15 SEO Case Studies You Can Learn From
Former Head of Content at Ahrefs
Updated: July 4, 2024
Every now and then we publish real-world examples of how brands use SEO to dominate organic search and get more traffic to their websites.
Below are the SEO case studies we've published so far.
- Zapier. Learn how Zapier gets 1.6M monthly search visits from their blog.
- Wise. Learn how Wise gets 6.4M monthly search visits.
- RTINGS.com. Learn how RTINGS.com gets 9.5M monthly search visits.
- Wirecutter. Learn how Wirecutter gets almost 12M monthly search visits.
- Grammarly. Learn how Grammarly gets over 22M monthly search visits.
- Ahrefs. Learn how we built 36 backlinks to one page.
- Carwow. Learn how carwow gets 2.6M monthly search visits worth $3.5M.
- 10 Websites That Tried to Fool Google. See how and why these ten websites failed to game Google's ranking systems.
- Going Viral And SEO. We looked at dozens of websites to see if going viral can help with SEO.
- Healthline. Learn our five SEO insights from analyzing one of the biggest health niche websites.
- Examine.com. Learn how Examine reached over 1 million monthly search visits and recovered from a core update.
- Optimize 360. Learn how Optimze360 3x'ed their organic search traffic.
- GroupM. Learn how GroupM increased non-branded traffic by 115% for IKEA Turkey.
- SUSO Digital. Learn how SUSO empowered both sales and marketing by switching to Ahrefs.
- HubSpot. See nine surprising SEO takeaways from creators of the biggest corporate blogger ever.
Got your own SEO case study?
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Post byJoshua Hardwick
Former Head of Content at Ahrefs (or, in plain English, I’m the guy responsible for ensuring that every blog post we publish is EPIC).
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