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Digital License: +488% Traffic Thanks to SEO in Software License Industry

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Digital License is a business offering digital activation keys for popular software solutions. Initially established in Germany, the company now offers its products in numerous markets, including the EU, US, and UK.

See how we boosted organic traffic by 488% with our SEO strategy.

Software licenses

WordPress

Spanish

+488% organic traffic from Google

Software licenses industry

WordPress (WooCommerce)

Spanish market

+488% organic traffic from Google search engine

Client’s Goals and Challenges

1.

Lack of visibility

Digital License struggled with online visibility in Google.

2.

Lack of content

Digital License did not have sufficient content on the website. The site did not have category descriptions and their structure wasn’t optimal.

3.

Goals:

Improving traffic and, most importantly, conversions in a relatively short time, since the Spanish market is less competitive than that in the UK, Netherlands or Germany.

Our Strategy

1.

Keyword Analysis

We started with a thorough keyword analysis to define what content should make its way into the category descriptions and rework their structure.

2.

Site Audit

We conducted a site audit to define elements that need optimization and build the basis of our strategy.

3.

Conclusions + Action Plan

We’ve discovered that the main efforts we need to prioritze were: restructuring categories, improving page loading speed and filling the site with content.

4.

Optimizations

We proposed a new category structure, expanded the content and offered technical recommendations to manage the issues that could block off our future efforts.

Even though we couldn’t do as much as we wanted in terms of the technical side of SEO, we still managed to achieve better results than we initially expected. How? Simply, by focusing on what we could handle. It is always good to look for solutions, not to focus on problems. ALso, working together with a committed client brings the best results.

What Worked Best?

We believe that the key to this client was:

  • Restructuring the categories to build a Googlebot-friendly website;
  • Creating high-quality content that can rank up in SERPs;
  • Menu rework
  • Fast content expansion

Our Process

Our SEO process included:

    • Understanding business goals
    • Analytics verification/implementation/initial status assessment
    • Keyword research
    • SEO audit and post-audit changes
    • On-Page SEO
    • Off-Page SEO
    • Content strategy: Creating and optimizing content for selected keywords and target audience.
    • Technical SEO: Fixes and enhancements to site infrastructure, such as mobile optimization, page load speed, and schema markup.
    • Analysis and monitoring

 

We’re delighted with the current outcome of our strategy. We’ve managed to significantly increase visibility, which is clearly visible in the data from Google Search Console and external tools like Semrush.

Bartek Kubala
Bartek Kubala Senior SEO Specialist

#1 Categories rework

Why and How?

  • We conducted keyword research for each category.
  • We restructured the categories with the cooperation of our client, so that Googlebots can navigate the site more easily.
  • We created high-quality content to attract traffic, rank up with the categories and turn all of this into conversions.

Effects:

  • Better website structure and new pages which can be optimized for SEO purposes

 

#2 Content expansion

Why and How?

  • When we started, the categories didn’t have high-quality content at all.
  • We started creating and implementing such content, beginning from the most important categories.
  • We based our content strategy on our keyword research and the proposed new category tree.

Effects

We started to rank for significantly bigger number of keywords for new and old categories and subcategories.

#3 Technical implementations

What and Why?

  • We wanted to fix some of the issues which might have been limiting to our content and optimization efforts.
  • We implemented the following changes:
    • improving headings structure on the homepage,
    • optimizing hreflang attributes,
    • implementing missing structured data,
    • improving loading speed,
    • robots.txt file optimization,
    • adding nofollow attributes to unwanted links,
    • breadcrumbs optimization.

Effects

  • Implementing these changes improved the technical state of the website, what was crucial for our content efforts to succeed.

What Did We Achieve?

Impressions:

  • The number of impressions increased by 450% since we started working with the client.

Digital License organic growth chart

Organic traffic:

The organic traffic increased by 488% since we started working with the client.

Keywords:

  • + 369% TOP 10 Keywords
  • + 337% TOP 50 Keywords

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