OUR WORK wagamama
Working closely with Wagamama to grow organic website traffic
Wagamama is a British restaurant chain, serving Asian food based on Japanese cuisine with over 150 locations across the UK.
What we did
Wagamama approached MintTwist as they looked to grow the organic traffic to their website. They wanted to conduct a full SEO audit of the existing Wagamama Website, understand the Keyword Universe surrounding their brand and their products, as well as the wider Organic Search Competitors successfully operating in the marketplace.
Wagamama not only wanted to improve visibility for high competition, conversion keywords, but also informational “recipe” keywords with high monthly search volume.
Wagamama, being a well-known brand, also attracts a large number of branded queries. The domain was originally being outranked by third parties for several branded search terms owing to a variety of technical and content issues on the site.
Full website audit and SEO research
One of the first and most crucial steps of any SEO project is an SEO audit.
A thorough SEO Audit allows us to find all potential problems and opportunities on a site. For Wagamama, we took a deep dive into the site from both a technical and content angle.
The Wagamama domain contained several major technical issues which were having a severe impact in the way Google and other search engines understood the site’s content and, in turn, often opted not to rank or (in some cases) index several important pages.
Technical Issues
Lacking schema markup
A crucial component for recipe pages to rank in Google
Thin content on pages
Not targeting anywhere near enough keywords
Duplicate metadata between pages
Confusing to both users and search engines
Unoptimised/missing page headings
This makes it very difficult to understand the page topic
Keyword Research
Keyword research allows us to find exactly what users are searching for and build content around search intent.
The Wagamama site is relevant for a wide variety of queries, not just converting customers. During the keyword research phase, we found several topical categories of keywords that the Wagamama site could rank.
These categories included:
- Recipe queries
- Restaurant types
- Foods
- Local searches
The future of the content on the Wagamama website will rely heavily on this research.
Huge growth in organic search volumes
We continue to work with Wagamama in order to improve rankings, increase brand visibility and drive customers.
Our foundational SEO work has built a clear and robust strategy to allow the future improvement of the site’s organic search strength!
212%
More organic traffic
+809%
Increase in number of keywords ranking on page 1
+134%
Increase in visibility score