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Just 1 month after implementing Single Grain\u2019s strategic priority framework, Smart Rent saw a significant increase in AI search visibility, with 100+ new citations across all major AI platforms.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","problem_text":"

Smart Rent was struggling with a number of critical technical SEO issues that were negatively impacting their ability to rank in search, engage users, and generate leads. Missing title tags, broken internal links, and poor mobile performance were just a few of the problems holding them back.<\/p>\n","our_goal":{"title":"Technical SEO Optimization & AI Search Dominance","category":"SEO, SEvO, AIO, LLM","description":"

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  2. Indexation and Redirect Strategy:<\/b> Development and implementation of a structured approach to fix indexation problems and optimize redirects to improve site speed and user experience.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Core Web Vitals Optimization:<\/b> A focused effort to improve the website\u2019s performance to meet Google\u2019s Core Web Vitals standards, enhancing user engagement and search rankings.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Content Strategy and Optimization<\/b>: The AEO team at SingleGrain created and published content briefs in June and July for content intended to rank on organic and AI keywords.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Content Structure Enhancement:<\/b> A thorough review and restructuring of the website\u2019s content to incorporate FAQ\u2019s to improve its visibility and authority in search engine results.<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Keyword Mapping and On-Page AEO<\/b>: Provided a new keyword mapping document, including rewritten page titles and meta descriptions, as well as strategic content insertions that use natural language processing to help them show up in LLMs.<\/span><\/li>\n
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    Smart Rent\u2019s primary challenge was to overcome the technical SEO deficiencies that were suppressing their online visibility and lead generation. The core issues that needed to be addressed were:<\/p>\n

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    • Systematic Indexation Issues:<\/strong> A significant portion of Smart Rent\u2019s valuable content was not being properly crawled and indexed by search engines, making it invisible to their target audience.<\/li>\n
    • Redirect Optimization:<\/strong> A large number of unnecessary redirects were slowing down the website and creating a poor user experience, which in turn was hurting their search rankings.<\/li>\n
    • Core Web Vitals Compliance:<\/strong> The website was failing Google\u2019s Core Web Vitals tests, indicating a subpar user experience and negatively impacting their search performance.<\/li>\n
    • Content Structure Enhancement:<\/strong> The website\u2019s content was not well-structured, making it difficult for search engines to understand and rank their pages for relevant keywords.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"casestudy_numbers","figures":[{"caption":"Google AIO","value":"+50%","result":"Google AIO: 50% increase in total citations"},{"caption":"Key Events","value":"+21.9%","result":"Increase in key events"},{"caption":"Gemini, ChatGPT, Perplexity","value":"+100%","result":"new visibility (from zero to ~30 in total citations)"}]}]},"yoast_head":"\nSmart Rent Case Study: 32% Lead Gen Increase & 200 AI Citations - Single Grain<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"See how Single Grain's 5-tier priority framework boosted Smart Rent's lead generation by 32% and generated 200 AI citations in just 30 days.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.singlegrain.com\/case-studies\/smart-rent-technical-seo-ai-powered-growth\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Smart Rent - 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