SEO Case Study Template – Hubert Pablo
Client Case Study

51Talk.ph – Turning an SEO Foundation
Into Measurable Organic Growth

A six-month SEO consulting engagement covering technical audits, keyword strategy, content, link building, and CRO-aligned recommendations for one of the Philippines’ leading online English-tutoring platforms.

Client
51Talk.ph
Role
SEO Consultant
Engagement
April 2020 – October 2020
+39.7%
Organic traffic growth (Apr → Oct 2020)
+20.0%
Growth in Top 3 keyword rankings
+17.3%
Growth in page-one (Top 10) rankings
2,434
Keywords ranking in the top 100 by Oct 2020
The Challenge

Growing sustainably in a fast-moving, high-intent category

Online education is a crowded, competitive vertical where rankings can shift quickly. Heading into the engagement, 51Talk.ph needed a partner who could diagnose technical blockers, uncover the right keyword opportunities, and build an authority profile without relying on paid search.

01

Technical & UX gaps

Website structure, performance, and user-experience issues needed a full audit to identify what was holding rankings and usability back.

02

Unclear keyword priorities

The site needed a clear, research-backed view of which keywords carried the best mix of relevance, intent, and ranking potential.

03

Fragmented site architecture

Internal linking and URL structure were not yet optimized to guide both users and search engines through the site efficiently.

04

Thin authority profile

A natural, white-hat backlink strategy was needed to build domain authority without risking penalties from low-quality links.

05

Limited competitive visibility

The team lacked a structured view of competitor strategies and where 51Talk could realistically win ranking share.

06

SEO/CRO working in silos

SEO recommendations weren’t yet connected to conversion-rate optimization, leaving traffic gains under-monetized.

Strategy & Execution

A six-month, full-funnel SEO program

The engagement was structured around six connected work streams, each feeding the next – from technical fixes, to content, to authority building, to ongoing enablement.

01

Technical SEO foundation

Audited site structure, performance, and UX; advised on URL structure, redirects, schema markup, and XML sitemaps to keep the site crawlable, fast, and search-friendly.

02

Keyword research & content strategy

Conducted thorough keyword research to surface relevant, high-potential terms, then built content strategies aligned to those keywords and genuine user needs.

03

Site architecture & internal linking

Recommended improvements to internal linking and overall site architecture so authority and relevance flowed to the pages that mattered most.

04

Authority & link building

Developed natural, white-hat link-building strategies to strengthen the site’s backlink profile and long-term domain authority.

05

Competitive intelligence

Analyzed competitor strategies on an ongoing basis, translating findings into concrete recommendations and continuously adapting to algorithm changes.

06

CRO alignment & enablement

Connected SEO recommendations to CRO opportunities, and ran workshops and training sessions so the internal team could sustain best practices.

Results

Organic traffic climbed 39.7% over the engagement

Estimated monthly organic search traffic, tracked month over month across the engagement window. Source: Semrush Domain Overview (Historical Data).

Estimated Organic Traffic – Apr–Oct 2020

Total organic Branded traffic
073K146K219K292K Apr ’20May ’20Jun ’20Jul ’20Aug ’20Sep ’20Oct ’20 193.7K 270.6K
Source: Semrush Domain Overview, 51talk.ph – Historical Data (verified live for Apr–Oct 2020).

Keyword Position Distribution – April vs. October 2020

April 2020 October 2020
033967910181358 50961120622810812134329311241181 Top 34-1011-2021-5051-100
Position bucketApril 2020October 2020Change
Top 3509611+20.0%
Positions 4–10206228+10.7%
Positions 11–20108121+12.0%
Positions 21–50343293-14.6%
Positions 51–1001,1241,181+5.1%
Total tracked keywords2,2902,434+6.3%
Source: Semrush Domain Overview, 51talk.ph – Organic keyword position distribution, Historical Data.
Client Feedback

What the client had to say

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