Client Overview

The confident leap into content was more than worth the investment, as Directive was able to massively increase Inscribe’s Organic Keyword Rankings and Domain Authority over industry averages.

– Nate Ramirez, SEO Account Strategist @Directive

As a fairly new company that recently received its Series A funding, Inscribe had a small website that showed promise and potential but lacked focus. After expanding their marketing efforts and hiring a new VP of Marketing who had previously worked with Directive, Inscribe quickly decided to start investing in SEO. Before the partnership, Inscribe was having difficulty growing its organic traffic base so after knowing the impact this partnership would have, we all decided to expand the untapped SEO investment with a new solution.

Understanding that the site itself was on the more minimal side, Directive was able to shift a large part of the initial project phase away from website auditing and towards more content- focused keyword research. This, along with some proactivity from Directive’s strategists, enabled content briefs to be front-loaded for a large-scale content initiative. This workload shift also allowed Directive’s team to familiarize themselves with Inscribe’s CMS taking a more active role in website development management.

To grow Inscribe’s organic footprint in a way that would also generate leads and revenue, Directive created a content strategy focusing on a full-funnel demand generation approach. By prioritizing pillars of evergreen content and keyword-focused core pages, Directive was able to move quickly and boost Inscribe’s publication rate quite rapidly.

Because this was a relatively young site, Directive had to look at a full-funnel approach to Inscirbe’s demand-gen needs. This was a unique opportunity with a clean slate in front of us, and Directive was tasked with building a steady and scalable strategy in return. This full-funnel approach focused on “Fraud Detection” and “Document Collection” to target high search volume Search Engine Results Pages (SERP).

However, Directive had to nuance the targeting carefully within their different types of content to focus on more bottom-funnel intents on these SERPs to properly target the right customer intents.

The initial project phase of most SEO campaigns focus on auditing the site and its backend optimization. Thankfully, because of a small site to work with, Directive was able to focus its initial project phase more on content and frontloading preparation to quickly get ready for a scaled content launch.

Directive managed all the keyword research and content briefs for the next expansion of content that they were proposing. Inscribe only had to worry about topic approvals and the production of the pieces themselves. Thankfully, Inscribe invested in a skilled internal writer and development team to help with actual content creation and implementation.

Because Directive was able to start publishing new pages consistently in early Q1 22, several new pages began gaining traction in both keyword rankings and organic traffic throughout Q2. While their primary competitor grew their Domain Authority by 1 point in 1 quarter, Inscribe was able to boost their DA by 16 points in Q2 alone.

Because it doesn’t often drive as instantaneous revenue as paid channels, SEO and content often get put onto the backburner of most growth campaigns. Content is assumed as something that can be left to the CMO when they have the time to write a blog post here or there. This is how brands end up with massive sites that SEO agencies have to tear down during audits to re-optimize. Instead of falling into this mistake – Inscribe took the proactive approach and decided to start their SEO on the right foot. The initial returns should speak for themselves, but the compounded growth over time is possibly even more exciting.