Transformative results? *YESSS please.*
An integrated SEO and Google Ads strategy aimed at new B2C and non-exclusive customers, growing revenue while cutting monthly ad spend by 33%.
Ad spend going to *customers already committed to buy.*
YESSS Electrical is the fastest growing electrical wholesaler in the UK. Established in Europe for almost 50 years, it has over 95 stores nationwide open to trade and public, and specialist teams covering EV and renewables, industrial, security and lighting.
The business is consistently successful, but the leadership team wanted to reach new customers beyond its core clients and the customers with exclusive accounts. YESSS joined forces with us on an ongoing, integrated paid advertising and SEO strategy to grow visibility, traffic and revenue.
YESSS was already running Google Ads, but much of the budget went on customers already committed to buy through exclusive contracts. On the site, many paths to product ran four or five category pages deep, with weak and duplicate string endings.
The parts of the system we used.
This project focused on one part of the system: reactive search. SEO and Google Ads ran as one strategy, both aimed at customers YESSS did not already have.
CRM & data
Reactive
SEO and Google Ads worked together. A category restructure, new content and technical fixes lifted rankings, while custom conversions and shopping-only Performance Max focused paid spend on B2C and non-exclusive sales.
Proactive
Thought leaders
Citations
Rank the right pages, *reward the right sales.*

Restructure and optimise
After extensive research, our SEO team built a detailed roadmap to put YESSS at the top of search for the keywords that matter most. Weighing monthly search volume against competition and relevance, we worked on pages in order of potential impact on sales, expanding content with FAQs and in-depth category information.
A major category restructure, prioritised by search volume hierarchy, cut long paths to product and removed duplication, cannibalisation and unnecessary indexing. Several keywords climbed straight away. Ongoing work covers site health, page speed, keyword cluster and seasonality data, URL restructuring and redirects, plus indexing fixes: a resubmitted sitemap and manual requests for priority pages.

Reward the right sales
We took control of YESSS's Google Ads account to win more sales from B2C and non-exclusive buyers, and to stop spend going on exclusive-account clicks that organic search could have won. Custom purchase conversions only trigger for certain purchase types, such as a B2C or non-exclusive sale, so Google does not reward the ads for an exclusive sale. That biases them towards new customers.
Meanwhile, the paid campaigns sent more traffic to the pages we had optimised, as well as the wider YESSS site.

Cut wasted spend
Our Performance Max analysis scripts found a large amount of wasted spend on the Display Network. Those peripheral placements were using budget without generating sales. Acting on the data, we moved to shopping-only Performance Max campaigns, removing image and text assets so they no longer serve on Display or Google search. This asset-less method focuses spend on Shopping, where profitability was greatest.
Budget is redistributed towards the campaigns that perform best for B2C and non-exclusive sales, not simply those with the most conversions.
We have had nothing less than an excellent working relationship to implement our digital strategy. Their knowledge, service and support are second to none. I would recommend their services to any type of business who are looking to grow their online presence. Once you start working with them, it’s easy to see why they are known as ‘The A-Team’. The only way is up!
Many keywords hit their highest-ever positions: YESSS now ranks first for 43, up from 19 (a 126.3% increase). Keyword visibility grew 5.9%, and monthly ad spend fell by 33%. CRO tests run alongside all SEO and PPC work, and the partnership is expanding to an ecommerce app with B2B functionality.
Monthly ad spend fell by 33% as wasted spend was removed, while traffic to the site from paid ads still rose 10%.
Year on year, B2C and non-exclusive organic search revenue rose 34%, with clicks up 20% and click-through rate up 27.3%.
Organic traffic rose 31.6%, and the site now ranks first for 43 keywords, up from 19 last year, with 5.9% growth in keyword visibility.
Stop paying for the sales you already have. *Spend it on the ones you don't.*


