How Framer grew user registrations 64% in under 6 months by focusing on detailed technical analysis, optimizing key pages, running content gap analysis, and adding tactical content
Growth in user registrations
First-page rankings
Company profile
Framer
B2B/B2C SaaS
The situation
A strong brand with new user acquisition in focus.
- Project length
- 6+ months
- Starting point
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- Very high-growth startup
- Strong existing brand
- Growth priorities
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- Focus on new user acquisition
- Focus on key revenue-driving pages
- Working context
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- Multiple concurrent development efforts
Client website framer.com
Summary
Framer came to us to help grow organic traffic that would specifically result in more user registrations.
They’re an extremely high-growth startup with lots of concurrent marketing & development efforts, so Ranq had to slot in, get work done, and do it in a way that complemented the machinery already in flight.
This project includes a strong focus on new user acquisition and is heavily oriented around boosting key revenue-driving pages.
Ranq has been able to meet and exceed Framer’s aggressive targets, namely with targeted optimization, content gap analysis, tactical content, and targeted link building.
Goals
Framer’s goals are almost exclusively new user acquisition (at their free product level) with a de-emphasis on general audience building and brand awareness.
CHALLENGES
Challenge #1: Extremely aggressive targets
Framer is in an aggressive growth period, and their marketing team sets aggressive targets for itself. As an extension of Framer’s marketing strategy, Ranq was held to the same standards.
Challenge #2: Concurrent development
Because Framer constantly iterates on its website and product, the website was changing almost daily, requiring Ranq to not only keep up, but to track and adjust changes based on new data.
Challenge #3: Heavy emphasis on key pages
Framer’s emphasis on key revenue-generating pages required Ranq to abandon some of our typical strategies in favor of highly focused efforts on the main conversion points for the site.
Strategy
1. Intensely focused optimization for key pages
Because a subset of key revenue-driving pages were such a strong focus, our tech team focused a great deal of time on heavily data-driven optimization campaigns, detailed measurement, and on-the-fly adjustments for key pages.
2. Content gap analysis for key pages
We also deployed content gap analysis for key pages, finding keywords, topics, and subtopics that could be added to those pages to build on the traffic and revenue that already existed.
3. Targeted link building for key pages
In addition to technical optimizations and content gap analysis, we also build targeted links to key pages to further boost them and build authority at the page-level over time.
4. Foundational technical SEO cleanup & optimization
For all the page-level work we were doing to be effective, we had to ensure Framer’s technical foundation was solid. We worked independently (and, in some cases, with Framer’s development team) to create a clean, crawlable site.
5. Site structure improvements
We also developed a new site-structure strategy to (1) create a site that was easier for Google to crawl and (2) emphasize the most important pages with a clear internal linking structure.
6. New content for “almost there” pages
We also compiled a list of pages that were “almost there” (pages showing up on p.2 of Google) and added content to them (as well as optimizing them and supporting them with site structure) to boost them to p.1.
Results
Framer / Outcomes
Search turned into sign-ups.
Overall result
64%User registration growth
User registrations Relative comparison; starting level = 1×.
Key-page result
866%User registration growth for a key page
User registrations for the key page Relative comparison; starting level = 1×.
Additional weekly user registrations
Additional monthly visits to a key section
New keywords on page 1 of Google
Additional keywords overall