Strategic SEO Case study

An e-commerce strategy that increased organic sessions by 106.68%

The audit did not treat every category and recommendation as equally urgent. It prioritized the store’s category structure and the Furniture section, then measured traffic quality and growth against the same period one year earlier.

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Increase in organic sessions

Organic sessions in the 2026 period

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Increase in category traffic

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Increase in new organic users

STARTING POINT

The Situation

The store needed to direct SEO effort toward the parts of its catalog with the greatest value. The analysis compared January 1 to July 29, 2026, with the same period in 2025, when the site recorded 12,448 organic sessions.

Problem

Priorities needed definition

The website required a clear order of work instead of a flat list of recommendations.

Problem

Categories held the opportunity

Commercial growth depended strongly on category pages, especially the Furniture section.

Problem

Traffic quality had to hold

More sessions would be weaker evidence if engagement declined at the same time.

Problem

Revenue history was unreliable

Broken 2025 revenue tracking made year-over-year revenue growth unsuitable as a public claim.

WHAT MADE IT COMPLEX

The Challenge

The audit had to guide implementation, not simply identify everything that could be improved. That required a deliberate focus on category structure and the section with the strongest commercial priority.

The reporting also needed discipline. Revenue growth looked large, but the broken 2025 baseline made the comparison unreliable. We therefore used traffic, engagement, category performance, new users, and 2026 revenue share without claiming unsupported revenue growth.

High-value categories needed to be separated from lower priorities

Engagement had to grow with traffic

New-user growth needed independent measurement

Broken historic revenue tracking limited comparison claims

Our Approach

We used the audit to decide what should happen first and which measurements could be trusted.

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Establish the comparison period

We compared January 1 to July 29 across 2025 and 2026.

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Identify the priority section

The Furniture section became the main commercial focus inside the broader category strategy.

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Prioritize the audit recommendations

We ordered the work around the areas most likely to improve category visibility and organic acquisition.

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Evaluate traffic quality

We reviewed engaged sessions, engagement rate, and average engagement time alongside total sessions.

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Report only defensible outcomes

We separated reliable organic-growth metrics from the unusable year-over-year revenue comparison.

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The audit did not leave us with an overwhelming list of technical recommendations. Back2Rank showed us what to prioritize, why the Furniture section offered the strongest opportunity, and how implementation should be sequenced. Their reporting was especially valuable because they separated reliable performance data from the revenue figures that could not be compared accurately. Organic sessions more than doubled, and we had full visibility into how that growth was achieved.

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The Results

Organic sessions increased from 12,448 to 25,727

The 106.68% increase was matched by engagement growth that rose almost in line with sessions. Category-driven traffic increased by 251.64%, with the strongest gains coming from the priority Furniture section. New organic users grew by 323.62%.

Organic search accounted for 48.42% of all tracked revenue in 2026, making it the strongest recorded channel for the measured period. This is a 2026 channel-share result, not a year-over-year revenue-growth claim.

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Increase in organic sessions

Organic sessions in the 2026 period

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Increase in category traffic

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Increase in new organic users

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