Archive for August, 2010

Pet Palace Gets 800% Lift in Traffic

Posted by Justin Filed Under Search Engine Optimization with 1 Comment

How does a pet boarding facility grow its client base with minimal advertising investment?

By understanding how people in the local market search for pet boarding services and optimizing the brand for maximum visibility.

Who: Pet Palace Resort

Location: Columbus, Ohio

Industry: Pet Care

Challenge

Pet Palace Resort is a beautiful pet boarding facility with two locations in Central Ohio. While they are the premium pet facility, they didn’t have premium Google rankings for important keywords. They needed to improve their rankings and ensure that anyone searching for pet boarding facilities would find their website before finding competitor sites.

Solution

Adept began with keyword research to understand how pet owners search in Central Ohio and what terminology they use most frequently. Eight keywords were identified that have the highest search volume locally among people looking for pet boarding providers. Pet Palace did not rank well for the most important terms. In fact, they were on page 6 of the Google results for the most searched keyword.

Armed with a very strong list of targeted keywords, Adept began to implement a series of localized SEO optimization techniques.

Result

Just 6 months after Adept began the local SEO program for Pet Palace, their rankings have jumped all the way to the top. In fact, Pet Palace is now ranked #1 for 6 out of 8 targeted terms, #2 for 1 term and #3 for 1 term. In summary, Pet Palace now has 99% visibility in Google for keywords important to the business.

As a result, traffic to the site has increased by over 800%.

SEO Columbus Company - Pet Palace

New Site Helps Apartments Reach 100% Occupancy

Posted by Justin Filed Under Web Design with No Comments

How does a real estate company increase occupancy and rents for apartments in a challenging economy?

By creating a web presence that clearly communicates key points prospective renters care about and keeping things simple.

Who: Waterford Village

Location: Medina, Ohio

Industry: Real Estate

Challenge

Waterford Village is a beautiful apartment community set in the woods of Medina, Ohio.  With the recent economic declines, the apartment community was experiencing a lower occupancy rate than usual and needed to find a cost-effective way to efficiently market the apartments to prospective renters.

Solution

It sounds simple, but the first thing the Adept team did was to look at the existing website design for Waterford Village.  As it turns out, Waterford Village did not have their own website.  Instead, they had been utilizing the various apartment finder websites to post their community.  While this method worked in the past, prospective renters now have higher expectations when shopping for apartments.  They want to see an apartment community with its own unique website so they can learn more about the community at their own pace, and find information that is most important to them.

Adept worked with the team at Waterford Village to concept a website design that would deliver exactly what prospective renters are looking for, and the results the community was looking for – more renters!

Adept created a website that is easy to use, and allows prospective renters to find exactly what they are looking for within one easy click.

Result

Just 6 months after launching the new website, Waterford Village had leased 100% of its apartments!  Plus, they had accomplished this during an off-renting season (not during the peak summer months).

Waterford Village Website Design