L'Exterminateur en Ligne · Pest-control products e-commerce · SEO — organic search · 2026
How a pest-control store grew to 32,988 organic clicks a year
Selling the products instead of the visit changes the search problem entirely. The customer is not looking for a technician. He is looking for the thing that kills the insect in his kitchen.
The results, up top — every number is in the strip below
+20%
organic clicks
27,524 → 32,988, matched twelve months
+47%
impressions
1.84M → 2.71M
32,988
organic clicks
Search Console, twelve months
2.71M
impressions
Search Console, twelve months
12
matched months
no seasonal cherry-picking
An e-commerce store competing with the service companies it undercuts.
L'Exterminateur en Ligne is not an extermination company. It is a Quebec business that sells professional-grade pest-control products online, so a homeowner can treat the problem himself instead of booking a technician.
That puts it in the same search results as extermination service companies with far bigger budgets, all bidding for the same pest terms — and those companies want the visit, not the sale. The store has to convince someone mid-panic that the do-it-yourself route actually works.
“Someone with carpenter ants in the wall wants them gone tonight, not an appointment next Tuesday. My job is to prove the product on my shelf is the same one the technician would arrive with.”
So the content had to teach the treatment, not just list the bottle.
Pest-by-pest treatment guides that end at the right product.
Coverage was organised by pest and by treatment rather than by product category, because that is the search: the insect first, the chemistry second.
Each guide has to carry real instructional weight — identification, timing, application, safety — and then hand off to the specific product that does the job. That is what separates it from a service company's thin pest page.
Impressions grew 47% and clicks 20%, so the store now appears for far more queries than it did a year ago — and closing the gap between appearing and being chosen is the compounding opportunity from here.
Pest-led architecture, instructional depth, category consolidation.
Teaching the treatment so the product sells itself.
Pest-led architecture
Organised the site by insect, not by product line
Buyers search the pest, never the active ingredient. The structure was rebuilt to match that, with products sitting beneath the pest that justifies them.
Instructional depth
Made the guides worth ranking above a service page
Identification, timing, application and safety, written to be genuinely usable — the reason a do-it-yourself page can beat a national service brand.
Footprint expansion
Grew impressions 47% to 2.71 million
The store now surfaces for far more pest queries than it did a year ago, which is where the click growth will come from next.
Honest measurement
Search Console only, GA4 excluded
GA4 sessions here are all-channel and cannot support an organic claim. The transactions series is not published at all.
Twelve matched months: +20% organic clicks, +47% impressions.
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123Couvreur — Google Ads
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Bumble — UGC ads & creator partnerships
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450+ assets · 60+ creators
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CFC & Elevate Health
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6,168 clicks · +111% directions
Home services & trades
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Crowdtap — Performance creative & paid media
TikTok CPA −30% · volume +15%
B2B & SaaS
Dashing Diva — Full-funnel campaign
CAC −24% · 3→7 channels
Beauty & personal care
Dockers — Influencer & whitelisting
16M+ views · 80+ influencers
Apparel & fashion
Dr du Matelas — SEO
+118% profile calls
Retail & e-commerce
Electrolibre
498 first-time calls
Retail & e-commerce
EnMouvement
107 → 293 ad calls
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Entretien Squidgee — SEO
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Erco Électrique
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Home services & trades
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Retail & e-commerce
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Professional services
Fil Chauffant Toiture — Meta Ads
45 leads · CA$38.53
Home services & trades
Fil Chauffant Toiture — SEO
133 → 524 clicks
Home services & trades
Food Allergy Institute — Paid media and booked consultations
243 → 1,012 consultations/mo · cost per landing page view −30%
Health & medical
Future Forward — Performance-driven creator campaign
CPA −20% · 5 platforms
Education & training
Geo Stone
275 leads at CA$19.59
Home services & trades
Geo Stone — Google Ads
93 → 198 calls from ads
Home services & trades
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1,476 → 3,025 clicks
Home services & trades
Gouttières Grand-Montréal — SEO
53 → 327 clicks
Home services & trades
HelloFresh — Dark posting at scale
17 countries · CPA −20% MoM
Food & beverage
Her-Age
6.63× tracked ROAS
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Hopper — Performance creative at scale
300+ assets/mo · CAC −20%
Travel & mobility
HUBZ404
90 → 86,773 impressions
Events & venues
HUROM — Full-funnel paid media & influencer strategy
ROAS +300% · CPA −70%
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Icelandic Provisions — Influencer-led branded creative
3M+ impressions · 9%+ CTR
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Impact Santé
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Impact Santé+ — SEO
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Inspections Nicolas Landry — SEO
+117% impressions
Home services & trades
iTrustCapital — UGC & paid media
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Fintech & financial services
JDM Drive — SEO
37,831 clicks · from zero
Automotive
JDM Engine Direct
$1.42M tracked revenue at 14.62×
Automotive
Katchoo — Meta Ads
CA$11.15 per lead
Home services & trades
K&R Strategic Partners
$24,740 in tracked value from zero
Professional services
K&R Strategic Partners — SEO
0 → 76,344 organic impressions
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LAHA
24 → 475 tracked conversions
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L'Entrepôt de la Réno
5.55× ROAS while tripling spend
Retail & e-commerce
L'Entrepôt de la Réno — Google Ads
CA$356k → CA$1.9M tracked revenue
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L'Entrepôt de la Réno — SEO
111,651 → 280,019 clicks
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L'Exterminateur en Ligne
ROAS 3.27× → 5.51×
Home services & trades
L'Exterminateur en Ligne — Meta launch
9.60× ROAS in the first 3 months
Home services & trades
L'Exterminateur en Ligne — SEO
+20% clicks · +47% impressions
Retail & e-commerce
Linktree — Organic social, series & design
5× reach · 10M views
Consumer apps & platforms
Living Beauty
+225% purchases, matched months
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Living Beauty
402,490 → 1,007,144 impressions
Beauty & personal care
Madhippie — Performance creative
50+ assets/mo · 30%+ thumbstop
Beauty & personal care
Marvel Styles — Disney — Organic social
+40% saves · 9%+ engagement
Apparel & fashion
MDF Mécanique — Google Ads
187 ad calls · CA$37 each
Automotive
MDF Mécanique Laval
240 leads at CA$33 from CA$7,966
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Medic Québec
152 → 3,855 organic clicks
Health & medical
Mindbloom — Influencer marketing & paid social
CAC −25% · referrals +40%
Health & medical
Miniso — Influencer activations
7M+ views · 200+ activations
Retail & e-commerce
Miro — B2B creator marketing
20M+ impressions · 25 KOLs
B2B & SaaS
Mogu Mogu — Influencer-led high-reach campaigns
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National Consumer Panel — UGC-driven acquisition & paid media
CPI −30% · CPA −20%
Professional services
National Debt Relief — UGC, performance creative & influencer strategy
CVR +25% · CAC −30%
Fintech & financial services
NATIVE — UGC, studio content & retouching
1,000+ assets · 50+ creators
Beauty & personal care
Nettoyage Danfour
+39% leads at −26% cost, flat budget
Home services & trades
Nettoyage Danfour — SEO
+228% organic impressions
Home services & trades
New Balance — Casting, post-production & influencer marketing
7 athletes · 750k audience
Apparel & fashion
NielsenIQ — Global UGC at scale
100 creators/mo · $20M+ media
Professional services
Nordstrom / Wildfang — Micro influencer & gifting
500+ assets · 10M+ views
Apparel & fashion
Nurse.com — Influencer-led creative strategy
200k+ users · <$0.20 CPC
Health & medical
Nuun — Nestlé — Influencer marketing & UGC
60%+ TOFU capture · +30% engagement
Food & beverage
Oever — Event promotion (Google Ads)
1,678,801 impressions · $3.05 CPM
Events & venues
Peintres Montréal — SEO
+441% sessions
Home services & trades
Peinture Marcil — SEO launch
0 → 2,176 sessions
Home services & trades
Pièces d'auto La Plaine
561 → 1,669 calls, flat spend
Automotive
Plomberial — Meta Ads
30 leads · CA$32.97
Home services & trades
Plomberial — SEO
+887% impressions
Home services & trades
Polarsteps — UGC strategy & content production
136+ assets · 60+ creators
Travel & mobility
Prépa PPL — audience launch
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Education & training
Rail Europe — Creator-led UGC & content strategy
28+ outputs · 2 audience contexts
Travel & mobility
Réparation Toiture Montréal
Sessions 523 → 1,367 matched
Home services & trades
Santoy Calgary Painters — SEO
+46% sessions
Home services & trades
Secourisme RCR Plus — SEO
+100% impressions · clicks steady
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Slynumber — Creator strategy & paid media
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Soffite Fascia Montréal
143,856 impressions from near zero
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Solution Cimex
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Solutions Prox-Secur — SEO
565 → 5,195 clicks
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SOS Électricien Montréal — SEO
+17% clicks · +24% reach
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SOS Plombier Montréal
+263% organic sessions
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Stone Decorative — Organic recovery and tracked calls
137 → 1,075 monthly clicks · +85% calls
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