Case study · Kigali, RwandaShow Me Around Rwanda
Show Me Around Rwanda connects travellers with Rwanda's most sought-after experience: mountain gorilla trekking in Volcanoes National Park.
- Client
- Show Me Around Rwanda
- Location
- Kigali, Rwanda
- Services
- SEO + Squarespace Website
- Year
- 2023
- Website
- showmearoundrwanda.com
(01) Overview
The project.
The gorilla trekking search market is international, competitive, and dominated by large OTA platforms. We positioned Show Me Around Rwanda at the top of it, reaching page one for primary gorilla trekking search terms in competitive international markets.
Brief and approach
(02) The brief
Gorilla trekking searches are dominated by travel aggregators with significant domain authority and substantial content libraries. Ranking an independent Rwanda specialist against those competitors required a technically clean approach to site architecture, content depth, and authority building. The existing site had neither the technical foundation nor the content to compete.
(03) The approach
We built a content strategy around search intent rather than keyword volume: permit planning guides, best-time-to-visit content, and experience-specific pages that answer the questions travellers ask before booking. Technical SEO corrections to the Squarespace site improved crawlability, page structure, and mobile performance. An internal linking strategy was designed to consolidate authority around the pages that matter most. Within eight months, primary gorilla trekking terms reached page one.
- Squarespace site architecture and optimisation
- Technical SEO audit and corrections
- Keyword and intent mapping
- Content strategy and planning guide series
- Authority-building internal link structure
(04) Results
What moved.
1
Page-one position
Primary gorilla trekking terms
8 mo
Time to page one
Competitive international markets
3+
Markets ranked
US, UK, and European searches
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