SEO

From Zero Visibility to 91 Keywords in the Top 100 in 30 Days

A UK-based e-commerce services company came to us with almost no organic visibility. Within 30 days we took them from zero tracked keywords to 91 in the top 100, 31 in the top 10, and 21 keywords ranking position 1. Site health went from 92% to 95%. Here are the numbers.

Client
Confidential (UK-Based)
Industry
E-commerce Services
Location
Gauteng, South Africa
Duration
Ongoing (30-day results shown)
Published
Apr 2026
21
Position 1 Keywords
31
Top 10 Keywords
91
Top 100 Keywords

What We Were Solving

The Core Problem
The client operates in a competitive UK market providing specialist e-commerce services. Their website had minimal organic traffic (single digits), a thin keyword portfolio, and no AI search visibility. They were entirely dependent on paid advertising for lead generation. Their authority score was low and their content was not structured for the keywords their potential customers actually search for. The brief was simple: build organic visibility from scratch while the paid campaigns keep running.

How We Built It

We started with a full technical audit. Site health was already reasonable at 92% but we found indexing issues, missing schema markup, and thin content on key service pages. We fixed the technical foundations first. Then we ran keyword research specific to their market, identifying commercial intent terms across their service lines. We restructured existing pages around target keywords, expanded thin content, built internal linking between related services, and implemented structured data for AI search visibility. We also set up position tracking on 91 target keywords so we could measure movement weekly. The strategy was phased: fix foundations in week 1, optimise existing pages in weeks 2 to 3, and begin content expansion in week 4.

Where They Started

When this client came to us, their organic presence was essentially zero. Single-digit monthly traffic. No keywords in the top 100 for any of the terms their customers search for. An authority score of 17. They had 203 referring domains and 621 backlinks, which gave us something to work with, but the on-page SEO was not converting that authority into rankings.

Their paid campaigns were doing the heavy lifting. 70% of their traffic was paid. That works until your ad budget gets cut, and then you have nothing. The goal was to build an organic foundation that would reduce dependence on paid spend over time.

The Technical Foundation

Site health started at 92%, which is decent. But the audit revealed 7 errors and 459 warnings across 507 crawled pages. The errors were the priority: broken canonical tags, orphaned pages, and missing hreflang implementations. We fixed all critical errors in the first week, bringing site health to 95%.

We also implemented structured data markup across the site. Organisation schema, service schema, FAQ schema on key pages, and breadcrumb markup. This serves two purposes: it helps Google understand page content better, and it prepares the site for AI search citation. The client now has 14 AI mentions across platforms including Google AI Overviews and Gemini.

Keyword Strategy

We mapped 91 keywords across the client's service lines. Every keyword was chosen for commercial intent. We were not chasing informational traffic or vanity rankings. These are terms that people search when they are ready to buy or enquire.

The results after 30 days of active work:

  • 21 keywords at position 1 including "a+ content services", "AI amazon advertising", and several service-specific terms
  • 31 keywords in the top 10 with 13 new entries and only 15 that were already there
  • 47 keywords in the top 20
  • 91 keywords in the top 100 from effectively zero
  • Visibility score jumped from 0.28% to 5.07%

Organic traffic increased by 300% in the same period. The absolute number is still small (growing from a very low base), but the trajectory is what matters. Every week shows compounding improvement as the optimised pages gain authority.

AI Search Visibility

This is the part most SEO agencies do not track. We set up AI visibility monitoring from day one. Within 30 days, the client had 14 mentions across AI search platforms, with 1 cited page appearing in results. They now show up in Google AI Overviews (10 mentions), AI Mode (10 mentions), and Gemini (4 mentions).

For a site that had zero AI visibility 30 days ago, that is a strong start. As the content portfolio grows and authority builds, these numbers will compound.

What Comes Next

Thirty days is just the foundation. The next phase focuses on content expansion: targeting the keywords we have identified but not yet created dedicated pages for. We are also building out blog content to capture informational searches that feed into the commercial pages.

The client's authority score has already moved from 17 to 18, and we expect that to accelerate as the new content attracts organic backlinks. The 90-day review will set the next round of targets based on what the data tells us.

If your business has a website but no organic visibility, this is what a structured SEO approach looks like. Not promises. Numbers. If you want to know what is possible for your specific market, start with a conversation.

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