Situation

Applause-Tickets.com came to Wpromote looking to optimize their organic rankings in an extremely competitive field. With low search results for their big industry keywords, as well as Broadway show-specific keywords, Applause needed a campaign that would deliver their desired visibility.

Challenges

Most ticket sales sites, including their main competitors, used the same content to describe each event, show, or performance, making it difficult to stand out against the competition. With many other large, online ticket companies who also have lengthy histories in the search engines as their primary competition, Applause-Tickets.com was looking for innovative ways to optimize their site. With new shows constantly being added to their ticket line-up, they also needed a way to update and optimize their site for new shows on a regular basis.

Strategy

Wpromote began by performing a thorough audit of the client's website, looking for areas that could be improved upon, and for new opportunities where they could stand out from their competitors. The audit determined that they could significantly improve upon rankings not only for big industry keywords, but also for show specific keywords by optimizing their pages with unique show descriptions.

To take advantage of these long-tail keywords, which typically convert at a better rate, an aggressive SEO campaign was needed to optimize their individual show pages. To begin, we added unique content to each of the show pages, which targeted show-related keywords. To close in on more users, we created new meta titles and descriptions to help identify the new pages and ensure they were unique and directed toward their ideal keywords.

The audit also showed that many users were searching for theatre specific keywords, which Applause-Tickets.com was not capitalizing on. The creation of theatre pages that were user friendly, contained maps, directions, theatre information, and reviews would prove to be beneficial.

Another integral part to their optimization plan was making their blog more active. Their blog was a great avenue for adding new keyword-targeted content, but it wasn't being given the attention it needed. We improved upon their blog by writing new content for them, which was posted on a weekly basis.

Results

In just a few months, Applause-Tickets.com began to see improvement in many areas. The regular blog posting helped their ranking and visibility for many big industry keywords. They previously averaged 2nd page rankings, but in just a few months their average for big industry keywords was on the 1st page of organic search engine results.

Capitalizing on theatre keywords by creating individual theatre pages also attributed to the increase of organic traffic to their site. Traffic delivered from theatre searches improved drastically from last year, as high as 1,321% in some cases.

The most improvement, however, was seen with their long-tail keywords rankings. Creating content for the individual show pages, that was unique from their competitors, significantly improved their show related

keyword rankings. Compared to the prior year, the traffic they received from many of their show keywords increased by over 1000%.