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We didn't buy the first place.
We took it.
A few months ago, Mariner, a French underwear brand, sat on page 5 of Google. Nobody ever goes there.

On the other side: Amazon, Calvin Klein and Dim, with budgets beyond comparison. We went after their searches one by one, page by page, until we passed them.

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France

Google search: "homewear homme"
First result: Mariner underwear, mariner-underwear.com, "Homewear Homme: Pyjamas longs, Pyjacourts"
Second result: Tommy Hilfiger
Search "homewear homme" · position 1
In a few months +60,413 Visits from Google
Progression page 5 #1

Traffic and positions measured on google.fr — French market.

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First place. Ahead of the brands that held the query.

France

Google search: "homewear homme"

#1 Mariner#1 Mariner #2 Tommy Hilfiger#2 Tommy Hilfiger #4 Amazon#4 Amazon

Position recorded July 2026 · Google France

On "homewear homme", Mariner comes out in first position. Right below: Tommy Hilfiger. Further down the same page: Amazon, then Calvin Klein.

These brands have been on Google for years, with bigger sites and far bigger budgets. Getting ahead of them takes a page that answers the search better, and several months of work.

247/250 tracked keywords on page one
€124,985 in revenue via organic Google in a few months

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The challenge

At the start, nobody found Mariner on Google.

Problem 1

Mariner sat on page 5 of Google. Nobody goes that far.

Problem 2

Amazon, Calvin Klein, Dim and Hugo Boss on the same searches, with budgets beyond compare.

Within months, Mariner went from page 5 to first place, and the site's strength from 25 to 55 out of 100. That second number is the slowest to move: it is earned page by page, and it is what holds the position once it is taken.

Our method

Our unique approach for Mariner.

Four phases run in parallel, month after month. Each one prepares the next.

The starting point

No ad budget, and a domain authority of 25 out of 100 against brands established for years. First place cannot be bought in those conditions. Creativity replaced budget.

01

The full audit

Technical, content, already-ranking pages, link profile. Four reads of the site before writing a line.

02

The strategy, in tiers

Low-competition searches first: every page that ranks earns the site credit in Google's eyes. That credit then opens up the most competitive ones.

03

Pages and content

One page per product family, markup reviewed, internal linking. Then content built on shoppers' real searches.

04

Domain authority

Backlinks earned over thirteen months: the Domain Rating climbs from 25 to 55. New content ranks within weeks.

Results

Traffic, yes. Revenue, above all.

124,985
in revenue generated by organic search in a few months.

Measured in Google Analytics on the organic channel only. No advertising on these queries.

+149%
more visitors on the site.

93,000 users over 90 days, compared to the year before. People already searching for the product.

+25%
conversion rate.

4.55% over the year compared to the year before, with a peak of 8.1% in November. The same traffic earns more.

Four queries. First place four times.

Not a tool dashboard: the Google results page, exactly as it renders in France.

Unretouched captures · clickable

« homewear homme »
First Google result for "homewear homme": Mariner underwear, "Homewear Homme: Pyjamas longs, Pyjacourts"

1st position, ahead of Tommy Hilfiger, Amazon, Calvin Klein, Dim and Hugo Boss.

« shortys homme »
First Google result for "shortys homme": Mariner underwear, "Sous-vêtements | Shorty Homme"

1st position, ahead of Inderwear.

« caleçon slip intérieur »
First Google result for "caleçon slip intérieur": Mariner underwear, "Sous-vêtements | Caleçon avec slip intérieur"

1st position, ahead of Arthur and Inderwear.

« slip taille haute homme »
First Google result for "slip taille haute homme": Mariner underwear, "Slip Taille Haute Homme"

1st position, ahead of Amazon.

Positions recorded July 2026 · Google France

Three measures, one direction.

01

Traffic

The first two months show nothing, and that is normal. That is the time it takes to rework the pages one by one, rewrite the titles and wait for Google to crawl them again. Until that work is done, the curve stays flat. It is the moment a client starts doubting, and it is also when everything is decided. It takes off in September and never comes back down: 66 visits a day at the start, 330 in December.

×5visits from Google, June to December 2024

300 200 100 0 June level 66 visits/day Start of the engagement 330 visits/day June 2024 September December
02

Visibility

At the start, the shop appeared on almost none of the searches in its category: six weeks at zero, the grey zone on the left of the chart. We had to stop creating one page per product and write one page per real need, the one people actually type. Each page took its own keyword research, its own structure and its own answers. It is that work, repeated page after page, that pushes the line up to 17.2%.

17.2%presence in the results, starting from zero

six weeks at 0% 20% 10% 0% 17.2% reached June 2024 August November
03

The sales peak

A sales peak is not won on the day itself. The pages that sold that day had been live for months, already well ranked and already visited. When the promotion arrived, the traffic was there; all that remained was to convert it. That is why sales climbed 98% while visits only rose 78%: visitors were already landing on the right page.

+98%sales on the operation, vs the 2023 edition

  • Sales €162,553 +€80,500 +98% vs ≈ €82,000 in 2023
  • Orders 2,167 +1,157 +115% vs ≈ 1,010 in 2023
  • Visits 25,384 +11,084 +78% vs ≈ 14,300 in 2023
  • Conversion 4.55% +0.9 pt +25% vs ≈ 3.64% in 2023

"Previous year" values recalculated from the variation shown by Shopify, hence the ≈.

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