Driving Organic Search Traffic with Helpful Content

CONTENT DEVELOPMENT | SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION
A clear and bold heading
When Dots + Pixels, a website for print designers, launched in 2021, there was no audience. Starting from scratch, we used content marketing to build one over time.

Growing an audience from zero
The Dots + Pixels website is part of a pull-through strategy for Canon and is sponsored by Canon’s production inkjet user group, thINK. D+P’s target audience is graphic designers who specify print projects, and the goal of the site is to educate them about the benefits of inkjet and prepare them to have more informed conversations with Canon’s customer base of print service providers.
The brand and website debuted in 2021, at which point we set out to grow an audience from the ground up.
A clear and bold heading
Our content strategy involved a mix of organic social, paid social, and email marketing, but the real star was driving organic search traffic through content marketing.

Playing the long game
The site features two types of articles: “Inspire” articles, which feature real-world print project case studies, and “Learn” articles, which are how-to articles on design topics. As print buyers ourselves, we used our knowledge of D+P’s audience and keyword research to identify topic clusters and specific questions to answer — questions like, “How do I configure my color settings in Adobe Bridge?” and “How do I create a custom QR code in InDesign?”
This strategy — determining real designers’ questions and providing helpful content to answer them — led to year-over-year improvements in all metrics:
184% increase
in search impressions
97% increase
in organic traffic
44-point change
in average search position,
from fifth-page SERP ranking to first-page SERP ranking
Our strategy for Dots + Pixels demonstrates that serving up relevant, targeted content that directly addresses industry questions, challenges, or pain points builds a highly engaged audience. If you build it, they will come.
Emilee Christianson
CEO


