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Two years of SEO success: ranking Bartarinha.ir without backlinks

What a systems-level, on-page SEO strategy can do on its own: measurable ranking growth with zero external link building.

Period
Jun 2022 – Jun 2024
Role
Head of SEO
Team
8 SEO specialists
In partnership with
aasaam
Skills
SEOTeam Leadership

On-page SEO, on its own, took Bartarinha from 41 top-3 keywords to 671. We defined the real problem before touching a page, mapped demand cluster by cluster, then architected content around what users were asking for. Two years of it, with no link building.

Results

24 months · on-page only · zero backlinks

671 from 41 Top-3 Google keywords
1,048 from 60 Top-5 Google keywords
1,519 from 103 Top-10 Google keywords
27 from 93 Average keyword position

Competitor landscape

Keywords in Google's top 3, then vs. now, across the domains competing for the terms we targeted on Bartarinha.ir.

Domain Jun 2022 Jun 2024
Bartarinha.ir 41 671
Doctoreto.com 7 598
Paziresh24.com 3 411
Iranianclinic.com 0 242
Mikhakdental.com 0 112

* Comparison based solely on the keywords targeted on Bartarinha.ir.

Keyword growth

Jun 2022 – May 2024. New and lost rankings by position tier.

Top 3 671
609 New 8 Lost
Top 10 1,519
1,322 New 15 Lost
Top 20 1,835
1,555 New 31 Lost
Top 100 2,384
1,844 New 56 Lost
2,267 improved 140 declined

Strategic approach

The results came from one on-page discipline: problem-definition first, execution second.

01

Deep keyword research

In-depth research into the terms the audience searches, mapped to the intent behind each query rather than its volume.

02

Strategic keyword clustering

Keywords grouped by SERP similarity into targeted content clusters, so one page answers one real need.

03

User-centric content strategy

We looked past the keyword to the person behind it, and built each cluster around specific needs and pain points.

04

Content structure & design

Clear structure and reader-friendly elements engineered into every piece before a word was written.

05

Content creation guidance

Detailed briefs gave writers a precise blueprint: the strategy, the intent, the audience.

06

Competitive monitoring

We watched competitors' content closely and adapted. Their moves became our openings.

07

Content audit & optimization

An audit of existing and new content held quality and search relevance to a single standard.

From the dashboards

Competitor visibility and ranking growth, straight from the SEO tooling.

Two-year competitor landscape: keywords in Google's top 3, then vs. now.
Two-year competitor landscape: keywords in Google's top 3, then vs. now.
Keyword growth by position tier over two years: 1,519 keywords ranking in the top 10.
Keyword growth by position tier over two years: 1,519 keywords ranking in the top 10.

671 keywords in Google's top 3, up from 41, held over two years without a single link built.

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