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How SEO Increased Leads For Quiznos by 900% per month

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DOMINANT

Local Rankings

900%

increase in monthly conversions

2,900%

increase in monthly organic traffic

About

QUIZNOS

Quiznos is a well-known restaurant chain focusing on providing quality sandwiches to consumers everywhere.

In spite of having restaurants worldwide, their primary focus is on building their consumer base within the United States and Canada. Their clients are people who want a healthier, higher-quality alternative to fast food chains like Subway. With so many restaurants to choose from, these people need a meal that provides quality food, reasonable pricing, and timely delivery. Quiznos is the perfect solution, and reached out to Firestarter SEO to establish an online presence for keywords like “Sandwich Near Me”. With our help, they drastically increased their online presence and generated an astounding number of leads.

INDUSTRY

Restaurant
– Sandwiches
– Fast Casual

Company Size

Enterprise Restaurant
– 1,500 Employees

Location

HQ: Denver, CO

Services

– Restaurant
– Hospitality
– Sandwiches

Other Stats

$170M Estimated Annual Revenue
41 years in business
555 Locations

THE CHALLENGE

When Quiznos approached us, they were trending down quickly. They had pursued aggressive expansion, but had overextended and were forced to scale down significantly. With the restaurant world being such a saturated market, they were desperate to find a strategy to help them boost their local visibility and return to a growth phase. 

Our research revealed the size of the challenge, including:

  • Less than 500 conversions per month to the site.
  • 10-20 page views per day.
  • The was no first page visibility for their marquee keywords such as “Restaurants Near Me” & “Best Sandwiches Near Me.”

In other words, they were not reaching a significant portion of their potential client base. A new strategy was absolutely necessary.

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THE STRATEGY

Firestarter developed a strategy geared towards targeting better keywords, driving traffic to the website, and generating conversions
01

Keyword Targeting

The Quiznos website had a glaring omission: there was very little keyword targeting on its pages. After identifying core strategic keywords for each location, we implemented this keyword targeting throughout the site.

02

Link Building

Finally, Firestarter leveraged a local link-building strategy for Quiznos in order to boost rankings. This relied on submission to aggregators and directories in order to boost NAP consistency and local listings. Over time, Firestarter helped increase Referring Domains from 5,594 to7,468.

03

Local Landing Pages

A major component of our strategy was to build out local landing pages on a state, city, and location-based level. This hyper-local strategy played a massive role in boosting up local visibility for crucial keywords like “Sandwiches Near Me.”

SEO Improvements

THE RESULTS

Our strategy generated results that changed the course of Quiznos’ business – with massive increases in every key metric.
01

DOMINANT LOCAL RANKINGS

Each Quiznos location boasted major local visibility, and in many cases the top 6 results in the SERP were owned by Quiznos.

02

2,900% INCREASE IN MONTHLY ORGANIC TRAFFIC

Monthly traffic increased from 300 per month to 9,000 per month.

03

900% INCREASE IN MONTHLY CONVERSIONS

These increased from under 500 per month to nearly 5,000 per month.

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