Our client, FundAmerica, was in need of a complete website redesign and rebuild. We rethought their content into a great new visual design that clearly and effectively expresses the complex financial technology services they provide.
We launched the new website on November 20, 2014. Six months later, things are going incredibly well.
Baseline
Analytics from the old site are not available, so we used the first 30 days of the new site’s life as the baseline.
Traffic Results
If you need a refresher on Google Analytics check out this blog.
Sessions were up 400%
Total New Users jumped an incredible 800%
New User %: 66% vs 33% (see graph on right)
Organic Traffic share – up 1220% (to 49% share)!
Analysis: Overall traffic more than quadrupled. New users dominated, which is exactly what you want to see with an SEO campaign. Direct traffic (typing in or clicking a bookmark) more than doubled and Search traffic increased dramatically, rising to almost half of all visitors.
Bottom Line: Google thinks the new site is worth putting high in search results, and users are validating that choice by clicking through. We call this a huge success, and can’t wait to see the progress at one year.
This dental practice has been running for over 40 years, and has an excellent word of mouth reputation in the area. But, they had no web presence and decided it was time to reach out to their market on the web.
Requirements:
Rebrand to capture the spirit of the practice: laid back but professional, fun and friendly
Mobile friendly website design for families on the go
Reach out to younger demographic
Meet the needs of both new and existing patients
Starting from scratch
We started with the end goals of the project and worked backward, building a strategy. The Digital Marketing Plan was created to guide the creation of the site, its architecture and the plan to market the practice over the web. Along the way, we created a new logo, choosing typography and colors to express the brand story. We worked to pick a name that best met the goals of the practice: Carson-Tahoe Family Dental Care. We designed every aspect of each page to support the end goals.
Photography is critical for most of our website designs, so we flew to their location (Carson City, NV) for the shoot. The photos let people know that they are dealing with fun professionals who desire a real relationship with their patients.
It will take a few months to realize the full benefit of the Search Engine Optimization work we did, but the visual results speak for themselves. Carson-Tahoe Dental now has a website designed with intent that conveys a clear message: This isn’t your typical dentist. Check it out and let us know what you think! Also observe the speed and the way the site looks on mobile phones and tablets.
Imtakt USA is a Portland-based company that sells chromatography columns. It’s ok if you don’t know what that means, we didn’t either until they explained it. Basically, it’s a scientific instrument that is used in a variety of chemical and pharmaceutical research. Imtakt USA has a strong existing customer base, who have been using an aged, unfriendly site to find important articles and make purchases. They asked us to build out a website in WordPress with the following requirements to meet their marketing objectives:
Custom WordPress theme per supplied design
E-commerce functionality for 1000+ products over 16 product lines
Advanced search functions for technical library of 750+ scientific papers
Seamless URL transition for customers who relied on information from old site
We are seeing about an 80% increase in online sales and probably double the amount of technical requests. – Robert Puryear, COO
Front End Website Design
The design mockups they supplied were great, with clear page layouts and easy navigation. They also included robust product data sections for their target market of PhD wielding scientists. We built out the custom theme and loaded it onto a WordPress install. Next we needed to set up the E-commerce functionality.
Woocommerce was an easy choice for the shopping cart, as it could handle the complex product requirements and would be easy for the client to use down the road. We built a selection grid and linked it to the product database where you can pick out the specific size of product you want to buy. There are even tabs for higher pressure applications that feature addition SKUs.
Back End Design
Since Imtakt works directly with scientists, the search functionality had to be top notch. We exported their existing database, then rebuilt it to modernize the structure and speed it up. The results are pretty cool. The first box is an autocomplete text box of over 1000 compounds. The second box is a category list. And the third box is product line specific.
These can be used stand alone, or combined with each other to refine the search. It is possible to see all of the application notes for say, amino acids, but filter by the ones you can run on the column you already own. Now you can read all about “Use of the Intrada Amino Acid column along with tandem mass spectrometry allows for separation and detection of all 20 standard amino acids in under 20 minutes.”
Even if you don’t want to read any of the papers, you should still swing by and check out Imtakt USA!
