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MadeComfy

How we recovered MadeComfy's lost SEO and lifted traffic 15% in four weeks

Short-Stay / Property · 4-week early win
SEOGoogle Ads
MadeComfy — SEO and Google Ads case study by Whitehat Agency
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+15%
Site traffic
In four weeks
02
+54%
Ad click-through rate
After the AdWords rebuild
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5 / 10
Keywords on page one
Two at #1, in four weeks
01 · Challenge

A new website that wiped out years of hard-won SEO.

MadeComfy manages short-stay properties end to end — marketing the listing, coordinating cleaning and linen, and running the rental process so owners can travel with peace of mind. They'd just launched a custom-built website with integrated booking software. The product was better; the search visibility was gone.

In rebuilding the site, every page of existing SEO had been lost. On top of that, their Google Ads budget was being spent on ad groups that weren't pulling their weight. They came to us to recover the rankings and make the ad spend work.

Pre-engagement baseline
SEO + Google Ads · AU
On launch
SEO lost
Equity wiped by rebuild
Rankings
Reset
Starting from scratch
Ad budget
Misspent
On weak ad groups
Some ads
Disapproved
Not even running
02 · Approach

Rebuild the organic foundation, then make every ad dollar work.

We ran SEO and Google Ads as one programme. On the organic side, we re-optimised the new pages around the ten keywords MadeComfy most wanted to own, built fresh content for new pages, and tightened the on-page foundations — meta tags, title tags, alt text and internal links from every blog to a relevant page.

On paid, we audited the AdWords account, paused the ad groups quietly burning budget, and reallocated spend to the ones consistently converting. We rewrote and resubmitted the ads Google had disapproved, and added sitelink and call extensions for better visibility and a cleaner path to enquiry.

The 4-week playbook
2 channels · 1 plan

On-page SEO recovery

Re-optimised the rebuilt pages for ten target keywords — meta tags, title tags, alt text and a clean internal-linking structure to rebuild lost equity fast.

Content build-out

New content for additional pages, with every blog optimised and internally linked to the most relevant service page.

Google Ads reallocation

Paused underperforming ad groups and shifted budget to proven winners — same spend, more return.

Ad quality fixes

Rewrote disapproved ads to get them live, and added sitelink + call extensions for stronger exposure and easier enquiries.

03 · The result

Page-one rankings and more traffic — in four weeks, not four months.

SEO is a long game; we always recommend a 12-month horizon. So the speed here was the story. Within four weeks, MadeComfy ranked on page one of Google for 5 of their 10 target keywords — two of them at #1 — with another two sitting at the top of page two.

Site traffic climbed more than 15% in the same window, and reworking the Google Ads account lifted click-through rate by 54%. An early, compounding win on a foundation built to keep growing.

Organic traffic · indexed, 4 weeks
Google Analytics
+15%
site traffic
in 4 weeks
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Results

The numbers from a four-week sprint.

A rebuilt site that had lost its rankings, and an ad account leaking budget. Here's what a combined SEO + Google Ads recovery delivered in the first month.

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5 / 10
Keywords on page one
Two ranked #1 and two more at the top of page two — in four weeks.
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+15%
Site traffic
Recovered and grown despite starting from a reset.
03
+54%
Ad click-through rate
From pausing weak ad groups and fixing ad quality.
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10
Target keywords optimised
The priority terms MadeComfy most wanted to own.
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