Garden Solution Landscapes
A great reputation and an active Google Business Profile, but almost no organic traffic. Now growing 800% in organic traffic with a top map pack position and live AI Overview citations.
Garden Solution Landscapes is an Auckland-based gardening and landscaping business offering garden maintenance, residential landscaping, stump grinding, and artificial lawn installation. The business came to Isuremedia to turn its website into a consistent source of new organic leads.
A local landscaping business grew organic traffic 800% in four months, while landing a map pack top position and its first Google AI Overview citations.
A strong local reputation the website was not converting into organic traffic.
The Google Business Profile was active and well-rated, but organic website traffic was minimal, and a mid-campaign hosting migration nearly derailed the technical foundation entirely.
A thin organic keyword footprint
Most core service keywords sat on page two or lower. Service pages were thin, with minimal internal linking and weak on-page signals.
A competitive Auckland map pack
Established operators with 150+ reviews and years of citation history held the top map pack positions.
An undisclosed hosting migration mid-campaign
A DNS and IP change made without notice, landing during a Google algorithm update, temporarily disrupted the site’s technical footing.
Zero AI search visibility
Google AI Overviews were answering Auckland landscaping queries without mentioning the business, no FAQ schema, no structured answers to cite.
Recovered the technical foundation, then built organic, local, and AI visibility on top of it.
Three phases run back-to-back, stabilise the site, build out on-page and local, then push authority and AI visibility.
Technical audit and DNS recovery
A full technical audit, a fast recovery from an undisclosed hosting migration, and schema markup across the site.
Keyword, content and GBP optimisation
24 keywords mapped across organic and GBP, service pages rebuilt, and the Google Business Profile fully optimised.
Link building and AI visibility
Backlinks grew from 54 to 348 with zero penalties, alongside an AEO content strategy targeting AI Overview trigger queries.
What is now possible that was not before.
Four months turned a minimal-traffic website into an 800% growth story, with the map pack and AI search now reinforcing the same local authority.
800% growth in four months
Sessions per day grew from roughly 50 to 450+, with click-through rate nearly tripling from 0.7% to 2%.
Top position for a core local search
"Garden maintenance Auckland" now ranks position 2 in the local map pack, with several other queries at #1.
Two live Google AI Overview citations
Garden Solution Landscapes is now cited by name for Auckland garden maintenance queries, including one with a website image panel.
DA 15 to DA 24 with zero penalties
Backlinks grew from 54 to 348 with 100% retention, building sustainable authority rather than a short-term spike.
Keyword movement over the first four months.
The table below shows keywords that already had a ranking position at the start of the engagement.
New keywords including "landscaping companies auckland", "Artificial Lawn Installation", and several near-me variants that were not ranking at the start are now live on page one.
Now cited in Google AI Overview for high-intent local queries.
Google AI Overviews are citing Garden Solution Landscapes in answers to Auckland garden and landscaping queries.
The placement for "garden maintenance services" is especially significant, it includes a website panel image alongside the AI answer, giving the brand visual prominence at the point of highest user intent.
Already planned. Already architected.
Several keywords sit on page two with a clear path to page one as domain authority keeps growing.
