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More reads and organic traffic for a Turkish and English blog

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Brand / sector
flaneur21 · Culture, Art & Lifestyle Publishing
Target audience
Culture and art enthusiasts, travellers, city explorers, design and intellectual-content followers (global and local)
Agency
cosi
Project duration
12 months
Main goal
Multiply monthly organic pageviews with a bilingual (Turkish and English) content strategy and SEO optimisation, and reach both global and local audiences.

Summary

flaneur21 produces original, high-quality content but had not reached the search visibility it deserved. It worked with cosi to bring its content to wider audiences and raise organic readership.

With bilingual international SEO, content architecture optimisation and user-engagement strategies, flaneur21 multiplied its monthly pageviews by five within 12 months and gained a qualified readership in Turkey and abroad.

Challenges and starting point

  • 01

    Low organic visibility

    Quality, original articles were not structured to SEO standards, so they could not rank high on Google.

  • 02

    Language and search-intent mismatch

    Turkish and English content was not presented to search engines with the right signals (hreflang, international SEO), so global goals were out of reach.

  • 03

    Low dwell time

    Visitors read a single article and left (high bounce rate), with too little movement between pages.

Strategy and solutions

International SEO and bilingual architecture

  • Hreflang and structured data (schema) setup

    We showed Google the correct link between Turkish and English articles and integrated Article and BlogPosting schema to earn rich snippets in search results.

  • Search-intent analysis

    By analysing search volumes in Turkey and worldwide, we identified high-potential focus keywords such as “city guides”, “art movements” and “cultural analysis”.

Content optimisation and evergreen strategy

  • Revising old content (content pruning & refresh)

    We enriched published articles with up-to-date SEO headings (H1, H2, H3), meta descriptions and images, quickly moving their rankings up.

  • Timeless (evergreen) content architecture

    By focusing on topics that are searched continuously, we permanently raised the site’s organic traffic base.

On-site navigation and UX improvements

  • Internal linking

    We linked related articles as topic clusters so readers move between different articles on the site.

  • Reading-experience optimisation

    Mobile compatibility, page speed (Core Web Vitals) and reader-friendly typography increased time on site.

Content distribution and social traffic support

  • Social media and Discover integration

    We designed eye-catching image and headline variations (A/B tests) to feature articles on Google Discover and social channels.

  • Newsletter and save-for-later setup

    We added email newsletter sign-up forms and content-saving mechanisms to build a loyal readership.

Results

Figures reached at the end of 12 months.

  • 5×

    Monthly pageview growth

    Total monthly article pageviews grew fivefold within 12 months.

  • 220%

    Growth in global readers

    As English content climbed the search results, traffic from the US, the UK and European countries rose significantly.

  • 85%

    Longer time on site

    Internal linking and UX improvements raised average session duration while the bounce rate fell noticeably.

  • 40%+

    In Google’s top 3

    More than 40% of the strategically optimised articles reached Google’s top 3 for their target keywords.

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