Categories Name : SEARCH and PPC CAMPAIGNS

Sub-Category : BEST SEO FOR WEBSITE/UNIVERSAL SEARCH RANKING AND SEM STRATEGY

Entry Name (Campaign) : Myntra Records 270% Revenue Growth in the Kids' Category via SEO

Covering Note / Overall Experience

Myntra: India’s Leading E-commerce Platform

Myntra is one of the top-ranking e-commerce websites in India. Customers cherish the platform for its reputed brands and high-quality collections that cater to all age groups and categories. In a short span of time, Myntra has become the online fashion capital of India and has been outperforming other competitive e-commerce giants.

Objective: Increase Visibility and Revenue in the Kids' Category

Since becoming a market leader in the men’s & women’s categories, Myntra has aimed for the same in the kids’ category by generating higher revenue & competing against Amazon and Flipkart. Here is where Infidigit stepped in with its expertise to help Myntra achieve its goal.

Myntra & Infidigit planned to achieve the following objectives:

• Increase the revenue of the kids’ category by 100%
• Increase the keywords ranking #1 by 100%
• Increase organic traffic by 100%
• Become the market leader in the kids' category

To achieve these objectives, team Infidigit created a Hexa-dimensional strategy which as the name suggests concentrated on six different aspects of advanced SEO. This, in turn, helped us to overachieve above business objectives and also strengthened Myntra's position in the kid's category as the leading fashion e-commerce destination in India.

Concept

Once the objectives were finalised by team Myntra and team Infidigit, it was time to take some action for team Infidigit. That’s where we implemented a well thought of hexa dimensional SEO strategy. Hexa-dimensional strategy was implemented with the help of Myntra’s marketing, product and engineering team. This hexa-dimensional strategy consisted of six important SEO aspects which required to be implemented to achieve the above-stated objectives.

This Hexa-dimensional strategy included:

1. Optimize crawl budget by performing advanced log file analysis
2. Targeting higher CTR by implementing FAQ, video, breadcrumb & rating schema.
3. Optimize page speed
4. Curate informative content & a dynamic price table on list pages
5. Update contextual links to boost page rankings
6. Influencer marketing

Innovation

Besides adhering to best SEO practices, we pushed the envelope of innovation by implementing the following technical SEO techniques.

1. Optimize Crawl Budget by performing advanced log file analysis

• We analyzed log files, which helped us understand that 51% of the URLs that were being crawled were not relevant ones.
• We excluded these irrelevant URLs from being crawled to increase the Crawl Budget for relevant URLs.
• All crucial pages were discovered by the bot and a jump from 28 lakh indexed pages to 63 lakh indexed pages achieved, thus helping us double the visibility on SERPs.

2. Target higher CTR by implementing FAQ, Video, Breadcrumb & Rating Schema:

• FAQ schema to answer the end-users’ queries thus increasing overall CTR for respective keywords.
• Product schema to showcase the price, offers & availability of products on the SERP to the end-user for better visibility.
• “How To” Schema for answering users queries with just one search and thus increasing brand visibility.
• Video schema for visibility in videos SERPs, thus increasing the average time spent on the landing page by an end-user.
• Breadcrumb schema for easy navigation for bots as well as end-users.
• Optimization of the content for Featured Snippet listings on List (both numbered and bulleted) and Table Snippets.

3. Optimize Page Speed

• We identified that page speed was a crucial element impacting overall website traffic, so we implemented technical changes that helped us increase the page speed by 104.44%.
• This also helped in reducing the bounce rate and increasing the average time spent on a page by the end-user.

Execution

Besides the innovations specified above, here are some more implementations which were executed to ensure efficient crawling, making page dynamic in nature and gaining featured snippets in SERPs which helped in achieving the aforementioned objectives:

1. Curate Informative content & a dynamic price table on list pages

• Identifying list pages without footer content and also performing content gap analysis on the pages which already have content.
• Writing content for the pages that are relevant to a product. Ensuring this content is unique, valuable to the readers and SEO friendly.
• Implementing a dynamic price table that lists one-of-a-kind products with their price, thus getting us a featured snippet on SERPs.

2. Update contextual links to boost page rankings

• Extensive kids-category-specific keyword research.
• Creating landing pages for high-search-volume terms & implementing on-page elements meticulously.
• Contextual & footer linking to help high-search-volume keywords to gain ranking.
• Writing unique & relevant meta title & descriptions.

3. Influencer Marketing

• Infidigit turned to influencer marketing to increase user involvement. Several influencers partnered with Infidigit to promote Myntra to raise product awareness & gain popularity in the kids' category.

Results

Compared to the corresponding period of the previous year, the above mentioned strategic plans achieved the following:

1. Myntra’s Kids’ Category saw 270% revenue growth
2. Keywords ranking in the first position increased by 273.87%.
3. Myntra’s Kids’ Category saw 201% growth in organic sessions
4. Share of voice saw a 203.35% increase
5. 90% More Impressions through Kids category pages compared to 2018 Campaign.
6. 32% More Clicks through Kids category pages compared to 2018 Campaign.
7. 30% improvement in average position through Kids category pages compared to 2018 Campaign.
8. Kids Category saw 193.64% growth in Organic Users
9. Kids Category saw 188.33% growth in Organic New Users
10. Kids Category saw 201% growth in Organic New Users
11. A growth of 270% was observed in Organic Revenue
12. A growth of 252% was recorded in ROI
13. Bounce Rate from kids category dropped by 27%
14. 104% improvement in page speed post implementing technical changes.