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Work/case study/John Deere

ManufacturingJohn Deere.

// manufacturing · since_2020

Making John Deere's regional dealer network impossible to miss.

Warrior Tractor sells some of the most important machines John Deere makes — construction, forestry, and mining equipment moving across seven Alabama locations. But the dealer network was nearly invisible to the people searching for it. In six months we grew their organic search impressions by 500% and built a site that won an ADDY along the way.

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// services

  • Web Design
  • Web Development
  • Lead Generation
  • Content Marketing
  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

// industry

Manufacturing

// engagement

Multi-year retainer

// timeline

since_2020

The setup

In business since 1967. Seven locations across Alabama — Northport, Huntsville, Montgomery, Graysville, Monroeville, Oxford, Pelham. Recognized by John Deere as one of the country's best parts departments, with 30,000 square feet of warehouse space at four of those locations. They had the inventory and the relationships. What they didn’t have was a digital presence that did either justice.

A website that earned an award

We rebuilt the site from the ground up — tighter information architecture, dealer-first navigation, and visual treatments that finally matched the equipment they were selling. The work earned an ADDY from the American Advertising Federation of Tuscaloosa in February 2020. We cared about the award. The client cared more about the leads it would unlock.

Video that actually sells equipment

Per Google’s own consumer insights, video is the highest-impact content type for buyer behavior — it lets a prospect experience the equipment before they show up at a yard.

We brought drones and a video crew to capture every Warrior Tractor location. The footage gave each dealer page something ground-level photography couldn’t: scale, context, and the kind of cinematic feel that makes a $300K excavator feel inevitable.

SEO that compounds

Six months of work across local, technical, on-page, and off-page SEO. We rebuilt Google Business Profiles for every dealership, rewrote title tags page by page, restructured the site for crawlers and humans simultaneously, and earned recognition from outside the dealership ecosystem.

The result: organic search impressions up 500% year over year — and, more importantly, a tracking system that let Warrior Tractor see exactly which dollars came from search.

The Nine and their staff did a superb job in helping Warrior Tractor recently in developing their new website. All their staff are professional and in my opinion the 'A' players.

David R. Schafer, District Sales Manager

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