget? What proportion would you ideally like to allocate? What typical returns do you expect from marketing investment? How many customers do you have? What’s the lifetime value of a customer? If SEO can demonstrate positive ROI within 6-12 months of starting, when would you want to start?
Do you foresee any issues with the above? Would others be involved in the decision?