Driving SEO Growth for a Golf Club eCommerce Brand

Driving SEO Growth for a Golf Club eCommerce Brand

INDUSTRIES:

E-commerce

SERVICES:

SEO

SOLUTIONS:

Golf Equipment & Accessories

Challenge

Willow & Nest, a boutique home decor brand, struggled with poor keyword rankings, minimal organic visibility, and a declining base of returning visitors on their website, www.willowandnest.Com.

Solution

Funnele executed a full-scale SEO program—technical fixes, content revamp, and a backlink strategy—to drive discoverability and long-term growth.

Result

  • 649% increase in organic traffic
  • 1050% growth in returning users
  • 18 keywords ranked in top 10 SERP positions

Full Story

Overview

Lazrus Golf is a fast-growing eCommerce brand specializing in premium golf equipment and accessories, including golf clubs, wedges, irons, putters, golf bags, and training gear. The brand focuses on delivering high-quality golf products at competitive prices for both beginner and experienced golfers.

Despite offering competitively priced products and maintaining strong customer reviews, the website faced several SEO challenges that limited its organic growth potential. Key issues included low visibility for competitive golf-related search terms, limited category page optimization, underdeveloped content marketing efforts, and insufficient authority within search engines. These challenges affected the brand’s ability to consistently attract high-intent buyers and maximize organic revenue opportunities.

Objectives

Our SEO campaign focused on solving critical growth challenges and delivering measurable business impact through:

  • Boosting Keyword Rankings

Improve rankings for high-intent keywords related to golf clubs, golf wedges, golf bags, and complete golf sets.

  • Increasing Organic Traffic

Drive targeted organic traffic from golfers actively searching for affordable, premium-quality golf equipment online.

  • Enhancing User Engagement

Improve user experience across collection and product pages to increase engagement, reduce bounce rate, and improve conversion opportunities.

  • Increasing Organic Revenue

Generate higher organic sales by attracting purchase-ready traffic and optimizing category and product pages for conversions.

Challenges

Limited Category Optimization

Several important collection pages lacked SEO-focused content and keyword targeting, restricting visibility for competitive golf equipment searches.

Lack of Educational Content

The website had minimal blog or informational content targeting golfers searching for buying guides, golf tips, club comparisons, and equipment recommendations.

Competitive Industry

The golf equipment industry is highly competitive, with major brands dominating search engine rankings for valuable keywords.

Technical SEO Gaps

The website experienced issues related to metadata optimization, internal linking structure, page speed performance, and schema implementation.

Toxic & Spammy Backlink Profile

The website had accumulated a significant number of low-quality and spammy backlinks over time, negatively affecting domain trust and limiting overall SEO performance. These harmful links impacted search visibility and reduced the site’s ability to compete effectively for high-value golf-related keywords.

Strategy

1. Keyword Research

Conducted comprehensive keyword research to identify high-converting opportunities, including terms such as:

  • Golf wedges
  • Best golf irons for beginners
  • Affordable golf clubs
  • Golf putter sets
  • Complete golf club sets
  • Golf bags for men
 

Targeted a balanced mix of commercial, informational, short-tail, and long-tail keywords to capture broader search intent throughout the buyer journey.

2. On-Page Optimization

  • Optimized meta titles, meta descriptions, and heading structures using targeted keywords.
  • Enhanced collection page content with SEO-friendly copy focused on user intent and product benefits.
  • Improved internal linking between blogs, collection pages, and products to strengthen topical relevance and crawlability.
  • Optimized product descriptions for readability, conversions, and keyword relevance.
 

3. Technical SEO

Performed a full technical SEO audit and resolved key issues including:

  • Slow-loading pages
  • Duplicate metadata
  • Broken internal links
  • Crawlability issues
  • Missing structured data
 

Implemented schema markup for products, collections, FAQs, and reviews to improve search appearance and eligibility for rich results.

4. Backlink Cleanup

Performed a comprehensive technical SEO audit and backlink analysis to identify toxic and irrelevant domains affecting the website’s authority.

Key actions included:

  • Identifying harmful backlinks using SEO auditing tools
  • Creating and submitting a disavow file to Google
 

This cleanup helped improve domain trust, strengthen search engine confidence, and create a healthier backlink profile for sustainable SEO growth.

4. Content Strategy

Developed a content marketing strategy focused on:

  • Golf equipment buying guides
  • Golf training tips
  • Wedge and iron comparisons
  • Golf club maintenance
  • Beginner golf equipment recommendations
 

Published educational and conversion-focused blogs to establish topical authority and attract informational traffic with strong purchase intent.

5. Link Building

Executed a targeted link-building campaign through:

  • Guest posting on golf and sports-related websites
  • Niche citations and directory submissions
  • Digital PR outreach
  • Contextual backlinks from relevant blogs and publications
 

This helped improve domain authority and strengthen overall search visibility.

Results

1. Referring Domains & Backlink Quality

  • Optimized the website’s backlink profile by removing and disavowing spammy and low-quality referring domains that were negatively affecting SEO performance.
 

While the total number of referring domains decreased from 591 to 391 during the cleanup process, the overall quality and relevance of backlinks improved significantly, resulting in better domain trust, stronger keyword rankings, and improved organic visibility.

2. Domain Rating

  • Improved domain rating from 43 to 45, reflecting enhanced credibility and trust in search engines.
 
 

3. Keyword Rankings

Achieved first-page rankings for 14 targeted keywords, with several high-value keywords gaining strong visibility in SERPs.

4. Organic Traffic

  • Increased monthly organic traffic from 2,000 to 5500+ visits within six months.
 

5. Organic Revenue

  • Boosted organic revenue from $2.8K to $18K+, driven by improved visibility and higher-quality traffic.
 

Results (6 Month Impact)
Metric Before After Growth
Organic Traffic 2000/mo 5500/mo 175%
Top 10 Keyword Rankings 8 22 175%
Organic Revenue 2800 18000 +500%

Conclusion

The implementation of a tailored SEO strategy helped Lazrus Golf significantly improve its organic search presence, keyword visibility, and revenue growth within a highly competitive golf equipment market.

Through advanced keyword targeting, technical SEO improvements, content expansion, and authority-building efforts, the brand achieved substantial growth in organic traffic and conversions within just six months.

By positioning Lazrus Golf as a trusted destination for affordable, premium-quality golf equipment, the campaign delivered sustainable long-term growth and stronger visibility across search engines.

“We were completely invisible before. Now, over half of our sales are coming from Google searches. We’ve never seen growth like this.”


Ella Raymond

Founder & Creative Director, Willow & Nest

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