Vision Eye Institute is Australia’s largest provider of ophthalmic services, with a
strong commitment to clinical and scientific excellence and delivering the highest quality outcomes for patients.
Initially established as a group practice in Victoria in 2001, Vision Eye Institute quickly
expanded to include numerous sites along the eastern seaboard and is now the largest private provider of ophthalmic care in Australia.
The Challenge
In mid-2015, Vision Eye Institute were significantly underperforming on organic search, with low visibility for profitable keywords.
Organic traffic had flatlined. Paid search was being used to compensate for visibility on important keywords. Rankings for keywords relating to laser eye surgery, a key focus area, were several pages deep.
Several competitors, whose primary focus was laser eye surgery, had invested heavily in the space and were dominating the first page of search results.
The key issues restricting effective organic search rankings, were a combination of site-wide technical issues, duplicate content (both on and off the website) as well as a low quality link profile.
The Results
Organic traffic increased by more than 8 times over the last 3 years, resulting in impressive increasing in consultation bookings across all locations.
"Our rankings have gone from 3rd to 1st page
and our key term, 'Laser Eye Surgery' is in a great
position, which is impressive considering the competition."
Siobhan Todhunter, Head of Marketing and Communications, Vision Eye Institute
Achieved first page rankings across other categories such as Retina, Glaucoma, Corneal, Cataract surgery.
VEI is now ranking in position one for their main term, ‘laser eye surgery’.
Achieved first page rankings across other categories such as Retina, Glaucoma, Corneal, Cataract surgery.
Organic traffic now represents more than 84% of total website traffic, reducing reliance on paid search for visibility on high converting keywords.
"How could I not be impressed with the results so far!
Communication and on-time delivery are excellent."
Siobhan Todhunter, Head of Marketing and Communications, Vision Eye Institute
Our Solutions
Vision Eye Institute approached CleverClicks for an SEO strategy, with the primary KPI of booking and enquiries. One of the key focus areas was also achieving top rankings for the keyword ‘laser eye surgery’.
CleverClicks compiled a detailed SEO strategy, which included an in-depth website and link audit, keyword report, competitor analysis and strategic plan for ongoing technical, on page and link building activities.
Together with Vision Eye Institute’s development team, the plan was executed over the following coming months.
Removal of low quality links while acquiring high quality links.
Optimising thin and duplicate content.
Working with the content team to create linkable content.
Optimising the site architecture and refreshing poor performing pages.
Resolving crawling and indexation issues.
Page speed optimisation.
UX testing and recommendations.
Local search optimisation.
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Siobhan Todhunter, Head of Marketing and Communications, Vision Eye Institute