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Визит Дагестан: SEO website promotion for a tour operator

A North Caucasus tour operator organizing individual and group tours, excursions, and corporate trips across the region with a focus on comfort, safety, and well-planned routes

vizit-dagestan.ru
+ 1 200%SQI growthSite Quality Index grew from 10 to 130 points
+ 27%Traffic growthTraffic increased by more than a quarter
ClientPromo Visit Dagestan
Industry
Tourism, travel
Engagement
From January 2025 to present
Type of work
SEO promotion
CMS
Самописная

The task

What the client came with

The client approached us with the task of strengthening the project's presence in search engines and increasing a steady flow of targeted traffic from Yandex and Google. At the start, the website already existed and contained useful information about tours, attractions, and recreation in Dagestan, however, its SEO potential was not fully realized.

The website structure required expansion for additional search queries, some pages needed content and metadata improvements, and the technical component — deep optimization. There was also no systematic promotion strategy: there was a lack of planned work with semantics, internal linking, new landing pages, and regular content enhancement.

It was important for the client to receive comprehensive SEO support that would not only improve website rankings but also turn organic search into one of the key channels for attracting tourists and interested users.

The approach

Comprehensive SEO promotion work

We carried out systematic work across all key areas of search engine optimization

01

SEO audit and strategy

  • Conducted a detailed analysis of the current website state
  • Identified growth areas and technical limitations
  • Determined priority areas for promotion
  • Created a step-by-step project development plan

02

Keyword research and structure expansion

  • Collected search queries
  • Clustered queries into groups
  • Expanded the structure for new landing pages
  • Prepared the foundation for further traffic growth

03

Technical optimization

  • Fixed indexing errors and duplicate pages
  • Optimized website loading speed
  • Configured proper operation of sitemap.xml and robots.txt
  • Improved basic technical metrics of the website

04

Content and on-page optimization

  • Prepared SEO texts for priority pages
  • Reworked headings, meta tags, and content structure
  • Enhanced page relevance for search queries
  • Improved landing page quality for users

05

Internal linking and user behavior signals

  • Built logical connections between website sections
  • Enhanced navigation between tours and informational pages
  • Increased page view depth
  • Improved the user journey within the website

06

Analytics and performance tracking

  • Tracked rankings daily in Яндекс and Google via Топвизор
  • Analyzed the growth dynamics of queries and traffic
  • Adjusted the strategy based on data
  • Maintained steady growth of SEO metrics

The outcome

What changed

Below are the key changes in the site quality index, traffic, and rankings in search results after search engine optimization

Site quality index growth

Site quality index (SQI) is a Яндекс metric showing the degree of usefulness and relevance of a resource for users

+ 1 200%
SQI growth
10
SQI as of January 2025
130
SQI as of April 2026

Website appearance in the top 10 of Яндекс search results

Brought the website to the top 10 of Яндекс for more than 30 client keywords

32 ключевых запроса
In the top 10 of Яндекс search results
3 ключевых запроса
In the top 3 of Яндекс search results
171 ключевой запрос
In the top 30 of Яндекс search results

Growth of traffic and user behavior signals

Both overall website traffic and SEO traffic in particular have grown

+ 27%
Website traffic growth (December 2024 - December 2025)
+ 12%
SEO traffic growth (December 2024 - December 2025)
- 2%
Decrease in bounce rate % (December 2024 - December 2025)

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