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Virgin Pure

An SEO audit focused on diagnosing channel underperformance, alongside a full pre and post domain migration audit to support the rebrand to Our Taap.

  • SEO Auditing
  • Brand vs Non-Brand Performance Analysis
  • SEO Strategy Development
  • Pre-Migration SEO Audit
  • Post-Migration SEO Audit
  • Domain Change & Rebrand SEO Support
  • SEO Consulting & Ongoing Support
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What we delivered

Key Achievements

  • Diagnosed why SEO was underperforming as a channel
  • Cleanly segmented brand vs non-brand performance and surfaced the visibility gap
  • Identified non-brand opportunities across product and informational queries
  • Delivered a full SEO strategy to grow non-brand visibility
  • Protected rankings and indexed pages through a full domain migration
  • Pre-empted and mitigated migration risks before go-live
  • Audited and stabilised SEO performance post-migration
  • Supported the wider rebrand with ongoing SEO services and guidance

About Virgin Pure

Virgin Pure (transitioning to Our Taap) is a D2C home water brand with a strong brand and loyal customer base, undergoing a full rebrand and domain migration while looking to grow organic as a meaningful non-brand acquisition channel.

  • Pre+Post

    Migration Audits

  • Brand vs

    Non-Brand Analysis

  • 1:1

    Redirect Mapping

The Challenge

Virgin Pure had a strong brand and loyal customer base, but organic was underperforming as an acquisition channel with very little non-brand visibility. A domain change and rebrand added a second layer of complexity.

The vast majority of organic traffic was branded, with little non-brand visibility across the product and informational queries that should have been driving incremental growth.

Any migration carries inherent risk of ranking loss, indexation churn and equity leakage. Virgin Pure needed to execute the rebrand to Our Taap without sacrificing branded equity.

Both diagnostic and protective SEO work was needed: understanding the non-brand gap while ensuring the rebrand did not compound the problem.

The Solution

We delivered an SEO audit focused on channel underperformance, paired with a structured pre and post migration audit framework to protect equity through the rebrand.

Our Strategy

The strategy for Virgin Pure was to run two parallel workstreams: diagnose and fix the underlying non-brand visibility problem, and protect equity through the rebrand and domain migration.

We started with a full GSC data extraction across domain and URL properties, processed through SEO Stack to enable clean brand vs non-brand segmentation across templates, queries and intents. The non-brand visibility gap was then mapped to its underlying drivers: content depth and coverage, internal linking, technical and indexation issues, and link authority on the templates that needed to compete in non-brand SERPs.

In parallel, the migration workstream followed a structured pre-launch, launch and post-launch audit framework: full URL inventory, 1:1 redirect mapping with priority page validation, internal link updates, canonical and hreflang review, sitemap refresh, robots.txt and indexation directive validation, staging environment lockdown and pre-launch crawl sign-off.

Post-launch, we monitored indexation, rankings and traffic across templates, validated the redirect map in production, surfaced any fallout and triggered the corrective work needed to stabilise and then grow performance on the new domain.

The Goals

  • Diagnose why SEO was underperforming as a channel for Virgin Pure
  • Quantify and address the non-brand visibility gap
  • Deliver a full SEO strategy to grow non-brand traffic alongside existing brand performance
  • Protect rankings and indexed pages through the rebrand and domain migration
  • Pre-empt and mitigate migration risk before go-live
  • Validate and stabilise SEO performance post-migration
  • Support the wider rebrand with ongoing SEO services and guidance
  • Position Virgin Pure to grow organic as a meaningful acquisition channel beyond brand

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