Google Search Gift hampers

How Pearsons Gifting went from a brand new site to #1 in a year

Pearsons Gifting launched with no links, no content and no rankings into a hamper market full of decade-old competitors. Twelve months of copy, internal linking and authority links took them to first position for their target keyword.

I Want Results Like This #1 within 12 months
The Pearsons flower and gift display in store
#1For hamper delivery sydneyBeat every established competitor
150Keywords on page 1
~1,000Keywords ranking in GoogleFrom zero at launch
12 mthsFrom launch to #1
01

The problem

Pearsons Gifting was a brand new offering from the team at Pearsons Florist: their entrance into the highly competitive hamper and gifting space. The site launched with no SEO work done at all. No links, no content, and well and truly behind the eight ball against established, dominant brands.

Many of those competitors had been online for as long as a decade. Our brief was simple to state and hard to do: rank the site on the first page of Google and drive relevant traffic and sales.

What we were up againstBrand new domain with no links or contentCompetitors with up to a decade of head startNeeded rankings, traffic and sales, not just visibility
The brand new Pearsons Gifting site at launch: no links, no content, no rankings.
The brand new Pearsons Gifting site at launch: no links, no content, no rankings.
02

What we did

As the site was brand new, we had to do it all. We deployed an end-to-end SEO campaign: writing copy for every high value page, optimising the internal linking, and acquiring a consistent stream of high quality authority links to build the domain's authority from zero.

1Copy for every high value pageEvery page that could win a valuable term got new, optimised copy, so the site had something worth ranking from day one.
2Internal linkingInternal links were structured to push authority towards the high value pages.
3A steady stream of authority linksConsistent link acquisition from high quality sites built the domain's authority month after month. It wasn't fast or easy, but the client stayed the course.
Organic traffic and keywords from launch, tracked in Ahrefs: 905 keywords ranking and around 564 organic visits a month.
Organic traffic and keywords from launch, tracked in Ahrefs: 905 keywords ranking and around 564 organic visits a month.
03

The results

After just one year's work the results were seriously impressive: nearly a thousand keywords ranking in Google, 150 of them on the first page. And for the target keyword, hamper delivery sydney, Pearsons Gifting sits in first position, ahead of every established competitor.

Keyword movement
Search termBeforeNow
hamper delivery sydney1
The site did not exist at the start of the campaign.
Google results for hamper delivery sydney: Pearsons Gifting first in the organic listings, beneath the local pack.
Google results for hamper delivery sydney: Pearsons Gifting first in the organic listings, beneath the local pack.

From a standing start to first position in twelve months, the domain now has the authority to keep taking ground in the hamper and gifting space.

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