Case study — Performance Apparel

Pulsewear: the build that paid for itself.

Pulsewear came to us as performance apparel operators in Portland, USA with a problem that was costing them weekly. The program below is what moved their headline number: +118% non-brand clicks.

Pulsewear — hero visual

Fig. 01 — E-commerce SEOPortland, USA

Client
Pulsewear
Year
2025
Industry
Performance Apparel
Location
Portland, USA
01

The challenge

Organic had plateaued at exactly the level of 'we publish sometimes': rankings on page two for everything valuable, traffic flat for six quarters, and paid spend quietly compensating.

Previous agency reports were voluminous and unpersuaded: rankings screenshots, no causation, and a content calendar answering questions nobody was searching.

02

The approach

We rebuilt the program bottom-funnel first: mapped every money query to a deliberate page, fixed the crawl and canonical layer, then built topic clusters outward from commercial intent.

Content shipped as assets, not posts: refresh of decaying winners, comparison and alternative pages for every competitor, and data pieces pitched for links rather than prayed for.

Local and bottom-funnel came first because they pay first; authority content followed on a fixed cadence tied to a refresh queue, not to 'post weekly' folklore.

  • Refresh protocol for decaying but winning pages
  • Local SEO program: profiles, reviews, location pages
  • Technical audit with a prioritized fix plan, tracked to done
  • Bottom-funnel keyword-to-page architecture
03

The results

R—01 -38% Paid spend held flat
R—02 23 Digital-PR placements earned
R—03 87% Target pages indexed & ranking
R—04 30d First visible movement
They told us to publish less and refresh more — traffic doubled anyway. The least salesy and most effective advice we'd had.Rachel Kim — VP Growth, Pulsewear
04

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