Sanctuary Clothing

Digital Authority Partners helped Sanctuary Clothing achieve a 4.2X return on ad spend (ROAS), increase organic traffic by 80%, and boost Ecommerce conversion rates by 70%. We optimized paid search and social ads, improved Sanctuary's website UX, addressed technical SEO issues, and revamped their product category pages. Our efforts on retargeting, abandoned cart strategy, and checkout speed improvements also led to a big rise in traffic, solidifying their spot in the competitive Ecommerce space.

ROAS across Paid Search and Paid Social

4.2X

Organic keywords rankings increase within one year of working with DAP

100%

Organic traffic increase within one year of working with DAP

80%

Client:

Sanctuary Clothing

Industry:

Ecommerce

Bio:

Sanctuary Clothing is a fast-growing LA-based apparel brand selling through major retailers & direct to consumers.

How we helped Sanctuary Clothing?

Digital Marketing Services

Search Engine Optimization

Pay-Per-Click Management

Digital Strategy Consultant

Ecommerce Conversion Rate Optimization

Marketing & Web Analytics

“From the account manager to the owners, the entire DAP team is truly dedicated to the success of their clients. Digital Authority Partners has helped the client maintain conversion rates above their industry standard.”

Christal Westbrook

Marketing Director at Sanctuary Clothing - Los Angeles, California

Project Summary

Sanctuary is an LA-based apparel company founded in 1997 selling through major retailers and direct-to-consumers through their ecommerce website. To help them get more out of their digital advertising efforts and boost their online presence, DAP was brought on to help Sanctuary improve its return on ad spend, Ecommerce conversion rate, and increase organic traffic to the website.

The Challenge

Low return on ad spend

The return on ad spend across paid social and paid search was significantly below industry standards which made it nearly impossible for Sanctuary to sell online profitably.

Low Ecommerce conversion rate

The Ecommerce conversion rate was around .6% when the industry standard is closer to 3%.

Ambitious growth goals

Sanctuary looked to increase its online direct-to-consumer business substantially and needed the right marketing team to help them accomplish this ambitious goal.

How we helped Sanctuary Clothing

Digital Marketing Services

We created a comprehensive SEO, paid search, paid social, and website strategy to help Sanctuary reach its growth goals.

— Market Research

We reviewed Sanctuary’s top competitors, including their strengths and weaknesses, and built a multi-year website, paid media, and SEO omnichannel strategy to help Sanctuary grow its direct-to-consumer business by 50% year over year.

— SEO & Content Strategy

We developed a comprehensive content strategy across the different product category landing pages, on-site blog content, and guest posts in relevant apparel publications to help Sanctuary increase its organic traffic.

PPC Agency

— Paid Search Management

We conducted an extensive paid search audit to uncover improvement opportunities to increase ROAS. We cut waste on low ROAS campaigns, set up retargeting, created abandoned cart email campaigns, set up smart shopping, added online product feeds, deployed an integrated monthly tracking analytics strategy, and more.

— Paid Social Media Management

We audited the paid social spending to find areas to improve. DAP enhanced Sanctuary’s marketing strategy by creating more video ads, setting up proper attribution, extensive A/B ad experimentation, and higher utilization of influencer partnerships.

SEO Agency Old

— Technical SEO Audit & Remediation

DAP conducted a technical SEO audit of the Sanctuary website to determine all critical issues impacting the site’s ability to rank. We identified a list of website fixes and improvements, including site speed, HTML, alternate text for images, orphan pages, redirect issues, and more.

— SEO Strategy

We worked with Sanctuary to define the right keywords to focus on by first determining the top product categories that Sanctuary wanted should be ranking for based on their inventory and market competitive advantage. Once we identified the most relevant keywords, we compared those against relative keyword difficulty to determine the final keyword clusters to focus on to get more organic traffic to the website over time sustainably.

— On-site Content Creation

Our SEO team worked with Sanctuary full-time writers and content managers to create & publish SEO-optimized articles to improve the company’s Google search rankings & drive more traffic to the site.

— Guest Posting

We wrote guest posts & secured high-quality backlinks to Sanctuary blogs & product category pages. We published 100s of articles on relevant lifestyle brand websites, leading our client to see an 80% increase in traffic.

Digital Strategy Consultant

— Ecommerce conversion rate optimization

The Sanctuary website had a very low Ecommerce conversion rate of approximately .6%. The DAP product team performed an in-depth audit of the site & created a strategy to improve the conversion rate. We prioritized issues to resolve based on the difficulty of fixing and the expected benefits, which resulted in a 2.5X increase in conversion.

— Marketing & Web Analytics

We have successfully addressed a double-counting issue with a significant portion of paid media traffic. Additionally, we have enhanced attribution accuracy by using multiple web analytic tools.

What we achieved

4.2X

ROAS across Paid Search and Paid Social

Sanctuary Clothing came to us because their return on ad spend was very low. Within the first few months of working together we increased their ROAS by 2.5X compared to the results they got by working with a different agency. The average paid search ROAS is now 5.68 & paid social is 2.94.

100%

Increase in organic keywords ranking Year over Year

Sanctuary Clothing quickly started ranking for hundreds of new keywords across its primary keywords. These were all new keywords the company had never ranked for before engaging with Digital Authority Partners.

80%

Increase in organic traffic

Through creating best-in-class product category pages, on-site content, securing relevant guest posts, and improving the technical SEO issues on the website, organic traffic rose from around 12,000/month to nearly 30,000/month in less than 1 year.