Promees is a Polish online store selling exclusive lingerie sets and lingerie accessories. At the time the owner contacted us, the website was neither optimized for search engines, nor did it generate much unpaid traffic. Google Analytics reports showed that promees.pl got +/- 9,500 organic visitors a month, which constituted just 18% of the overall web traffic. The client aspired to make the organic search the main traffic channel.
More organic traffic was meant to be only a stirring of the increased sales. To do that, we had to develop a strategy that would not only attract more customers but also make them purchase items from the Promees offer. One way to do so is by establishing the brand as an authority and industry expert, which we were trying to achieve through quality content published on the company blog.
There were three reasons why optimizing Promees was an ambitious and pretty exciting project. Firstly, we worked on promoting products that had been just entering the market, setting a new trend. Secondly, in terms of lingerie, these are pictures that sell the product, not the words – yet, it doesn’t mean we could give up on the written content. Thirdly, after a few months of optimizing, the client decided to create a completely new design for the online store. From that moment I had to work closely with the developer team, giving them suggestions for better UX and SEO.
Our SEO process started pretty normally: we optimized category and product pages. A few months later the client informed us about the changes in design they were planning to introduce within the next few months. To prevent the website visibility from plunging, we put forward practical suggestions concerning UX and website structure.
The initial project of the website design was far from being SEO- and UX-friendly. However, during the meeting with a web administrator, we succeeded at working out the best solutions that would bring more customers to the client’s website, and keep them engaged.
Some of the improvements included:
Soon we found out that all the changes helped the client’s website rank higher. Not only did they increase the organic search traffic but they also made the website appear higher in the SERPs.
When the website finally had a new layout and became more friendly for the users, we could start writing new pieces of text to saturate the pages with keywords.
Even though there were just around 40 pages within Promees domain, our copywriting team had much work to do. For example, they prepared texts for homepage sliders and main categories.
Additionally, the client took us up on our suggestion of creating the company blog. This way Promees made a room on the website for more content to
When all the keyword-rich pieces of content were published on the client’s website, we noticed that it started appearing on SERPs more often – it was called out by the product-related keywords.
As the product range was gradually expanding, we suggested adding separate product pages and categories to the website.
Promees was growing bigger as they were adding more and more products to their regular offer. This way the almost 40-page website became a website having over 130 pages within one domain. Our copywriting team wrote unique texts for each product page.
Additionally, we had to use 301 redirect to move the traffic from the old pages, which were no longer relevant to a regular user, to their newer counterparts.
To our surprise, the larger number of pages negatively affected the website loading speed. Since long loading time is one of the main reasons for increasing the bounce rate, we suggested downsizing the images used on promees.pl.
At the time of writing this case study, Promees website is achieving highly satisfying results. It is more visible on Google and appears higher in the search engine result page. This in turn has a positive impact on the organic traffic that is driven to the client’s website in greater amounts.
The moment we started optimizing promees.pl for search engines, we also began working on improving the domain authority. The off-site process for Promees depended on receiving quality backlinks from relevant websites covering the topics connected with women’s lingerie.
Before the link building process was launched, there were 286 referring domains that directed the web traffic to the client’s website. Later, it grew to 370.
Here is the link profile before we started the off-site prices for Promees
Here is the same link profile but after a few months of running the off-site prices for Promees
When it comes to Domain and Page Authority, those two metrics also improved as a result of our off-site efforts:
Before
After
RESULT 1 Increased organic traffic by 77% in 9 months
RESULT 2 Increased sales by 52% in 9 months
RESULT 3 Increased visibility
RESULT 4 Stronger keyword position
