SEO That Drives Revenue, Not Just Traffic
Rankings and traffic are vanity metrics if they don't convert. Here's how to run SEO as a revenue channel.
Plenty of businesses rank well and still don’t grow. The reason is simple: they optimised for traffic instead of revenue. Those are not the same channel.
Intent beats volume
A keyword with 10,000 searches a month is worthless if the searchers never buy. One with 200 searches from people ready to purchase can outperform it many times over. Map keywords to intent first:
- Informational, learning, not buying yet
- Commercial, comparing options
- Transactional, ready to act
Your money pages should target commercial and transactional intent. Informational content earns trust and feeds them.
Technical foundations still matter
No amount of content fixes a slow, unstructured site. The non-negotiables:
- Fast Core Web Vitals on mobile
- Clean, crawlable structure and internal links
- Correct structured data so search engines understand your pages
- Canonical URLs and no duplicate content
Measure the metric that pays
Track rankings if you like, but report on organic-sourced leads and revenue. When SEO is tied to pipeline, it stops being a cost centre and becomes a channel you can confidently invest in.
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