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Behavioural science and consumer research consultancy · Americas and Europe

Service pages renamed for the people who buy research. 290% more monthly clicks.

A consultancy that applies behavioural science to consumer research brought me in at the start of January 2026. Its service pages carried internal names nobody searches for, and on average the site sat on page three. I built a service architecture around the way enterprise insight teams look for research partners. By March, monthly Google clicks were up 290% on December, and keywords in the top ten had grown about 500%.

Period
Dec 2025 to Apr 2026
Market
Americas and Europe
Work
Content strategy, Technical SEO

Results

+260%Clicks in the latest monthApril 2026 vs December 2025
+510%Keywords in the top tenNinety days to late April 2026 vs the ninety days before
+740%Top-three keywordsSame two ninety-day windows
26 → 14Average positionDecember 2025 vs March 2026
Month by month

Google clicks

Google clicks, change from the starting monthGoogle clicks against December 2025. April 2026: +260%. Peak March 2026: +290%.+300%+200%+100%0%starting levelDecember 2025: 0%January 2026: +150%February 2026: +130%March 2026: +290%April 2026: +260%+260%Dec 25Jan 26Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26Google clicks, change from the starting monthGoogle clicks against December 2025. April 2026: +260%. Peak March 2026: +290%.+300%+200%+100%0%starting levelDecember 2025: 0%January 2026: +150%February 2026: +130%March 2026: +290%April 2026: +260%+260%Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26
Month by month

Google impressions

Google impressions, change from the starting monthGoogle impressions against December 2025. April 2026: +290%. Peak April 2026: +290%.+300%+200%+100%0%starting levelDecember 2025: 0%January 2026: +110%February 2026: +210%March 2026: +260%April 2026: +290%+290%Dec 25Jan 26Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26Google impressions, change from the starting monthGoogle impressions against December 2025. April 2026: +290%. Peak April 2026: +290%.+300%+200%+100%0%starting levelDecember 2025: 0%January 2026: +110%February 2026: +210%March 2026: +260%April 2026: +290%+290%Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26
Starting point

Page three, filed under house jargon

In December 2025, just before I started, the site earned a few dozen clicks and ranked on average around 26th. That is page three, and it showed: only about three searches in every thousand that surfaced the site led to a visit. The half-year before looked no different.

The firm sells behavioural science and research programmes to insight teams at large companies. Its service pages, though, were labelled the way an agency describes itself internally, with names no buyer would type. In the ninety days before onboarding, only about a fifth of the queries the site appeared for placed it on page one.

What I did

Research the buyer, then rebuild the service map

Onboarding was completed on 8 January 2026. The opening weeks went on research; from there until May the main job was the structure of the service pages.

  1. 01

    Write down who buys

    I defined the buyer as the heads of insight, marketing and strategy at big companies in consumer goods, retail, technology, healthcare and financial services, across Latin America, North America and Europe. Fixing that early decided whose vocabulary the new pages would use and which regions needed coverage of their own.

  2. 02

    Study sixteen competitors

    I went through sixteen rival sites, looking at how each was organised, how far its content went and what it covered. Two gaps held across the whole field: nobody treated behavioural science in real depth, and Latin American markets were thinly served. Both were areas the client could credibly own, so both shaped the plan.

  3. 03

    One search, one page

    Each service page was given a single target keyword so no two pages would chase the same search, and service URLs were kept no deeper than three levels. By the May 2026 inventory the architecture held about seventy service pages grouped under twelve to fourteen pillars.

  4. 04

    Give the gap its own pillar

    The uncontested gap became an eight-page pillar on behavioural science, a topic no rival in the sixteen had covered properly. It hands the firm's most distinctive expertise a section of its own, rather than a passing line on a general services page.

  5. 05

    Rename pages after the method

    Legacy slugs built on internal labels were renamed after the method or outcome a buyer actually looks for. Where two pages chased near-synonyms of a single idea, I merged them, so each concept now has exactly one page answering for it.

The result

Four months, a far wider net

March 2026 brought 290% more clicks than December, and April held 260% above it. Monthly impressions grew about 290% across the same window, while average position climbed from about 26 to 14, out of page three and into the upper half of page two.

Comparing the ninety days before onboarding with the ninety days to late April, the number of queries the site appeared for rose about 180%, top-ten keywords about 510% and top-three keywords about 740%. Clicks across those windows rose 200%. Many of the new top-three rankings are long-tail searches with a handful of impressions each, so the ranking counts outrun the clicks for now.

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