Real LotusJump Case Studies
Case Study #1: 200% Increase in Affiliate Revenue
The Business
Jared Sidwell created the website FruitBasketReview.com with the
discerning consumer in mind. He wanted to point potential customers to
the best online fruit basket companies while providing access to valid
coupon codes for additional savings. Being an affiliate
marketer, Sidwell makes money each time a visitor links from his review
site to a fruit basket site and makes a purchase.
The Problem
Since money was tight and website Pay-Per-Click marketing wasn't in the
budget, Sidwell knew that his only option was to improve his site's
search engine optimization (SEO) rankings, with a specific focus on the
key words consumers search for when wanting to buy a fruit basket.
The Solution
"I've been using LotusJump for over 5 months now," said Sidwell. "I
login probably three times a week to complete the SEO tasks LotusJump
finds for me. It has helped me target article submissions, social
bookmarking, directory submissions, find where my competitors are
linking, and so much more. LotusJump has played a huge part in my
current success of boosting my SEO rankings and will definitely be part
of my future success."
Conclusion
LotusJump works. "I'm so glad I found LotusJump for my SEO tool," said Sidwell. "Now I
spend more of my time commenting on relevant blogs, articles,
WikiAnswers, and Yahoo! Answers that are specific to my chosen key word
phrases. I would estimate that Lotus Jump has made me at
least 10 times more efficient because instead of spending the majority
of my time trying to find places to post comments on relevant sites and
blogs, I spend all my time writing content. Each time I
comment I'm getting another link back to my site which gives Fruit
Basket Review more link juice and more relevancy to Google. I
now rank on the front page of Google for competitive key word phrases
such as 'fruit baskets', 'fruit basket', 'discount fruit baskets',
'gourmet fruit baskets', 'organic fruit baskets', 'fruit basket coupon
codes' 'fruit basket promotional codes' and so much more."
ROI
Each month over 1000 unique key word phrases now bring traffic to the
Fruit Basket Review website which is now making over $2000 a month in
affiliate revenue--a 200% increase in the past five months.
Case Study #2: E-Retailer Sees Organic Traffic Improve 35%
The Business
OverstockDrugstore.com is the fastest-growing online pharmacy in the
U.S. Their online presence is used daily by thousands of customers
throughout the globe. However maintaining that presence and improving
customer reach is a daunting task for any eCommerce site needing to
continually increase and improve its outreach to customers.
The Problem
Putting together a search engine optimization (SEO) strategy can be
complex, but implementation can be a nightmare unless given clear-cut,
step-by-step tasks. Without an automated service it would be impossible
for Overstock Drugstore.com to identify all the opportunities for
moving up in search rankings for less-common words and phrases.
A service such as LotusJump can do a great job with long tail keywords
"because of its ability to discover actionable tasks on such a large
scale," says Tom McConnon, LotusJump product manager. "If one were to
try to find link building opportunities for as many long tail keywords
by hand, it would take hours upon hours of work, rendering the process
very cost-ineffective."
Online retailer OverstockDrugstore.com has found that having a
LotusJump to-do list of SEO assignments can make it easy to farm them
out to employees to do in their spare time, even the CEO's executive
assistant.
The Solution
The key is having a list of easy-to-complete tasks, and for that
OverstockDrugstore.com relies on LotusJump. The e-retailer provides
LotusJump with a list of words or phrases related to its top-selling
brands, terms it wants to rank high in search engine results, and the
vendor finds ways to build links back to the retailer's pages that
relate to those terms. Included are commenting on blogs, answering
questions on online message boards and adding content to a variety of
sites--all with links back to OverstockDrugstore.com that help boost the
online drugstore site in search engine rankings.
"For example, one of our top sellers is Rogaine, so LotusJump looks for
content related to Rogaine where we could participate," says Clark
Winegar, director of online marketing at OverstockDrugstore.com.
"LotusJump might find a blog post related to Rogaine. We'll read it and
try to add something to the conversation, and in our post include a
link back to our site." If someone asks a question about Rogaine on a
site like Yahoo Answers or WikiAnswers, responding to that question
might be another task LotusJump would identify.
Conclusion
Maintaining and expanding the site is so easy using LotusJump that
Overstock Drugstore.com asks anyone in the company who has some free
time to take a LotusJump task, whether it's an idle receptionist, a
customer service agent between calls or the executive assistant to the
CEO with some extra time on their hands.
"Anybody who at any point in the day has free time we'll create a
log-in to LotusJump for them and have them complete LotusJump tasks,"
Winegar says. He also says employees are rewarded for the work they
accomplish.
Overstock Drugstore.com has submitted 268 words and phrases to
LotusJump since May, and seen a dramatic improvement in natural search
rankings for those terms. "Of 268 keywords, we have nine No. 1 listings
in Google, 20 in the top three, 30 in the top 5 and 73 of 268 are on
the first page of Google results," Winegar says. That has boosted
sales, as revenue from organic search results has increased 35% since
May, Winegar says. He also says consumers viewing the retailer's blog
commentaries or answers on online question boards are clicking through
to the site, leading to a 40% increase in sales from such referral
sites.
Winegar says LotusJump is particularly useful to
OverstockDrugstore.com because, while 40% of the e-retailer's sales
come from 5% of its keywords, 60% come from long-tail terms that may
produce one or two sales a month.
ROI
Winegar pays a reasonable monthly fee for LotusJump which he considers
a very good investment. In just a few months SEO has moved up to become
the second highest effective marketing channel for
OverstockDrugstore.com, after comparison shopping engines. LotusJump's
standard eCommerce offer is $99 per month for 30 keywords and $199 for
100 keywords, with custom pricing available for different numbers of
terms.
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