Customer success story

How The Stepstone Group scaled its SEO testing by 170%

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Increased SEO testing cadence by 170% with SearchPilot

The Stepstone Group is one of the world's largest job websites, with over 40 job listing sites in 20 countries. Its websites include Stepstone.de in Germany and totaljobs.com in the United Kingdom.

They know that smarter, data-driven SEO changes can help them generate more traffic and increase their market share. So they decided to create a stronger SEO testing strategy that delivered accurate, actionable data. 

To make these improvements, The Stepstone Group wanted to create a stronger SEO testing strategy that delivered accurate, actionable data.

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Success metrics

33%
The Stepstone Group's 2022 SEO testing program produced the highest winning test rate among all SearchPilot customers at 33%.
170%
Since partnering with SearchPilot, The Stepstone Group has almost tripled the number of SEO tests it runs.
+ 29%
One top-performing test included adding structured data, resulting in an organic traffic increase of almost 30 per cent.

The challenge

In such a fiercely competitive market, delivering successful SEO improvements is an important part of the organization’s business strategy. They know that smarter, data-driven SEO changes can help them generate higher traffic and increase their market share. 

The Stepstone Group has a testing-first culture across all organizational initiatives. The SEO team is committed to this approach. However, they wanted to improve the quality of their SEO experiments by gaining more valuable insights to make smarter SEO changes.

Without proven results and a clear understanding of the impact of their SEO changes, the SEO team had difficulty securing buy-in from other stakeholders to prioritize their work. This led them to form a partnership with SearchPilot.

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The solution

Since partnering with SearchPilot, The Stepstone Group has increased the number of website domains they can test, as well
as the number of tests it run. This opens the door to larger, bolder SEO experiments.

They also collaborate closely with the SearchPilot professional services team to build and analyze data-driven SEO experiments. Together, the two teams also run quarterly ideation sessions to ensure there’s always a healthy backlog of SEO test ideas to hand.

Now, The Stepstone Group can confidently determine whether SEO tests will have a positive or negative impact on organic sessions. With accurate, actionable data at their fingertips, the SEO team has become a stronger part of the company-wide testing culture.

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"SearchPilot has an impressive technical architecture with a lot of things in common with our own technical architecture, as well as a value proposition that is very much aligned with what we wanted to achieve as an SEO team."
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Adam Crawford
Global Head of SEO at The Stepstone Group

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