488% Organic Growth In Just 7-Months

ULTIMATE RETAIL GROWTH REVIEW
Hificentre.com
Hificentre.com is a 'clicks' and 'bricks' retailer of high-end audio and visual systems based in Vancouver Canada. With numerous failed attempts at trying to scale with Shopify and working with various agencies that over promised and under-delivered over a few year period, Igor Kivritsky (the owner) was about to give up on making his already extremely successful off-line business, as successful online.
rank higher, convert more
Problem & situation
Using Shopify with a large inventory of some 2000+ SKU’s, complex filtering requirements, a product filter app which incorrectly self canonicalized, an absolute necessity for a shop by brand and shop by product type, and, a bespoke in-house POS system which controlled stock on and offline.

As a result, like in so many other similar scenarios, the hificentre.com store was riddled with the typical Shopify technical SEO issues you’d expect to see in such a scenario which prevented the store from scaling organically, and any other channel for that matter.
  • Under-optimized product feed controlled by POS overwriting metadata... 
  • ​Mass duplications of root collection pages caused by a low quality filter app...
  • ​​Shop by brand and product type collection duplications...
  • Sitewide keyword conflicts and canibalization…
  • ​Slow page load speed of 3.2 seconds...
When Covid-19’s worldwide lockdown struck, Igor’s beautiful highstreet store was dealt a hammer blow and had to close its doors in early 2020, Igor’s primary revenue stream came to a screeching halt and had to switch his focus to online sales like so many others had to and decided to give the online world one last attempt at success and growth organically, as technology works with very tight margins compared to other sectors and paid marketing was completely out of the question.
World exclusive shopify os 2.0 solutions
Creativity & Implementation
  • We manually optimized a new product feed of 2000+ SKU’s for the search engines, our filter tech and the Google Shopping Comparison Service
  • We planned, installed and configured our Shopify AAP® SEO Product Filter tech which unleashed 100’s more fully optimized, high converting landing pages in the search engines
  • ​We created custom page templates and tagged certain products for ‘buy in-store only’
  • ​We eliminated all Shop by Brand & Shop by Product Type, collection page metadata, keyword and content conflicts with our unique canonical programming system and tool
  • ​We ran post launch technical analysis to ensure a smooth transition to our tech
  • ​We designed, planned and executed an on-going content marketing campaign to drive additional traffic and attract high quality links to build domain authority
  • ​We fixed technical SEO issues on a monthly basis to ensure the store was aligned with Google's algorithms, quality guidelines & 200+ ranking factors
  • ​We provided ongoing monthly consultancy, support and reporting on a rolling 12 month contract
massive page load speed increase

535ms Page Load

With Shopify our optimized HTML5, CSS and JavaScript files, we were able to significantly improve page load speed on desktop and mobile from 3.2 seconds. Structure will be improved when we move to OS 2.0
  • GTMetrix Grade A
  • Performance 98% 
  • 535ms Page Load speed  
e-commerce conversion rate increase

150.47% Conversion Rate Rise

Mobile-first indexing means Google predominantly uses the mobile version of the content for indexing and ranking. Historically, the index primarily used the desktop version of a page's content when evaluating the relevance of a page to a user's query. 
  • Sessions up 35.3%
  • ​New users up 27.15%
  • ​Organic sessions up 21.99%
organic revenue increase
487.79% Organic revenue growth in 7-months

With a much more technically aligned website, a new in-house POS system that allowed us to control field population, an optimized product feed, the installation of a unique SEO product filter app and a canonical programming tool allowed us to significantly increase organic rankings, traffic and conversions. It wasn't about unleashing more pages in the SERPs for this store, it was about eliminating sitewide duplications so that the right pages could be indexed and ranked properly for the most appropriate converting, intent based keywords.

overall site revenue increase

193% Overall site revenue rise

As well as organic, our solution had, and still does to this day, an extremely positive impact across All Channels as well as in-store.
  • Direct revenue up 26.24%
  • ​Referral revenue up 52.06%
  • ​Email marketing up 743%
overall site revenue increase

Video & written testimonial

"Over the years I have worked wit no less than 7 different agencies who all claimed that they can boost traffic to our site, that they can increase our revenue, etc. but every single one of them failed. I spent a lot of money and got very little in return. These guys were the first agency who took the time to demonstrate that there were flaws in my website that prevented it from ranking very well. Their promise was also quite different. Instead of making claims about boosting traffic and increasing sales, they promised to fix the problems on my site so that my SEO efforts actually produced results which would then lead to increased traffic and increased sales. I also liked the fact that they were completely transparent in what their service offered, how it worked and how it would benefit me. There was no voodoo SEO magic that so many agencies claim as their "secret sauce."

The process took 8 weeks and actually required some work on my part, which is a good thing. Our website was completely re-built using a Shopify theme that is substantially more searchable than before. I also learned more about SEO in these 8 weeks than I had previously in all my years of owning a website. The results? Our website is receiving more traffic than ever before, email and phone inquiries have gone up and our online sales in the past 2 months are almost equal to the entire year before.

My rep, Mark, has been great to work with. He has forgotten more about SEO than most will learn in a lifetime but he explains things in a language that anyone can understand. He responds to all my inquiries in a timely manner and addresses every single question to full resolution leaving no detail behind. For the first time I got the feeling that a rep and the agency actually cared about my success which is something that I had not experienced from other agencies.

Anyone reading this who has an E-Commerce website and is tired of all the BS that agencies have fed you, give Kristin Mark Digital a call. The increased sales you will experience will easily pay for their service within a few months and you will continue to have success for years."

Igor Kivritsky - Owner Hificentre.com
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