Work / Case study

A UK aluminium balustrade e-commerce brand

An online retailer of balustrade systems selling across the UK. Client name withheld.

Results

What changed

Measured from the first full quarter after the move to Shopify. Click-through rate is compared with the same quarter a year earlier.

+470%

Organic clicks to balustrade pages

Google Search Console, Jul–Sep 2026 vs Jan–Mar 2026

+221%

Organic clicks, whole site

Google Search Console, Jul–Sep 2026 vs Jan–Mar 2026

+63%

Organic click-through rate

Google Search Console, Jul–Sep 2026 vs Jul–Sep 2025

Whole siteBalustrade pages 0200400600100100Jan–Mar 2026166217Apr–Jun 2026321570Jul–Sep 2026
Organic clicks by quarter, indexed so that January–March 2026 = 100. Source: Google Search Console.

The starting point

The business had moved its store from WordPress to Shopify. A replatform changes the address of almost every page, and every old address that is not redirected loses the rankings it had built up.

Many of its sales are quote-led. A buyer asks for a quote, receives a layout and a price, and orders days or weeks later. Without that data, Google Ads could only see the orders placed directly online, and bidding was learning from a small part of the sales.

What we did

Search structure

  • Mapped old WordPress URLs to their new Shopify equivalents
  • Audited collections and product pages and fixed pages competing for the same search terms
  • Built a keyword structure in Ahrefs, with one clear target for each collection and product
  • Moved the catalogue to one consistent product-title pattern, with keyword-led SEO titles

Paid media and measurement

  • Set up a quote pipeline that matches quote requests to the orders that follow
  • Fed leads and sales back to Google Ads as offline conversions
  • Moved the Meta catalogue to Shopify's Facebook and Instagram sales channel
  • Enabled Meta Pixel with Conversions API

Reporting

  • Monthly reporting from Google Search Console data

What it shows

For a quote-led business, the biggest gains come from fixing the foundations first: a clean URL and keyword structure for organic search, and conversion data that tells the ad platforms which clicks turn into orders.