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Industrial E-Commerce64 daysSeptember 2026
Mammoth Machinery

Page two to page one: the non-brand search traffic.

Mammoth Machinery sells mini skid steers, excavators, dumpers and wheel loaders across Canada. Earlier in 2026 its catalogue moved to new addresses and the old ones were left pointing at nothing, so Google kept sending buyers to dead ends while the category pages had no structure to catch the demand that did land. One quarter of work later the searches a site actually has to earn, the ones that never mention the company name, had quadrupled from 62 clicks to 262, and the biggest term in the range had climbed from the bottom of page two to the top of page one.

Services delivered
  • On-Page & Technical SEO
  • Redirect Recovery
  • SEO Content & Guides
  • Core Web Vitals & Page Speed
  • Forms & Lead Routing
Platforms
  • WordPress
  • Google Search Console
  • Google Analytics 4
  • Google Business Profile
Project
  • September 2026
  • 64 days
Non-Brand Clicks+323%
Non-Brand Clicks
+323%
Impressions
+354%
Avg Position
11.7
Timeline
64 days

The proof, unedited.

Two 91-day windows, the quarter before the work and the quarter of it, read from the client's own Google Search Console property. Nothing redrawn.

Before16 Mar – 14 Jun 2026
Google Search Console performance chart for mammothmachinery.ca covering 16 March to 14 June 2026: 1.81K total clicks, 59.6K total impressions, 3% average CTR, average position 13.
Clicks
1.81K
Impressions
59.6K
Avg CTR
3%
Avg Position
13
After16 Jun – 14 Sep 2026
Google Search Console performance chart for mammothmachinery.ca covering 16 June to 14 September 2026: 2.64K total clicks, 99.6K total impressions, 2.7% average CTR, average position 10.6.
Clicks
2.64K
Impressions
99.6K
Avg CTR
2.7%
Avg Position
10.6

Both panels cover all searches, brand included, for sc-domain:mammothmachinery.ca. Two things worth naming rather than burying. Google over-reported impressions until 27 April 2026, which falls inside the earlier window, so the real growth in impressions is larger than the +67% these totals show. And average CTR fell from 3% to 2.7% because the site began appearing for far more searches than it used to, and more impressions at lower positions dilute the rate even while clicks rise. The non-brand figures elsewhere on this page use tighter 64-day windows, which is why they differ from these totals.

Project overview

Mammoth Machinery had a catalogue problem dressed up as a traffic problem. Its product pages had moved to new addresses earlier in 2026 and the old ones were retired without forwards, so Google went on sending buyers to pages that no longer existed: those retired addresses earned around a hundred visits a month until April, then twenty in May, then three in June. Meanwhile the category pages, where most search demand actually lands, had no section structure, unreadable link colours, and nothing to answer the questions a buyer asks before enquiring. We took one quarter, 14 July to 16 September 2026, and rebuilt the range from the redirects up.

Key wins
  • 62 → 262 non-brand clicks. The searches a site has to earn, rather than the ones that already know your name, up 323% in 64 days.
  • Page two to page one. “Mini skid steer”, the largest term in the range, moved from position 17.0 to 10.1 and was shown 6,401 times instead of 322.
  • 169 MB off the home page. A ten-second hero clip saved at full 4K with a silent soundtrack attached, re-encoded to 1.56 MB. Same frames, same 61 requests, 97.8% less weight.

Execution

Eight areas of work, in the order they unblocked each other. Redirects first, because no amount of content fixes a page Google cannot reach. Then the machine and category pages that were already earning impressions but converting none of them. Then the guides, to catch the demand sitting above the range. Then the weight, the photographs and the forms, because a page that loads slowly and emails its enquiries to a stranger is not finished, however well it ranks.

Key moves
  • 34 forwards, verified twice. One permanent redirect for every retired product address, each pointing at the machine it used to sell, or at its replacement where the model is discontinued, never at the home page. 43 now run site-wide with no chains, and every destination was re-checked weeks later to confirm it still arrives in one step.
  • 21 machine pages and 6 category pages rebuilt. A real page heading, what the machine is for, how it compares with the rest of the range, and the questions buyers ask before they enquire. Price data was corrected on 18 pages so a price is eligible to appear beside the listing, and Article markup was stripped from 13 where it did not belong.
  • 8 guides, 8,328 words, all linked into the range. Published between 11 and 26 August, each one pointing at the category page that sells the machine it describes. The blog layout itself had been rendering in a broken two-column grid since June; all ten posts were repaired and none left orphaned.
  • 60 links brought up to AA contrast. Across the six category pages, where 26 of them failed the standard before. Every design audit score on the category and hub pages moved from warn to pass.
  • Photographs corrected, then described. Seven machine pages carried a picture of the wrong machine. Those were replaced, and around seventy photographs were given the written descriptions a search engine and a screen reader both depend on. No product photograph is left without one.
  • Enquiries pointed back at the company. Finance applications were being emailed to a private address outside the business, with no copy kept anywhere. The form was rebuilt on the site's own tool, same twenty questions in the same order, now arriving at the company inbox and stored on the site. Warranty registrations were rerouted the same way, and both Google tracking codes were confirmed working and not double counting.

Results

Non-brand clicks went from 62 to 262, and non-brand impressions from 11,834 to 53,724. The number of distinct searches earning clicks rose from 68 to 169 and the number of pages earning them from 27 to 35, which is the shape you want: not one lucky page, but a range that is findable. Average position across the property improved from 16.4 to 11.7 even while eight brand-new guides were entering that average at the bottom and holding it down. Two things this does not say, and we would rather name them than let a chart imply otherwise. Part of the quarter is a recovery rather than a gain, because reconnecting the retired addresses returns traffic the site used to have; the growth beyond that, in the category pages and the guides, is new. And no links were built from other websites this quarter, so everything above was earned on the site itself, with the gap between position eleven and position eight still open.

The receipts.

+323% non-brand clicks

62 to 262 in 64 days, on searches that never mention the brand.

16.4 → 11.7 average position

Across the whole property, while eight new guides dragged the average down.

Zero links bought or built

Every number above was earned on the site itself.

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