Ecommerce SEO Case Study
Clixloop
Integrated Digital Marketing Agency
E-Cigarette/E-Vape
E-COMMERCE
SEO CASE STUDY
Industry: E-Cigarette/E-Vape
Segment: B2B & B2C
Targeted Demographic: USA
nicotineriver.com
ABOUT NICOTINE RIVER
Nicotine River is leading wholesale distributor of premium Nicselect liquid
nicotine, USP Kosher propylene glycol and vegetable glycerin in the USA.
Currently, Nicotine River holds the most extensive collection of 1300+ evape flavour extracts across 16 major brands.
KEY OBJECTIVE
1
SALES Nicotine River is an e-commerce store, built with using Shopify CMS. Being an e-commerce
2
CONVERSION In case of an e-commerce store conversion usually is the count based on the
3
TRAFFIC Nicotine River caters to a particular niche and so does its users too, by keeping this
store, the key area of focus us built a robust sales pipeline so that we can scale and add more products to
the store.
number of products sales and so the same was our macro goal but by keeping an eye on micro
conversions which are first touch points of our potential buyers from the store.
thought in place we have to build a very target based traffic target marketing model so that we can reach to
the right audience and help in achieving the overall marketing goals.
PRIME OUTPUT
280
Total Keywords Ranked
on Google (USA)
7.9K
$5.0K
Approx Money Saved Per Month Via Free Traffic
on Google (USA)
Avg Monthly Free Traffic Generated per Month
on Google (USA)
OUR STRATEGY
Our strategy is divided into 4 stages, all stages were interlinked to make sure we not only
get growth, but it should be sustainable and under Google SEO guidelines.
OFF PAGE SEO
Nicotine River target audience and
demographic was very segmented, and
so was our link-building approach too.
We were very particular about what
ON-PAGE SEO
backlink we generate and how much
value it will add to our client store.
When it comes to Nicotine River ecommerce store ON Page, we not
only have to take care of pages
but also have to work closely ON
Page SEO for product pages too.
CONTENT
Content often take back seat when it
comes to the number of products any
TECH SEO
e-commerce store hold, but with
Nicotine River we made it a point to
Shopify is very easy to handle when it
comes to tech-issues, and this was the
starting point for us so that we can have the
make sure we add valuable content to
all products, so that not only end user
like it but also Google able to
store more SEO friendly and score
understand what set of audience we
maximum number for Nicotine River
were targeting.
4 STAGE GROWTH RESULT
1
BACKLINK GROWTH
Backlinks are the backbone of
any good SEO campaign, if we
follow right SEO strategies, then
the 1st sign of SEO project
growth starts with backlink
growth via links index and crawl
metrics.
2
3
TRAFFIC GROWTH
STAGE 2With the combined growth
KEYWORDS RANKING of backlinks index and
The growth of backlinks
leads us to stage 2, where
we can start seeing the
keywords start getting
ranking favor because the
indexed backlinks have the
targeted keywords as
anchor text (this is one of
the most important Google
ranking factors)
keywords ranking, we start
receiving the 3rd most
valuable output and, i.e.,
quality traffic to the site from
our targeted demographics.
This traffic not only save
client money (high $ cost for
Google AdWords) but also
help to build a long-term
customer engagement
relationship via re-targeting
via email marketing, blog,
and e-books, etc
4
BUSINESS GROWTH
The combined growth of
stage 1, 2 and 3 we able to
develop a strong base for
the business growth. This
business growth is
integrated various ways, for
example, soft leads
activation leads nurturing,
new customer prospect
generation and not to forget
the overall revenue growth.
RESULT STAGE 1: BACKLINK GROWTH
BACKLINK GROWTH In case of Nicotine River each backlink has to come from very niche websites and resources,
but with the right balance of quality and quantity, the same is reflecting in backlink index growth data over the time
chart given below.
FOLLOW & NO-FOLLOW BACKLINK RATIO It is essential to have a very balanced ratio between following and
no-follow backlinks so that Google can give more relevance to your website, in case of Nicotine River we build a
link-building under this balanced approach and which reflected in our recent website crawl data too.
RESULT STAGE 1: BACKLINK GROWTH
TARGET COUNTRY (USA) BACKLINK GROWTH Nicotine River has the prime customer based in the USA only, and by
keeping that significant point in focus, we developed a strategy to attain all prim high PR backlinks only from UDA TLD
based domains and rest from other global GTLD. This helped us a lot is building authority in our niche.
RESULT STAGE 2: KEYWORDS RANKING
KEYWORDS RANKING GRAPH For Nicotine River in stage 1 of result stage we focused on quality backlinks development,
and with focus on that, we got a very sustained keywords ranking for all prime targeted keywords. This only happened due to
focus on quality work only and Google rewarded us with ranking for our targeted keywords.
We consider this a tremendous validation of our e-commerce SEO execution
process where the focus was on only going with well-tested quality e-commerce SEO guidelines lay down by Google &
Shopify.
RESULT STAGE 2: KEYWORDS RANKING
KEYWORDS
We ranked for 280+ key brand terms and had list
of 600+ long tail keywords concerning the specific
product, brand, and the favor. Here we are sharing
just a few from the list to showcase you how
relevant keywords we targeted and attained TOP
Ranking on Google search engine primarily and
secondarily on BING and Yahoo too.
RANKING (GOOGLE USA)
diy e juice kit
usp vegetable glycerin
diy ejuice kit
diy vape juice kit
e juice kit
vg based nico7ne
1st Rank
1st Rank
1st Rank
1st Rank
1st Rank
1st Rank
vegetable glycerin usp
1st Rank
best diy e juice kit
1st Rank
ejuice diy kit
1st Rank
vegetable glycerin gallon
1st Rank
nico7ne suppliers
1st Rank
RESULT STAGE 3: TRAFFIC GROWTH
SEARCH TRAFFIC GROWTH Nicotine River is an e-commerce store so focus on only one type of traffic growth (i.e.,
SEO) would not be the right approach, so we added other traffic integrations too and built a proper mix of traffic to
reach to our targeted audience.
RESULT STAGE 3: TRAFFIC GROWTH
TRAFFIC SOURCE GROWTH: Now we are in stage 2 of our growth results, in this growth segment we focus on
understanding how much traffic we are generating via our targeted keywords and its share in overall traffic Nicotine River
store received from the organic search engine. We are proud to say that the most significant percentage of traffic
(42.30%) Nicotine River e-commerce store received via organic traffic. This means that the keywords were highly relevant
and they delivered very high buying intent keywords.
RESULT STAGE 3: TRAFFIC GROWTH
TRAFFIC BY COUNTRY: When we bring traffic to an e-commerce store it is essential that web-traffic should come from
the targeted demographic area. In case of Nicotine River it was most important, the targeted demographic was the USA,
and you can see that Nicotine River received 83.30% traffic from the USA only.
RESULT STAGE 3: TRAFFIC GROWTH
OVERALL TRAFFIC GROWTH: Now as we have seen how the all 3 growth stages are interlinked and how they all
added value in achieving the core objective “Business Growth.” In the time frame of 1+ years, we build the sustainable
organic free high buying intent traffic for Nicotine River.
280
TOTAL NUMBER OF KEYWORDS WHICH INDEXED & RANKED BY GOOGLE
KEYWORDS
7.9K
TRAFFIC
$5.0K
TRAFFIC COST
AVERAGE TRAFFIC SHARE PER MONTH FREE TRAFFIC ORGANIC SEO ADDED TO
RIMS SITE
AVERAGE COST OF TRAFFIC PER MONTH FROM GOOGLE ADWORDS POINT OF
VIEW. IF NICOTINE RIVER WOULD HAVE RUN GOOGLE ADWORDS CAMPAIGN RIMS
HAVE TO SPENT APPROX $5000/MONTH BUT VIA SEO THEY GOT IT COMPLETELY
FREE
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