Data & Studies

11 SEO Case Studies You Can Learn From

Joshua Hardwick
Head of Content @ Ahrefs (or, in plain English, I'm the guy responsible for ensuring that every blog post we publish is EPIC).
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    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. 
    Got your own SEO case study?

    Let me know. We’re always looking to publish useful SEO case studies.

    Article Performance
    • Organic traffic
      1.35K
    • Linking websites
      109

    The number of websites linking to this post.

    This post's estimated monthly organic search traffic.