G&S Timber – Case Study

G&S Timber is a specialist hardwood timber merchants located in Penrith, Cumbria. The family-run business offers a wide variety of kiln-dried hardwoods and pride themselves on providing the highest quality products on the market today.

Insight

G&S Timber approached SQ Digital with the brief to expand its online presence while asserting its authority within the woodworking and timber industry. The company was also keen for a Google AdWords Campaign to be set up, to maintain current levels of performance, while decreasing the overall spend of the account.

Solution

For G&S Timber’s PPC Campaign, SQ Digital trialled a few experimental techniques the account, predominantly with max CPC changes for the Google Shopping Campaign, along with a reallocation of budget to this campaign. We also introduced a Google Remarketing campaign to recapture prospects who didn’t purchase on their first visit to the site.

For SEO purposes, we evaluated G&S Timber’s current rankings for high traffic and relevant keywords that would drive high-quality prospects who were likely to convert into sales on the website. We cross-referenced Search Term data from the existing AdWords campaign to ensure that the keywords we were targeting would be viable.

Our content marketing team consistently created fresh and topical content for G&S Timber. The articles were also used for a Digital PR campaign to gain backlinks from relevant publications.

The Results

49.72% increase in transactions
20.13% increase in conversion rate
53.17% increase in revenue
10.25% decrease in overall PPC spend
40.06% decrease in CPAs
72.62% increase in sessions from organic search
Article picked up by Good Woodworking & The Woodworker magazine, this was featured both on their website and in their physical print edition, with a 2-page spread

Testimonial

Since we instructed SQ Digital to take over our online marketing, we have seen good improvements in terms of revenue our business has generated. SQ Digital took time to understand our industry and business, which has been shown in the work they have produced for us.

– Gary Stevenson – Director