Illustrative case study

A fictional business. The figures are a modelled scenario, not a client result.

BELOMORIE FILMSWedding videography studio · Burgas8 months · Local SEO

How a Black Sea wedding-film duo booked a full summer from Google alone

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FRAME 20 · THE KEEPER

Booked out 5 months ahead

← a full summer of weddings booked from Google search alone. Nothing from paid ads or marketplaces.

ROLL 01 · 01

what we were handed

Beautiful footage, invisible on the map

Couples found Belomorie only by referral; marketplaces and Sofia studios ranked for 'сватбено видео Бургас' and seaside venue searches.

Belomorie is a two-person studio that films weddings along the southern Black Sea coast, from the salt flats at Pomorie to the old towns of Nessebar and Sozopol. Their films were the best advertising they had, but search engines couldn't find them: every one was embedded in an iframe on a single portfolio page.

Couples planning a seaside wedding search by venue first and by supplier second. Wedding marketplaces and Sofia studios that travel to the coast had a page for every venue. Belomorie had none.

TAKE 1 · MONTH 0

сватбено видео Бургас

  1. AWedding marketplace listing
  2. BSofia studio — 'we travel to the coast'
  3. CDirectory: top 10 videographers

not in the pack ✗

TAKE 2 · MONTH 8

сватбено видео Бургас

  1. ABelomorie Films ★ 4.9 · 58 reviews
  2. BSofia studio — 'we travel to the coast'
  3. CWedding marketplace listing

position A ✓

ROLL 01 · 02

frames marked NG

The audit: six reasons couples never found the films

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FRAME 03LOCAL

Wrong primary category

The profile was listed as 'Photographer', so it was left out of 'videographer' map searches altogether.

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FRAME 07TECHNICAL

Films hidden in iframes

Embedded players with no VideoObject markup and no thumbnails: Google could not see any of the 40+ films.

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FRAME 11CONTENT

One page for every venue

'Portfolio' put all venues on one page. Venue searches went to marketplaces and Sofia studios.

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FRAME 15REVIEWS

Nine reviews in four years

Every couple came by referral, and nobody had asked them to leave a review, so the profile had almost none.

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FRAME 19TECHNICAL

Cyrillic slugs, no hreflang

Mixed BG/EN pages competed with each other; English searches for 'Burgas wedding videographer' found nothing.

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FRAME 23TECHNICAL

4.8 MB hero reel

An autoplay reel pushed mobile LCP to 6.1s on a 4G connection. Replaced with a poster image that loads the video on tap.

ROLL 01 · 03

the keepers

Four tactics, each circled for a reason

Built on our Local plan: the map pack first, then a page for every venue couples search for, with each film marked up so Google can show it in results.

  1. KEEPER 01

    Google Business Profile

    Category, service areas from Pomorie to Tsarevo, products for each film package and weekly posts tying a new film to its venue.

    → Map pack top-3 on 31 terms

  2. KEEPER 02

    Video schema

    VideoObject with thumbnailUrl, duration, uploadDate and Clip key moments (first dance, vows) on every film page, plus a video sitemap.

    → 42 video rich results

  3. KEEPER 03

    Venue pages

    One page per venue: sample footage, golden-hour times by month, permits, drive time from Burgas and a short shot list.

    → 18 venue pages in the top 5

  4. KEEPER 04

    Review strategy

    A review link sent with the finished film, plus a prompt to name the venue and month: the words the next couple searches for.

    → 9 → 58 reviews, 4.9★

ROLL 01 · 04

the roll, frame by frame

8 months, one frame each

  1. M1

    Audit & profile rebuild

    Primary category changed to 'Videographer'; services, areas and 40 tagged stills added.

    MAP 2 · VENUE 0 · VIDEO 0

  2. M2

    VideoObject markup

    Schema on 14 film pages with thumbnails, durations and key-moment clips. Video sitemap submitted.

    MAP 4 · VENUE 1 · VIDEO 0

  3. M3

    First venue pages

    Sozopol old town, Pomorie salt flats and Nessebar: footage, light timings, drive times.

    MAP 7 · VENUE 3 · VIDEO 6

  4. M4

    Review requests

    A message sent with the finished film, asking couples to name the venue. 23 new reviews.

    MAP 11 · VENUE 6 · VIDEO 13

  5. M5

    Bulgarian & English split

    hreflang pairs for the couples flying in from abroad; English venue pages indexed.

    MAP 16 · VENUE 9 · VIDEO 21

  6. M6

    Venue pages at scale

    22 venue pages live; links from venue coordinators who received free highlight cuts.

    MAP 21 · VENUE 12 · VIDEO 28

  7. M7

    Map pack holds

    31 terms in the top 3 on the grid; GBP posts tie each new film to its venue.

    MAP 26 · VENUE 15 · VIDEO 36

  8. M8

    Summer booked out

    Calendar full five months ahead; enquiries now go to a waiting list and autumn dates.

    MAP 31 · VENUE 18 · VIDEO 42

ROLL 01 · 05

under the loupe

The results, frame by frame

Move the loupe across the sheet, or tab through the frames, to read each one up close.

Selected: Enquiries from organic. Organic enquiries per month, 7 → 22. Tagged by the contact form's source field.

Modelled scenario for a fictional business — not a client result. Rankings and traffic are never guaranteed; see our Terms.

0510152025M1M2M3M4M5M6M7M8+214% — keeper
Organic enquiries per month · modelled

Map-pack top-3 terms

2 → 31

Venue pages ranking top 5

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Video rich results

0 → 42

Months booked ahead

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EDIT DECISION LIST · TRACKED KEYWORDS

Tracked keywords, Burgas grid position at month 0 and month 8, with monthly search volume (modelled)
#TERMVOL/MOM0M8
001сватбено видео Бургас590not top 501
002сватбен видеограф Бургас320241
003Burgas wedding videographer210not top 502
004сватба Созопол видео170not top 502
005wedding video Nessebar old town140not top 503
006сватбен клип Поморие110411
007beach wedding film Bulgaria260not top 504
008видеограф за сватба Черноморец70332

Modelled scenario for a fictional business — not a client result. Rankings and traffic are never guaranteed; see our Terms.

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