Outstanding SEO Results for Medical Oxygen Supplier Right After Launch: How to Rank in Google’s Top 10 Results
Summit Oxygen, Inc is Colorado’s premier recreational and medical oxygen supplier. The company sells and rents oxygen equipment for all kinds of parties and events, as well as for individuals struggling with altitude sickness. Since the company is located high up in the Colorado mountains with never-ending tourist activities all year round, this medical oxygen supplier needed an attractive site with a long-term SEO strategy and swift response time. We started to work on this project in July 2018. By mid-December, a brand new website for Summit Oxygen, Inc was released.
We developed a new structure and a solid promotion strategy in order to attract more site traffic. Immediately after the launch of the new website, key performance indicators (KPI) began to grow rapidly. Because our client’s business is located in a highly specialized field, most of their competitors had low SERP rankings. The main competitors on the search results pages were large online stores that sold similar products and services.
Website Traffic Increased by 114%
Most of the KPI growth took place right after the launch of the site. We took the same time period (November - June) before and after the website promotion to show you how traffic doubled.
We monitor a website’s traffic using Google Analytics. Its code is installed in the site’s code, which makes it possible to count the actual number of users rather than giving estimated figures. You can see more information in the graph below.
When monitoring the results of SEO promotion for our home oxygen company, we pay special attention to the organic traffic indicator. It shows the number of users who came to the site from the search results page using a key query. This is the goal of any website promotion because it means that users can find your website using certain words.
On the graph below, you can see that organic traffic grew along with the total amount of the website’s traffic. At the same time, it makes up 65% of the total number of users on the site, which is an excellent indicator of our SEO campaign’s success.
Since the client's business serves a highly specialized, niche market, this also played a certain role in developing a good promotion strategy. In order to achieve the highest results, we took into account all the features of promotion for small businesses. We have a great article where we have reviewed several practical tips for promoting small business.
How We Increased Organic Keywords by 375% in Top 10
As a rule, organic keywords are words people use on search results pages. If all the work collecting the keyword map was done correctly, the general semantics of the site will gradually expand with the number of search words. Some keywords can lead to hundreds of other similar phrases that users type into the search box, thereby increasing organic keywords on the site.
We track this indicator with the help of Ahrefs - one of the most popular tools promoting and monitoring website efficiency. Ahrefs has its own database of more than 200 million key queries for the United States. Note that Google alone receives over 100 billion queries every month, despite the fact that there are other search engines.
The graph above shows the rise of organic keywords that led users to the site. The main growth took place after the launch of the new website. We placed several new SEO texts with the right keywords like “home oxygen company”, which allowed us to gradually expand the site’s organic traffic.
Website Holds Leading Positions in Search Results
- Frisco, CO
- Breckenridge, CO
- Keystone, CO
More Than 100 Requests in the Top 10
The number of the top 10 and top 20 requests exceeds 100 for mobile and desktop results pages.
Top 10 | Top 20 | |
Desktop | 122 search queries | 177 search queries |
Mobile | 136 search queries | 180 search queries |
Requests, which impact overall website ranking, are constantly improving their positions. You can see examples of requests for a site in the top 10 below.
- Volume represents the average monthly number of searches for the target keyword in the USA.
- Traffic is a metric that estimates the monthly search traffic to the web page from the tracked keyword.
- Keyword Difficulty estimates how hard it will be to rank in the top 10 organic search results for a given keyword in a specific country. It's calculated by taking a weighted average of the number of linking domains to the current top-ranking pages. The result is then plotted on a logarithmic scale from 0 to 100 (low difficulty to high).
The green arrow next to the position of the key request indicates how many positions the page ranked in a search results page.
At the moment, the site we developed is the leader in search results among its competitors. We conducted a comparative analysis of the competition, which allowed us to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the client’s website to develop a promotion strategy. When it comes to search engine optimization services, Direct Line Development always focuses on the features of an existing site’s KPI in order to achieve the maximum results with SEO promotion for an oxygen service company.
How We Beat Direct Competitors in SERP
Most of our client’s competitors who have positions on a search engine results page are large online stores that sell oxygen equipment and related products. Over the entire promotion period, ever since the launch of the new site, the client has had the highest ratings in the number of search queries among their five main competitors. We constantly monitor the client’s site, as well as follow the growth dynamics and new words in the organic search engine results page.
Of course, the site may contain significantly more search queries than we manage to track. But the best tactic here is to reinforce the keywords with the highest positions, thereby leading traffic to the site. You can see just a small part of the top 3 queries on the graph below.
The List of SEO Tasks
Maintenance Work
- A technical audit of the site was conducted to identify critical errors affecting the promotion.
- A new website structure was developed to ensure successful long-term promotion. SEO-friendly URLs are used for each page.
- Improved website loading speed, which greatly influences promotion behavioral factors.
- Validation code errors troubleshooting was conducted.
- Optimization of robots.txt and sitemap.xml was done.
- The website is secured with HTTPS and possesses a trusted certificate.
- Structured data was added to the whole website.
- The site was connected to Google services such as Google Analytics and Google Search Console.
- The site has been optimized for different browsers and devices.
- We added unique meta tags for each page.
- Every month, we analyze the site’s performance, identify pages that have lower positions, and work to push them to the top.
- The significant work of finding and fixing broken links was carried out.
- Configuration was done to fix 404 error pages.
Significant Growth in Reference Weight
During the promotion, we improved referring domains by 306% and referring pages by 822%. Even before the launch of the new site, we began work on increasing the domain’s reference profile. The number of external links directly affects the position of the site in the SERP and for the promotion. Given that the majority of competitors have an undeveloped reference profile, preliminary link building work also contributed to the rapid achievement of results after the launch of the new site.
Impressions and Clicks Started to Grow After the Launch
Impressions and clicks are indicators provided by Google Search Console. They show data in Google search pages only. As we can see on both graphs below, these parameters had values of zero prior to pre-launch. This may indicate that the site had a low position in search results and users did not see it in Google's SERPs (search engine results pages). Since organic traffic was still present on the website, this means that these users found the site through Google and other search engines. After we optimized the site, it began to rank higher as impressions and clicks grew, leading to a significant increase in organic traffic.
Fixing Social Media
Today, more and more people are using social networks not just for communication, but to find services, reviews, and recommendations. Additionally, many companies have already rated social media as one of the most effective channels to acquire customers. In order for social platforms to really attract users and send them to the site, you should carefully manage your digital presence. When doing SEO for an oxygen service company, social media presence in key.
For Summit Oxygen Inc, we created accounts in the same style as the site design, wrote optimized texts, and uploaded posts. Also, we were intentional about including reviews because they give users the opportunity to make a choice in favor of your company.
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Local Promotion Results in Figures
Google Business is a very important tool for local promotion. First, because it tells Google where your business is located and what services you provide. Second, it helps users find your business faster, including directly from Google Maps. If your Google Business card has a lot of positive feedback, it will rank higher. You can see our client’s website statistics below.
In addition to attracting more traffic to the site, Google Business allows users to quickly contact you. They can call you directly from the search results page without visiting your site. Also, if users are not sure how to get to your location, they can use Google Maps to get directions to your address.
Conclusion
We achieved quite impressive results through a properly-developed SEO promotion strategy for our home oxygen company. The main task was to significantly expand the structure of our client’s site and add optimized content. As you can see, it worked. Google recognizes that the site has information that can answer users’ questions. The search engine understands that the resource can be useful and, therefore, places it at the top of the results page.
Also, an important aspect of promotion is client involvement in the process. This client wrote articles for the blog. For us, it was a great opportunity to get really useful information from an expert since no one knows their business better than them. You can do the same.
We continue working on promotion and improving existing results, as well as achieving new goals. At the moment, we are focusing on expanding the blog page, which will allow us to pull more low-frequency requests for more relevant traffic.