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Automotive · Dec 2025 — Jun 2026

Foreign Affairs Auto

Scaled a legacy European auto-repair specialist to 6.1K monthly organic visits and 7K ranking keywords via technical SEO and authority building.

Industry
Automotive
Region
United States · South Florida
Platform
WordPress
Duration
6 months
Technical SEOLink BuildingLocal SEOContent Strategy
Foreign Affairs Auto results

Measured results

Sourced from Semrush.

Organic traffic
6.1K
/ month
Semrush · Jun 2026
Ranking keywords
7K
Semrush · Jun 2026
Referring domains
911
Semrush · Jun 2026
Authority score
29
Good
Semrush · Jun 2026
Backlinks
24K
Semrush · Jun 2026

Goals

  • Recover lost organic traffic from duplicate content
  • Grow authority in a competitive European auto-repair niche
  • Convert branded strength into non-branded rankings

Challenges

  • 1982-founded brand with legacy site debt: duplicate service pages and thin content
  • Poor internal linking and inconsistent hreflang
  • Slow load times hurting Core Web Vitals
  • Stagnant referring-domain growth despite strong PR relationships

What we did

  • Full technical SEO audit: crawl, indexation, canonicals, redirect chains, hreflang, CWV
  • Consolidated duplicate service pages, rebuilt internal linking around brand + service intent
  • White-hat link building via digital PR, guest content, niche automotive citations
  • Location-specific service pages, GBP posts and review flow
  • AutoRepair, LocalBusiness, and FAQPage schema for rich results

Deliverables

  • Technical SEO audit & fix log
  • Internal linking map
  • 50+ location + service pages
  • Digital PR campaign (12 placements)
  • GBP optimisation & review workflow

Tools & stack

  • Semrush
  • Ahrefs
  • Screaming Frog
  • GSC
  • GA4
  • Looker Studio
Long-form

Read the full case study

8 min read · How we consolidated a 40-year-old European auto specialist's technical stack and rebuilt authority to compound organic traffic across 7,000 ranking keywords.

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