Organic, AI and Google Ads

The traffic was already there. None of it was buying.

Visard came to us after a previous agency had built its traffic on spam, and after that traffic had collapsed. We recovered it, then rebuilt the site around a semantic structure that earns topical authority and points at money pages instead of generic volume. The Google Ads account got the same treatment: it was spending real budget on searches that were never going to convert.

Markets
7
Category
Visa appointment booking
Window
6 months
Channels
Organic search, AI search, Google Ads
visard.io
Visard homepage

What changed.

  • +215% Total sales organic and Google Ads combined
  • 67% Google Ads conversion rate 15%67.01% Google Ads
  • £1.80 Cost per conversion 836.98 conversions on £1.5k spend
  • 80 Sales a week organic and Google Ads combined

Where it started

We inherited a collapse, and a Google Ads account funding the wrong searches.

The previous agency had driven generic traffic with little chance of converting, and had done it through spam. That traffic had crashed hard by the time we took over. On the paid side the account was carrying a lot of wasted spend: the negative keyword work was wrong, and campaigns had not been split by persona or by what each of those people needed, so every search was being priced as if it were the same search.

What we changed, in the order it had to happen.

  1. Recovery

    • The collapsed organic position stabilised before anything new was built on it
    • Spam-driven signals separated from what the site had earned legitimately
  2. Semantic structure

    • The site restructured semantically so the topic reads as one authority
    • Pages related to each other deliberately, instead of competing with each other
  3. Money-page targeting

    • Work pointed at money pages rather than at generic volume
    • Traffic goals set on relevance, not on the total number
  4. AI search

    • The same structure built to be readable by AI search, not bolted on afterwards
    • AI Overview citations went from none in March 2026 to close to 80 by September
  5. Google Ads rebuild

    • Wasted spend traced to the search terms triggering it
    • Negative keyword strategy rebuilt from those terms
    • Campaigns split by persona and by the need behind the search
    • The channel scaled only after it stopped paying for the wrong clicks

Proof, straight from the panel it came from.

These are the exports the numbers above are read off.

Natasha Kondratyeva
We came to them after our traffic collapsed. They rebuilt it around the pages that sell and stopped us paying for clicks that never would.
Natasha KondratyevaVisard
  • Google AdsConversions, cost per conversion and conversion rate

    Conversions, cost per conversion and conversion rate

    837 conversions at £1.80 each. Two out of three clicks converted.

  • Google Search ConsoleClicks, impressions, CTR and average position over six months

    Clicks, impressions, CTR and average position over six months

    Position 5.4 across 1.3 million impressions. The traffic is close to the top and it is the right traffic.

  • Semrush Organic RankingsOrganic keywords sitting on page one, the top three and positions four to ten, across two years

    Organic keywords sitting on page one, the top three and positions four to ten, across two years

    Visard had almost nothing on page one when we took over. We put more than 150 keywords into the top ten, most of that climb since April 2026, and it had not levelled off when this was taken.

  • Semrush Organic RankingsKeywords where the site is cited inside a Google AI Overview

    Keywords where the site is cited inside a Google AI Overview

    In March 2026 Visard was cited in no AI Overviews at all. It is now inside close to 80 of them. That is being named in the answer itself, not ranked underneath it.

  • Google AnalyticsTotal sales against the previous six months

    Total sales against the previous six months

    Sales more than tripled across both channels, from traffic pointed at money pages instead of volume.

The part that mattered

Traffic is not the metric. Relevance is.

The account we inherited proves the point better than we could argue it. It had volume, built cheaply and dishonestly, and none of that volume survived or sold. The rebuild sends fewer sessions toward pages that answer a real intent, and those are the sessions that behave like customers. The same logic fixed the paid side: the win was not a bigger budget, it was refusing to pay for searches that were never going to end in a booking.

Two ways to start.

Pick the one that sounds like you.

Option one

I need help with one channel.

Pick it below. You will see exactly what that work covers before anyone talks about price.

Rank where buying happens, and get named by AI

  • Searches that end in a sale
  • One job per page
  • Prompts that decide the purchase

Option two

I need support across the whole search journey.

Several channels at once, plus the site itself. One scope, one number, one team running it.

  • Every search channel that matters in your category
  • The site itself, tested for conversion
  • One roadmap across all of it, ranked by return
  • One weekly session, one place the reporting lives