helpingminds
A leading mental health organisation, HelpingMinds offers support to the family and friends of individuals living with mental health challenges across WA & NT. Over the years, Start Digital has partnered with HelpingMinds to deliver a number of digital solutions including brand revamp, website design and Google Ads. Safe to say, no other agency was thought of when the organisation identified the need to increase their organic presence.
+1063%
Increase in Site Traffic Since Becoming A Client
+53.4%
Increase in Overall Organic Visibility
+30%
Increase in Indexed Keyword
the objective
optimisation overview
Aligning with HelpingMinds’ desire to increase their brand awareness, our central optimisation objective has been to ensure the organisation is easily found by all individuals, families and carers of people affected by a mental health challenge. Alongside seamlessly connecting with those seeking support, our optimisation scope has also focused on ensuring each user has a positive experience on the site. With a number of advanced and weighty features including accessibility tools, language translation and multiple event streams on the site, we are continually pushing, pulling and tweaking technical elements to tick the performance box!
what we’ve done
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- Optimised over 100 posts, 500 events and 40 internal pages (historical and recent)
- Conducted extensive optimisation on servers, plugins and WordPress to increase the site’s loading speed and reduce load requests
- Added HelpingMinds to a CDN & our local servers for enhanced content delivery
- Addressed over 3000 different errors across the site due to mixed content, incorrect links, underscores in URL’s
- Created a strong internal linking structure to encourage user flow and indicate depth
- Optimised an extensive range of functionality plugins including Essential Grid & Event Calendar
- Optimised media files through WebP compression and ALT tagging
- Scouring of over 700 domain prospects to find authoritative white-hat backlink opportunities
- Continued periodic disavowing of broken and toxic backlinks
- Established private backlink network to enhance trust by Google
- Provide weekly optimisation for new content (events, jobs and posts) and website support
- Utilised analytical tools to provide content creation strategies to connect with a wider audience
All rankings and statistics discussed in this case study are update to as of October 2020.
A word from the client
Testimonial
“HelpingMinds has received SEO support from Start Digital in the last 12 months. Our site health has improved significantly and our keyword rankings place number 1 for the most relevant searches related to mental health carer services. Their assistance is professional and consistent and by combining SEO with AdWords management our organic and paid website reach almost doubled in the past year. We highly recommend the team at Start Digital for SEO and AdWords management.”
Nienke Rozendaal, Marketing Lead
HelpingMinds
A: Level 32, 152 St Georges Terrace,
Perth, Western Australia 6000
