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Content Produces Record Results

Summary

We review the positive impact that a three-year-long content marketing strategy, developed and fully implemented by our team, had on our client’s rankings, web traffic, and sales. Organic web traffic more than doubled. First-page Google rankings have become abundant; and the client is having record revenue months.

Our Role

  • Content Strategy
  • Analytics
  • Search Engine Optimization
  • Paid Search
  • Digital Media

Summary

We review the positive impact that a three-year-long content marketing strategy, developed and fully implemented by our team, had on our client’s rankings, web traffic, and sales. Organic web traffic more than doubled. First-page Google rankings have become abundant; and the client is having record revenue months.

Our Role

  • Content Strategy
  • Analytics
  • Search Engine Optimization
  • Paid Search
  • Digital Media

The Challenge

Imperial Wholesale is a national, family owned tile, natural stone, and flooring retailer and wholesaler. Imperial Wholesale distributes to several hundred retailers around the country and is Arizona’s leading supplier of tile, natural stone, and flooring.

We have served as Imperial Wholesale’s agency of record for nearly a decade, and as such, are always looking for ways to improve our client’s business. This case study focuses on a particular strategic project conducted over the past three years—namely developing and implementing a multifaceted content marketing strategy in order to drive search engine rankings, web traffic, and sales, and to position Imperial Wholesale as a leader in “design” and not just products.

The Strategy

The content marketing strategy we developed and implemented took into account:

A. Various Google algorithm changes to identify optimum content length

B. Focusing on quality rather than quantity

C. Google Analytics data and reverse database profiling of the client’s customer database to identify target demographics based upon the most profitable segments

D. Google Trends data and data from various other search engine tools to identify the kinds of content potential customers would be interested in

E. Ensuring that ALL of our content was completely original—i.e. no thinly veiled paraphrasing of what other sources had already written about

Our research showed that people would be interested in the following kinds of content:

The Results

The impact on search rankings, overall web traffic and what we deem as “highly relevant” web traffic was exceptional. In order to fairly assess the impact of our content marketing strategy, we performed two sets of analyses. The first focused solely on organic traffic to the Imperial Wholesale site (i.e. creating a Google Analytics Advanced Segment with Medium = Organic), and the second focused solely on organic traffic from visitors located in Arizona (i.e. creating a Google Analytics Advanced Segment with Medium = Organic AND Region = Arizona). The reason for this additional segmentation is that Arizona-based customers are particularly valuable to our client as Imperial Wholesale’s physical showrooms are located in Arizona.

Traffic had almost tripled (2.90 times) by the time the content strategy had been in existence three years, as compared to the one-year period before the content strategy launch; and when considering organic traffic from users based in Arizona, traffic had more than doubled (2.02 times).

As of the time of the writing of this case study, Imperial Wholesale was ranked in Google’s top four organic search results for 98 of Imperial Wholesale’s most coveted industry keywords; and Imperial Wholesale continues to have record revenue months as a result.

 

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