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SEO Case Study

Every URL changed. Google traffic still grew 45%.

M3M India moved to a brand new website at the end of February 2025. We ran SEO through the switch and for the seven months after it.

Client
M3M India
Industry
Real estate
Engagement
8 months, Feb to Sep
Scope
Site migration, technical SEO, on-page, tracking
Year
2025
01 · The Results
+45%

Organic sessions, Apr to Sep 2025, against the same months in 2024Organic sessions, Apr to Sep, vs the same months in 2024

+60%

Organic sessions in August 2025 against August 2024Organic sessions, Aug 2025 vs Aug 2024

3.2x

Pages that got visits from Google: 249, up from 78Pages that got visits from Google: 249, up from 78

1,782

People from Google search who sent an enquiry, Jun to Sep 2025People from Google who sent an enquiry, Jun to Sep

Source: Google Analytics 4, Organic Search channel. Session figures compare 2025 with the same months of 2024. Page counts compare Feb to Sep in both years. Enquiry tracking went live in June 2025.Source: GA4, Organic Search channel. Sessions compare 2025 with the same months of 2024. Page counts compare Feb to Sep in both years. Enquiry tracking went live in June 2025.

Google Analytics 4 · Traffic acquisition · Organic SearchGA4 · Organic Search · weekly, Jan 2024 to Sep 2025
Jan 2024 to Sep 2025 · weekly sessions

Weekly visits from Google search. Flat through 2024, a dip in the week the new site went live, then a clear step up from mid March 2025 that held for the rest of the engagement.Weekly visits from Google. Flat through 2024, a dip in the week the new site went live, then a step up from mid March 2025 that held.

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02 · The Challenge

The Challenge

M3M’s old site ran on pages like /about-us.php and /projects/ifc. The new site moved every page to a new address, from /our-story to /retail/m3m-ifc. When all the URLs change at once, Google has to find, check and re-rank each page again, and traffic usually drops for a while.

It did. The first week of March was the low point: 2,764 visits from Google, down from about 3,400 a week before the switch.

03 · The Approach

The Approach

We treated the relaunch as a migration, not a redesign. First, get Google to trust the new URLs quickly. Then use the cleaner structure to show up for searches the old site never ranked for, like “new projects in gurgaon”.

04 · Process

What We Actually Did

01

Migration

A redirect map from every old .php URL to its new page, a fresh XML sitemap, and daily index checks in Search Console through March.

02

Technical

Merged the www and non-www versions in July 2025, so Google stopped splitting links and rankings between two copies of the site.

03

On-page and content

Titles, headings and copy on the project pages and the Gurugram listing pages, built around project names, sectors and searches like “new launch” and “3 BHK”.

04

Measurement

GA4 events for enquiry forms, contact clicks and project filters, live from June 2025, so the monthly report showed leads and not just visits.

05 · The Evidence

The Evidence

Straight from M3M’s Google Analytics and Search Console accounts. Click any screenshot to see it full size.. Tap a screenshot to zoom.

A · GA4 · Apr to Sep, 2025 vs 2024

Organic sessions up 45%, engaged sessions up 67%, and the average visit from Google went from 43 seconds to 1 minute 2 seconds.

B · Search Console · Sep vs Jun 2025

Searches containing “projects in gurgaon”. Average position moved from 21.3 to 7.5, and clicks nearly doubled, from 87 to 169.

C · GA4 · Landing pages, Feb to Sep 2025

Visits from Google now land on the new URLs. 249 pages got organic visits in these eight months, against 78 in the same months of 2024.

D · GA4 · Events from organic search

2,414 enquiry form completions from 1,782 people who came from Google, June to September 2025.

Searches that don't include the brand name

Average Google position for the month
Search on GoogleSearchJun 2025JunSep 2025SepClicks, Sep
upcoming projects in gurgaon10.54.018
new projects in gurgaon9.84.813
gurgaon new projects10.95.25
new launch projects in gurgaon9.25.310
commercial projects in gurgaon15.46.02
new project in gurgaon11.96.87

Source: Google Search Console, m3mindia.com. June 2025 is the earliest month Search Console still holds, because Google keeps 16 months of data.Average Google position for the month. Source: Search Console, m3mindia.com. June 2025 is the earliest month Google still holds (16 months of data).

Services

Site migration SEO · Technical SEO · On-page SEO · GA4 event tracking

Tools

Google Search Console · Google Analytics 4 · Screaming Frog

Team

SEO Lead · SEO Executive · Content Writer · Web Analyst

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