The Challenge of of Startup Growth

What’s good for the user is good for search. The biggest challenge of the SEO audit for On One Studios (and all companies) is maintaining a customer-focused approach when optimizing.

Every action in the audit must answer the question: how does this help the user on your website? Each tweak needed to embody the core drive of the company.

We came up with a human-centric SEO strategy to guide my approach. The web audit was designed to address three critical issues:

Understanding the company’s core value proposition and drive.

Great tactics mean nothing without a proper guiding strategy. Before I started any optimization, I spoke with management on what constituted the company’s core drives. By understanding their unique selling proposition, I could write copy that reflected their goals.

Addressing website architecture problems with user-centric best practices.

The website needed to make sense to customers. From URL structure to homepage navigation, I needed to make sure each click on the website made it easy to get to a sale.

Identify competitor SEO strategies to implement off-page SEO tactics.

A key pillar of getting a site to rank is the number of backlinks pointing to it. I needed to create a comprehensive, white hat backlink strategy to boost the site’s domain authority. By looking at who our competitors were linked (and linking to), I got a sense of the types of backlinks I was looking for.

As a Digital Media Analyst + Buyer on Target.com team, one of my main priorities and challenges was securing enough digital inventory each month to hit vendor expectations and increase brand awareness, lead generation/acquisition and product sales, while transitioning internal CRM platforms to Salesforce.

Vaughtons Automotive manufacture and supply the badges that appear on luxury cars - most famous for making the Aston Martin ‘wings’ they have also worked with Rolls Royce, Bentley, McLaren, and a host of other luxury cars. The challenge Vaughtons faced was a rise in cheap, inferior alternatives and a brand that was seen as old fashioned. 

truLOCAL is a farm-to-table meat subscription company based in Canada. They were struggling with reducing their CAC and improving their ROAS with their paid ad spend.