Shopify SEO case studies, with the revenue
Two Shopify brands, two very different starting points, and the exact work that took them from near zero to beating the competitors they were chasing.
What the work produced
- Organic revenue in 7 months
- $758,772.94
- Chinese automotive accessories brand
- Organic visits a month, from near zero
- ~100,000
- Same brand, 30 products
- Authority in 100 days
- DR 12 → 41
- Chinese tech brand
- Organic revenue in 4 months
- $150,000+
- $25,000+ of it from Bing
Read the full case studies
$758,772.94 in organic revenue in 7 months, from 30 products
Read the case studyA Chinese tech brand to 1,000 clicks a day and $150,000+ in organic revenue
Read the case studySame method, different starting points
A small catalog that won its niche#
The automotive accessories brand was Amazon-first, had only 30 fairly similar products, started at DR 29 and was already running ads. The goal was to beat the number-one competitor. We built more than 360 pages, most of them collection pages aimed at specific buyers ("X for Motorcycles", "Car Security X", "X for Semi Trucks"), wrote hundreds of thousands of words, added thousands of internal links and fixed international SEO problems such as broken internal links and cannibalization. Traffic went from roughly zero to almost 100,000 visits a month, with a traffic value of more than $54,000 a month. The brand now outranks every competitor for every keyword in its niche.
The lesson: a small catalog does not mean a small keyword universe. See why on our collection page SEO page.
A weak domain that doubled every month#
The tech brand in an industrial hobbyist niche had a relatively new site, a weak link profile and results pages crowded with product packs and video packs. We built hundreds of pages, fixed technical SEO and schema, then added link building. The site doubled every month, went from DR 12 to DR 41 in 100 days, and made more than $150,000 in organic revenue in four months. It now ranks for 21,877 keywords, gets 1,000 clicks a day and is closing on a VC-backed competitor that has been around since 2006.
The lesson: technical fixes and content come first, then links multiply them. Bing is worth tracking too; it drove more than $25,000 of that revenue.
What both had in common#
Both are Chinese brands selling to Western buyers, the market we know best. Read more on SEO for Chinese brands.
What other clients report
“Highly recommended”
In under two months, SmartEcomSEO set new records for our organic growth, and we now rank on more than 4,000 new keywords. I’m really happy with the content, and that they handle the keyword research and publishing as well.
“SmartEcomSEO helped me get a $130,000 order!”
I sell expensive medical equipment and SmartEcomSEO helped me rank for 7,000 high-value keywords in under two months. These rankings have unlocked massive increases in revenue, and I sold a $130,000 unit from one of the keywords they took from page 3 to page 1.
“We are now #1 in our category”
Zack showed us how our main competitor was beating us. In just 6 months, we are not only ahead of our main competitor, we are ahead of all our competitors. We rank on page 1 for every keyword in the industry. I told Zack to make us a case study.
“DR 12 to DR 35 in 90 days”
Our site is much stronger now. We were invisible before; now we rank on page 1 for the main keyword in our niche, with 74,000 searches a month. We are making more money, and we will soon be a market leader.
“Zero to hero”
We started with a fresh site. After a few months working with SmartEcomSEO, the results are wild. Every day we get 500–700 visits from Google. It would cost a fortune to get the same traffic with ads.
“They really did everything”
Working with them was really hands-off. They did the research, wrote great articles, published them and optimized the site. Our traffic and rankings went way up.
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