Project Description
Challenge: Bradsby Group, a large Denver-area recruiting firm, needed to drive more traffic to its website and generate more awareness of the firm’s exectuive search and recruiting services.
Solution: Lumen Marketing developed a keyword and content marketing strategy targeting two distinct audiences: hiring managers/human resources professionals, and job candidates (mid-level management to executives).
Work was divided into four intertwined categories — website content, blog posts, social media management, and analytics/reporting. Lumen Marketing worked to achieve very positive results across all four categories, including:
- ~20% increase in website traffic
- 10X increase in search visibility for target (primary) keywords
- 9X increase in overall keyword search visibility
- 21% increase in inbound links
- 261% increase in returning visitors to the website
- 291% drop in bounce rate
- 96% increase in LinkedIn followers (the firm’s key social media channel)
Website:
- Identified and selected keywords based on estimated monthly search volume and difficulty scores
- Mapped keywords to website pages and rewrote 25+ pages of copy to align with keyword strategy
- Performed sitewide on-page optimization for SEO
- WordPress administration and publishing
Blog posts:
- Produced four blog posts per month for 2+ years — topic development, copywriting, and editing
- On-page keyword optimization
- WordPress administration and publishing
Social media management:
- Managed social media distribution of blog content and company announcements — LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter
- Wrote compelling copy and calls to action for posts
- Designed custom, eye-catching images for each post
- Utilized UTM codes for tracking website visits by channel and individual post
Analytics/reporting:
- Provided monthly reporting on SERP results and Google Analytics metrics (users, bounce rates, sessions, page views, channels, etc.)
- Reported monthly on social media metrics for LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. Made recommendations for improvement.