CBD E-Commerce Store Rebounds with 120% Organic Traffic Growth After a Brief Lull 

Founded by Angela Ardolino in 2018, CBD Dog Health is an e-commerce website dedicated to selling CBD-enriched hemp oil to treat medical issues in pets, especially dogs.

When launched in June 2018, the website had fewer than 500 visitors per month. This, however, was a good start as most newbie websites go through a dry phase during the initial months after the launch. 

What made CBD Dog Health unique was the target audience and the products that they sold. At the time, almost no online suppliers sold safe, vegan, non-GMO, full-spectrum CBD formulated specifically for dogs. With a USP that guaranteed success in the long run, Ardolino and her team started adding new products and improvising on the website. 

The first breakthrough happened in January 2020, when Google, for the first time, identified the significance of the website and gave it the much-needed ranking boost. However, what followed was a rocky phase of ranking volatility. 

From an average of 9K+ organic users per month, the website nosedived to just around 3K mark. This trend continued until CBD Dog Health found Stan Ventures as their most trusted SEO partner. 

Background

With the rankings going down and the sales dropping due to low organic traffic, the team at CBD Dog Health was looking for an agency partner who could identify what went wrong and develop strategies to push their organic traffic to the next level. 

To understand what went wrong, our team here at Stan Ventures did a detailed website audit that included on-page, content and backlink audits. 

The insights we got from these audits helped us develop a custom, fully managed SEO package for CBD Dog Health. 

On-Page Recommendations

Our team identified that the product pages were not optimized for the right CBD keywords, so the pages failed to rank higher on SERPs. 

Additionally, some of the pages had similar titles, and they were targeting similar keywords. Since the keyword cannibalization issue was apparent, our team worked closely with the CBD Dog Health team to break down the details of the product and map the right keywords to the corresponding product pages. 

We also identified a few keywords within striking distance that in fact, were not used within the content. Additionally, we also found issues within the structuring of the content wherein the hedging tags weren’t assigned correctly. 

The alt text was missing for the images in the product and other pages, and most importantly, the site wasn’t utilizing the full potential of schema markups. 

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Content Recommendations

We analyzed a detailed content gap by putting individual pages within CBD Dog Health against its top competitors. This helped us to identify the keyword and content opportunities that were missed out. 

Our team recommended new as well as add-on content to help category and product pages improve their relevance. While we focused on ranking broad and short-tailed keywords for category pages, the product pages were mapped to rank for buyer intent long-tailed keywords. 

Additionally, we came up with content recommendations for their blogs to target users in the awareness and consideration stage to find value. Finally, we recommended adding the relevant products within each blog so that the users are provided with the right solution. 

Powerful Backlinks

We found new backlink opportunities for CBD Dog Health using our manual blogger outreach strategy. These backlinks were built from sites with high relevance and real organic traffic.

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Monthly Campaign Deliverables

• 49 Real-Traffic Powerful Backlinks 
• 2 Blog Recommendations with Outline
• On-Page & Technical SEO Assistance

Monthly Budget: $8775

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Results

The results of this campaign have been monumental due to the well-executed strategy, effortless implementation, and excellent communication with the client.

Within less than a year, CBD Dog Health ranked among the top competitors for some of the most competitive keywords in the CBD space.

The site is currently getting 9.9K organic traffic from Google, which is the best the site has ever seen. 

Depending upon search trends, the traffic even touches the 10K mark. 

In June 2021, when CBD Dog Health first approached Stan Ventures, they had just around 8K keywords ranking on Google. 

With our quality SEO efforts to rank higher, the number of keywords ranking on Google has increased to 12.5K.

What’s even more interesting is that a total of 222 high search volume keywords are now ranking in the top 3 positions of Google compared to 49 in June 2021. 

The website’s backlink profile also saw a tremendous increase from 800 referring domains in June 2021 to a whopping 1,877 domains, a 125% increase within a matter of a year and two months. 

During this phase, we also consistently increased the website’s Domain Rating. CBD Dog Health had a DR of 40 in the initial days of the campaign, and now it’s just a few more days away from touching DR 50. 

The steady increase in the domain rating, organic keywords, and search traffic stands testimony to the quality managed SEO service we offered to CBD Dog Health. 

Conclusion

This project was one of the most successful campaigns in recent times for us not only because of the work we did but also how well we communicated with the client from day one. 

The team at CBD Dog Health trusted us to guide them throughout the process and showed up regularly to check in with our team, spending time analyzing which targets would yield results best suited for their needs. 

Additionally, due to the above-average budget they had allocated for this campaign, we could go the extra mile to analyze their competitors in detail. This helped us to come up with a solid strategy before presenting it to them.