Project Description

Intuitive keywords are selected by Sandbad that match commercial, volume, and competition levels to deliver new customers.

Sandbad ranks high value geo-specific pages using 200+ optimization factors to outpace and outrank your competition.

The Sandbad combination of technology and people can acquire unlimited hyper-targeted links with Google-approved metrics from new referring domains to any desired page on your website.

Establish a competitive foothold

Growing Your Business Through Cannabis SEO

The cannabis industry is budding throughout North America. Marijuana-related businesses are flourishing from the medicinal and recreational legalization of cannabis. Valued at $13.21 billion in 2018, the North American cannabis industry analysis predicts that the cannabis market value is set to reach $36.7 billion by 2025.

Long gone are the days of sketchy homemade pot brownies. As the industry refines itself through market expansion and the diversification of its cannabis-related products and services (THC-infused fine dining, anyone?), emerging cannabis companies are refining their business practices to legitimize their standing in a growingly competitive industry.

An essential factor in building a cannabis business plan comes from creating a detail-oriented online marketing strategy. However, determining a strategy comes with its challenges – particularly when dealing in the cannabis industry. One of the major growing pains for cannabis companies is the limited opportunity to market their business through paid search (i.e. Google Ads) or paid social (i.e. Facebook). Major advertising platforms disallow cannabis-related companies from pushing out ads due to federal regulations, hindering their ability to drive traffic through these channels.

As a result, cannabis companies must have a strong organic online presence to establish themselves as industry leaders. So regardless if you side with hydroponic or organic cannabis growth – one truth remains absolute: Cannabis SEO is required to elevate your marijuana business to an all-time high.

How to Market Your
Online Cannabis Business

What is Cannabis SEO Marketing?

Cannabis or CBD marketing through search engine optimization (SEO) is the hybrid process of optimizing your website by writing comprehensive industry-related content, in combination with building a backlinking strategy to align with best practices laid out by popular search engines like Google and Bing.

Unveiling the black box that is ‘Marijuana SEO’, our goal is to optimize search queries pertaining to your business. In doing so, interested browsers will gain exposure to your website via search engine result pages (SERPs). As you rank higher for relevant keywords, the more visibility your website will receive. This will allow more qualified visitors to organically find your business online, and ultimately, engage with your website – be it product sales, online orders, newsletter subscriptions or other user interactions (eg. content downloads, phone calls, or form submissions).

In short, any cannabis online market that sells cannabis products, services, or has a contact form on their website to inquire about their business online, benefits from optimizing their website to drive qualified traffic. With the number of companies already doing this today, any business not leveraging SEO will be at a large disadvantage as they are missing out on converting visitors into customers.

Why Do Cannabis Businesses Need SEO?

If your cannabis business will rely on online sales or awareness to survive, having a strong SEO presence is essential. Because of the restrictions surrounding paid advertising for cannabis, all cannabis-related companies should consider investing in a Cannabis SEO strategy, as it is the best alternative to drive organic traffic to your website.

Organic competition is further magnified as competitors battle for search result position for their particular niches – whether it be for mobile or desktop visitors.  Fortunately, many of your competitors either struggle to do SEO successfully or they lack an SEO plan altogether. Having a website with no SEO is quite literally giving customers to your competition – ۹۱% of the time a potential customer goes to Google to start shopping for an item, they only click on the first page of listings. As a result, Marijuana SEO is right for your business if you have any of the following businesses:

  • Cannabis E-Commerce
  • Local Weed Producers/Sellers
  • Branded Cannabis Products/Accessories
  • Wholesale Cannabis Products and Services
  • Cannabis Product Variations (oil, dry leaves, etc.)
  • Cannabis Resellers
  • Cannabis Transporters
  • Dispensaries (Medical or Recreational)

Creating a Potent SEO Strategy

If you’re looking to build a sustainable, well-rounded cannabis website, then focusing on optimizing your site, building strong content and having a backlinking strategy in place are all crucial to your success. That being said, our SEO agency can help with a number of additional SEO Strategies, including but not limited to:

  • Thematic Keyword Research – establish keywords that drive business to your core pages/products
  • Local SEO/Google My Business Optimization – crucial for establishing a presence on Google Maps/Map Stacks for local businesses like dispensaries and resellers
  • Marijuana-related Competition Analysis – leveraging content gaps to outrank your larger competitors
  • Conversion Optimization – understand what factors best help your site capture more leads/sales
  • Manual Link/Citation Disavow – trimming any bad links/citations on the web
  • Citation Building – nurture your business’ presence with local citations for greater local authority

Lastly, link equity is the most important factor when it comes to SEO according to Google. Linking correctly and efficiently will be your golden ticket to boost your ranking. The problem, however, is that it could take someone hundreds of hours to get enough links to make any sort of impact. This is where Sandbad steps in to completely change the way links are acquired by helping you build a portfolio of strong links.

The three most important aspects to links are as follows: thematically relevant page content, domain ranking, and ideal anchor text placement. Sandbad uses a proprietary method of getting quality links that combines technology and people to programmatically, at scale, identify broken links on thematically relevant websites and contact website owners to get it replaced with exact match anchor text. Streamlining the hardest aspect to SEO is just one of the reasons why Sandbad is the market leader as the SEO cannabis marketing agency of choice for you.

Smoke out Your Competition

Investing with an award-winning agency like Sandbad gives you a competitive advantage against the major players in your industry.

It is also important for cannabis companies to determine their target keyword themes that are most relevant to the business. A fundamental SEO factor is to identify search queries with various levels of search intent that engage different stages of your buyer journey. This will provide more valuable opportunities for prospective visitors to discover your website and nurture their awareness of your brand.

Sandbad has partnered with both emerging and enterprise cannabis businesses to create a channel for sustainable, long term organic traffic, resulting in triple-digit revenue growth while exceeding ROI expectations.

No matter the size of your company, organic traffic is the most scalable and affordable way to acquire new customers. Organic traffic allows you to maximize your website’s profitability with unique customers who previously were unaware of your website. On average, 2.5% of visitors to a website turn into customers. With this logic, one could assume that for every 1000 organic visitors from SEO, your business will receive 25-30 new customers.

How Sandbad takes SEO ROI

Campaign Metrics

Ecommerce tracking works similarly as goal tracking but the metric tracked differs slightly. For businesses whose POS (point of sale) is directly on their website, ecommerce tracking provides a comprehensive overview of data during an SEO campaign and allows businesses to see opportunities in scalability and in increased revenue. By channeling the data through filters like organic search, social media, email, etc. we can trace the origin of traffic which helps to determine which channels are most effective through SEO, and analysis and improve where needed.

Goal tracking works best for larger businesses that want to see an increase in traffic, leads and revenue on their website. For a larger business, goal tracking shows the way that leads come into the marketing funnel, so they are properly handed off to the sales department. This allows us to see how viable the specific medium is as a marketing channel and track the successfulness with data-driven results.

Throughout all SEO campaign efforts, return on investment is always our main goal. ROI is the ultimate metric of success in determining the ways SEO has boosted organic traffic to your website and your search engine result page ranking.

The account management in our SEO campaigns provides detail monthly reports that focus on revenue generated and return on investment to see notable wins in your SEO campaign, as well as areas for improvement and possible increases in SEO practices. The ability to analyze the medium in which the revenue generated came from, like organic traffic or email sequences, let’s SEO campaigns to dial in on active channels and optimize those.

After seeing ROI and revenue generated through the lens of an SEO campaign’s effects, it’s easier to determine the scalability of a business. From understanding ROI and how SEO has benefitted ROI, businesses of all sizes can decide how utilizing more SEO best practices can push their sit up in rankings, bring more traffic to their site, and increase their ROI and revenue generated.

For smaller businesses, tracking leads looks a little bit different. Smaller businesses tend to generate leads via phone calls and email sequences. Tracking these calls and emails communicates the way in which the lead came to contact a business via organic traffic. Other metrics show possible trends in generated leads, but tracking organic traffic gives you quantifiable proof that SEO efforts are actually bringing in more visitors, and thus more leads.

For our clients of smaller sizes, call tracking and email tracking helps convey ways in which organic traffic is being driven to your site, allowing us to continually optimize on-page and off-page attributes to boost organic traffic to your site.

Scalable Campaigns

Launching a startup with limited capital? No problem. Want to test our process before ramping up your budget? Sounds good to us. With Sandbad, all campaigns are structured to allow for seamless scalability. We’ll prove our model, and you’ll see revenue soar.

ROI Obsessed

Yield positive ROI with Sandbad’ data-centric SEO strategy. Whether you’re a small business or a Fortune 500, every dollar counts. Sandbad’ sole success metric is ROI – if you’re not earning, we’re not succeeding. Never again guess if SEO is generating a net-positive return – your team and your investors will love the financial insight.

Real Time Analytics

The waiting game is over. Launching an SEO campaign with Sandbad includes access to Sandbad Analytics®, a real-time reporting platform that puts all SEO-data at your fingertips. Log in at any time of the day and see current keyword rankings, organic traffic growth, and ROI.

True Team Enterprise

We’re all MVPs here. Sandbad takes pride in hiring and retaining top SEO talent by providing an environment where people thrive. Every member of the Sandbad team is experienced and knowledgeable in SEO strategy, so you only work with people who know how to make your SEO campaign succeed.

Ready to dominate the first page of Google?

Our team of award-winning SEOs (and all-around awesome people) are ready to begin the SEO conversation for your website.

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