Case: seo-promotion of an Anglo-American school website # Seo-optimization of the site

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How an international educational institution in Moscow increased its visibility in the Russian capital and the world

AAS Moscow, or Anglo-American School, is a private, international educational institution in Moscow. The school has more than 1500 students of 60 nationalities. AAS is authorized by the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) to teach PYP and DP.

Promotion region

RussiaUSACanadaChinaUKSouth Korea

Objectives

Want to increase sales and brand awareness. Desired result is 100 leads per month, as soon as possible.

Features of the project

MultiregionalizationThe client wanted to attract students to the school not only from Russia, but also from other regions. At the same time (as it turned out after collecting semantics) in Russia such educational institutions are searched not only in Russian, but also in English.
CompetitionFor many anlolanguage queries, the www.aas.ru project competed for the first places in the output not only with the sites of competing schools, but also with the information resources, which told about the best schools in Russia.
SeasonalityThe main demand in November, December, January and April, May, June are periods when new semester enrollments are underway.
Search results in English and Russian-speaking segments
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Project baseline

Organic traffic on Google

2023 users/month
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Stages of the project

Collecting the semantic core

We started work on the project by collecting the semantic kernel and drawing up the structure of the site. When collecting semantics, we paid special attention to the regions where the client wanted to attract targeted traffic. As a result, we prepared 3 semantic kernels :

  • English-language for the USA, UK, Canada, China and South Korea;
  • English-language for Russia;
  • Russian-language for Russia.
According to the results of the collected semantics, the structure of the site did not undergo strong changes, as the important pages for promotion already existed in the necessary format and nesting.
Content development

After collecting semantics, we started working out the content for the current landing pages: we prepared h1 queries-optimized, meta title and description tags, as well as useful texts that describe the school and its activities at different levels of education.

Analysis of the link profile of the site and competitors

It turned out that competitors have 2 times more links. Therefore, we made a strategy of building up, which consisted in a gradual increase in quality thematic donors to the site, without sudden jumps, so as not to arouse suspicion of search engines. We took into account:

  • Type of donor sites;
  • The domain zone of the donor sites;
  • Average link growth among competitors;
  • The ratio of anchor and non-anchor links;
  • Types of pages to get links to.
The regions where the project was promoted were also taken into account when developing the build-up strategy. Thus, we received links from donors with traffic from target regions (Russia, USA, Canada, China, UK, South Korea).
Usability analysis

They also conducted a usability analysis to find opportunities to improve the usability of the site. Improving user experience not only contributes to visitor satisfaction, but also directly affects its position in search engines. Search engine algorithms take into account metrics of user interaction with a website — time on site, abandonments and clicks, when ranking pages. Therefore, working on usability leads to higher conversion rates, lower bounce rates and increased time on site. Based on the results of the analysis:

  • Russian version of the site was added;
  • Optimized site logo — added text description via `<alt>` tag and `<title>` header with addition of keywords;
  • Optimized display of icons with social networks - increased size for easy perception;
  • Aligned icons with links.
Technical audit

We conducted technical audits. As a result, we found errors, which were further corrected. For example:

  • Removed duplicate titles and descriptions;
  • Performed work on h1 optimization (corrected duplicates, missing and multiple headings).

Challenges for the project

For example, when working with ass.ru, it was a specific CMS Finalsite and the absence of a programmer on the client's side. The Finalsite platform is designed specifically for schools. All improvements had to be realized through requests (tickets) to the developers of the Finalsite administration.

Dependence on external developers meant that changes may not have been implemented immediately and perhaps not in full, creating additional obstacles when managing the site.

Results

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Increase in the percentage of key queries in the top 10 of Google

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Moscow
52%of keys
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UK
24%of keys
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China
33%of keys
Due to the growth of positions by queries, organic traffic started to grow
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Dynamics of organic traffic of www.aas.ru project according to Yandex.Metrica service
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Promotion results

As a result of the promotion of an Anglo-American school, the client's objectives were achieved: increased sales and brand awareness. The strategy included analysis of the semantic core, optimization of the content and usability of the site, as well as building up the link mass. The result was an increase in organic traffic, visibility and search engine rankings.

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Elena

ACCOUNT MANAGER

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