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Topic clusters
Four clusters (kurung, jubah, tudung and family sets), each with an evergreen hub and 6–10 spokes. Every spoke links up to its hub and across to the collection it describes.
Phase 1 of 12New crescent
Tessellate Modest WearModest fashion label · Kuala Lumpur
Owning Raya season search with a content calendar built around the moon
+239%
organic revenue in Raya season
One lunar year, 12 months, 38 guides, all published on a calendar that counts back from the moon rather than forward from the launch.
Phase 3 · The challenge
Demand rose with the moon. The content arrived after it had peaked.
Most annual revenue landed in the weeks before Hari Raya, but content was published too late to rank in time.
Raya moves about eleven days earlier every year, because it follows the Hijri calendar. Tessellate planned on Gregorian dates, so each season’s guides were briefed in the spring and published in the final fortnight, while the brand was busy shipping orders.
Search demand for Raya outfits starts building about 14 weeks out. Pages need about ten of those weeks to rank. Under the old calendar, a guide went live two weeks before Raya, in the busiest week of the year, and never reached the top ten in time.
Phase 5 · Audit
Six findings, laid out like tiles: each one fits against the next.
- Calendar01
Published 9 days before Raya
Last year's lookbook and 11 of 15 guides went live inside the final fortnight. Seasonal pages take 8–12 weeks to settle into the top ten, so they ranked after the peak, in time for nobody.
- Technical02
Malay pages canonicalised to English
Malay versions sat at ?lang=ms with a canonical pointing to the English URL and no hreflang. Google treated 212 Malay pages as duplicates and indexed only 31 of them.
- Architecture03
A new Raya URL every year
/raya-2023, /raya-2024 and /raya-2025 each started from zero. Backlinks from three seasons of press were split across dead campaign pages.
- Content04
Translated, not written, in Malay
Malay copy was machine-translated from English, so it missed how people actually search: "baju kurung moden" and "tudung bawal", not "modern kurung dress".
- AI Overviews05
Nothing quotable
Answers to questions like what to wear to an open house were buried in long lookbook captions. With no concise answer blocks or FAQ markup, there was nothing to cite.
- Internal links06
Guides were dead ends
Guides were linked only from the blog index, with an average of 0.4 links each to a collection, so their authority never reached the pages that sell.
Phase 7 · Strategy
Four tactics, set like the four points of a star.
The engagement ran on our Content Engine plan, a monthly publishing cadence with research, writing and on-page work bundled together, re-sequenced here to follow the lunar calendar.
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Seasonal content
Publish dates keyed to the Hijri calendar, not the Gregorian one, counting back ten weeks from each demand spike so every guide has time to rank before it is needed.
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Malay-English hreflang
Malay pages moved to /ms/, with reciprocal ms-MY and en-MY hreflang, self-referencing canonicals and copy written natively in Malay by editors who search in it.
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AI Overviews
40–60-word answer blocks, FAQPage markup and dated, sourced fabric and care facts: content written to be quoted, not just to rank.
Phase 9 · Timeline
12 lunar months. Choose a moon to open its chapter.
Use the arrow keys to move between moons. Each month adds new guides, and each guide gets the weeks it needs to rank before Raya.
Month 1 · Syawal
Post-mortem
Read last Raya's data while it was fresh: 71% of guides went live inside the final 14 days, after demand had already peaked.
- Guides this month
- 0
- Guides to date
- 0 / 38
- Sessions index
- 100
- Malay top 10
- 14
Phase 11 · Results
By the eve of Raya, the moon was full, and so was the top ten.
Modelled scenario for a fictional business — not a client result. Rankings and traffic are never guaranteed; see our Terms.
38
Seasonal guides published
+204%
Organic sessions
14 → 182
Malay keywords top 10
19
AI-overview citations
Organic sessions, indexed to month 1
Malay keywords in the top 10
| Query | Lang | Volume / mo | Before | After | AI Overview |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| baju raya 2026 | ms | 40.5k | 38 | #3 | — |
| baju kurung moden | ms | 27.1k | 27 | #4 | — |
| warna baju raya 2026 | ms | 14.8k | not ranking | #2 | Cited |
| jubah muslimah | ms | 12.1k | 44 | #6 | — |
| tudung bawal premium | ms | 6.6k | not ranking | #5 | — |
| what to wear to raya open house | en | 5.4k | not ranking | #1 | Cited |
| family matching raya set | en | 4.4k | 33 | #4 | Cited |
| kain sulam kurung care | ms | 1.9k | 61 | #2 | Cited |
Before · Syaaban last year
what to wear to raya open house
No Tessellate result on page one. Lookbook indexed 3 days before Raya.
- 1.marketplace listing
- 2.fashion magazine roundup
- 3.competitor lookbook
After · Syaaban this year
what to wear to raya open house
AI Overview
Choose baju kurung in soft jewel tones such as emerald or champagne, in breathable fabrics like cotton silk for daytime open houses…
Source: Tessellate Modest Wear
- 1.tessellate.my › ms › baju-raya
- 2.marketplace listing
- 3.fashion magazine roundup
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