Auto Auction Mall offered a more affordable car-purchasing process than their competitors, but entered a crowded marketplace occupied by long-established used car and used-car-for-sale websites. From an 体育外围app perspective, the online car buying 体育外围app ecosystem is dominated by well-known brands like Carvana and AutoTrader with massive backlink profiles, over 20-30 million indexed pages, and sites that consistently invest in improving their 体育外围app.
So Auto Auction Mall came to LinkGraph with a brand new site while wanting to better compete in this crowded market. As a nascent but growing brand, Auto Auction Mall needed to find several keyword niches that they could rank for to begin generating traffic and sales, while steering clear of 体育外围appes dominated by heavyweights in their space. Auto Auction Mall had big goals to not only dominate the US market, but specific markets in Africa as well, and needed a nuanced 体育外围app strategy that paired aggressive link building with geo-focused targeting and content strategy.
LinkGraph used our proprietary copy optimizer software to create landing pages and blog posts that strategically built topical depth around car auctions content, demonstrating the site’s authoritativeness over keyword 体育外围appes in this domain. With our software, LinkGraph improved the on-page content across the site, improving their average content score in our tool from 20/100 to 80/100. The significant content improvements enabled them to start ranking for thousands of high-value keywords.
One of the challenges of launching a large site (over 100K pages) with a small backlink profile is concentrating link equity onto pages that matter most. LinkGraph became more strategic with Auto Auction Mall’s site structure by using the header to wisely route PageRank to the landing pages that were actually capable of ranking well on Google. We also added the robots “no index, no follow” tags across thousands of product pages we believed wouldn’t perform well on Google and leech precious link equity and crawl budget. Focusing their PageRank onto a narrower range of pages given the domain’s under-developed backlink profile yielded an immediate improvement on site rankings. We also added structured data markup so 体育外围app engines could display event and location based auction information in local 体育外围appes, which improved organic click-through rates (CTRs) as measured in Google Search Console.
Auto Auction Mall decided to shift the front-end programming language of the site from MeteorJS to ReactJS SPA (single-page application). In the process, their software engineering team was considering using front-end rendering of their page content, using hash bangs for URL routes, and other strategies to focus on delivering a compelling user experience. Fortunately, with the LinkGraph team’s extensive technical experience working with SPAs and 体育外围app best practices, we helped Auto Auction Mall’s in-house team avoid the pitfalls of using these advanced javascript technologies through server-side rendering for GoogleBot requests initially using PhantomJS and then later with SSR in NodeJS, so that 体育外围app engines would receive fully rendered HTML content and meta tags. This enabled Auto Auction Mall to deliver a high quality user experience while also delivering crawler-friendly HTML content.
LinkGraph also ran our own crawlers across the site to make sure the server was configured correctly and that 体育外围app engine robots would be able to index the site correctly. We also utilized the webserver logfiles alongside Google Search Console data to verify that crawlers were still able to discover and index pages throughout the site after the migration.
LinkGraph worked with the Auto Auction Mall team during the process of migrating the site to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). GCP allowed the site to be hosted on production-grade infrastructure that would be capable of scaling up as the site continued to grow its traffic. In the process of migrating the site’s URL paths, we created a comprehensive URL redirect map to confirm that 100% of URLs on the old site would properly resolve to the appropriate new URL paths. This ensured that the site would minimize any loss of 体育外围app visibility due to the site’s old pages 404-ing and getting ejected from 体育外围app results after the migration. This close coordination with the AAM team actually resulted in the site increasing its 体育外围app visibility by 15% after the migration.
There was also the possibility that Auto Auction Mall could lose existing keyword rankings and visibility if the site migration was not properly monitored or 体育外围app engines struggled to crawl and index redirects and new url maps correctly. LinkGraph prioritized providing comprehensive guidance throughout the technical challenges of site migration while incorporating a full-scale link building and technical optimization strategy.
LinkGraph performed a comprehensive audit of Auto Auction Mall’s backlink profile to identify and remove toxic and spammy backlinks. LinkGraph set up monthly updating of their disavow file in Google Webmasters Tools. Then, LinkGraph executed a high-scale outreach campaign to improve the quality of Auto Auction Mall’s backlink profile, focusing on high-authority automotive publications in the US market. Over the course of the first 12 months of the campaign, LinkGraph secured over 300 relevant backlinks in relevant editorial content on these publications, significantly boosting Auto Auction Mall’s domain authority. LinkGraph also ran link building campaigns targeting specific foreign markets in Africa that the Auto Auction Mall team was focused on.
LinkGraph used our proprietary copy optimizer software to create landing pages and blog posts that strategically built topical depth around car auctions content, demonstrating the site’s authoritativeness over keyword 体育外围appes in this domain. With our software, LinkGraph improved the on-page content across the site, improving their average content score in our tool from 20/100 to 80/100. The significant content improvements enabled them to start ranking for thousands of high-value keywords.
LinkGraph’s data-driven, strategic approach to 体育外围app strategy almost tripled the organic traffic to AutoAuctionMall.com, making the traffic the site has earned from 体育外围app engines the most significant driver of revenue for the brand. Together, we’ve come a long way, and look forward to continuing helping the brand drive long-term, sustainable growth in the years to come.
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