The authority gap
A baseline of DR 26 to 27 with 130 referring domains made it structurally impossible to outrank legacy competitors for commercial queries. No amount of publishing moves rankings before that gap closes.
Referring domains at baselineWorkwize runs global IT equipment and remote asset management. Over 23 months organic search went from a slow channel to the most predictable source of pipeline in the business. This is the full record, including the months that fell.
Every figure runs from the June 2024 baseline, the month the program started. Authority compounds first, traffic follows it, pipeline follows traffic.
Off-page work moved the two numbers that gate everything else.
More authority unlocked bottom-of-funnel rankings, and the visits arrived with intent.
The two numbers a CFO signs off on.
Authority numbers from Ahrefs, lead and pipeline numbers from Workwize's own HubSpot. All case studies
A narrow scope, stated up front, so you know what this page can and cannot claim.
Workwize had product-market fit and not the domain authority to rank where enterprise deals start. Lifting domain rating from 27 to 71 took the ceiling off search visibility, and traffic and pipeline followed in that order.
We were hired for one workstream. Content, product and demand generation stayed with their team, and this page reports on our part of it.
Both were measured at the start, so progress could be argued about with numbers.
A baseline of DR 26 to 27 with 130 referring domains made it structurally impossible to outrank legacy competitors for commercial queries. No amount of publishing moves rankings before that gap closes.
Referring domains at baselineInbound was flat. Organic produced no predictable SQL volume, which pushed the business onto outbound and paid media, and pushed blended cost per customer up quarter after quarter.
Inbound SQLs a month at baselineWe skipped content volume and put the budget behind the levers that move enterprise search.
Digital PR and link acquisition aimed at relevant, authoritative placements in SaaS, HR tech and IT infrastructure publications. The quality gate came first and the volume followed it.
Jun 2024829 placements across 23 monthsApr 2026
Authority was routed into product pages and comparison pages built for buyers searching for remote IT deployment, not into top-of-funnel articles that collect visits and nothing else.
Mentions and links placed in heavily crawled industry hubs, so Workwize became a source AI assistants cite. That channel did not exist when the program started. By early 2026 it brought more than 30 MQLs a month on its own.

Every placement was tracked from the day it went live. This is the record, not a summary of it.
Twenty of 829. The full list is available on request.
Six datasets, each with the screenshot it came from.
Referring domains grew from 130 in June 2024 to a peak of 1,413 in February 2026, after thirty flat months before the program started.


The steepest climb ran from Q3 2024 to Q1 2025, just ahead of the jump in pipeline. By April 2026 Workwize carried the same domain rating as the competitors it was chasing.


Average monthly organic traffic rose from 1,852 in June 2024 to a peak of 13,420 in October 2025. Traffic normalised in early 2026 after algorithm changes, and leads kept climbing anyway, which is what the shift from broad visibility to qualified demand looks like.


Inbound MQLs rose from 28 in June 2024 to 111 by April 2026. From mid-2025 a new channel appeared in the mix: AI referrals, which by early 2026 brought more than 30 a month on their own.

Inbound SQLs sat in the low teens before the program. Volume peaked at 44 in January 2025 and then settled: through 2026 Workwize held a floor of 35 to 40 qualified inbound SQLs a month.

In early 2025 organic search and AI referrals together produced roughly $360,000 of pipeline a month. By Q4 2025 the channel passed $1M, peaking at $1,156,360 in December, and held near that line into early 2026.

Recorded in April 2026, near the end of the program.
We’ve been partnering with Technotize for nearly two years. They took our Domain Authority from 26 all the way up to 71. They also brought in a lot more organic revenue, and there was even a point where our organic inbound leads actually overtook our paid ads.
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