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Energy, Retail & eCommerce
PPC, SEO
Google Analytics, Google Ad Manager, Facebook Ads Manager
The client is an Australian solar installation and maintenance company that operates in three states and comprises 50+ employees providing energy-efficient solar panels, battery systems, and related equipment for residential and commercial properties. The client used a company website, social media, and the word of mouth to receive customers—leads were generated through paid advertising on Google and Facebook, draining big budgets for bringing leads, and a part of orders came by referrals of the past customers. A small share of buyers were attracted through the website via organic traffic.
The client contacted the NIX team with a request to implement SEO for the company website and optimize pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, thereby making lead generation more efficient.
The challenge lay in the specifics of the solar industry being a highly-competitive landscape in Australia—products and services have a hefty cost when the sales cycle is extended in time. We had to boost the efficiency of PPC campaigns while maintaining high conversion rates with a simultaneous reduction of spending by 30%, and develop the website’s SEO from scratch. The ultimate goal was to increase return on marketing investment (ROMI) by 30%, taking into account all niche features.
To get an accurate picture of the existing marketing efforts and starting SEO positions, the NIX team made a full audit of the website’s performance, digital channels the company had presence on, and competitive players in the client’s niche. Our experts summarized the input and introduced forward strategies and follow-up plans for bolstering underperforming areas.
The audit affirmed the fact the company did not use the website’s capabilities to their fullest, losing points in the long run. The website structure was weak, organic traffic was low, and in search results the site appeared on the bottom of the 2nd page, when website visibility was 3%. The SEO implementation goals to achieve were:
Make the site appear at the top of the first page of search results within two months
Increase organic traffic by 2.5 times within three months—from 660 to 1.6k users
Grow site visibility 10 times—from 3% to 30%
A well-organized website structure raises the indexing speed and elevates ranking on Google pages. For this, the NIX team applied the following steps:
We implemented web page microdata to catch searchers’ attention and make robots recognize content correctly. This allowed us to create extended snippets giving brief details about company location, services, and solar equipment at a glance on the search page.
Technical optimization allowed us to find the website’s weak points and implemented guidelines for its ranking optimization. The scope included processing of page speed, internal linking, crawl depth, page canonicalization, URL structure, etc.
To upturn the search engine ranking, increase domain authority, and grow user reach and organic traffic, NIX experts did the following:
The audit highlighted the reasons for a large budget drain on PPC advertisements—the potential of advertising placements wasn’t fully realized, ad structure needed enhancement, and remarketing was not used, despite being a must-have for this type of business. Our objectives when enhancing paid campaigns were to:
Empower ad campaign performance to increase ROMI by 30%
Cheapen lead generation—decrease cost per acquisition (CPA) by 40%
Decrease cost-per-click (CPC) by 25%
Obtain click-through rate (CTR) of 10%, as an indicator of ad’s relevance for searchers and a component of ad rank
The NIX team used a complex approach to maximize Google Ads results which included:
The audit showed that advertising attracted a lot of irrelevant traffic due to the chosen ad structure—single keyword ad groups with broad match type for keywords. To enhance the ad frame and stimulate higher CTR, we resorted to the following steps:
To run ads at the top of search page results, the NIX experts launched manual CPC bidding controlling each spending instead of pricey automatic bidding. When Google Ads algorithms got strong reference points to follow, we turned back to automatic bidding, now capable of generating a qualitative audience for lower CPA by itself.
Our team set up remarketing campaigns—an efficient lead generation tool showing ads to audiences that had already taken an interest in the company. Deal closing in the solar niche is stretched out in time, requiring a couple of weeks on average. Hence it was a part of the PPC strategy to remind users about the company and eventually persuade them to purchase the client’s services. Remarketing audiences were created based on accurate contextual targeting, frequency capping, and customer journey. As a result, ROMI went up—the quantity of filled-out contact forms on the site, which was our target action, increased by 25%.
Brand advertising was used as one of the ways to improve search results by the company name—to put the company on the top of the first search page instead of being on the bottom of the second page due to absent website SEO in the beginning. Brand advertising also boosted users’ recognition, credibility, and awareness for increasing sales in a long-term perspective.
The NIX team analyzed campaigns in Facebook Ads Manager and resolved to the following changes:
Formerly-used “Traffic” objective served ads to the audience most likely to click on an ad which was not our target action of site form filling, which made lead generation time consuming and expensive. We changed the objective to a “Conversion” campaign aimed to show ads to people most likely to request a contact through the site.
Our experts set up retargeting campaigns, meant to reconnect with users already familiar with the client’s website and social media. Retargeting was tuned to these audiences:
Retargeting audiences ensured much better results than cold audiences, and successful campaigns are useful for teaching Facebook algorithms to find similar audiences by itself.
A/B testing was used to run marketing experiments, compare KPIs, and find solutions providing better results for a lower price. The team tested ad creatives, audiences, headlines, call-to-actions (CTAs), and placements within equal budgets.
We added UTM codes to ads’ parameters to identify where visitors came from to track the most successful ad campaigns.
With our help, the client accomplished their main goal—receiving a stable source of quality lead generation for half the price and generating extra leads inside the budget. Our expertise and the complex approach to SEO and PPC activities prevented the company’s budget from inefficient spending and helped the client to get more leads generating more income for further business development. The NIX team accomplished all the stated PPC and SEO goals with the following results:
ROMI reached 54% instead of stated 30%—the client had never managed to achieve such a high rate before
Lead generation became 2x times cheaper—it reached almost 50% instead of the stated 40%
Quality Score of ads grew from 5-7 points to 8-10 points
CPC decreased by 27% instead of the planned 20%
Site visibility increased from 3% to 34% instead of stated 30% within three months—now the website places at the top of search results.
Organic traffic grew from 660 to 6.9k users for 10 months which equals 10x traffic growth over the baseline.
Now the website and paid advertising campaigns bring a double amount of leads for the client, letting them expand their business at a new accelerated pace.
2 SEO experts, 2 PPC experts
SEO: Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Google Search Console, Google Optimize, Screaming Frog, SEMrush, Similarweb, Ahrefs, Mindmeister, Google Mobile-Friendly Test, Google PageSpeed Insights, GTmetrix, Google Trends, Google Keyword Planner
PPC: Google Ads, Google Ads Editor, Facebook Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Google Merchant Center, Serpstat, Key Collector
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