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Case Study: Kitchen Island Co.
Client: Rachel Hillman
Website: www.kitchenislandco.com
Client Since: July, 06

 

Kitchenislandco.com provides a suitable platform to buy various kinds of kitchen islands, kitchen carts, butcher blocks, microwave carts, utility carts, stainless steel tables and carts, worktables, and kitchen countertops, at the best prices.

Company approached RedAlkemi in July 2006 with the key objective of:

  • Ranking amongst the top sites for various industry relevant keywords. The main objective of the campaign was to encompass the more generic keywords
  • Getting high traffic of potential and focused customers on the site
  • Running an aggressive link building campaign

We accepted the challenge, pulled our sleeves up and started off with

  • Kitchenislandco.com was a new site built on Yahoo store and had absolutely no link backs and a Page Rank of 0. RedAlkemi suggested adding quality inbound links from related sites so that the rankings for selected keywords would start increasing.
  • A set of links with relevant Anchor Texts were built and within a few months from absolutely no rankings, the site started showing an increase in rankings and incoming traffic to the site.

Ranking Status on Google Search Engine

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Kitchen islands 51 4 5 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Kitchen carts 51 4 5 3 4 4 3 3 2 3 3 3 4 4 6
Butcher block kitchen island 51 42 3 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Kitchen utility carts 51 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 2
Portable kitchen islands 51 1 1 1 1   1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Average Ranking 51 11 3 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2



 

Keyword Traffic as Per Google Analytics

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Kitchen islands 5433 9,537 6,910 7,181 8,563 8,949 9,329 10,345 10,958 8,275 11,479 9,442 9,066 7,603
Kitchen carts 719 1,137 570 461 582 793 696 612 756 598 727 510 548 354
Butcher block kitchen island 63 86 73 74 109 144 143 161 101 120 193 151 187 245
Kitchen utility carts 63 86 45 50 70 52 42 53 61 75 58 51 53 31
Portable kitchen islands 247 347 266 329 390 448 359 431 463 375 482 383 458 508
Total Traffic 6525 11,175 7864 8095 9714 10386 10569 11602 12339 9443 12939 10537 10312 8741


   


Traffic Source Overview reveals story of our true efforts in making improvement in website conversion rate and online visibility:

  • Website has top rankings for most of the keywords and average ranking is of 2
  • Search Engine Traffic improved from 21,830 per month to 31,175 per month. Google Analytics account was not setup before Dec’08.
  • Number of visits i.e. Keyword traffic increased from 6,525 to 8,741.
  • After running an aggressive Link building campaign, the percentage of referral traffic showed a remarkable improvement from 5.77% to 9.13%.
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