Product-Led SEO

Grow organic traffic through your product, not more blog posts.

Book an audit

What do Canva, ClickUp, Groww and indiagold have in common? Each grew organic traffic through Product-Led SEO (PLSEO). I led it in-house at indiagold.

Why now: AI has made generic content a commodity. The edge has moved to pages that do something useful for the user.

Canva, ClickUp, Groww, and indiagold organic traffic growth 2017-2024 using Product-Led SEO

How PLSEO differs from SEO

Product-Led SEO is customer-centric SEO — you improve your digital product to rank content and drive sales exponentially, instead of driving traffic only through long-form content or link building, linearly.

Product-Led SEO is the intersection of Product, Marketing, and SEO

What's included

Drive 100k to 1M+ relevant monthly organic visitors to your brand, built on direct experience across fintech, spiritual tech, and D2C (health, beauty).

Is this a fit?

Rule of thumb: if your site has been live 3+ years, PLSEO will likely work for you. Quick gut-check — the higher your Domain Authority relative to your current organic traffic, the bigger the upside.

Domain authority scale — the higher your Domain Authority relative to current organic traffic, the bigger the Product-Led SEO upside

Why PLSEO works

With Product-Led SEO, organic traffic can grow sustainably — faster than clicks are falling to AI Overviews.

Here's why. Google rewards great UX. Automation makes it scalable. High domain authority correlates to a website's ability to compete with others — for the same users, for the same keywords, using its own digital products.

Here's how. Your product's UX gets modified to be better understood by Google's search algorithm. Content creation gets automated in part, using AI tools and subject-matter review. And I compete only for the keywords where you actually have the "Right to Win."

The 3 pillars

A Product-Led SEO strategy requires a balance of its 3 pillars — SEO, Product, and Marketing. Each requires a balance of its own 3 components.

Pillars of SEO

Pillars of Product

Pillars of Marketing

Getting to results

If you're doing a good job at SEO and Marketing, but not using the Product levers, you're leaving money on the table. You're probably great with Content Marketing. But you might be seeing slow growth in organic traffic. Executing PLSEO will speed up growth.

If you're doing a good job at SEO and Product, but not communicating value well, you're leaving money on the table. You're probably great with Technical SEO. But you might be seeing poor translation of traffic into revenue. Executing PLSEO will improve conversion rates.

If you're doing a good job at Product and Marketing, but haven't focused on SEO, you're leaving money on the table. You're probably great with Product Marketing. But you might not be growing organic traffic consistently. Executing PLSEO will make the growth sustainable.

This framework is how I'll help find what needs improving, and what's already great.

A typical 9-month PLSEO engagement

  1. Months 1-3

    • Technical fixes
    • Product-led keyword themes
    • Lower-funnel blogs
  2. Months 4-6

    • Free tools
    • Conversion rate optimisation
    • Lower & middle-funnel blogs
  3. Months 6-9

    • Content refresh
    • Product marketing & copywriting
    • Lower & middle-funnel blogs

Proof, not just theory

Client case study

D2C Ayurveda hair health brand: 7x organic traffic in 18 months

What we built
City pages for "hair doctors in [city]", "dermatologists in [city]" and "hair salons in [city]"
Plus
Core SEO that sent visitors to the hair test
Start
81K monthly organic visitors
18 months later
559K a month (7x)
Peak
887K a month, 11x the starting point, as the program compounded

Same playbook, in-house at indiagold (2021–23) and for other SPTPL clients:

In-House 2021–23

300K+

monthly visitors and 2,000+ leads a month, indiagold (one engineer, one intern)

Client Engagement

11x

SEO-attributed purchases in 5 months, K-12 communication EdTech

Client Engagement

7x

cumulative SEO ROI over 7 quarters, D2C women’s health brand (18.3x in the latest quarter)

Also: a competitive head keyword moved from page 4 to page 1 in 8 months for a D2C hair care brand.

If you're investing in SEO but want results faster, let's talk.

Book an audit (opens in a new tab)
Book an audit