Client
National commercial bounce house and inflatable manufacturer
Location
United States, national targeting
Engagement Length
12 months to top-tier rankings, then ongoing retention
Initial Problems Identified
- Slow, outdated website with legacy code that limited development flexibility
- Thin product and category content that failed to establish topical authority for commercial inflatables
- Weak entity and brand signals
- High competition from large manufacturers and resellers with more modern sites
Strategy
- Keep the existing platform and codebase, while working around limitations with smart technical SEO
- Restructure category and product architecture around commercial intent and search demand
- Volume-driven content plan for product and category pages that answered buyer questions directly on-site
- Authority building around the “commercial bounce house” and “inflatable manufacturer” entity
Key Actions
- Technical clean-up
- Improved Core Web Vitals, where the platform allowed
- Compressed imagery and simplified bloated scripts
- Fixed crawl traps and refined internal linking to key money pages
- Category and product page overhaul
- Detailed specs, use cases, and FAQ sections on core product and category URLs
- Strong internal links between related inflatables, accessories, and resources
- Entity and trust building
- Expanded About, manufacturing process, and safety standards content
- Created resource content around buying guides and maintenance
- Off-site authority
- Targeted link acquisition from party rental blogs, business resources, and niche directories
- Anchor strategies focused on commercial terms and branded queries
Results
- Top 3 rankings for core commercial bounce house and inflatable terms with 10,000+ searches per month after roughly 12 months
- Strong growth across long-tail product and category queries, which lifted revenue across the entire catalog
- Measurable revenue growth from organic search, despite constraints on the old platform and code. Reduced paid advertising spend by 50%+ with organic growth
- Stronger brand recognition in search results, with more branded queries and repeat buyers touching multiple organic entry points
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