STRETCHING THE LIMIT OF THE SERPS

    Dr Stretch SEO Case Study 🙆

    Dr Stretch, a sports therapy clinic based in North London, came to us in November 2023. They have a strong expertise in sports massage therapy, assisted stretching and strength training but were finding it challenging to communicate this to their customers and reach their target audience in Google, bringing in London-based clientele. We devised a local SEO strategy off the back of this to help put them in front of more of the people they wanted to attract.
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    367%
    increase in first page rankings in the UK after 6 months.
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    154%
    year-over-year increase in global organic users
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    248%
    increase in non-branded clicks after 6 months
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    About Dr Stretch

    Dr Stretch is a health and wellness centre located in Islington, London, specialising in sports massage, personal training, and assisted stretching therapies. Founded by Rimon and Trang, who collectively have over 16 years of experience in personal training, martial arts, Pilates, and sports therapy, the centre aims to enhance clients' flexibility, mobility, and overall well-being.

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    What Was The Strategy?

    Technical SEO: Our initial focus was cleaning up and taking advantage of technical opportunities ranging from broken pages and internal linking to schema markup, ensuring site health and making our pages discoverable by both users and Google.

     

    Local SEO Strategy: Updating key page elements on the site and optimising a robust Google listing enabled us to climb up the search results for important local keywords, placing us in the top 3 positions for keywords like ‘stretch therapy’ and ‘sports massage Islington’.

     

    On-Page SEO: Informed by extensive keyword research that identified what our target audience were searching for, we updated the metadata, headings and on-page content to boost rankings for local keywords and were soon ranking on the first page for keywords like ‘assisted stretching London’.

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    The Challenges

     

    Scaling Up & Stretching Out

     

    Dr Stretch were keen to maximise their time, offer their personal trainers more classes and scale up their small business by promoting small group personal training classes.

    After understanding this key business goal, by making on-page optimisations, creating informational copy on the benefits of strength and weight training in a small group and easing the path to conversion, StudioHawk made the small group personal training offering a priority in our SEO campaign. This led to us ranking on the first page of the search results for high-value keywords like ‘small group personal training’ and ‘group personal training islington’.

     

    Untangling Undefined Services

     

    Dr Stretch were keen to maximise their time, offer their personal trainers more classes and scale up their small business by promoting small group personal training classes.

    After understanding this key business goal, by making on-page optimisations, creating informational copy on the benefits of strength and weight training in a small group and easing the path to conversion, StudioHawk made the small group personal training offering a priority in our SEO campaign. This led to us ranking on the first page of the search results for high-value keywords like ‘small group personal training’ and ‘group personal training islington’.

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    The Results
    • 154% year-over-year increase in monthly global organic users after 6 months.
    • 367% increase in first page rankings in the UK after 6 months.
    • 248% increase in non-branded clicks after 6 months.

     

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     increase in organic users Sep 2024 vs Sep 2022
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    increase in candidate placements via organic search
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    increase in keyword ranking on the first page of Google in June 2025 compared to 2023.
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    year-over-year increase in organic sessions
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    ranking for 'plaster coving' in the UK
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    increase in keywords ranking in top 100
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    YoY increase in visibility (almost 900k impressions)
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