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Website Optimisation

Increase organic traffic through relevant content optimised for SEO

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The Problem

Destination Queenstown, facing a post-Covid-19 surge in demand for the region, sought to optimize their website content for search engine visibility. By conducting thorough SEO research and analysis, they successfully identified high-potential search terms and topics, leading to impressive results in organic traffic growth.
As the official source of visitor information for Queenstown, SEO is a huge part of our strategy. The travel SEO space is a competitive landscape, and Data Story has provided the insight needed to help grow our organic traffic and stay at the top of the rankings.
Jono Matla, Digital Marketing Manager - Destination Queenstown

Our Process

Research & benchmark
Prioritise & Hypothesise
Design & Build
Test & Learn

The Solution

Destination Queenstown needed to capitalise on the growing interest in Queenstown-Lakes after the Covid-19 pandemic. Their goal was to understand search trends and position themselves as the go-to source for holiday-makers planning their trips. Through analysing DQ's website and competitor performance, we were able to identify some key topics and search terms to target with new content for their key audience segments.

Crafting a Data-Driven Solution

We developed a data-driven approach to tackle Destination Queenstown's challenge, focusing on the following steps:

  1. Conduct in-depth SEO research and analysis to identify high-potential search terms and topics
  2. Analyse Destination Queenstown's website and competitor performance
  3. Recommend new and updated content to target identified search terms
  4. Optimise existing content for SEO performance

Results and Achievements

Our data-driven solution led to significant wins and meant that Destination Queenstown was ready to capture the increased demand as international borders reopened. We saw:

  • Overall organic sessions grew by over 60% YoY to April 27, 2023
  • A new blog published in March 2022 ranked in the top 10 on Google for 7 keywords, generating around 200 organic sessions per month

With content optimised for SEO, Destination Queenstown has improved their position in Google search results to capitalise on more clicks to their website.

Key Learnings and Future Implications

By focusing on SEO-optimized content, Destination Queenstown has improved their Google search rankings and driven increased traffic to their website. This approach highlights the importance of continuous research, optimization, and data-driven content creation in the competitive travel SEO landscape.

Going forward, Destination Queenstown can use these insights to maintain their efforts to help improve the experiences for holiday-makers to the region.

Destination Queenstown, facing a post-Covid-19 surge in demand for the region, sought to optimize their website content for search engine visibility. By conducting thorough SEO research and analysis, they successfully identified high-potential search terms and topics, leading to impressive results in organic traffic growth.

Crafting a Data-Driven Solution

We developed a data-driven approach to tackle Destination Queenstown's challenge, focusing on the following steps:

  1. Conduct in-depth SEO research and analysis to identify high-potential search terms and topics
  2. Analyse Destination Queenstown's website and competitor performance
  3. Recommend new and updated content to target identified search terms
  4. Optimise existing content for SEO performance

Do our strategies align?

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You can’t copy an attitude. Our values allow us to drive measurable, bottom-line results. Our values attract people & businesses who value transparency, testing, speed, data insights & ultimately results above everything.