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Abdul Latif Jameel Motors / Saudi Arabia / 2024Digital & Tech

Toyota Reclaims Toyota.

Saudi buyers search for Toyotas by their local nicknames, and those searches were going to unofficial dealer pages. With no media budget, Serviceplan Experience used off-page SEO to send them back to Abdul Latif Jameel Motors' official Toyota site.

Brand
Abdul Latif Jameel Motors
Market
Saudi Arabia
Region
Saudi Arabia
Year
2024
Toyota Reclaims Toyota

The challenge

Saudi buyers often look Toyota models up by local nicknames rather than official names. Serviceplan Experience's case page says more than 80% of searches used them, that Google didn't recognise them as Toyota-related, and that buyers ended up on unauthorised dealer pages instead of the official site; with no media budget, Toyota needed a way to win that traffic back for free. The official naming on the site also meant the nicknames couldn't simply be added to its pages (Campaign Middle East).

The idea

Serviceplan Experience built an off-page SEO strategy that put the nicknames into backlinks and anchor text: working with trusted publishers and bloggers, it had the high-volume terms link back to the official site (Campaign Middle East). The nicknames include ToyotaWanit for the Hilux and Toyota Rabha for the Land Cruiser LC70, and the case film sets others, such as kamoura for the Camry, beside the official model names. The team also improved the site's technical health by updating sitemaps and URL structures and enhancing Core Web Vitals.

Results

  • Monthly product page views up 45%, from 703,298 to 1,021,957, monthly organic sessions up 66%, from 338,951 to 562,859, and monthly new users up 90%, from 167,183 to 318,838, over a year, according to figures reported by Campaign Middle East
  • One million organic product page views, the most in the site's history, Domain Rating up from 40 to 46 and the Ahrefs health score up from 86 to 97, by the same report
  • Sales up 36% and more than 30 million impressions with nothing spent on media, according to Serviceplan Experience's case page, which gives no period for the sales figure

Case study source: Campaign Middle East Source ↗

Awards

Credits

SEO Manager
Kenan Baki
Creative Director
Sameer Suri

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