SEO & Organic
- Organic traffic falling quarter over quarter
- Organic traffic in freefall — down 30%+ in 90 days
- Lost a large share of their ranking keywords in the last 90 days
- Rankings dropped in the weeks following a Google algorithm update
- Losing referring domains faster than they gain them
- Backlink profile far too thin for their revenue
- Domain authority well below the other stores in their category
- Almost no branded search despite six-figure revenue
- Branded search growing while non-branded stays flat
- Depends on organic for most of their traffic — and it just started declining
- Strong revenue, negligible organic presence
- Failing Lighthouse SEO score
- Site slow enough that page speed is now an SEO problem
- Organic traffic recovering after a long decline
Paid Media
- Cut Google Ads spend to zero
- Cut Meta ad spend to zero
- Google ad spend ramping fast quarter over quarter
- Meta ad spend ramping fast quarter over quarter
- Google ad spend declining steadily for six months or more
- Running active Meta ads to a site with a bad performance score
- Growing fast on paid with no organic to match
- Strong organic, no paid presence at all
- Paid makes up more than 30% of their traffic — they can't turn it off
- Spending on Google Shopping but nothing on Search
- Spending on Search but nothing on Google Shopping
- Live on Meta, absent from Google — or the reverse
- Running the same Meta creatives for months without a refresh
- Thin creative library relative to what they're spending
- No video in the Meta creative mix
- Meta ads running on a single placement only
- Paying for keywords they already rank for organically
- Competing in a category where CPCs are climbing
Agency & Outsourcing
- Spending thousands a month on ads with nobody in-house to run it — they're already outsourcing
- Ad spend stopped while they still had no marketing team — they likely just fired their agency
- Their marketing or ecommerce decision maker recently left the company
- They recently hired a marketing or ecommerce decision maker
- SEO metrics improving steadily with no marketing team in house — someone external is working on it
- They have agencies running ads for them
- Significant revenue and no marketing or ecommerce hires at all
Reviews & Customer Experience
- Recurring complaints about a specific operational problem (missing packages, delivery times, support response, etc)
- Trustpilot rating below industry average
- Trustpilot rating declining over time
- Review volume collapsed — they stopped asking
- Review volume spiking, and not in a good way
- Real revenue and almost no reviews — nothing is collecting them
Platform & Tech Stack
- Replatformed recently: moved onto or off Shopify, WooCommerce, or any other platform
- On Shopify Plus
- Doing Plus-level revenue while still on standard Shopify
- Running a legacy platform at a revenue level that has outgrown it
- Large SKU count on a setup that was never built for it
- Running a named app — including a competitor's
- No app in a category their revenue says they need one for
- Heavy app stack, and a performance score that shows it
- Barely any apps installed despite significant revenue
Growth & Revenue
- Crossed a revenue threshold in the last quarter
- Growing 40%+ year over year
- Revenue declining year over year
- Growth flattened after a long run up
- Revenue growing while traffic stays flat — or the reverse
- Marketing budget crossed the point where they'd hire help
- Founded recently and scaling fast
- Long established and stagnant
Social
- Fast growing on Instagram
- Instagram engagement rate collapsed
- Stopped posting on Socials
- Large following that sends almost no traffic to the store
- Fast growing on TikTok
- No TikTok presence at all
- Shifted the kind of content they post — product shots to UGC, stills to video
- Social driving meaningful organic traffic — or none at all
Contacts & firmographics
- Name, role, email and LinkedIn of each decision maker, verified
- Whether they have a marketing or ecommerce team at all
- Country, industry, platform, apps installed, date founded, revenue band, average product price
- How urgent the problem looks, and the angles worth leading with
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