A site from a narrow niche: we reduce the budget for advertising due to organics

Case

Alekseev

Ukraine

Healthcare

2021

This case demonstrates how the expansion of geography in promotion helps to scale your business. And also - how CORRECTLY distributed funds spent on the site work for you And why you should think carefully before making a site on WP.

The project came to promotion in 2016. This is the site of a doctor who works in a state clinic - the head of the regional department of traumatology in Nikolaev, and performs complex operations on hip and knee arthroplasty, especially in elderly people.

Since the beginning of the work, the site has had the domain alekseev.mk.ua (we will explain below why this is important).

The main priorities of the customer are the promotion of a personal brand, the priority for the near future is the TOP in the Odessa region, and in general, high positions in the TOP in Ukraine.

01 revise the core, update irrelevant queries and add new ones;

02 change the site name and domain zone to all-Ukrainian, and not exclusively Nikolaev. This will give you an advantage in search engines.

So, the site changed its main address from alekseev.mk.ua to artrohelp.com.ua. But we didn’t delete the old one either. Just both domains were “glued together”. This was done for two reasons: both so that the site is available at the old address, and in order not to lose the existing positions, for which the site managed to gain a foothold in search engines.

For six months of work

For the first five months, the site from 12% to 97% of all queries was in the TOP-10 in Nikolaev.

	January 18 – February 18, 2016	June 18 – July 18, 2016
All traffic sources +46%	340	497
Visits from search engines +1166%	18	228
Advertising -93%	150	10
By site name +61%	123	199
Links to other sites +200%	15	45

As you can see, before the promotion, the main source of traffic was advertising - 44%, 36% were direct clicks (by site name) and only 5% were visits from search engines! The last one is the shareware "organic" (yes, it is "conditionally", if we assume that the site owner is not a professional SEO specialist and therefore the time of the specialist will still need to be paid) and at the same time one of the most "targeted" traffic sources!

But, of course, we do not stop there and expand the core to 87 queries in order to move to Kherson and Odessa. Well, in general, a lot of things have been done in these four years …

By the way, we wrote here about what usability is and how to use it with maximum profit for your site..

As a result, we got such results for the next four years.

We managed to bring the site to the TOP for 81% of targeted queries in the following areas: Nikolaev, Odessa, Kherson. Now we are working to cover the whole of Ukraine.

	January 18 – February 18, 2016	January 18 – February 18, 2020
Visits +496%	340	2029
Referral sources: search engines	18	2879
Referral sources: contextual advertising	150	0
Referral sources: direct referrals (site domain typed manually)	123	176
Bounce rate -61%	22,9%	8,8%

Although it is worth noting that the promotion work was suspended several times due to problems in the site. And this is the most “painful place” for WordPress sites

Note! Thanks to the systematic work on the site, we managed not only to increase the number of visits from organic search (from 5 to 88%), but also save a significant budget that the owner spent on advertising. Now the main part of the target audience comes from free sources - by search engines, by site domain and by links on third-party sites!

Project manager
at Sprava Agency

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A site from a narrow niche: we reduce the budget for advertising due to organics

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