Case studies

Results, not promises. In the last 12 months, across the client and own sites I work on, search has generated 64.6 million impressions, 548,667 clicks from Google and 1,603 search terms in Google’s top three.

Every case study gives the totals for a stated period, names the source, and explains what else might have played a part. Top three means a search term averaging position three or better with at least 100 impressions and at least one click, and the full approach is on the methodology page.

How to read these case studies

Each case study covers the same ground: where the business started, what the problem was, what the data showed, what was done, and what happened. My part of the work is stated plainly, including where a client’s own team or developer made the changes.

Results are given as totals for a stated period, normally the last 12 months, rather than the most flattering week. Where something else could have played a part, such as seasonality or a Google update, the case study says so.

These are the case studies where search visibility is the story: content that earns clicks, rankings that hold, and businesses showing up in AI answers.

Case study The headline
FalseEyelashes.co.uk 31.5 million impressions and 218,604 clicks, led by guides, quizzes and rewritten collection pages
condoms.uk 17 million impressions and 204,121 clicks by answering the questions people are too embarrassed to ask
Kwiat 9.3 million impressions for a New York jeweller, and cited in Google’s AI Overview for its education content
GaraDry UK and USA Named first in Google’s AI Overview, with number one in the results underneath
Tribera Living SEO audit and content strategy for student accommodation and coliving in Europe
Shake Shack UK SEO audit, content strategy and image SEO fixes for a restaurant brand

Websites, apps and tools

Search works best when the site, and the tools on it, are built for it from the start.

Case study The headline
River Bend Over 8,000 daily impressions from a brand new site within 75 days
Barlows Caravan Park A 14.4% click-through rate for a local business
Barlows community app An installable progressive web app for a local community
GaraDry kit builder A Shopify product builder with live catalogue sync
AI revision app Weekly photo uploads turned into notes, quizzes and reminders
Tower Revision A GCSE revision prototype with 19 tested user journeys
Ring size tools Ring size finders using six measuring methods
VetAge, LashMirror and NailMirror Calculators and camera try-on tools
Fishery concept sites Fast concept sites built for outreach
Search Intelligence A tool that joins Google Ads and Search Console data

Site migrations

Moving platform, redesigning or changing domain is when a site is most likely to lose years of search visibility. These projects were planned so that didn’t happen.

Case study The headline
Evewell A pre-migration audit and a 207-URL redirect map behind a full WordPress redesign
Kwiat: headless Shopify migration A move to Hydrogen and Sanity, with the sitemap built to spec

By industry

If you’d rather see work in your own sector, the industry pages group these case studies by type of business, from ecommerce and luxury retail to charities, healthcare and hospitality.

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In this section

AI revision app: turning schoolwork into practice questionsA working GCSE revision app built around four AI jobs, with measured timings, daily usage limits and a design rule that only…Barlows community app: scoping an app for 500 caravan householdsHow a caravan park app was scoped and prototyped: the £2,250 to £4,000 a year postage saving, the feature test, and what…Barlows Caravan Park: a 14.4% click-through rate for a local businessHow a new website for a family caravan park in North Wales earned 2,084 clicks from 14,436 impressions, a 14.4% click-through rate,…Concept sites: five fisheries, audited and rebuilt before the first callFive North Wales fishery sites audited and rebuilt as concepts before any approach: a lost domain, a 2020 notice and 57 words…condoms.uk: 17 million impressions by answering the awkward questionsHow honest guides, content refreshes and AI search work turned a declining condoms.uk around: 17 million impressions and 1.2 million AI impressions.Evewell: protecting a fertility clinic's search visibility through a full redesignA pre-migration SEO audit, 207-URL redirect map and staged briefs that protected a London fertility clinic's search visibility through a redesign.FalseEyelashes.co.uk: 31.5 million impressions, led by content and toolsHow guides, collection rewrites, technical fixes and AI search work helped FalseEyelashes.co.uk earn 31.5 million impressions and 1.37m AI impressions.GaraDry kit builder: expert sizing advice, built into the storeHow a six-question kit builder for GaraDry's US store turns expert sizing advice into the exact threshold seal kit, with prices synced…GaraDry UK and USA: named first in Google's AI OverviewHow SEO, content for two markets and AI search work got GaraDry named first in Google's AI Overview, with 6.5 million impressions…Interactive tools: three answers a product page couldn't giveThree browser-based tools: a lash try-on, a press-on nail try-on and a dog age calculator built on veterinary data rather than the…Kwiat: SEO through a headless Shopify migrationHow a New York jeweller's move to Shopify Hydrogen and Sanity was supported with a sitemap built to spec, rendering checks and…Kwiat: 9.3 million impressions for a New York jewellerHow content, title fixes, AI Overview research and joined-up Google Ads helped Kwiat, a New York jeweller, earn 9.3 million impressions in…Ring size tools: making an on-screen measurement mean somethingWhy on-screen ring sizers are usually guesswork, how calibrating against a bank card fixes it, and the confidential mode built for people…River Bend: over 8,000 daily impressions from a brand new site within 75 daysHow a brand new WordPress fishing guide site reached over 8,000 daily Google impressions within 75 days: the build, content structure, schema…Search Intelligence: building a tool to join paid and organic searchWhy and how Paul Myers built Search Intelligence, a tool joining Google Ads and Search Console data, and what it found for…Shake Shack UK: a technical SEO audit, prioritised and followed throughA technical SEO audit of shakeshack.co.uk: 972 URLs crawled, issues prioritised, most high-priority fixes completed, and every fix verified on the live…Tower Revision: a school revision app, prototyped before it was pitchedA GCSE revision app for an independent school, built as a tested clickable prototype first: 19 journeys, a pupil-first scope and a…Tribera Living: a content strategy built on what already workedAn SEO content audit and strategy for Tribera Living, a European student accommodation and coliving provider: 17 cities, one proven guide model,…

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Over 925,000 impressions and 13,795 clicks in a year, from people asking one awkward question: what size do I need?condoms.uk, past 12 months

Brands and sites I have worked on

Brands worked on across nearly twenty years, in agency roles and directly.