How a boutique local SEO agency grew its multi-location client's traffic by 28%

Stay Digital SEO is a boutique local SEO agency that works with clients to understand their business, assess their competition, and develop a transparent strategy that’s designed to deliver results.

Based in Newcastle, Australia, Stay Digital SEO helps local businesses to optimize their online presence and rank well within Google Maps and the organic Google results for the Newcastle area. The agency offers a range of services, from website optimization and local citation building, to backlink generation and local content creation.

A lot of the companies that Stay Digital SEO works with don’t have citations when they first come on board, so this is one of the first tasks that Matt tackles.

“One of our first clients, Houseproud (a franchise cleaning brand with more than 80 locations across Australia) has had their website for twenty years and it was doing really well, but then they started to lose out to their competition. When I ran a local SEO audit for them, I found that they had no Google Business Profiles for their individual franchises and no citations in place to identify the individual franchise locations that they operated in,” says Matt. “So that was really low hanging fruit in terms of things that I could do to help boost their online presence and outrank the competition. However, a citation building project for a franchise was going to take considerable time, especially if I was to tackle it alone.”

Matt began looking for a citation building solution but he also wanted a platform that could help him grow and scale outside of just citations.

Matt says: “I knew I would want to be able to do other local SEO activities like keyword tracking, so what drew me to BrightLocal is that it not only has affordable local citation building services compared to other companies on the market, but it has a suite of local SEO tools as well as a white-label dashboard. All this allows me to not only build citations easily and at scale, but I can also show my clients the progress we’re making via a link that they can access any time. The results are displayed in easy to digest graphs and charts, with my branding attached which keeps it all looking slick and professional.

Matt noticed a 28% increase in organic sessions for Houseproud after the Citation Builder campaign with BrightLocal was complete. But that hasn’t been the only benefit of working with BrightLocal, Matt explains:

“BrightLocal allows me to maximize my time so I can deliver more for my clients. For example, in month one, I can kick things off with a client and say I’ve built 30 citations for you this month but they don’t know that I’m working with BrightLocal and that they have done all the execution for me. This means I have time to prepare for the next month and do some more in-depth analysis on the website and start working on content, allowing me to get ahead of the program while still delivering really high-quality important results to the client in the early stages.”