QANTAS.com.auSEO & Content Strategy
Caveat• Lack of full version tools and information from key tools: Google
Analytics and Google Search Console• Lack of knowledge of exact goals and revenue structure of the
subsidiary businesses• Only considered the airlines aspect of their business for the analysis• Target pages of the website and external links to competitors sites
were out of scope• Sampled data used where detailed information not available• Analysis by no means completely accurate because of lack of native
data• Jetstar not considered as a competitor to avoid cannibalisation
Landscape Analysis• Qantas Group (includes Jetstar) - 62% market share in
Australia & 14.9% internationally in the airline industry
• International competition primarily from Singapore Airlines, Virgin Australia and Air New Zealand
• Domestic competition from low-cost carriers like Tiger Airways and Virgin Airlines
• Qantas dominant in the premium airline segment
• Serves low-cost airline segment via its subsidiary Jetstar Airways
• Strong tie-ups with Emirates Airlines and American Airlines allowing it to better serve the Middle East and North America
Continued…
• Domestic search market brimming with comparison sites (e.g. Webjet) and travel companies (e.g. Last Minute, STA Travel)
• Strong demand for comparison sites and travel agents/companies
Keyword research
• Conducted using Google Keyword Planner • Found terms related to Qantas• Selected commercial keywords with high
search volume to leverage the brand authority• Excluded informational keywords and
keywords with brand name• Conducted analysis for select few with high
potential and belonging to different categories
Selected keywords
Keyword: “business class flights”
Trend in Australia
Target page
Keyword: “cheap flights”
Keyword: “domestic flights australia”
Keyword: “flight ticket”
Keyword: “sydney to singapore”
Trend in Australia
Keyword: “flight deals”
Trend in Australia
Target page
Big gap
Issues
• Inconsistency across keywords usage on target pages – URL, title and H1
• Use of informational keywords or low search volume keywords
• URLs not optimised to include keywords or remove redundant keywords
• Lack of target pages – homepage ranks for most keywords
Recommendations• Create separate pages to target a new keyword
category. E.g. a page for ‘flight deals’ in Australia• Optimise the target page URL by including
keywords and getting the pagename as close to the root as possible
• Use same keywords in URL, title and headings• Follow the keywords with the brand name in title
e.g ‘Business flights | Business class tickets | Qantas’ over ‘Qantas business class tickets | Qantas’
Competitor Analysis
Metrics
Main competitors (organic search)
• Flight comparison site: Webjet http://www.webjet.com.au/
• Airline carrier: Virgin Australia http://www.virginaustralia.com/au/en/
Content comparison
Webjet Content – Diversity and Topics
Virgin Australia Content - Diversity and Topics
Temporary redirect (302)
Site Audit
Permanent redirect (301)
Not responsive
Menu bar and text cuts off
Looks alright on all tablets..
Mobile Site (in sub-directory)
Recommendations
• Make the website responsive • Add content to the mobile site (implement
hide/show)
Indexing issues – Case-sensitive URLs
Recommendation
• Permanent redirect all case-sensitive URLs to their respective URL with all characters in lower-case
Desktop site speed
.com.au and .com URLs indexed
SSL set up
http & https URLs indexed
2 versions of homepage
https://qantas.com does not resolve
Expired contest pages indexed
Other issues• Alt tags missing• Page errors• Common content duplication• Irrelevant meta descriptions for pages e.g.
“##LOC[OK]##. {1}. ##LOC[OK]## ##LOC[Cancel]##. {1}. ##LOC[OK]## ##LOC[Cancel]##. Skip Navigation Links. qantas.com. |. Skip Navigation Links. Home ...”
• Poor URL optimisation e.g https://www.qantas.com/fflyer/dyn/program/welcome should be changed to https://www.qantas.com/frequentflyer/program
Recommendations• All versions of a URL, be it - http, https, www, or non-www
- should resolve to a single URL. Enable permanent redirects for this.
• Implement only permanent redirect on all pages• Consistency in the usage of www or non-www across all
URLs on the site• Permanent redirect expired content pages and Not Found
(404) pages to the most relevant pages• Move in-line Javascript and CSS to external files• Improve site speed by using browser caching
Link Audit
Anchor-text distribution
Backlinks relevancy & diversity
Backlinks sorted by Trust Flow
Link auditing process• Profile backlinks from low trust flow and domain
authority sites first• Disavow links from not-resolving, deindexed and poor
directory sites• Disavow keyword-rich anchor-text links from low
authority sites • Use URL Profiler to profile the other sites on metrics
such as text-to-HTML ratio, titles, keywords etc.• Manually check all suspicious websites and disavow as
required
Findings
• Hundreds of links from websites with low-authority (e.g. domain authority [DA] <20)
• Websites with high authority (e.g DA>40) not passing enough trust due to industry irrelevance
• Websites belonging to aviation industry but only containing links and no content e.g. http://www.italy-ex.com/info/link
• Most backlinks have brand related anchor-text
Recommendations• Ensure linkage to the correct version of a page e.g. http,
https, www or non-www• Update anchor text from “quantas” to ‘Qantas’ or any brand
related term like ‘qantas airline’ that fits in with the context• Preference for backlinks from text over images in the future• Update image backlinks to text backlinks where possible • Update the backlinks to destination URLs for redirected pages• Update the backlinks to 404 pages • Use keywords in anchor-text only when using brand name
e.g. flight tickets from Qantas airlines• Leverage brand to get more links from brand related anchor
texts viz. Qantas, Qantas Australia etc.
Most shared articles with backlinks
Content Strategy
Article on AWOL
Article on Business Insider
Article on Architecture & Design
Majority of fresh content…posted on another domain
No engaging content on the site…for e.g.
and…
Formula for content success
When and where to share
Recommendations • Continue with current PR and outreach strategies• Get editorial backlinks through brand mentions and
long phrases with keywords like “Book your air tickets with Qantas” today
• Focus on news sites with large circulation, popular travel forums and social sites; shares from influencers in the travel and aviation industry
• Create engaging articles in-line with the brand identity with viral-potential
• Add/update content on high authority/ranking pages
Other suggestions
• Remarketing through Facebook and Google Display Network to website visitors
• Instagram Ads promoting
Thank you
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