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Case Study

Billiard Factory

Supporting a home enterntainment retailer grow their organic visibility and demand acquisition channel long-term.

The Goal

Increase organic search vibility, sales and revenue

How We Did It

Strategic organic search improvements for high-margin product category and product pages

We identified core product categories in terms of margin and revenue and created a clear roadmap that would specifically target commercial and transactional intent search rankings with potential to generate high quality traffic and sales.

Product

Home enterntainment products and furniture with core focus on pool tables.

Strategy:

Reach more online shoppers through increased rankings in Google for commercial and transactional intent keywords relevant to the core product categories and lists.
90.52%
Incrase in organic users
88.78%
Increase in organic seassions
74.56%
Increase in organic conversions

About Billiard Factory

The Billiard Factory was founded in 1975 by Larry Stick as a single store on Telephone Road in Houston, Texas. Over the past four decades, the Company has expanded through both organic growth and opportunistic acquisitions from a single store with four employees into one of the nation's largest billiard and game room furniture retailers. Today, the company consists of 13 retail stores, multiple distribution centers and many dedicated employees.

THE CHALLENGE

Support the client through two CMS migrations, minimize traffic loss and ensure consistent organic growth

Billiard Factory was looking for a partner that would help them navigate two major website CMS migrations (Magento 2 and eStoris) with one clear goal: Maintain organic sales numbers and capitalize on new CMS capabilities to grow it even more.

  • Minimize traffic and sales loss during migration (-15% max)
  • Ensure consistent traffic growth post-migration (+25% in organic conversions)
  • Improve website user engagement with new website and CMS
THE SOLUTION

Customer-centric website optimization with focus on technical debt cleanup and continuos website SEO that drives growth

Hirudo Digital spearheaded the core website structure plan along with the supporting development agency to ensure that CMS transition will be seamless and enable the client to leverage the new website capabilities for expanded marketing initatives.

Revamped website navigational structure to match user behavior and funnel
Optimization of core product categories and products for higher organic rankings
Product data feed optimization for maximum free and paid shopping listing performance
Overseeing paid search campaign performance and strategy

The result

Organic conversions rose 74.56%

In a period of six months after migrating to the new CMS the website saw significant increases in both organic traffic and conversions.

90.52%
Increase in organic users
88.78%
Increase in organic traffic

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