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Beauty & LifestyleEcommerce · Beauty Retail

Organic growth for one of Australia's biggest online beauty retailers.

Activeskin ranges hundreds of skincare, cosmetics and beauty brands online. The catalogue is large, and much of the product copy across it arrives from the brands themselves.

Activeskin, skincare applied
How it ran

A 24 month SEO retainer for Activeskin.

121 ran the organic programme on a continuous monthly retainer.

Audience and keyword research set the map for the programme. On page audits and optimisation then worked through the catalogue, including 81 rewritten SEO product descriptions and content written for level 3 category pages that had been running on template copy.

Content was produced monthly against that map. Across the retainer, 48 content and blog pages were written and optimised, each briefed against a specific keyword target rather than published to a general topic.

Link building ran at a fixed cadence throughout: 20 placements a month, with strategy, execution and reporting included.

The four parts of the programme were planned against the same keyword map each month, so category pages, product descriptions, new content and new links pointed at the same set of target queries. The retainer ran for 24 consecutive months under one team.

What we ran

The engagement.

01 · SEO

Catalogue-scale optimisation

Audience and keyword research, on-page audits and optimisation across a very large beauty catalogue, including 81 SEO product descriptions and level-3 category content.

02 · CONTENT

A publishing engine

Monthly content strategy and development, 48 content and blog pages produced across the programme, each briefed against a keyword target and optimised on page.

03 · AUTHORITY

Link building at cadence

A standing link-building programme, 20 placements per month with strategy, execution and reporting under one named monthly line.

What happened
24mo

Continuous monthly retainer, March 2017 to February 2019

48

Content and blog pages produced and optimised

20/mo

Link placements built each month, with reporting

Figures verified against our own engagement records.

Imagery: Activeskin. Shown to illustrate the brand context of the engagement.

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COMMON QUESTIONS
What did 121 Group do for Activeskin?

121 Group ran SEO for Activeskin.

What industry is this consumer ecommerce case study in?

Activeskin operates in consumer ecommerce. 121 Group works across nine verticals, with case studies published for each.

Could 121 Group run a programme like this for us?

Yes. A senior strategist can talk through how we approach consumer ecommerce marketing, what a comparable programme would cover and how it would be measured, on a thirty minute call.

Running a catalogue-scale store that search should be feeding?

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