Wyld Gear needed help getting more exposure to their innovative coolers.

Mozart Supplies came to use because they had never sold on their own website. They were getting all their sales from Amazon and whenever they tried getting sales elsewhere the results were poor and unprofitable.

They were a small startup with a large in-person network, but not a lot of digital presence. They had just launched their website, but didn't have any marketing or understand a lot of the basics of running an e-commerce store.

I was brought on specifically to start and implement their email marketing as well as be a trusted advisor in all other realms of their marketing: social media, paid advertising, SEO, and UX.

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.