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Case study homeandsmart: Nearly four times the visitors, with its own team.

homeandsmart tests tech for the home, from smart home to e-mobility. This is how the portal grew with outside advice and its own team.

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Content · Smart home

Sven HäwelManaging Director

Visitors per month: 190,000 (Before), 714,000 (After). Simplified curve.

Starting point

Strong content, untapped SEO potential.

Status at the starthomeandsmart

  • Visitors190,000 a monthroom to grow
  • SEOno solid foundationpatchy
  • Rankingsmany topics outside the top 10untapped
  • PRno ongoing press workmissing
  • Teamown in-house teamlooking for advice

190,000visitors a month at the start

  • Untapped potentialMany topics were not yet in Google’s top ten results.
  • No steady PROutside signals that earn Google’s trust were missing.
  • An in-house teamThe advice was meant to make the team stronger, not to replace it.

What we did

We advise, the in-house team delivers.

  1. SEOTopic analysis, keyword architecture and clear priorities. The homeandsmart team did the work.
  2. Digital PRA press strategy with ongoing publications as a lasting trust signal.
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  1. ContentExisting articles rewritten for buying intent, internal links reweighted.

Result

What consistent work made measurable.

  • 714,000visitors in the best month
    about 24,000 a day, 1 dot = 1,000 visitors
  • 3.8×as many visitors as at the start

    Before190,000

    June 2023714,000

  • Top 10for the core topics on Google

“The strategic advice raised the level of our in-house team without replacing it. Today we are at 714,000 visitors a month, four times where we started.”

Sven Häwel, Managing Director, homeandsmartQuote translated from German.

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