Cash-for-cars service in the Czech Republic: from 0 to 1,324 visitors a month

At first glance, this website may look like a single landing page that we took from zero to ranking for all the top queries in 6 months.

In fact, the site has a number of subpages that are near-copies of the main page.

How it all happened

The client wanted to rank at the top for all queries related to selling a car for cash in the Czech Republic. So we built a website and started promoting it.

To turn visitors into clients as efficiently as possible, we decided to create a single landing page to serve as a template.

It also helped keep web development costs down.

We built the simplest possible page, designed to turn visitors into clients.

To boost conversions, we added a car price calculator so potential clients could request a price estimate for their vehicle.

Our work on the website

To promote the site, we duplicated the existing landing page and rewrote the content for each important keyword group. We built backlinks to these separate pages as well as to the main one.

Within the site, we also linked to the pages that mattered, using the right keywords as anchor text.

Step by step, we covered almost everything relevant to the client’s niche.

For example:

  • Cities
  • Car brands
  • Types of car buyouts
  • Car scrapping
  • Selling cars for parts, etc.

Of course, there are still plenty of queries (informational ones, for example) where the site could rank higher or that it doesn’t cover yet. But as we mentioned at the start, the promotion lasted only 6 months, and you simply can’t do everything in that time.

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We also worked on featured snippets to make the site as visible as possible in search results:

Google featured snippet from the client’s website for “jak prodat auto na náhradní díly” (how to sell a car for parts)

The site even started showing sitelinks in search results:

The client’s cash-for-cars website in Google results with sitelinks

Backlinks and link building

We implemented our link velocity plan on an ongoing basis.

The goal was to dilute the anchor-text links with naked URL links from forums and blogs. For the promoted pages, we also secured stronger links with the commercial anchors they needed.

We picked the best links from competitors’ backlink profiles and tasked our link builders with getting them. As a result, the client gained a number of links from the same sites that link to its competitors.

This Ahrefs screenshot shows the growth in referring domains. The steady pace of that growth clearly helped the overall result.

Ahrefs: referring domains grew from 0 in March 2019 to about 190 by December 2019

This Google Analytics screenshot of organic traffic (weekly users) completes the picture. Google Analytics: weekly organic search users, July 1–November 30, 2019, rising from 0 to about 300

Here’s how keyword rankings developed on Google: Collabim: Google rankings for car buyout keywords over time, e.g., “výkup aut” from 60+ to position 2

And here’s how rankings were distributed across our target keyword set:

Collabim: ranking distribution for 133 tracked keywords, April–December 2019

Organic traffic growth according to Ahrefs. Ahrefs: 467 estimated organic visits a month and 196 organic keywords as of December 11, 2019

And how did keyword rankings look on Seznam, the Czech search engine? Collabim: Seznam rankings for car buyout keywords over time, e.g., “výkup aut” from 60+ to position 3

And here’s the ranking distribution on Seznam:

Collabim: Seznam ranking distribution for 133 tracked keywords, April–December 2019

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