“We have enjoyed and benefited from our relationship with SERP Builders. Not only does the team deliver consistently high-quality written content and optimizations, but they provide key technical and competitive strategy insights that continue to help improve visibility and provide a great experience for our current and prospective merchants.”
– Lawrence Haynes, Brand and Partner Marketing Manager at Gravity Payments.
We started working with Gravity Payments in March 2022, doing an SEO audit, a competitor content analysis, and producing content.
From Q4 2022 onwards, we ramped up our efforts, producing 70+ new SEO-optimized articles and updating 25+ existing articles to date.
We also optimized the website for SEO, implementing various fixes and strategies.
This led to:
- 225% year-over-year increase in monthly SEO traffic driven by non-brand keywords.
- 14% increase in website conversions.
- Nearly 8x(!) increase in website conversion rate – less total traffic, a much higher percentage of buyer focused traffic.
Read on to see how we achieved this.
Image: 225% year-on-year increase in monthly SEO traffic driven by non-brand keywords.
Background
Gravity Payments is known for their $70k “minimum wage”, which drove a lot of traffic to the website’s careers page. In 2021, the website got nearly 2.5 million page views, but only a low percentage of those visitors were small business owners (potential clients).
As such, the vast majority of keywords driving SEO traffic were branded keywords with a low buyer intent.
When a small business owner searched for information related to payment processing, the Gravity website didn’t show up in search engines.
And when visiting the Gravity website directly, they found a lot of content focused on the story of Gravity Payments – but not much content that helped small business owners with their most pressing problems.
As a result, Gravity wasn’t maximizing their number of conversions and the value of each conversion.
Lawrence Haynes, Brand and Partner Marketing Manager at Gravity Payments, contracted SERP Builders to help attract Gravity’s target audience to the website – and convert them into clients with helpful, on-brand content.
Day 1 challenges
On Day 1 of our engagement, the Gravity website had hundreds of blog posts where SEO was not a priority – most were written primarily for branding purposes.
While content meant for branding is great, very few pieces of their content were:
- SEO-optimized, targeting keywords potential customers search for.
- …AND helpful to their target audience – small business owners.
Gravity also launched a new version of the website shortly after we started working with them, which brought a few technical SEO challenges along with it.
We took on the job of getting the website in front of the right audience – with the right content.
How we helped
We started our engagement with Gravity by conducting a full SEO audit and building a targeted content strategy.
SEO
We did a full SEO audit including keyword research, technical SEO, on-page SEO, a content performance audit, and thorough competitor analyses.
It became clear that they needed to focus on key on-page SEO best practices, such as optimized page titles and internal linking.
Some SEO improvements we implemented throughout the year:
- Various fixes for technical SEO issues
- Complete site wide internal linking overhaul
- Updated meta titles and on-page SEO of key pages
- Changes to the website structure and site-wide menu navigation
Content
We built a content strategy for Gravity Payments based on our SEO competitor analysis, our keyword research, and what was needed for Gravity’s internal projects.
We wanted to accomplish several things:
- Address common pain points for Gravity’s target audience.
- Payment processing can be complicated, so content that demystifies this subject for small business owners – many of whom lack a technical background – was a necessity.
- Position Gravity as a “friend” to small business owners, aligning with the company’s mission.
- Incorporate SEO into our content strategy – targeting attainable and lucrative keywords in the competitive payment processing space.
- Create evergreen content that could not only generate organic traffic for Gravity, but also be leveraged in other contexts.
To date, we have produced 70+ new articles for Gravity and updated 25+ existing articles – mostly to improve readability and optimize for SEO. See many of the articles written by SERP Builders here.
We also removed 40+ existing articles that were neither driving traffic nor converting.
Below, you can see the SEO traffic from content written by SERP Builders – compounding over time:
The payment processing space is very competitive so it will take several years of continued investment for Gravity to generate organic traffic that rivals their competitors’ websites.
But that’s why we focused on creating super high-quality content that could be leveraged in multiple contexts!
Gravity leveraged SERP Builders’ (educational) content in their Gravity Capital email marketing campaigns, pointing readers to the benefits of their products. We are not at liberty to provide all of the details, but conversions increased to such a high level that Gravity ran into bottlenecks and had to stop sending emails!
Conclusion
Gravity’s organic traffic numbers might not blow you away, but SERP Builders built a strong SEO foundation for Gravity that can serve the company far into the future. And we quickly achieved a strong return-on-investment in the form of higher conversions – through the website and through email marketing.
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