saferight
A leading equipment supplier and registered training organisation (RTO), Saferight offers a comprehensive range of solutions to the safety industry. During 2018, Saferight approached us to enhance their organic visibility after spending the previous years with another local agency who failed to deliver on their guarantees. Alongside inheriting a mammoth site built on a theme we were unfamiliar with, our optimisation team also took over a site that was crippled with development, performance and SEO flaws.
+207
Keywords On Page 1 Relating to Training & Equipment
+383%
Increase In Search Visibility Since Becoming A Client
+79%
Of Safety Equipment Supplies Ranking Top 3
the objective
optimisation overview
A site’s performance is often regarded as the foundation to strong rankings – we are, after all, in a mobile-first indexing time where Google recommends a site loads in at least 3 seconds. Given the broken and fragile state of Saferight’s WordPress site, many of months were initially spent creating a solid base of performance and proper functioning.
Once the site was stable enough in terms of its speed, we shifted our focus to Saferight’s ambitious objective – to optimise the site so that it is present for all searches relating to their industry. While a significantly challenging scope of results to deliver, it was ultimately a rewarding one too. Saferight is now present on Page 1 for all main queries relating to their growing list of established courses and products.
what we’ve done
- Conducted significant performance optimisation to establish a stable speed (and functioning of the site)
- Removed and replaced broken, dodgy and inactive plugins from existing development
- Consolidated digital NAB after the Queensland office became defunct
- Migrated the site onto our Perth servers for more reliable and faster performance
- Maximised the site of content delivery through an advanced CDN
- Resolved over 5000 different issues including slow page (HTML) load speeds, unminified CSS and JavaScript, permanent redirects, no follow attributes in outgoing internal links and broken internal (and external links)
- Established over 100 (and counting) safety training courses with appropriate title tags, headers and meta descriptions to connect with local workers
- Set up over 120 safety equipment products with headers, meta description and title tags based on keyword and search data
- Conducted extensive optimisation on plugins, server and WordPress to further increase the site’s loading speed and reduce load requests
- Increased the site’s authority score by 9 and backlink profile by 10%
- Provide continual general support from setting up Facebook Pixels through to website maintenance
All rankings and statistics discussed in this case study are update to as of June 2020.
A word from the client
Testimonial
“Start Digital has been a tremendous help to us. They have fixed up our very flaky site and continue to increase our rankings across a wide range of industry-related keywords!”
Mel Burge, Marketing Manager (Former)
Saferight
A: Level 32, 152 St Georges Terrace,
Perth, Western Australia 6000
