SEO Case Study Bedly | Page One Power

Client

Bedly

INDUSTRY

Accommodations and housing

Length

6 Months

Page One Power secured Bedly’s first set of links in October and saw tremendous keyword growth for the following months. By the end of 6 months, Bedly’s top-100 keyword rankings had increased by 9,000%!

Client: Bedly - https://bedly.com/
Industry: Accommodations and housing.
Size: <10 employees.
Spend: Entry-level campaign.
Results: This campaign vastly exceeded Bedly’s expectations of a test project as we quickly proved efficiency by securing over 30 links in the span of 6 months. These links drove dramatic growth for Bedly’s ranking keywords, propelling Bedly into the top 20 positions for 50 distinct keywords where they previously had zero top 20 keywords.
Challenges: New website and brand with little experience or direction in regards to organic search.
Goals: The clients treated this campaign as a side project and supplement to their primary channel of PPC. This project was designed as a test to see if organic could be an impactful channel to increase traffic and diversify their income sources.
Services: Training, content consultation, and link building.
Duration: 6 months.

Bedly was a young, venture-backed company with a brand new website when they launched a link building campaign with Page One Power in September 2017.

At the time of launch, Bedly’s online marketing budget was heavily invested into paid search channels. Their website was only ranking for a handful of irrelevant terms that were based on the limited content on their site, and Bedly wanted to test the potential of organic search with minimal investment upfront.

Bedly’s project posed unique challenges and opportunities since their site and brand were so new. While the campaign faced an uphill battle in terms of building authority, Bedly didn’t have the same “red tape” as more established companies which provided more access to influencing content and onsite strategy.

Page One Power executed a dual-layered strategy that involved content consultation and content link building. This strategy helped Bedly refocus content creation to attract more relevant search traffic and increase Bedly’s overall visibility in organic search.

CHALLENGES

New company and website still building authority and brand recognition.
Suboptimal content causing Bedly to rank for irrelevant keywords.
Delays in content publication on the client's site slowed link building momentum at times.

OPPORTUNITIES

Influence content topics and themes to be more relevant to Bedly’s core business.
Optimize internal links to spread link equity throughout Bedly’s site and improve performance of other pages, specifically the home page and geo-specific pages.
Improve keyword rankings for geo-specific pages to drive highly qualified traffic.

EXECUTION

Content Consultation

Supplied detailed topic outlines to support creation of broad, top-of-the-funnel content to capture a larger audience and direct them through Bedly’s marketing funnel.
Improved search performance for general search queries relevant to Bedly’s business.
Trained Bedly’s team to craft optimized content to improve content development after our consultation ended.

Content Link Building

Executed content link building to secure links MoM, averaging 15 links per quarter.
Targeted pages built via content consultation to improve topical authority.
Content links pointing to deep pages benefited Bedly’s homepage, improving rankings for a variety of keyword themes.

Over the course of 6 months we guided Bedly’s content creation and leveraged this content for links — 30 links in total.

Our content consultation empowered Bedly to build pages that strategically targeted the top of their marketing funnel. This is the portion of their audience that are still in the “awareness” stage, looking for more information on broader topics related to Bedly’s brand.

We began this process by identifying Bedly’s target audience and personas. After identifying these personas we highlighted topics and themes that were important to these potential customers and guided Bedly through the process of crafting compelling content that addressed these topics.

For example, topics about finding good roommates were relevant to Bedly’s business and targeted important top-of-the-funnel keywords like [apartment roommates] and [new roommates].

By partnering this consultation with our link building service we were able to secure worthwhile links that fueled keyword growth and rankings improvements.

9,000% INCREASE IN KEYWORDS RANKING IN TOP 100.

Bedly saw steady growth in terms of keyword rankings for the first 6 months of their campaign. The graph below shows the keywords acquisition timeline, with the next illustrating how that directly coincided with link building success.

Bedly was a young company and website, and the majority of their online marketing budget was invested into paid search, which meant they had very little organic presence.

When we launched this project, Bedly had only 7 keywords ranking in the top 100 (again, this was a new site). By the end of 6 months, Bedly ranked in the top 100 for 1,042 keywords.

IMPROVED KEYWORD RANKINGS AND FOCUS.

Not only did Bedly experience tremendous growth in keyword rankings overall, but this was targeted growth that influenced their most important keywords.

When the project began, Bedly was essentially starting from ground zero in regards to keyword rankings. They only had 7 keywords ranking in the top 100 (which came from an irrelevant blog post) and had no firm strategy for growing meaningful keywords.

However, as we were able to guide Bedly’s content creation their homepage started to see vast improvements in rankings for their important keywords.

For example, [short term lease nyc] — a hyper-relevant term to Bedly’s business — was ranking in the top 75 by the end of month six after not ranking at all when the project began. This positive movement projected future growth for Bedly with continued investment in link building.

GREW FROM ZERO KEYWORDS IN THE TOP 20 TO 50.

The overall keyword growth that Bedly experienced was a strong signal that their site was growing in authority and visibility. However, in order to benefit from increased traffic a website needs to crack the top two pages of search — Bedly also saw results here.

After having zero keywords ranking in the top 20 spots on Google when the project began, Bedly possessed 50 top-20-rankings at the close of six months.

The trends established by the overall keyword growth Bedly has experienced indicate that these top-20-rankings will continue to grow with further link acquisition.

In a sea of questionable and spammy link building providers, Page One Power is someone that you can trust and someone that will get you good results.

Scott Eggenberger - Google Review

I have used Page One Power for many years to build high quality links for multiple web properties. They take great care of their customers and I couldn't ask for a better partner. I highly recommend.

Rand LeMarinel - Google Review

I've always found the team to be both responsive and quick to do whatever it takes to make a campaign successful. I've worked with many SEO agencies over the years but Page One Power has been the most professional and easy to deal with by far.

Charles Taylor

Coming from an agency background, I can really see exactly how a good agency would retain their clients for a long time...and of course the opposite way around. The work is good, the numbers are good. They stand behind whatever they say, and the way they conduct their business is very professional.

Alex Milosh, SEO Manager, Atera

BEDLY

Young company partners with
Page One Power to grow top-100 keyword rankings by 9,000%

OVERVIEW

Scope of Project

HERE'S WHAT HAPPENED