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Case Study · E-Commerce · Clean Beauty · USA

Technical SEO Fixes
That Grew Organic Traffic by 26.8% in 12 Months.

A clean beauty e-commerce brand was losing ground in search. We fixed the technical and on-page issues holding it back. Organic traffic up 26.8%. Backlinks more than doubled.

Client
Clean Beauty E-Comm
Industry
E-Commerce · Beauty
Location
USA
Timeline
12 months
Headline Result
LIVE
+26.8%
Organic Traffic Growth
Month 0Month 12
+26.8%
Traffic
+137.9%
Backlinks
+63.3%
Ref. domains
The Client

A Two-Decade Clean Beauty Brand

A US-based e-commerce brand selling clean, vegan hair and body care products for families. Shampoos, conditioners, baby washes, styling products and skin essentials — all formulated without the harsh chemicals most family hair care brands still use.

A genuinely good product, a loyal customer base and a brand built over two decades. They came to us not because the brand was struggling — but because their organic search performance was not reflecting the strength of what they had built.

The site deserved to rank. It just was not.
Clean Beauty
Vegan family hair & body care
IndustryE-Commerce · Beauty
RangeHair · Body · Baby · Skin
AudienceFamilies · Vegan-conscious
Brand age20+ years
Engagement12-month programme
The Problem

A site that deserved to rank —
and quietly was not

Before NetTrackers
0+
Years of brand equity
Stalling on Google. Visibility drifting.
Year-on-year organic growthFlat

The website had grown organically over the years — new products, new collections, new pages. Underneath, things were quietly breaking.

Technical issues were limiting how much Google could crawl and index. On-page signals across product and category pages were inconsistent. The backlink profile was thin relative to the brand's age and reputation.

The result was a site that deserved to rank — and was not. Traffic was flat. Organic visibility was drifting in the wrong direction.

What We Did

Audit. Fix. Optimise. Earn.
In that order.

On an e-commerce site this size, technical debt compounds. We worked the order that lets each stage compound on the last.

01Audit

Full e-commerce technical audit

On a product-heavy e-commerce site with multiple collections and hundreds of individual product pages, the issues compound quickly. We mapped them all — duplicate content, crawlability gaps, page speed problems, structural inconsistencies.

Technical auditCrawl mappingSpeed audit
02Foundations

Resolved the technical issues

We fixed the issues systematically — duplicate content collapsed, canonical signals tidied, crawl budget recovered, page speed optimised across the catalogue. The foundations stopped fighting the rest of the work.

CanonicalsDuplicate contentCore Web Vitals
03On-page

Rebuilt the on-page signals

Product pages, category pages and collection structures — each one correctly targeted, clearly structured and sending the right signals to Google. Buyer-intent keywords mapped to the right page types.

Product pagesCategory structureCollection logic
04Authority

Earned backlinks and referring domains

The authority work came last. We built referring domains that told Google this is a brand worth ranking consistently — not just occasionally. Backlinks more than doubled inside the engagement window.

Digital PRReferring domainsBrand mentions
What Happened — 12 Months Later

From flat to compounding

Three numbers that changed in twelve months — without rebuilding the website, changing the product range or running a single paid ad.

Organic Traffic
+0.8%
Year-on-year growth
Backlinks
+0.9%
Backlinks more than doubled
42
Before
+138%
After
Referring Domains
+0.3%
Earned domains. Brand authority signal.
BEFORE
AFTER

Fix the foundations.
The rankings follow.

A clean, well-run e-commerce site with years of history was leaving organic traffic on the table because of technical and on-page issues that had built up quietly over time.

The Point

Sometimes it is not the product,
the brand or the content.

Sometimes it is the foundations. Technical and on-page issues that had built up quietly over years of adding products, collections and pages.

Fix the foundations. The rankings follow.

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