Important notice: Beware of fake recruiters and scammers who misuse Promodo's logo and company name. Learn more in our LinkedIn post!

How to Increase Traffic for Inquiries Related to Real Estate in the Priority Regions

content

Client

DOM.RIA is a website for the sale and rental of all types of real estate from individuals, developers, and real estate agencies. Convenient search and sale of real estate in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa, and Ukraine.

Challenge

  • Within six months improve the website ranking in the SERPs for targeted queries related to the sale of real estate.
  • To increase the visibility of the site in search engines in priority cities: Odesa, Lviv, Kharkiv, Dnipro, and the Zaporizhzhia regions.
  • To use internet marketing tools to attract the target audience from significant competitors and keep this audience loyal.

Solution

  • Analysis of user demand, search traffic of the competitors, and compilation of relevant semantic core for site promotion.
  • Identify pages that don’t rank well for specific query groups/clusters.
  • Taking steps to get the pages to the top of the search results for relevant search requests.
  • Correction of technical errors on the site.

1. Semantic Core Analysis and Search for Growth Points

To understand in which types of requests DOM RIA ranked lower than their competitors, where its ranking was unstable and where it was not ranked at all.

Example of the most relevant search requests and resource positions in the search results of the city of Odesa
Example of clustering by type of real estate for the city of Odesa. This content was translated to English

After that stage, we scanned the new semantic core for SERP (Search Engine Results Page’s) and identified the keywords for which DOM.RIA ranks below the TOP-3 positions.

To understand the position of DOM.RIA among their competitors, and what needs to bedone to bypass them, we analyzed this on these key queries.

2. Identifying Pages for Further Promotion

The DOM.RIA pages have already been ranked according to the required key queries, and the pages with the highest number of impressions were identified as growth points.
The general indicators of the site's positions by priority regions were as follows:

The team started to work with those DOM RIA pages, which had already ranked in the top-3, top-5, and top-10 of the search results, as their optimization to further improve on ranking takes less time.

3. Taking Pages to the Top-3 of the Search Results for Relevant Requests

The third stage, we analyzed the site in detail in comparison with their competitors and identified the following factors that needed to be optimized:

The Competitors contained mostly unique text content, while texts on DOM.RIA was generated with variables according to a template.

In addition to the main directories, we also evaluated the potential of impressions by tag/district/street pages and optimized this text content. Below is the result of a study for one group of such pages from the priority cities.

4. Correction of Technical Errors on the Site

The technical audit of the site revealed several errors that were critical and affected the ranking. Among these are pages that are similar in terms of user goals, duplicates, errors in micro-markup / on AMP pages.

PASTING TOGETHER PAGES THAT WERE DUPLICATES OF THE SEARCH INTENT

The presence of similar key queries on different pages negatively affects the site’s ranking, as the search engine cannot determine which of the pages to show to the user. One of the tasks of our DOM.RIA team was to analyze and identify groups of such key queries, during which our team identified pages with the keywords "not expensive" and "cheap".

Example of the most relevant search requests and resource positions in the search resultsof the city of Odesa

DELETE DUPLICATE PAGES

Some regional landing pages with unique URLs duplicate parent categories. As a result, one of several versions of the URL Google had considered the main - canonical, and the rest - copies of this.

In this case, the crawling budget was spent on scanning alternate copies of URLs and didn’t promote the actual desired pages.

A crawling budget is a certain number of pages for each site that a search engine robot can index per unit of time.

The graph below shows that search engines did not fully rank the page with the identified problems.

Dynamics of impressions and clicks before gluing duplicates of intent and duplicates of pages

After the Promodo team completed the work on gluing the duplicates of intent and the duplicates of pages, the situation of unstable page ranking changed. There was an improvement in the growth rate of impressions and clicks across the group of these pages:

Dynamics of impressions and clicks by a group of optimized pages

CORRECTION OF ERRORS IN MICRODATA SCRIPTS

  • Fixed an issue with generating non-existent URLs. Before this fix, these addresses were scanned by search bots based on server logs and the Google Search Console
  • In adaptive layout pages added a micro-layout of the navigation chain.
  • Some pages have replaced the outdated data vocabulary, which is no longer supported by Google, with schema.org. Eliminating this problem contributed to the correct formation of advanced snippets.

Micro markup (structured data) – is a search engine language, which uses unique semantic dictionaries to convey the concept of search engines for looking at content more clearly.

  • Fixed issues with generating page markup when the Unicode of characters responsible for emoji broke script validity.

Example of micro-markup

Previously, this resulted in parsing errors for search engines, and advanced snippets did not appear in search results.

IMPROVEMENT OF INTERNAL RELINK

Improved relinking between ad pages, tag pages, and regional directories: Removed internal links from copies of canonical URLs that were glued to categories. At the same time, we adjusted the layout of the relink blocks themselves, included these inside the <main>, and divided them into several sections with their subheadings.

Example of the <main> tag

ERROR FIXES ON AMP VERSIONS OF PAGES

AMP pages is a more recent format for web pages that load quickly and are easy to view on mobile devices.

Fixed error occurred when generating the hreflang attribute, which tells search engines to link to other language versions of the page. Previously, broken links were formed on the AMP versions of the pages, which affected the visibility of the site in the issue.

Also, no image URL was generated for the "src" attribute in the "amp-img" tag: AMP pages were not validated by search engines, which affected ranking in search results. Eliminating these errors allowed the pages to return to search results.

OPTIMIZATION OF THE LOAD SPEED

In terms of loading speed, the DOM.RIA site was only slightly inferior to their competitors. As a result, we increased the number of audiences to 83%, for which drawing the most significant element on the page took less than 2.5 seconds. And the number of users who waited more than 4 seconds to draw dropped to 6%.

CrUX page load speed

Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) is a publicly available set of real-world user performance data.

Results

Together with the DOM.RIA team for six months in five priority cities, we managed to improve the position of the site on targeted requests for the sale of real estate in the TOP-1 by an average of 41%.

HOW DID THE VISIBILITY OF THE DOM.RIA WEBSITE GROW OVER THE COURSE OF SIX MONTHS IN THE CONTEXT OF PRIORITY CITIES

RANKING POSITIONS NO. 1 IN GOOGLE:

+ 62.2 %

Lviv

+ 26.8 %

Kharkiv

+ 54.3 %

Dnipro

+ 22.41 %

Odessa

+ 40 %

Zaporizhzhya

ATTRACTING NEW AND RETAINING A LOYAL AUDIENCE

The result of the task of attracting the target audience from the main competitors was a 95% increase in new users (year-over-year). The total number of sessions also increased by 36%.


YOY dynamics on organic traffic (Google Analytics data) excluding AMP pages

Taking into account mobile traffic, according to SimilarWeb, the dynamics of the organic traffic was as follows:

Dynamics of organic traffic taking into account the traffic on the AMP version of the pages

Success factors

  • We quickly synchronized work with the in-house team at DOM.RIA which allowed us to solve problems and keep the focus on the tasks rapidly.
  • The teams had a clear understanding of the primary growth points of the project and their impact on the final result.
  • Quick correction of technical remarks in the work of the site on the side of DOM.RIA.
  • In this case, the SCRUM methodology was used for the Promodo and DOM.RIA teams greatly simplified the interaction and increased control and speed.

What's next

In the future, the DOM.RIA team intends to expand the geography of work to other promising regions. And the search for new growth points of the resource in other areas can attract a new audience to the site, which was not previously considered a target.



Case studies

We’re proud of our success stories

Check out how we help companies like yours overcome challenges and rise to the next level.

81.3%

Organic traffic

481

Conversions from blog

10 months

Work period

70% Sales Made in Blog: How We Transformed the SaaS Blog into a Lead Generation Tool
Search Engine Optimization
/
Global
/
IT
/
Learn more
+200%

New Cutomers

+190%

The channel's monthly revenue

3 weeks

Work period

How Gamification Works in the Jewelry Niche: The Pandora Case Study
Fashion & Apparel
/
Global
/
European Union
/
Email Marketing
/
Learn more
Grow your business
175
companies in the U.S. have
increased sales with Promodo

Get a free strategy session

We will analyze your business and share our ideas on how to improve your marketing strategy.

Valid number
Your company website
Send Message

By clicking on “Send message” button, you agree to our Privacy Policy and allow Promodo to use this data for our marketing purposes.

Thank you for reaching out, inquiry has been sent! We will get back to you shortly.
Got it
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.
Contact us