Resolved Technical SEO Issues for a B2B F&B News Website to Drive Organic Growth

May 4, 2026

Background :

Food Ingredients first is a global business-to-business news and intelligence platform serving the food and beverage industry. It delivers daily industry news, trend analysis, expert insights, and data on ingredient innovation, regulatory changes, and product development, helping professionals stay informed and make strategic decisions.

Goal:

To diagnose and resolve technical issues related to structured data, site architecture, crawlability, GSC 404 errors, indexation, user experience, and AI discoverability. Each issue was addressed with a clear diagnosis, a defined resolution strategy, and measurable outcomes.

Approach:

Identifying issues and analyzing technical gaps like:

  • Missing schema & content structure
  • Identifying the missing Image attributes across the website​
  • Improving the Slow Page Load Time
  • Identifying and resolving broken internal links across the website, as well as broken links originating from external backlinks.

Positive Result

  • Consistent month-on-month growth in organic traffic from 7,926 in Aug 2025 to 27,298 in March 2026

  • Increased in Clicks, Impressions and Avg position

  • Website page speed have improved

  • Stronger discoverability across AI-powered search platforms

  • Appearing in Google AI Mode recommendations

  • Improved topical authority in food industry searches.

312.9%

4,356 to 17,986

Organic users

506.6%

633k to 3.84M

Total Impressions

473.8%

3.26k to 19k

Total Clicks

Up by 21.4 positions

31 to 9.6 ↑

Avg. Position