How Strategic Content Turned a Jewelry Brands Dormant Blog Into a 12K+ Monthly Visitor Channel

What started as a dormant blog evolved into a high-performing content engine growing to over 12,000 monthly organic visits and ranking for 150+ non-branded keywords in top positions, becoming a key entry point to Zlatarna Dodić’s catalogue. Powered by a scalable content strategy, consistent production, and ongoing optimization, the blog section now plays a vital role in long-term organic growth and brand visibility in Croatia’s competitive jewelry market.

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Client

Zlatarna Dodić

Expertise

Research
Strategy
Implementation
Operations

Year

2022 - Present

Zlatarna Dodić is one of Croatia’s leading jewelry brands, known for exquisite gold, platinum, and diamond pieces. With over 50 years of tradition, it blends craftsmanship and modern design across stores in Zagreb, Split, and Plitvice Lakes, and a fast-growing webshop. We’ve supported their digital growth across SEO, content, digital advertising, analytics, and martech solutions.

Client words

Granular Group is currently our key partner in enhancing our digital activities, online presence, and all our digital channels. Their expertise and support are invaluable in the process of developing and optimizing our website. We rely on their knowledge in areas where we lack specialized internal resources, and their advice and recommendations are always aimed at achieving concrete and measurable results.

Granular is the perfect complement to our marketing team, covering a wide range of services related to online activities. They enable us to effectively plan and achieve our annual KPIs, proactively identify underperforming segments, and propose specific solutions for improvement. Their work on long-term strategies and short-term opportunities helps us increase Zlatarna Dodić’s market share in the industry.

Their focus on email marketing and its automation, CRM solution implementation, and digital advertising ensures that we have a clear and coordinated strategy for all our digital activities. Granular has a comprehensive understanding of our online business, recognizes the challenges we face, and provides practical solutions that help us grow further.

The collaboration with Granular is characterized by professionalism, efficiency, and transparent communication. Their approach is results-oriented, without unnecessary meetings and administrative burdens. Zlatarna Dodić sought an agency that offers expertise, a pragmatic approach, and a clear focus on achieving goals, and we found exactly that with Granular.

Franjo Dodić, CEO

Challenges

  • Lack of Non-Branded Organic Visibility

    While Zlatarna Dodić already had strong brand recognition on the Croatian market, their website’s organic visibility was limited almost exclusively to branded search terms. This meant they were missing out on a large share of potential customers searching for information related to engagement rings and jewelry in general, but were still deciding upon the best jewelry store for their needs.

  • Sustainable Content Production

    At the start of our partnership, Zlatarna Dodić didn’t have a clear content strategy and production process in place. While they did have a blog section, the content wasn’t posted regularly, making the main challenge creating a content calendar and creating a process for posting weekly content, which would result in growth in organic traffic.

  • Balancing Branded and Non-Branded Traffic

    While expanding non-branded organic reach was a key objective, it was equally important to preserve the integrity of Zlatarna Dodić’s established brand. The content strategy had to walk a fine line between attracting new audiences through educational and search-driven content while still reinforcing brand values and driving product interest.

  • Lack of Internal Content Architecture

    The site lacked a clear content structure to support SEO best practices such as topic clustering and internal linking. Without this foundational framework, blog content existed in isolation, making it harder for search engines to interpret topical relevance and for potential customers to move to converting pages. This limited the ability to build authority around key themes and scale organic growth.

  • Highly Competitive Market

    The jewelry industry is a highly competitive vertical in organic search, dominated by well-established brands with significant investments in content marketing. Competing for high-value keywords, especially those tied to engagement rings, required meticulous research and focus on long-term relevance and topical authority.

Solution

  • Comprehensive Content Strategy

    A full content strategy was designed to attract new readers through search engines and engage them through well-written articles while guiding them to explore Zlatarna Dodić’s products. Topics were carefully selected through thorough competitive research and search intent to cover a wide spectrum of topics aimed at the target customer. This structure not only supported SEO growth through topical relevance and internal linking but also ensured that each piece of content had a clear purpose within the customer journey, whether to inform, inspire, or drive action.

  • Consistent Production and Iteration

    We implemented a structured content production process anchored by a strategic content calendar aligned with seasonal trends, product priorities, and organic search demand. Each article was written using a standardized content structure brief to ensure consistency in quality, tone, and optimization. By working with our writers and Zlatarna Dodić’s marketing team, we introduced a systematic content review cycle, regularly publishing and updating existing posts to maintain or improve rankings.

  • Proactive Result Monitoring

    Each piece of content was monitored after publication to assess search visibility, engagement, and ranking trends. By tracking keyword movement and user behavior regularly, we could spot the content that showed early traction and prioritize it for further optimization. Underperforming posts were flagged for review, allowing for quick adjustments to keep momentum strong across the blog.

  • Consistent Content Optimization

    Published content was regularly revisited and refined based on real-time performance data and evolving search intent. Rather than relying on a one-and-done approach, each article was optimized over time to maintain relevance, improve visibility, and strengthen its role within the broader content ecosystem.

Results

  • 12,000+ Monthly blog visitors
  • 150 Non-branded keywords in 1-3 positions
Setting Clear Objectives

Our collaboration with Zlatarna Dodić began with a clear objective: to transform their blog from a dormant page into a scalable asset that attracts and converts visitors into customers. By defining the KPIs we wanted to achieve and working together with their team on establishing a sustainable process, the client achieved huge growth in the organic channel.

Competitor and Market Analysis

Before even talking about what the blog was going to be about, we conducted a thorough competitor analysis to see how our competitors are using their blogs, what topics they are talking about, and where the clear gaps in their content are that we could capitalize on to get the initial results fast. Besides our competitors, we ran an in-depth analysis of potential keywords that would aid us in creating content for various stages of the customer journey and allow us to create a content strategy that would last and bring results for years to come.

Content Calendar Creation

With market insights and a broad list of keywords and topic clusters in place, we structured an initial content calendar that focused on the most important topics like “Engagement Ring Guides”, “Best Jewelry Materials”, “Jewelry Gifting Guides”, and similar topics. The calendar was structured to deliver a steady flow, balancing evergreen informational pieces with seasonal content tied to key holidays and periods like Valentine’s Day, Christmas, and the wedding season. By using our content calendar master sheet, we ensured that both we and the client were able to easily track topics and that all the right information regarding the blog was available in one place.

Content Production and Implementation

Once the calendar was ready, we established a continual production process with the client and our long-term content writer. The process included our team writing topic and article structure suggestions, which, when approved, would be written by our writer and go to a final check with the client once written. After publishing the article, our team would help with additional SEO support in terms of internal links, improvements to the metadata, and subtle content changes that would ensure articles were pleasing to the reader and followed SEO best practices.

Custom Result Monitoring

To maintain and improve performance across all the content on the client’s website, we set up a custom SEO monitoring system that allowed both us and the client to track changes in keyword rankings, organic traffic, and conversion rates that could be filtered to specific groups of pages, for instance, only for the blog section. This easy-to-use tracker allowed us to identify issues early on and swiftly implement improvements that would ensure consistent growth in visibility and engagement.

Ongoing Content Improvement

Once new content started to rank, the focus shifted to continuous improvement as the goal was keeping the whole blog section alive and evolving with both new SEO best practices and the growth of the Dodić brand. Through organic traffic monitoring, we gradually updated older articles with new content, keywords, and internal links, and worked on keeping the blog section tidy through merging similar topics. The biggest focus was put on seasonal articles that were updated on a yearly basis to accommodate new jewelry in Zlatarna Dodić’s inventory that we wanted to promote. This proactive approach kept even articles that were written two years ago competitive in the search landscape.