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SEO Case Study: Island Salt & Spa — Design ME Marketing
SEO Case Study • Local Business

87 First-Place Rankings and 578 Calls in 30 Days

How we turned a single-location day spa in Sayville, NY into a traffic machine pulling 4,300 monthly users, dominating salt therapy search, and generating so many leads the owner sold the business.

87
#1 Rankings
578
Calls / 30 Days
4,300
Monthly Users
SOLD
Business Acquired
The Client

Island Salt & Spa

A full-service day spa in Sayville, New York offering massage therapy, salt room halotherapy, facials, lymphatic drainage, microcurrent treatments, acupuncture, body treatments, Reiki, and couples experiences. One location, one small team, competing against every spa on Long Island.

John, Jason, Chris, Nancy and the entire team are incredibly helpful and amazing. I have seen my page ranking, site traffic and conversions from my site drastically increase. It is a pleasure working with the Design ME Team.
Hunter Leifer
Owner, Island Salt & Spa
★★★★★
The Results

87 keywords at #1. 578 calls in a month.

Not page one. Position one. Eighty-seven first-place rankings for a single-location day spa. And the phone backed it up with nearly 20 calls per day.

87
Keywords at #1
Position one, not page one
578
Calls in 30 Days
↑ 100% vs prior period
4,300
Active Users / 28 Days
4,000 new users
352
Total Ranking Keywords
262 on page one
93.5%
Call Answer Rate
519 answered, 36 missed
158+
Referring Domains
All earned from content
Ranking Depth

262 keywords on page one. 75% of everything.

#1
87
keywords
Top 3
124
keywords
Top 10
262
keywords
Total
352
keywords
#1 Rankings

The keywords this spa owns

Not local-only terms. National, high-volume keywords where a day spa in Sayville is outranking major publications, national brands, and medical sites.

Keyword Volume Position Monthly Visits
#1 "salt cave benefits"
1,300 #1 High
#1 "what is a salt room"
600 #1 High
#1 "does insurance cover massage therapy"
600 #1 High
#1 "deep tissue massage vs swedish massage"
600 #1 High
#1 "benefits of salt cave"
500 #1 High
#1 "himalayan salt therapy"
450 #1 High
#1 "spa gift"
450 #1 High
#1 "are massages covered by insurance"
400 #1 High
#1 "dry salt therapy"
350 #1 15
#1 "relaxing gifts for women"
300 #1 High
#1 "NYSHIP massage"
30 #1 9
Local Money Keywords
"couples spa near me"
151 visits/mo
#7 • 1,800 vol
"lymphatic drainage
massage Long Island"
33 visits/mo
#2 • 90 vol
"day spa package"
27 visits/mo
#2 • 70 vol
"best massage
Long Island"
22 visits/mo
#2 • 60 vol
"salt cave Sayville"
21 visits/mo
#1 • 30 vol
"couples massage
Long Island"
14 visits/mo
#2 • 40 vol
"salt cave Long Island"
12 visits/mo
#3 • 80 vol
Top Pages

The pages doing the heavy lifting

Monthly Organic Visitors by Page
Homepage
420 visits • 109 keywords
$229 value
Day Spa vs Spa
73 visits • 25 KWs
Blog
Salt Room Benefits
62 visits • 33 KWs
Blog
BCBS Massage
Coverage
58 visits • 16 KWs
$52 value
Salt Cave Side
Effects
48 visits • 11 KWs
Blog
Swedish vs Deep
Tissue
41 visits • 33 KWs
Blog
Lymphatic Drainage
Service
34 visits
$39 value
What Made It Work

Five strategic wins that built the machine

Strategy 01

Insurance Content as a Conversion Weapon

#1 for "does insurance cover massage therapy" (600/mo) and "are massages covered by insurance" (400/mo). This content removes the single biggest financial objection between a potential customer and booking.

Strategy 02

Salt Therapy Topical Domination

#1 for "salt cave benefits," "what is a salt room," "dry salt therapy," "himalayan salt therapy," and dozens more. Pages covering benefits, side effects, science, and local options. Google sees this site as THE authority on salt therapy.

Strategy 03

The "Couples Spa Near Me" Engine

#7 for "couples spa near me" (1,800/mo) drives 151 monthly visitors from a single keyword. Combined with "couples massage Long Island" at #2 and supporting blog content, the couples silo is a massive traffic driver.

Strategy 04

Blog-to-Service Pipeline

Every blog post links to a service page. Swedish vs Deep Tissue funnels to deep tissue. Insurance content drives to NYSHIP massage. Salt therapy education sends to the salt room page. Educational readers become callers.

Strategy 05

Volume at Quality Scale

277,485 total words across 139 pages. Nearly 2,000 words per page average. No thin content, no filler. Every page answers a real question real customers actually ask, targeting every stage of the buying journey.

Content Scale

277,485 words. 139 pages. All substance.

139
Indexable Pages
~2,000
Avg Words Per Page
12
Service Pages
10
Location / Local Pages
The Ultimate Proof

The metric that isn't in any dashboard

Exit Event
The owner sold the business.
The SEO campaign didn't just increase website traffic or phone calls. It increased the actual enterprise value of the business enough that someone wanted to buy it. A day spa in Sayville, New York generating 19+ calls per day, 4,300 monthly active users, and 262 page-one rankings isn't just marketing. That's a business asset.
Call Volume

19 calls a day. Every single day. For a month.

578
Total Calls / 30 Days
↑ 100% vs prior period
519
Calls Answered
93.5% answer rate
~19
Calls Per Day Average
Every day for 30 days
36
Missed Calls
Only 6.5% missed

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All metrics sourced from Ahrefs, Google Analytics (GA4), and Go High Level call tracking. Managed by Design ME Marketing.