118118.com are leaders in business data services. Recent search engine algorithm changes
resulted in a sharp decline in indexed pages from 311,000 to just under 97,000 in Google with
a subsequent substantial loss of rankings across key search categories core to the company
business model.
Darryl Antonio (Digitalhound - CEO) was appointed as SEO Lead Consultant to immediately
address the loss of web page indexation in Google, improve SEO keyword performance and
develop an ongoing content marketing strategy addressing the Top 20 local business search
categories for 118118.com.
CHALLENGES FACED:*Educating Senior Management and staff located overseas through a steep learning curve on SEO best practices and getting buy-in to implement change.*Agreeing KPI’s with stakeholders and setting appropriate deadlines for measuring achievements.*Sifting through millions of records to find common performance snags. *Setting a ‘best practices’ adoption time-line to facilitate overhaul of existing website.*Competing against the clock to revert the downward slide in page indexing and organic search rankings. *Working with in-house developers to completely revamp the web portal to include all recommended changes.*Coordinating diverse skill-sets to achieve the desired goals within specific time-frames.*Balancing SEO with existing marketing & sales practices.
PRIORITY CHECKLIST:Deep dive site audit to determine:Top performing cities by local search categories.Canonical page|category hierarchy - Canonical link element & canonical HTTP headers.Keyword Selection|Keyword performance per category.Errors – Client errors such as broken links & server errors (No responses, 4XX, 5XX).In-links – All pages linking to a URL. Out-links – All pages a URL links out to.Anchor Text – All link text. Alt text from images with links. Follow & Nofollow – At page and link level.Images – All URL’s with the image link & all images from a given page.Page Depth Level - Word Count.
STRATEGY | SOLUTION:Structural changesto the site were necessary to counteract the de-indexing of pages in GoogleStrict canonicalisationhad to be adopted for each topic category.Page titles,meta descriptions and page content adapted to reflect new criteria.Internal linkinghad to use shorter optimised keyword structures under single sub-directory headings.LSI Keywordspecific content to be deployed on every top category identified page with stronger calls to action placed above the fold.Custom error pagesbuilt to return the correct status code to enhance SEO, search engine indexing and Google crawl budget.Content syndicationinitiated to disperse selectively to owned, influencer portals and Social Media platforms.High quality link acquisitionthrough PR, blogger outreach, content syndication, social media and video.
*SEO case study shows growth of 62.35% in organic search traffic, 106.27% in social media
and 57.29% improvement in keyword search rankings*
KEY RESULTS*
“Darryl was instrumental in making us realise that root & branch changes were vital to redress our current declining status, he galvanised the team into taking specific actions to facilitate our initial recovery & ongoing success. I’m happy to say that the outcomes achieved were way beyond our projected expectations”” Trevor Saadi - former CTO - 118118.com
The 118118 website was relaunched with significant changes to the site architecture, improvement in the internal linking structure and the introduction of high quality content across the website.
INDEXATION
Indexation climbed from 97,000 pages to 548,000 pages over a 12 week period in Google, surpassing the previous company best of 311,000 pages prior to the decline.
SEARCH TRAFFIC
Organic visitor traffic had almost doubled over a 12-week period from a high of 563,000 unique visits p/m to 914,000 unique visits p/m, due to sharp improvement in keyword rankings and increased page indexation.
LINK BUILDING
A concerted high quality link building campaign led to a dramatic improvement in page indexation and search engine rankings across 18 of the top 20 performance categories.
SOCIAL MEDIA
An aggressive Social Media and content distribution strategy. Facebook likes stood at just over 36,000 up from 17,453 at the time of completion.
118118.com are leaders in business data services. Recent
search engine algorithm changes resulted in a sharp
decline in indexed pages from 311,000 to just under
97,000 in Google with a subsequent substantial loss of
rankings across key search categories core to the
company business model.
Darryl Antonio (Digitalhound - MD) was appointed as
SEO Lead Consultant to immediately address the loss
of web page indexation in Google, improve SEO keyword
performance and develop an ongoing content marketing
strategy addressing the Top 20 local business search
categories for 118118.com.
KEY RESULTS*
CHALLENGES FACED:*Educating Senior Management and staff located overseas through a steep learning curve on SEO best practices and getting buy-in to implement change.*Agreeing KPI’s with stakeholders and setting appropriate deadlines for measuring achievements.*Sifting through millions of records to find common performance snags. *Setting a ‘best practices’ adoption time-line to facilitate overhaul of existing website.*Competing against the clock to revert the downward slide in page indexing and organic search rankings. *Working with in-house developers to completely revamp the web portal to include all recommended changes.*Coordinating diverse skill-sets to achieve the desired goals within specific time-frames.*Balancing SEO with existing marketing & sales practices.
PRIORITY CHECKLIST:Deep dive site audit to determine:Top performing cities by local search categories.Canonical page|category hierarchy - Canonical link element & canonical HTTP headers.Keyword Selection|Keyword performance per category.Errors – Client errors such as broken links & server errors (No responses, 4XX, 5XX).In-links – All pages linking to a URL. Out-links – All pages a URL links out to.Anchor Text – All link text. Alt text from images with links. Follow & Nofollow – At page and link level.Images – All URL’s with the image link & all images from a given page.Page Depth Level - Word Count.
STRATEGY | SOLUTION:Structural changesto the site were necessary to counteract the de-indexing of pages in GoogleStrict canonicalisationhad to be adopted for each topic category.Page titles,meta descriptions and page content adapted to reflect new criteria.Internal linkinghad to use shorter optimised keyword structures under single sub-directory headings.LSI Keywordspecific content to be deployed on every top category identified page with stronger calls to action placed above the fold.Custom error pagesbuilt to return the correct status code to enhance SEO, search engine indexing and Google crawl budget.Content syndicationinitiated to disperse selectively to owned, influencer portals and Social Media platforms.High quality link acquisitionthrough PR, blogger outreach, content syndication, social media and video.
“Darryl was instrumental in making us realise that root & branch changes were vital to redress our current declining status, he galvanised the team into taking specific actions to facilitate our initial recovery & ongoing success. I’m happy to say that the outcomes achieved were way beyond our projected expectations”” Trevor Saadi - former CTO - 118118.com
OUTCOMES - Achieved over the first 12-week period
SITE RELAUNCH
The 118118 website was relaunched with significant changes to the site architecture, improvement in the internal linking structure and the introduction of high quality content across the website.
INDEXATION
Indexation climbed from 97,000 pages to 548,000 pages over a 12 week period in Google, surpassing the previous company best of 311,000 pages prior to the decline.
SEARCH TRAFFIC
Organic visitor traffic had almost doubled over a 12-week period from a high of 563,000 unique visits p/m to 914,000 unique visits p/m, due to sharp improvement in keyword rankings and increased page indexation.
LINK BUILDING
A concerted high quality link building campaign led to a dramatic improvement in page indexation and search engine rankings across 18 of the top 20 performance categories.
SOCIAL MEDIA
An aggressive Social Media and content distribution strategy. Facebook likes stood at just over 36,000 up from 17,453 at the time of completion.
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