Case Studies

Real Results from Real Engagements

Six detailed growth studies across D2C, healthcare, media, and emerging categories. Every case study includes what worked, what didn't, and what the data actually says.

Hair Care / D2C / HealthApril 2025 – November 2025 (8 months)

258% click growth. Page 3 to page 1 in 8 months.

A growth case study in SEO + AEO across content, technical, and off-page — with an honest account of the AEO cannibalization signal hiding inside the numbers.

Click Growth

+258%

Impression Growth

+544%

Position

28.9 → 5.3

Hindi URLs

135 outpulled 553 English

Vernacular Content at ScaleSchema & Structured DataMobile-First TechnicalEntity Optimization+2 more

The growth happened because we built for India's mobile-Hindi-first reality, deployed schema like it mattered, and stopped pretending CTR is a vanity metric in the AIO era. The rest is execution.

Health & Wellness / D2CApril 2025 – May 2026 (13.5 months)

184x impression growth in five months. The discovery phase before the harvest.

How an emerging-category property built its impression base from near-zero to 573,000 monthly impressions — and what the branded-vs-non-branded split reveals about what comes next.

Monthly Impressions Growth

73× in 6 months

Total Clicks (13.5 mo)

25,350

Total Impressions

1.32M

Average Position

7.3

Symptom-Driven Content ArchitectureMultilingual Term CoverageSchema & Structured DataTechnical AI-Readiness+1 more

The field is planted. The harvest has not started. That is not a problem — it is a timeline.

Medical / HealthcareNovember 2025 – April 2026 (5.5 months)

The celebrity wedge. 28% of clicks from 4% of content.

How an unranked clinic property in a high-consideration medical category used cricketer and Bollywood curiosity to build its awareness layer — and what needs to happen next to convert it.

Total Clicks

3,163

Total Impressions

624,716

Celebrity Content

4% of URLs, 28% of clicks

Daily Click Pace

8 → 36/day (+4.5×)

Awareness-First Content StrategyCelebrity & Cultural Curiosity ContentBrand SERP DefenceLocal SEO Infrastructure+1 more

The awareness layer is built. The conversion bridge is the only thing left to build.

Health & Wellness / D2COctober 2023 – January 2025 (16 months)

8.8× click growth in 16 months. Nine months of patience, then everything at once.

A compound growth study in topical architecture, schema infrastructure, and the mechanism most brands miss when a core update fires — and what the falling CTR actually means at scale.

Click Growth

8.8×

Monthly Clicks Peak

572,800

Total Clicks (16 mo)

3.44M

Position

18.4 → 5.4

Topical Architecture & Cluster ContentSchema as Entity InfrastructureMobile-First TechnicalE-E-A-T Signals+1 more

The nine months that look like nothing is happening are the nine months that make everything happen. Organic authority is a delayed-reaction mechanism. Build the architecture. Ship the clusters. Do not pivot to paid when the dashboard looks flat. The 3.44M clicks are the proof. The 152M impressions are the moat.

D2C / RetailNovember 2023 – September 2024 (11 months)

4.4% CTR at average position 18. This is not a contradiction.

An 11-month study in brand-equity SEO — how a property at page-2 average position out-clicks category competitors at page 1, and what the March 2024 Core Update clarified.

Click Growth

+189%

Total Clicks (11 mo)

3.14M

CTR

4.4% at position 18

CTR Premium

2–3× category benchmark

Brand Equity & CTR OptimisationRich Result Schema DeploymentBrand SERP Defence & Misspell CaptureTransactional Page Architecture+1 more

Average position is a mean across every query the domain appears for — including the long-tail impressions at position 80 that no one will ever click. CTR is the real signal. A 4.4% CTR at average position 18 means the brand earns trust at every rank. The March 2024 Core Update did not give us the 4.4% CTR. It gave us the room to demonstrate it.

Digital Media / NewsNovember 2023 – July 2024 (9 months)

157 million clicks. The two-engine model that drives a news property at scale.

How a large content property built a compounding baseline and an infrastructure for single-day trending-topic capture — simultaneously — and what the spike anatomy reveals about risk.

Total Clicks

157M

Total Impressions

3.07B

Average CTR

5.1%

Baseline Growth

+58% in 9 months

Topical Entity Coverage at ScaleCrawl Architecture & Indexing InfrastructureNewsArticle & Event SchemaHeadline CTR Optimisation+1 more

The spike on May 19 was not a content win. It was an infrastructure win. The article was written in 90 minutes. The four years of crawl architecture, entity schema, and Top Stories credentialing before it are why the page was in position 2 before the competition had published. The 157 million clicks are the consequence. The infrastructure is the cause.

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