Ask Traders - Impression

The Challenge

AskTraders had been working with various PR agencies prior to approaching Impression and while the coverage achieved was pleasing, the impact on search rankings was lacking. They approached Impression with a view to improving their backlink profile in a way that would support their SEO needs – something that perfectly suits our integrated approach.

Noting the YMYL (your money or your life) nature of AskTraders’ product, we were quick to spot the issues in the existing backlink profile, most notably the prevalence of comment-led links which, though good for the brand, were not hitting the relevance and quality of links the brand would need to grow moving forward.

AskTraders elected to retain a PR agency alongside Impression that would manage all reactive and comment based opportunities so our focus was on more campaign-driven work.

Incorporating our client’s ongoing aspiration for brand building coverage alongside the SEO need, our job was to:

1

Earn links from highly relevant publications in the finance sector

2

Earn links from high profile/quality/DR websites through finance-relevant content

The Strategy

We believe in the benefits of layered strategies, meaning we run multiple campaign activities at once. Not only does this mitigate the risk of lower performing campaigns, it presents a more natural link acquisition journey to Google.

For AskTraders, we operated on a structure of what we call ‘hero campaigns’ and ‘audience campaigns’, the former being focused strictly on finance topics while the latter would explore broader audiences through more mass appeal style content. Hero campaigns were larger investments often requiring data, visualisation or large scale analysis, while audience campaigns can be turned around in shorter periods. Underlying all of this was the reactive work of the other agency.

The Results

The results for our work with AskTraders have been impressive and far exceed the link targets agreed at the start of our tenure. On average across quarters, we exceeded expectations by 166% in terms of link numbers – while the relevance and quality of coverage is indicated by the high average DR but also by placements in highly relevant publications.

110+

links so far

DR:68

average domain rating of links so far

In the time we've worked with Impression they've totally exceeded all the KPI's we set and have been great to work with.

Steve Rose Product Manager, AskTraders