Case study 02 / Real estate

From organic traffic
to qualified leads.

A commercial SEO program for a confidential real estate company, connecting buyer intent, useful landing experiences and clearer conversion paths.

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Real estate / Commercial SEOLead generation · Page architecture · ConversionBrand anonymized
10,797
Organic leads
+157.8% · GA comparison
36,696
Goal completions
+200.6% · GA comparison
25,602
Brochure downloads
+219.4% · GA comparison
4.58%
Goal conversion rate
+30.8% · relative growth
01 / The challenge

A strong brand. An incomplete route to enquiry.

The business already had organic visibility, but its SEO architecture was not fully built around lead generation. Acquisition depended heavily on community and individual project pages.

Traffic without a clear next step

Informational content did not consistently guide visitors toward enquiries or property exploration.

A gap in commercial coverage

There was no dedicated, scalable SEO layer to capture broader property-listing and transactional demand.

Turn organic search into a stronger qualified-leads channel.

The business objective
02 / The strategy

Five levers, each connected to buyer intent.

01

Commercial-investigation content

Targeted buying and investment research, including queries such as “Best Areas to Buy Property in Dubai,” to reach people actively comparing their options.

02

Contextual calls to action

Added varied CTA copy within blog content, matching the message to the page context and moving readers from research into enquiry actions.

03

Listing pages built from scratch

Created a scalable listing layer with a deliberate URL structure, indexability rules and schema to capture broader commercial search demand.

04

A mortgage calculator with a clear purpose

Built a utility page for users evaluating affordability. It became one of the stronger lead-generating SEO assets in the program.

05

Selective authority building

Acquired a smaller number of relevant, higher-quality backlinks to support the commercial pages.

03 / The results

Measure acquisition and conversion in context.

Google Search Console shows improved visibility over a six-month comparison. Google Analytics shows lead and goal outcomes over a separate comparison period. Each dataset supports a different part of the story.

Reporting context: GSC and GA use different comparison windows. The figures below should not be combined into a direct traffic-to-lead ratio or used to compare growth rates over the same period.

Search acquisition · GSC 6-month comparison

MetricComparison periodReported periodChange
Organic clicks334K423K+26.6%
Search impressions8.13M9.67M+18.9%
Click-through rate4.1%4.4%+0.3 pp
Average position23.620.33.3 positions better
Google Search Console · 6-month comparison
Google Search Console · 6-month comparisonOriginal presentation, slide 5 ↗

Commercial outcomes · GA organic traffic comparison

MetricComparison periodReported periodChange
Organic leads4,18910,797+157.8%
Goal completions12,20636,696+200.6%
Brochure downloads8,01725,602+219.4%
Goal conversion rate3.50%4.58%+30.8%
Google Analytics · separate organic traffic comparison
Google Analytics · separate organic traffic comparisonOriginal presentation, slide 6 ↗
The conversion rate increased by 1.08 percentage points, equivalent to 30.8% relative growth. Leads and brochure downloads are goal categories; they should not be added to total goal completions.
04 / From intent to enquiry

A more useful journey from search to action.

01

Capture commercial questions

Reach users comparing areas, investment options, buying considerations and mortgage affordability.

02

Offer a relevant experience

Use blogs, listing pages and the mortgage calculator to answer the user’s decision-stage question.

03

Make the next action clear

Match contextual CTAs to the page’s purpose instead of relying on one generic enquiry prompt.

04

Track commercial outcomes

Connect the work to measured lead actions, brochure downloads and goal conversion efficiency.

The program improved the relationship between the searcher’s intent, the usefulness of the landing page and the next commercial action.

05 / Business impact

More commercially useful organic traffic.

Organic leads grew from 4,189 to 10,797, while total goal completions reached 36,696. The case demonstrates hands-on execution across content, technical SEO, architecture, schema and authority building, with commercial outcomes guiding priorities.

Match high-intent demand with pages that can answer, guide and convert.

The principle behind the work

The results document more enquiry actions and stronger conversion efficiency. They do not establish closed sales or a revenue value for the resulting leads.

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