Case Study — B2B Product Marketing

Making Certags easier to find and enquire with for specialist industrial products.

A search, website, and paid ads project focused on improving visibility, product clarity, and quote inquiries for a specialist B2B product business.

Services Used

SEO & AI Search Visibility

Website Development

Paid Ads

Landing Page Improvements

Client Overview

Certags provides heavy-duty certification, inspection, identification tags, labels, and related products for industrial applications. Its website describes the business as a specialist manufacturer and supplier of products for compliance, identification, asset management, and inspections.

The Problem

Certags sells specialist products to buyers who often know what problem they need to solve but may not know the exact product name, material, format, or specification.

That creates a common B2B marketing challenge: the website needs to serve both technical buyers and less technical buyers. It needs to rank for relevant searches, explain product categories clearly, and make it easy for visitors to request a quote or ask a question.

The goal was to make the buying journey clearer without oversimplifying the products.

What Was Holding Things Back

The main challenge was product clarity.

Industrial buyers often compare products based on durability, use case, compliance need, material, and environment. If pages are too thin or too technical, buyers can hesitate. If the quote path is unclear, interested visitors may leave before making contact.

The website needed clearer category structure, more useful product explanations, stronger calls-to-action, and better paid search landing paths.

What We Improved

The team worked on the website and search journey around the way buyers actually look for industrial tags and labels.

SEO work focused on product and category visibility. Product pages were shaped around clearer search intent, practical use cases, and easier-to-understand descriptions. Internal linking was improved so visitors could move between related product categories without getting lost.

Paid search support focused on higher-intent product and quote searches. Instead of treating all traffic the same, campaigns and landing pages were aligned around product need, buyer intent, and quote readiness.

Landing page recommendations helped make the next step clearer, especially for visitors who needed custom tags, labels, or application-specific help.

Result

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Organic product-page traffic increased during the reviewed period.

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Quote requests increased after product and inquiry paths were improved.

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Paid search conversion rate improved after campaign and landing page refinement.

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Visitors spent more time on key category pages after product information was made easier to navigate.

What Changed

The website became a clearer sales support tool. Visitors could better understand product categories, compare relevant options, and move toward a quote without needing to interpret overly complex information.

The marketing also became more focused. SEO, paid ads, and landing pages were shaped around real buyer intent rather than broad product promotion.

Why It Worked

B2B product marketing works better when technical products are explained clearly. Certags did not need vague marketing language. It needed better product structure, stronger search visibility, and a clearer route from product interest to quote request.

That is what the project focused on.

Key Results

  • +51.72% increase in organic product-page traffic
  • +52.91% increase in quote requests
  • +47.26% improvement in paid search conversion rate

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