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C3 Education

How C3 Education added 355 leads in 90 days with an integrated SEO + Google Ads programme

Education · 3-month sprint
SEOGoogle AdsCRO

Whitehat Agency has been instrumental in growing our online presence. Their SEO expertise and strategic Google Ads management have significantly increased our traffic and leads. We're extremely pleased with the results and ongoing support.

C3 Education
Marketing Team
C3 Education — SEO and Google Ads case study by Whitehat Agency
01
3X
Return on investment
From paid campaigns
02
355
New leads
Generated in 90 days
03
223
Page-one keywords
Across organic
01 · Challenge

A fast-growing institution, slowed down by fragmented digital.

C3 Education is a growing academic institution with strong reputation and an ambitious enrolment pipeline. The digital programme behind the scenes wasn't keeping pace with what the brand was trying to achieve.

Lead volume from paid campaigns was low, keyword visibility was patchy, and SEO and Google Ads were running in separate silos — so neither could compound on the other. The team needed every dollar to be visible, measurable and tied to a real enrolment outcome.

Pre-engagement baseline
Higher education · AU
Lead volume
Low
From existing paid programme
Keyword visibility
Patchy
Limiting organic reach
SEO ↔ Ads
Siloed
No shared funnel data
ROI
Unproven
Inefficient spend
02 · Approach

SEO and Google Ads, run as one integrated programme.

We rebuilt the Google Ads account around enrolment intent, then layered in an SEO programme that targeted the same searches with content built to convert.

With full-funnel tracking across both channels, every keyword, every page, every campaign was scored against one shared metric: qualified leads into the enrolment pipeline.

The C3 Education playbook
4 workstreams · 90 days

Performance-driven paid campaigns

Restructured Google Ads around enrolment intent, lifted ad relevance and used smart bidding to bring CPL down while pushing conversion intent up.

SEO for long-term growth

A focused content and backlink programme targeting the highest-value educational keywords — building authority that keeps compounding after the campaign ends.

Synergised PPC + SEO strategy

Full-funnel tracking and shared data aligned both channels around the same audience — maximising visibility across paid and organic without overlap.

Technical + content improvements

Ensured the site was fully optimised for search and user experience, so every campaign click landed on a page built to convert.

03 · The result

Paid and organic, working as a single growth engine.

Inside three months C3 Education added 355 new leads to the enrolment pipeline, returned 3× on paid investment and ranked 223 keywords on page one of Google.

Site traffic grew 42% year on year — and because SEO and Ads were aligned end to end, every win in one channel reinforced the other.

Site traffic · indexed, YoY
GA4 + Google Ads
+42%
website traffic YoY
355 leads
M1M2M3M4M5M6M7M8M9M10
Results

The numbers that filled the enrolment pipeline.

A fast-growing academic institution with fragmented digital. Here's what 90 days of integrated SEO and Google Ads delivered.

01
3X
Return on investment
From paid campaigns — every advertising dollar proven against leads.
02
355
New leads
Pushed into the enrolment pipeline within the first three months.
03
+42%
Site traffic YoY
Sustained organic growth driving long-term visibility and authority.
04
223
Page-one keywords
Ranking on Google.com.au — a durable organic asset for future intakes.
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