CASE STUDY OBSERVABILITY SERIES D · $480M ARR SEO + GEO + CONTENT
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OBSERVABILITY PLATFORM
CLIENT NAME WITHHELD BY MUTUAL NDA

Owned the observability category.
In 11 months.

A leading observability platform came to us out-ranked by every legacy incumbent in their category. Eleven months later, they own every category-defining query — in classic search and in AI Overviews — and the program has paid for itself five times over.

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01 · THE CHALLENGE

Brand strength,
SEO weakness.

The client had won category mindshare among engineering leaders — but their organic search footprint didn't reflect it. Three legacy incumbents (with 10x the domain authority) owned every category-defining query.

At the same time, AI Overviews had started taking double-digit share of their top-of-funnel — and the brand was barely cited. Demos from organic had been flat for four quarters.

The hard constraints

  • Mid-migration: a domain consolidation was scheduled in 60 days.
  • Engineering-light: marketing had no dedicated dev support.
  • Board pressure: SEO needed to show pipeline contribution by end of Q2.
  • Category-defining competitors with 10x our domain authority.
"Three quarters of flat demos from organic, and we'd just hired against a category-leadership thesis. We needed search to start carrying its weight."
02 · THE APPROACH

Four parallel
tracks.

WK 1-4

Migration insurance

  • Pre-migration audit + redirect map
  • Day-zero rollback plan
  • Crawl + index monitoring
WK 5-12

Topical authority sprint

  • 41 cluster pages shipped
  • Programmatic SEO templates
  • Internal linking architecture
WK 13-24

GEO engineering

  • Schema everywhere
  • Entity disambiguation
  • AI Overview citation testing
WK 24+

Compound + reinvest

  • Tier-1 PR + research
  • Long-tail expansion
  • Adjacency mapping
03 · THE RESULTS

Three quarters in,
SEO became
the top channel.

We migrated the domain with under 5% traffic loss in week 6. By month 4, we were ranking on page 1 for 28 of the 41 priority terms. By month 11, all 41 were at position 1.

AI Overviews — initially a threat — became the largest single contributor to top-of-funnel by month 9.

SOURCED PIPELINE · MONTHLY
$48.2M total
↑ 312%
JUL 25OCT 25JAN 26APR 26JUN 26
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MMIO is the only agency we have ever renewed twice. They show up to QBRs with a forecast model, not a pretty slide. SEO went from a line item I had to defend to the channel that funds the rest of the program.

VP Marketing
Series D Observability platform · name withheld

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