180% Keyword Growth for a University Apparel Brand

Apparel Brand

About The Client

University Clothing is a growing apparel brand that designs and sells university-themed clothing, targeting students, alumni, and fans. Their mission is to foster college pride with high-quality, stylish, and comfortable apparel.

Challenges

  • Limited organic keyword spread with minimal top 10 rankings.
  • Low domain authority compared to established competitors.
  • Heavy reliance on seasonal sales without evergreen SEO structure.
  • No prior content strategy or blog presence.
  • Zero SERP features captured.

Objectives

  • Increase organic visibility for product and category pages.
  • Improve keyword rankings and acquire SERP features.
  • Grow monthly organic traffic and reduce dependence on paid ads.
  • Position the brand as a top choice for college-centric apparel.

Solution

1

Technical SEO audit to resolve indexing and crawling issues.

2

Created a content cluster strategy around university names, sports teams, and student lifestyle queries.

3

On-page optimization of all core category and product pages.

4

Built high-authority backlinks through guest posts and partnerships.

5

Introduced a blog with SEO-optimized posts targeting transactional and informational queries.

6

Optimized for featured snippets and rich results using schema markup.

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Results

Keyword Growth (YoY):

  • Top 3 keywords grew from 87 → 270
  • Total ranking keywords grew from 1,947 → 3,654
  • SERP features captured: 182 (from 0)

Organic Traffic (YoY):

  • Grew from 2,405 (Aug 2024) to a peak of 5,922 (March 2025)
  • Average monthly traffic now at 2,723, a 13% uplift over the previous baseline
  • All traffic growth was 100% organic (0 paid traffic)
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Monthly Organic Visits

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Keywords Ranking

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Objective

  • Double the organic traffic
  • Rank for high-intent keywords (e.g. “Italian restaurant Singapore”)
  • Increase table bookings via organic discovery
Industry:
Apparel
Duration:
1 year
Services:
SEO
Location:
US
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