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Viceroy Bali

How a 6.3X paid-media programme turned Viceroy Bali into a luxury-travel booking engine

Hospitality & Tourism · First quarter
SEOGoogle AdsCRO

The collaboration with Whitehat Agency has been a game-changer for Viceroy Bali. In just three months we've seen new bookings and high-search-volume keywords ranking on page one. Their comprehensive SEO and Google Ads strategies have delivered outstanding results, including a 37% increase in website traffic. We highly recommend their services.

Marketing Manager
Viceroy Bali
Viceroy Bali — luxury resort SEO and Google Ads case study by Whitehat Agency
01
6.3X
Return on ad spend
From the Google Ads programme
02
295
New bookings
Quarter on quarter
03
212
Page-one keywords
Luxury travel terms
01 · Challenge

A five-star resort, inconsistent in the search results.

Viceroy Bali is one of the world's most celebrated luxury resorts, set in the heart of Ubud. The hospitality is world-class. The digital performance, until recently, wasn't keeping pace with it.

Visibility on high-intent luxury-travel keywords was patchy, previous paid campaigns weren't proving their ROI clearly, and the funnel from website visit to confirmed booking was costing too much per acquisition for the segment. They needed an SEO and Google Ads programme that could prove its value in revenue, not impressions.

Pre-engagement baseline
Luxury travel · global
Visibility
Patchy
On high-intent luxury terms
Paid ROI
Unclear
Underperforming campaigns
SEO authority
Limited
In a saturated category
Funnel
Leaky
Low visit-to-booking rate
02 · Approach

A multi-channel growth programme, all pointed at the booking.

We ran a coordinated SEO and Google Ads programme designed to surface Viceroy Bali for the right luxury traveller, at the right moment, and then carry them all the way to a confirmed booking.

Paid drove the immediate revenue. Organic built the long-term compounding asset. UX and conversion work tied both back to the booking funnel — so every dollar was measurable.

The Viceroy Bali playbook
4 workstreams · 90 days

SEO + content strategy

Identified the top-performing luxury-travel keywords and rebuilt on-page SEO across the core landing pages — earning page-one rankings for 212 terms.

High-performance Google Ads

Data-driven targeting, conversion-led creative and tight budget control delivered a 6.3X return on ad spend across the campaign window.

Qualified traffic growth

Technical SEO fixes and strategic content amplification focused on bringing in the right traveller, not just more travellers — lifting traffic 37% YoY.

End-to-end booking funnel

Mapped the journey from search to confirmation, refined the UX at each step and improved visit-to-booking conversion across every market we ran in.

03 · The result

Bookings, not just impressions — a true luxury growth engine.

The 90-day programme returned 6.3× on ad spend, generated 295 new bookings quarter on quarter and ranked 212 luxury-travel keywords on page one of Google. Website traffic grew 37% year on year.

More importantly, the engine kept paying back after the quarter ended. Each new content asset, each technical fix and each ranking compounded into long-term organic value — turning a campaign into a permanent booking channel.

Return on ad spend · indexed, 12 weeks
Google Ads + GA4
6.3X
return on ad spend
+37% YoY traffic
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Results

The numbers that filled the resort.

A world-renowned Ubud resort and a fiercely contested luxury-travel category. Here's what an integrated SEO + Google Ads programme delivered in 90 days.

01
6.3X
Return on ad spend
From the Google Ads programme — proven against booking revenue, not just clicks.
02
295
New bookings
Generated quarter on quarter — directly attributed to the campaign.
03
+37%
Website traffic YoY
Sustained growth in qualified luxury-travel visits, built to compound.
04
212
Page-one keywords
High-value luxury-travel terms ranking on page one of Google.
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