Case Study


Client Overview
Client: Griffin Funding
Website: griffinfunding.com
Date: April 2, 2020
Business Type: E-Commerce
Services:
Content MarketingLink BuildingContent Full Service Orchestrated SEOWeb Design/DevelopmentThe Situation
Griffin Funding had been handling their SEO strategy in-house while utilizing various vendors for authority building and content creation. The team had gotten some traction but wanted to reduce internal responsibility for the channel and have a trusted partner take over the day to day responsibility of growing the SEO profile.
Although we have many different ways we work with companies on the SEO side, our ideal set up is to be a full service partner and be fully responsible for the performance of the account. For Griffin Funding, the reality is that an SEO strategist typically needs to spend around 10 hours a month actually doing SEO work, while allocating the majority of the SEO investment to the expansion of content and authority.


What Happened
Although Griffin had a strong foundation, there were still areas that needed improvement. During our research phase we identified some key areas for opportunity that we started executing on immediately:



Strategy 02
Architecture Recommendations
One of the first things we noticed when auditing the site was a lack of subdirectories within the URL structure, and a lack of architecture to the site in general. Not only did we need to improve the internal linking on the site, we also needed to create a URL pattern that bots could understand.
We re-wrote all URLs on the site and re-worked the navigation to include a number of our high value pages. These changes helped to show the hierarchy of content and services on the site for a user, but also added key relevancy signals through internal linking, breadcrumbs, and keyword optimizations.

Strategy 03
Indexation Issues
Just because a site is on WordPress doesn’t mean the site is technically sound. WordPress actually has many default settings that can inflate the index with low-quality pages. This was the case for Griffin Funding, and upon digging in we learned that only about 40% of indexed URLs were true pages that we wanted users to see. These low-quality pages were coming from media attachment images, a common issue amongst WordPress sites.
We noindexed these pages, and some other low-quality pages to help maintain the site’s technical health. Although there’s no evidence this was hurting the domain from performing well currently, there’s always the possibility if the issue were to exacerbate that it could be a hinderance to growth.

Results
6000%
increase in qualified organic leads
60x
growth in non-brand organic traffic value
+442%
non-brand organic visibility growth


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