Caring People Case Study

I used to work in the health care industry. I was the Digital Marketing Senior Manager at Caring People Inc. A home care company that helps seniors with daily living at home for over 20 years. Caring People offers personalized service in a very competitive market across four states. People often called-in at times of crisis – trust is the #1 priority on how we communicate to prospects online.

 

The challenge:

When I started to work for Caring People, the website was out of date, hard code. There was no content marketing in place and no strategy to generate leads. I started the digital marketing department and I was one team for all SEO, PPC, Email and Social Media.

Healthcare was a big challenge for me because my previous position was in e-commerce. I had to learn a new industry, educate Caring People CEO and stakeholders, and convince them to invest in digital marketing initiatives. I also faced another challenge since the sales team did not understand the value of digital. Therefore, I had to show them a new way to work with me as a team.

 

The Solution:

 

I suggested to create a new website. While the developers were working on the new website, I planned the strategy. I put a content marketing and SEO plan together. As a result, I created hundreds of local listings and more than 100 new blogs. I used long forms and topic cluster approach to earn competitive keywords. I also invested plenty of time vetting writers that had experience in the health care- senior industry. Finally, I also created SEO guidelines for the writers.

 

I started a competition with the sales team to collect reviews because I knew how powerful they are for local SEO and for generating leads, especially in health care. Furthermore, I created the buyer personas that were only three in caring people’s case. In addition, I migrated the old site from HTTP to HTTPs successfully.  After the website was launched, I implemented the content marketing strategy by posting amazing regular content with videos and infographics.

Banklink Strategy to Increase DA and Traffic

 

Furthermore, I created a backlink strategy that allowed me to earn hundreds of backlinks. The website was earning between 30-40 backlinks a month.

earned backlinks

The backlink strategy helped to increase Domain Authority- bring more traffic. As a result, Caring People generated double leads that before starting the backlinks strategy.

Finally,  started a geo-targeted PPC campaign and used social media to amplify the content. Then, I set up an email marketing to follow up with organic and paid leads.

 

The Results:

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After a few months that I launched the new site, I earned several Google Quick Answer Boxes for Caring People. I increased leads by 100%, the blog increased in 3 months, visits to 140% and Page Views to 150%. The organic channel grew at a much faster pace than all the other channels. I focused on organic traffic through content by using the BrightEdge platform. This helped me to get great keyword ideas for my content and for On-Page SEO.

 

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I put Caring People on top of their competitors in search results. I also beat huge franchises with content marketing strategy for being well planned and implemented. Finally, one of my long-form content went viral and a group of corporations that wanted partnerships with us. Moreover, I worked together with them to create a new infographic in English and Italian for the European market. As a result, my piece earned hundreds of backlinks from reputable sites.

 

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Caring People doubled their leads; its blogs increased exponentially in traffic and the brand received recognition across the Internet.

 

SEO Industrial Case Study

Engineering Specialist, INC (ESI) is a metal Stamping company. ESI is in a very competitive industry. The client goal was to increase their metal stamping services leads. It is a huge local and nationwide competition in this industry. ESI traffic has been growing consistently but I need to do more to generate the leads that the client wants. 

The Challenge

Metal Stamping keyword has a Search Volume of 27,100 per month and a Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs) of 54’200, 000. To rank, this keyword was very challenging. I needed to get rankings without creating any backlink. I took the Topic Cluster approach for this client because the website already has several articles related to the topic “Metal Stamping” 

  

The Solution 

  

Websites that are authoritative in a topic have more chances to get high ranking in Search Engines. Creating a page that covers a topic completely and having extra resources that explain each part of the topic can help your site to escalate to position #1 in Google. Keep in mind to create great content. I researched the competitors and I created better content on the topic. I knew the steps to follow to get these results. 

It was a big challenge to earn this position because metal stamping is a very competitive keyword, but with a well planned and executed SEO strategy. As a result, I put my client in position #1 on Google in a short time without any backlink. ESI has been in #1 for several months. 

  B2B for the industrial Case Study

  

How I did it? 

  

I created a Pillar page with the long tail keyword “what is metal Stamping” and I used as an internal link from the existing related articles that are part of the metal stamping process. I started crawling the site to visualize the content assets. I usescreaming frog and I filtered the results by Title. I could see that the website already had many blogs about different parts of the process of metal stamping but it was missing a hub – pillar page to introduce the broad topic of metal stamping and explained it indepth. Then, I decided to create the pillar page and do it better than any other pages ranking in the top SERP. 

From the existing content, I reviewed blog by blog and I disablethe internal links that were pointed to other pages, and I only created internal links to the pillar page. I wanted to create a clear path for users and search engines. Furthermore, I not only create a kickass content but I also provided relevant links that users can follow (click) and learn more about each step of the process. This path shows to Search Engines that ESI is a leader company in Metal Stamping and allowed me to earn many other long tail keywords related to the services that ESI offer (metal stamping) 

Google #1  

The Pillar page structure: 

  

  • 2000+ words length 
  • I have used long tail, User intent, and LSI keywords as sub-headers. 
  • I have avoided big chunk of content 
  • I used bullet points across the article 
  • I used images with alt tag 
  • I used Cluster pages as internal links (only related to the topic) 
  • I added Reputable sources (external links with no follow tag) 
  • I have written an SEO Title 
  • I have created a Meta Description 
  • I have added  a White Paper for Lead Generation 

  

Backlink Acquisition to Move The Needle

I also create a backlink strategy that helped my client to outrank the competitors. Publications in High DA made a big difference.

Backlink Strategy

 

The Results 

 After a few days that I published the pillar page “what is metal stamping” 

I obtained the following results: 

  

  • #1 in Google in a couple of Weeks 
  • 123% increase in Organic Traffic 
  • 3 min average page-view 

  

SEO Industrial Case Study

The pillar page is the second top page visited on ESI ‘s website after the home page. The page view time has increased almost double the industry’s benchmark. 

  

 

 

I had the opportunity to interview Oleg Shchegolev, CEO of SEMrush.

I could not let pass this opportunity to get to know him better and ask him some personal questions. I am always curious to learn about successful people and the challenges they overcome to become who they are.

 

Interview Oleg Shchegolev with Karina Tama

Talking with Oleg I learned that he and his partner Dimity created SEO quick and after many tests, they realized that people needed more software that is complex. That was the beginning of SEMrush.

Now SEMrush is one of the most popular digital marketing tools around the world.

 

Oleg told me that in order to succeed people should embrace afraid and experiment often. This is his key to success.

 

He also shared with me that in Russia the major Search Engine is Yandex. Search behavior in Russia is the same as in the USA;  people browse for products and services online.

 

Oleg told me that in the next 5 years SEMrush is planning to add more features that will help with content marketing, local SEO traffic, analytics, etc. SEMrush is currently working in updating the Chinese database so that it is able to cover Baidu searchers.

He also revealed to me that the headquarters is now in Chicago and not in Philadelphia.

I didn’t know that SEMrush organized a lot of meetups and worked with the USA and European universities in order to give opportunities to students who wish to explore and learn how to use SEMrush. I am fascinated by this amazing initiative because it is a great support for the new tech generation.

Oleg thinks that formal education is important but it is also important to be able to learn on your own. Technology moves fast and people that want to be part of the industry should be able to be self-taught.

Among the most important qualities of a leader, Oleg considers that intuition, perfect communication skills, and the ability to inspire others are the most important qualities. He said that “leadership is not about personal success, it is about the success of your team”.

Oleg’s day starts early. He usually wakes up at 5 am and gets a fresh cup of coffee, checks his twitter, listens to podcasts, checks his company reports (SEMrush). He multitasks all day. He also reads psychology and science books.

I was talking with Oleg about diversity and I asked him, what he thinks about gender bias in the industry? This is an important question for me because I am a woman and Hispanic. I am a minority and this topic really turns on my engines.

Oleg added that he is aware of the issue but that SEMrush is a company that welcomes people from any race and gender, a company that believes and practices equality. In addition, he told me that 50% of C –level employees in leadership positions are women. He also added that these women are excellent professionals, and they have helped SEMrush to be a leader in the industry.

I know many people want to know if websites should implement Amp pages or not. Oleg’s feedback was that Amp should definitely be implemented because it improves website speed and today users are very sensitive to that.

I also asked him if he thinks that Artifical Intelligence plays an important role in SEO, and how SEMrush is planning to help marketers.  Oleg said that AI will affect SEO but we do not have to worry much about it because AI is as good as the data that it shows. Marketers need to be prepared and be able to adapt to changes. Anyway, AI will not replace marketers for now because as he said before it is all about the data that the AI possess.

We also talked about e-commerce and voice search. Oleg shared with me that website content must be optimized for questions and not for keywords or phrases.

It is very important to optimize content with questions, such as: where, when, what, etc. Furthermore, talking about Local SEO; it is a priority to claim Google my business and optimize it. Also, to make sure that all the listings and citations are accurate.

I also learned from Oleg that as voice search is growing, it is important to use a more conversational language when we create content. A study from Backlinko shows that 40.7% of answers come from rich snippets. Then we should use question keywords in order to earn the rich snippets and be present in voice search results.

He also told me that to create content for voice search we must use long tail keywords and user intent keywords. SEMrush Magic toll can help marketers find these recommended keywords.

Oleg’s guess about Rankbrain’s next evolution is that Rankbrain will get more sophisticated and it will use AI mechanism. Being able to succeed in the new machine, AI’s challenges will be for the best marketers and professionals. These individuals will be able to provide users the right information.

Oleg told me that the most used SEMrush features are the keyword research tool. He invites us to explore more because SEMrush has much more to offer.

I really enjoyed my interview with Oleg and the collaboration of SEMrush PR team. This interview was very extensive that’s why I have written several articles about it. All of them with different information. You can find other articles about this interview in my Forbes, LinkedIn and Search Engine Watch