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Sahabat Pegadaian

Last updated by cmlabs at 2 September 2025
Sahabat Pegadaian
Sahabat Pegadaian

SEO Data

rank organic
Average
4.25
rank absolute
Average
5.01
brand position
1
Ranking Distribution
Keywords & Ranking:
62.20%
1-3
29.37%
4-10
6.47%
11-20
1.60%
21-50
0.36%
50+
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Key Takeaways
  • Sahabat Pegadaian faced several challenges, such as experiencing high competition in the YMYL niche and migrating domains.

  • The cmlabs team took several approaches to deal with these challenges, including carrying out an E-E-A-T Assessment, moving domain ratings, and so on.

  • As a result, Sahabat Pegadaian succeeded in achieving significant traffic growth of 55.81% and occupying the highest brand position with a market share of 14.72%.

About the Client

Sahabat Pegadaian is a media portal and part of Pegadaian. Its vision is to spread inspiration and information about business, investment, finance, and gold to the public. cmlabs has been collaborating with Sahabat Pegadaian since September 2023. Discover the epic journey of Sahabat Pegadaian and cmlabs below. 

Timeline

Services Taken

OBSTACLE WE ENCOUNTRED

YMYL niche & high competition

Because Sahabat Pegadaian’s website focuses on financial topics that have a YMYL niche and have high competition with competitors, we needed to take a strong E-E-A-T approach to make Google easier to read.

The startup after Domain Migration

cmlabs needed to maintain the assets and backlinks on the previous domain when a domain migration occurs. Not only that, our team also had to pay attention to several aspects related to URL mapping to avoid decreasing traffic numbers.

OUR BEST SEOLUTION

YMYL niche & high competition

Building up the fundamental and E-E-A-T Assessment

Because Sahabat Pegadaian operates in the financial sector, which is included in the YMYL topic, cmlabs supported all aspects of E-E-A-T, so by implementing SEO, Sahabat Pegadaian’s website has a strong foundation.

Creating a Topical Map for Topical Authority

cmlabs created an appropriate topical map and topic cluster to help Google determine the niche of Sahabat Pegadaian’s website.

Improving Authority by leveraging Pegadaian's reputation

cmlabs is aware of Pegadaian's reputation as a brand in the financial sector that is strong and known to a wide audience. Therefore, we created a proper media release to strengthen Sahabat Pegadaian’s website as well as introduce Pegadaian products to users.

The startup after Domain Migration

Remapping the URLs

cmlabs had to ensure that all URLs have been moved optimally to avoid losing numbers of traffic.

Performing Domain Rating migration

By paying attention to previous domains that already have a good Domain Rating (DR), we had to carry out canonical and redirection of each page to move the domain rating and backlinks.

ORGANIC ACHIEVEMENTS

Website Traffic Growth

The efforts made by the cmlabs team have provided substantial results, where the official Sahabat Pegadaian website also experienced a significant growth increase until January 2024, which is 55.81%.

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Figure 1: Sahabat Pegadaian experienced an increase in organic traffic of 55.81%.

Sahabat Pegadaian Successfully Occupies the Highest Brand Position

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Figure 2: Sahabat Pegadaian wins the first position of brand position among many competitors.

Not only that, the Sahabat Pegadaian website was ranked first for the brand position with a market share of 14.72% for targeted keywords, making them successfully compete with other competitors in the financial and business sectors.

BUSINESS ACHIEVEMENTS

Increasing Awareness of Events and Campaigns Carried Out by Sahabat Pegadaian 

The cmlabs SEO team succeeded in increasing awareness of the latest events and campaigns from Sahabat Pegadaian by collaborating with the marketing team. Efforts made are leveraging press releases and internal publications.

Up To +25.7% Conversion Increase in 4 Months

With increased traffic balanced with user behavior data as insight for CRO, the cmlabs SEO team succeeded in increasing conversions of Sahabat Pegadaian by 25.7% in just 4 months.

SEO DATA

Keyword Ranking

Based on the targeted keyword on Sequence Stat, Sahabat Pegadaian succeeded in gaining a top 5 average ranking, both for organic and absolute rankings. We targeted keywords suitable for the business niche of Sahabat Pegadaian. 

Brand Position

Sahabat Pegadaian succeeded in sitting in the top 1 Brand Position for targeted keywords, competing directly with big banks and other financial sectors. We must strengthen the E-E-A-T aspects to maintain this position, considering that the financial sector has fierce competition in the YMYL topic. 

Search Market Share

Sahabat Pegadaian successfully acquired a 14.72% market share from the targeted keyword. This data was derived from Sequence Stat by comparing the competitors with intersecting keywords as Sahabat Pegadaian. 

Rank Distribution

Sahabat Pegadaian has succeeded in reaching the top 10 rankings in an accumulation of 91.57% of all keywords obtained. This achievement shows the effectiveness of SEO strategies in increasing Sahabat Pegadaian’s visibility on SERP.

Organic Traffics Growth

Until January 2024, Sahabat Pegadaian managed to get an increase of up to 55.81%. This figure shows extraordinary progress in performance or achievement in a relatively short time.

Organic Keyword Captured

Sahabat Pegadaian’s achievement in capturing 200,000++ queries shows the success of the SEO strategy carried out. The number of queries captured by Sahabat Pegadaian reveals that the Sahabat Pegadaian website appears in search results for various variations of keywords entered by users in the search engine.

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Learn How to Set Your SEO Objective!

Please note, if not all types of businesses can use SEO. then it is important for you to understand whether potential customers of your products and services are actually searching through search engines

In some businesses, there are high activity of searching in search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo. In fact, a company can stand strong with just a 3% market capture available in its niche through search engines. Hence, understanding how to gain organic traffic is essential and even becomes one of the most basic of organic marketing. Let’s say, you run a business in the niches below:

  • Travel & transportation
  • E-commerce
  • Financial inclusion & services
  • News or online publisher
  • Property
  • Automotive
  • else.

To gain excellent organic traffic, companies operating in certain niches need a specific SEO approach. To do so, here are some steps you can take:

  • Optimize for local search with keywords targeting specific destinations, landmarks, and niche-related terms.
  • Create comprehensive articles to attract a target audience.
  • Focus on optimizing product pages with descriptive titles, meta descriptions, and keyword-rich content.
  • Implement structured data markup to enhance search engine visibility for products.
  • Generate user-generated content such as reviews and ratings to improve credibility and SEO.
  • Target long-tail keywords that address the specific needs or concerns of your target audience.
  • Build authoritative backlinks from reputable websites and publications.

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