Retail Website Stabilization & SEO Architecture Case Study: +40% Indexed SEO Pages, 35% Lower LCP
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March 10, 2024
40%

Increase in Indexed SEO Pages

Retail 
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About the Client

The Ultimate Deck Shop is a Canadian-owned backyard building centre with locations in Regina and Saskatoon, serving homeowners, DIYers and contractors with decking, railing, hardscaping, fencing and outdoor-living materials.

After a website migration, the business needed two things at once: immediate stabilization and a stronger structure for long-term organic growth. Broken links, inconsistent layouts and unclear content needed attention before the site could reliably support search visibility across a large product and category footprint.

This became a retail website stabilization and SEO architecture case study focused on technical cleanup, information architecture, internal linking and scalable content structure.

Project snapshot

  • Industry: Retail / building materials
  • Markets: Regina and Saskatoon
  • Primary goal: Stabilize the migrated site and create a stronger organic-search structure
  • Work: Website cleanup, technical SEO, content architecture and internal linking

The Challenge

The Ultimate Deck Shop was already an established business with strong offline demand. The website problem began after migration, where a series of technical and structural issues weakened the online experience:

  • Broken and inconsistent links created crawl and navigation problems.
  • Media sizing and layout issues reduced visual consistency.
  • Category and supporting content did not have a clear search hierarchy.
  • Internal links were not doing enough to connect educational content with commercial pages.
  • The site needed enough topical depth to compete in a product category with substantial search competition.

The first priority was therefore stabilization. Only after the site was reliable did it make sense to expand search coverage and content depth.

Services We Provided

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The Results

The stabilization and SEO-architecture work produced measurable improvements in crawl coverage, page performance and internal site connectivity.

Measured outcomes

  • 40% increase in indexed SEO pages
  • 35% reduction in average Largest Contentful Paint
  • 2.1× increase in internal page connections

The value was structural rather than a one-time traffic spike: more useful pages were indexable, important content was more connected, and the site was better prepared to compound organic visibility over time.

Because the retailer operates in both markets, the project provides direct evidence for our Regina SEO and Saskatoon SEO work, while the migration cleanup and site stabilization support our broader web development capability.

40%

Increase in Indexed SEO Pages

−35%

Reduction in Average (LCP)

2.1×

Increase in Internal Page Connections
Solution

Web Design & Development

We worked within the existing brand rather than redesigning for the sake of novelty. The website was cleaned up and expanded using more consistent layouts, hierarchy and navigation patterns.

Stabilizing the site after migration

  • Resolved broken and inconsistent page relationships.
  • Standardized page layouts and media presentation.
  • Improved navigation between informational and product-focused content.
  • Built new pages within a repeatable structural system.
  • Reduced technical friction that had accumulated during migration.

The objective was to create a stable platform that could support continued content and SEO growth without another rebuild.

Search Engine Optimization

Before adding pages, we mapped topics and search intent so each new page had a defined role.

Pillar-and-cluster search architecture

  • Organized core product and category topics into clearer clusters.
  • Expanded supporting long-tail coverage around the most important commercial themes.
  • Strengthened internal links between guides, categories and purchase-oriented pages.
  • Improved technical crawlability and page performance.
  • Used market context for Regina and Saskatoon without duplicating the same page intent.

This same approach informs our Regina SEO and Saskatoon SEO work: give each important query family a clear page owner and reinforce that page through useful supporting content.

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Content & Conversion Strategy

Content was developed as a connected system rather than a stream of isolated blog posts. Product information, FAQs, educational pages and supporting media were organized to answer related questions and then move users toward the relevant commercial category.

That structure supports both discovery and browsing: users can enter through an informational search, understand the topic and continue naturally into products or related categories without aggressive sales copy.

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