SEO Strategy

Gourmet Foods SEO Success

Ranked #1 for 35+ high-value keywords in the highly competitive food industry

Client Background

Gourmet Foods is a premium food retailer offering organic and imported products across the UK. While their in-store experience was widely appreciated, their online visibility was minimal despite having a high-quality website and product range.

With growing competition and a shift towards online grocery shopping, Gourmet Foods wanted to become the go-to destination for premium food items online.

The Challenge

The company faced several digital hurdles, including:

  • Low organic visibility for key product categories
  • No keyword strategy or SEO-optimized content
  • Poor internal linking and site structure
  • No technical SEO audits had been done previously
  • Competitors ranking for branded keywords

The goal: dominate organic rankings and drive more traffic that converts to sales.

Our Approach

We implemented a layered SEO strategy focused on technical fixes, content optimization, and authority building.

Phase 1: Technical SEO Audit

We resolved crawl errors, improved site speed, implemented structured data, and cleaned up redundant tags to enhance crawlability.

Phase 2: Keyword & Content Optimization

We created in-depth product and category pages optimized for long-tail and high-commercial intent keywords with SEO-focused copywriting and schema markup.

Phase 3: Authority & Backlink Building

Our team secured high-quality backlinks through food blogs, PR mentions, and content partnerships, increasing domain authority steadily.

Challenges & Solutions

Challenge: Poor rankings for product pages.

Solution: Optimized each product page with unique meta descriptions, H1s, and semantic keyword usage across content.

Challenge: Duplicate content issues and bloated URLs.

Solution: Implemented canonical tags and URL clean-up, ensuring proper indexing and no keyword cannibalization.

Challenge: Weak domain authority.

Solution: Earned backlinks from 50+ reputable sources through guest posts, product reviews, and influencer mentions.

Results & Impact

In just 4 months, Gourmet Foods experienced a transformation in organic performance:

#1
Rankings for 35+ Keywords
5x
Organic Traffic Growth
+62%
E-commerce Conversions
DA 42
Achieved in 120 Days

Other notable results:

  • Featured snippets for "organic gourmet food UK"
  • Indexed over 300 new SEO-optimized pages
  • 20+ food bloggers reviewed products organically
Epex Logics helped us cut through the digital noise. Their SEO expertise gave our brand the online visibility we needed to compete with national food chains.
Sarah Mitchell

Sarah Mitchell

Digital Director, Gourmet Foods

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