Case 26 / Metric-supported

Growing a 15,000-Line E-commerce Catalogue Through SEO

Trade buyers needed an exact search to reach a relevant catalogue page and a clear commercial action.

Client
Allfasteners Australia
Sector
Industrial fasteners and construction supplies
Capability
SEO strategy, e-commerce strategy, information architecture, acquisition analytics
Evidence
Metric-supported

Platforms & tools

  • Semrush SEO visibility
  • Google Analytics 4 Acquisition and GA4 event tracking

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Customer problem

Allfasteners serves buyers who search with very different levels of technical certainty, from a broad material or application question to an exact fastener specification. The live store spans more than 15,000 lines, technical guides, deep category trees, trade accounts and fulfilment options. From January 2022 to December 2025, the challenge was to make that complexity discoverable without flattening it, then connect organic demand to an e-commerce journey that works for trade customers.

Work delivered

Rolfe Marketing connected SEO and e-commerce strategy across the complete buying journey. Search intent informed category, subcategory, product and guide priorities. Commercial planning followed how a buyer could find a product, compare options, save work and move towards a transaction. Ranking and acquisition evidence fed a continuous prioritisation loop throughout website delivery.

Delivery method

  • 01: Mapped informational, commercial and transactional demand to technical guides, categories and product pages.
  • 02: Prioritised non-branded search opportunities that could introduce Allfasteners before a buyer had chosen a supplier.
  • 03: Strengthened technical copy, headings and internal pathways around products, dimensions, materials, coatings and applications.
  • 04: Connected SEO priorities to catalogue taxonomy, advanced search, filters, product comparison and stored-item journeys.
  • 05: Kept trade-account, click-and-collect, delivery and support actions visible as part of the commercial path.
  • 06: Used GA4 channel quality and Semrush visibility data to assess traffic reaching deeper commercial pages.

Recorded outcome

Semrush's historical trend indicates that estimated organic traffic roughly doubled from its mid-2023 low of about 14,000 to 15,000 visits to around 30,000 by December 2025. Across the available GA4 window from 1 January 2022 to 2 September 2026, organic search became the dominant first-touch source: 846,976 users, or 61.14% of the total, and 81,329 tracked GA4 events, or 58.14%. Organic-acquired users averaged 1 minute 20 seconds of engagement, compared with 1 minute 6 seconds overall. By the 3 September 2026 Semrush snapshot, the domain held 11,369 ranking keywords and an estimated 32,000 monthly organic visits; 27,700, or about 86.6%, were non-branded. Four selected commercial and advice pages together attracted 14.51% of estimated traffic, almost matching the homepage's 14.78%.

What the evidence supports

For this 15,000-line catalogue, organic acquisition depended on linking technical search questions to product and trade-account paths.

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Next step

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