+375% in 7 months – SEO for a massage salon

Massage salon in Prague: search traffic up 375% in 7 months

723 → 3,437users from search per month
+375%in 7 months
1,005keywords in Google (Ahrefs, November 2018)
37keywords in the top 10 (Ahrefs)

Client: a massage salon in Prague.

The salon owner wanted more bookings from search. The website wasn’t optimized for search engines, and we built the project practically from scratch.

Client’s goals and starting point
  • 🔍More bookings from search
  • 🛠️Adapt the website for search engines
  • 🌱Build the project practically from scratch
Egor

“Many thanks to Topranker.cz. We have been working with them for almost a year, and we noticed excellent results within the first few months. Great people, reasonable prices, and a lot of flexibility in handling everything. They’re a reliable partner in growing our online business. …”

Egor, massage salon owner

From 723 to 3,437 users from search per month

The website had been around for over a year, but it had no meta tags, no usable copy, and no conversion tracking. Over 7 months, traffic from search grew to 3,437 users per month.

Users from search per month723 → 3,437
1,005keywords in Ahrefs
37of them in Google’s top 10
81%of desktop traffic from search

Source: Google Analytics (organic search, November 2017 → June 2018), Ahrefs (November 28, 2018), and Similarweb (80.83% of desktop traffic from search). Top 10 = the first page of Google results.

What we did

The weaknesses we found and how we fixed them:

Before
What we did
Meta tags were missing entirely.
→
We wrote optimized, compelling meta tags.
Poor copy: on average 500 characters per page, low quality and stuffed with keywords. One landing page for absolutely all queries.
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Based on the analysis, we built the page structure, rewrote all the copy, and gradually wrote optimized copy for the new pages that were missing at the start.
The website had 3 language versions: EN, CZ, and RU.
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We ran keyword research for all versions. Russian had few high-volume queries, so we kept only the Czech and English versions.
Slow page loading.
→
We set up browser caching and removed everything that was needlessly slowing the site down.
Visual content (images, photos, videos) was missing.
→
We optimized the images and added more visual content. We also structured it better (lists of benefits, lists and summaries, clearly presented key information, a logical flow).
The site had practically nothing that increases the conversion rate (call-to-action content, effective buttons).
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We implemented an online chat with automatic triggers to get more orders.
There was no conversion tracking tool, so the return on promotion spending couldn’t be determined.
→
We set up tracking of key user interactions.
No rich snippets and, overall, nothing that positively affects clicks from search results.
→
We added rich snippets to increase CTR (click-through rate in search) on Google.
No internal linking.
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We set up internal linking so that it points primarily to the most important pages.
Duplicate, technical, and other unnecessary pages in the search engine index.
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We blocked the unnecessary pages from indexing and excluded them from internal linking.
Most of the existing backlinks were low-quality spam.
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We got rid of the spam links and built new ones from relevant websites.

Next steps

  • Competitors: we analyzed the competition and introduced features that are useful to users.
  • Google Business Profile (then Google My Business): we filled in and optimized the client’s profile as completely as possible, because it’s an important element in this industry.
  • Content: based on informational keywords, we drew up a publishing plan for articles about massages.
  • Credibility: to increase conversions, we insisted on creating videos and new photos for the website. We also created a page with photos of the interior so the business would come across as more serious and trustworthy and the website would have higher conversion potential.

Link building

After analyzing the link profile, we found that the existing links were ineffective because they came from low-quality sites. We got rid of all of them.

  • Forums: we compiled a list of relevant forum topics suitable for commenting and linking to the client’s website.
  • Authority sites: we put together a list of authoritative, topical websites that would be good sources of links.
  • Competitors: in the link profiles of the client’s competitors, we found the most interesting links and secured them as well.

The chart shows the growth in the number of referring domains and pages linking to the client’s website. Source: Ahrefs.

Ahrefs: growth in the number of referring domains and pages

Rankings and traffic over time

The chart shows the growth of organic traffic and of the number of keywords the site is visible for. Source: Ahrefs.

Ahrefs: growth of estimated organic traffic and number of keywords

The result

The chart shows organic users by month. Source: Google Analytics.

Google Analytics: organic users by month, November 2017 to June 2018

On desktop, almost 81% of the site’s traffic comes from search. Source: Similarweb.

Similarweb: sources of the site’s traffic

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