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Home / Case Studies / How We Helped A Brand New Domain Grow Traffic Exponentially Within a Single Year

How We Helped A Brand New Domain Grow Traffic Exponentially Within a Single Year

July 15, 2015 By John E Lincoln

ignite visibility site growth

The Challenge

When we started working with SDvirtualschools.com, they were a directory on a different, larger educational site. This larger site had a lot of issues going on, like duplicate content and canonical errors, and they wanted out. With the folks at TinyFrog we helped design and build a new site for them, and then in mid-August of 2014, we set the redirects live and started pushing traffic from the existing directory to the new site.

How We Tackled It

Since this client’s previous “site” was a directory on another, existing site – we were presented with a challenge in that we were not able to implement the Site Transfer Tool that Google has made available through Webmaster Tools (now the Search Console). We implemented 301 redirects, submitted sitemaps, and requested a crawl within the Search Console, and found the search results started populating with the new URLS within a week.

We decided the best idea at the time was to give the client a jump start by launching with a secure site. Google had just announced in the beginning of August that they would be using HTTPS as a small ranking signal.  We also didn’t want to mess around with additional website transfers in the future, and ultimately this worked out in our favor.

Once the site was live, we continued adding relevant content for students, and published regular blogs. We tracked down all the links that were pointing to the old URLS and reached out to the webmasters with a request to update those to the new domain. As priority, we focused on those links that were coming from educational sites.

The Results

The culmination of all this led to some fantastic results. The new domain started pulling in qualified organic traffic almost immediately, and within a few months, traffic to the site doubled. Some of this organic traffic came from the highly relevant keywords that the new domain “inherited” from the old site – the surge of content that we provided to back these relevant terms and searches only succeeded in improving the overall traffic and positioning.

Traffic doubled with Ignite Visibility

About John E Lincoln

John Lincoln (MBA) is CEO of Ignite Visibility (a 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 Inc. 5000 company) a highly sought-after digital marketing strategist, industry speaker and author of two books, "The Forecaster Method" and "Digital Influencer." Over the course of his career, Lincoln has worked with over 1,000 online businesses ranging from small startups to amazing clients such as Office Depot, Tony Robbins, Morgan Stanley, Fox, USA Today, COX and The Knot World Wide. John Lincoln is the editor of the Ignite Visibility blog. While he is a contributor, he does not write all of the articles and in many cases he is supported to ensure timely content.

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John Lincoln is CEO of Ignite Visibility, one of the top digital marketing agencies in the nation and a 6x Inc. 5,000 company. Lincoln is consistently named one of the top marketing experts in the industry. He has been recipient of the Search Engine Land "Search Marketer of the Year" award, named the #1 SEO consultant in the USA by Clutch.co, most admired CEO and 40 under 40. Lincoln has written two books (The Forecaster Method and Digital Influencer) and made two movies (SEO: The Movie and Social Media Marketing: The Movie) on digital marketing. He is a digital marketing strategy adviser to some of the biggest names in business. John Lincoln is the editor of the Ignite Visibility blog. While he is a major contributor, he does not write all of the articles.

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