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Speak Up London case study

How Speak Up London strengthened organic visibility for English course searches

Speak Up London needed SEO support in a competitive education market where searchers compare English schools, course types, locations and study options before making an enquiry.

Speak Up London Oxford Street learning centre
+101%year-on-year impressions in the reporting period
Top 3priority English course rankings

The starting point

Speak Up London is an English school in Central London with a mix of General English, Business English, IELTS, evening, weekend and online study options. The search challenge was not just ranking for the brand. It was showing up when prospective students were comparing English schools and course formats across London.

The challenge

Education SEO is noisy. Aggregators, directories and large language-school brands compete for the same searches, while students often search by course type, timetable, location and study goal. The site needed stronger keyword alignment, clearer course targeting and ongoing technical/authority support.

Protect branded demand while expanding into non-brand English school searches.
Improve visibility for course formats including evening, weekend and conversation classes.
Support technical SEO, crawl health and international search visibility.
Build authority in a market with large directories and well-established competitors.

Results at a glance

The campaign produced a stronger organic footprint across English school and course-intent searches, with gains in impressions, rankings and authority signals.

+101%year-on-year Google impressions in the reporting period
+18.6%organic click growth vs the prior period
537referring domains supporting authority
65tracked ranking keywords in the latest report

What we worked on

The campaign focused on SEO fundamentals that matter for education websites: search intent, course-page targeting, technical quality, international accessibility and authority growth.

Course keyword mapping

We mapped commercial searches around English schools, English classes, course formats, levels and London location intent.

Content and page optimisation

Priority pages were aligned with the way prospective students search, compare and choose a course.

International SEO support

Course pages, crawl signals, hreflang considerations and on-page quality were aligned for students searching from different markets.

Authority building

Ongoing backlink work helped the site compete with larger directories, agencies and education platforms.

Search visibility moved beyond the brand

Speak Up London became visible for a broader mix of English course, school, class and timetable searches.

#1english conversation classes london
#2best english school in london
#2english classes london
#3english courses in london
#5beginner english classes london

Why it worked

The SEO work matched how students actually search: by course type, confidence level, timetable, location and study goal. That made the campaign more defensible than chasing one vanity keyword.

The outcome

Speak Up London gained a stronger organic presence across the searches that matter to an English school: branded discovery, course-led searches, Central London location intent and international student research queries.

More search visibility for non-brand English course demand.
Improved authority signals through sustained backlink growth.
A clearer SEO framework for ongoing education-sector growth.

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