Gordy & Sons

The redeveloped website launched quickly and without sales interruption. It welcomed site visitors with an engaging design that is unmistakably kin to the experience of walking through the upscale brick-and-mortar store. The new ecommerce presence showcases firearms as well as all-weather apparel and outdoor accessories for hunting and fishing.

Via the new website, customers are now able to confidently purchase firearms and have them shipped directly to their preferred Federal Firearms Licensed (FFL) dealer.

Switching ecommerce solutions from Magento to BigCommerce, the team at Gordy & Sons is now self-sufficient in maintaining their ever-changing inventory within their website, adding content, and engaging with their loyal customers. The new site also successfully integrates with their Counterpoint point-of-sale system.

Targeted expansion of visibility and brand reach began with significant improvement of organic search engine optimization within the Gordy & Sons website. The team’s keyword research within tools like Google Search Console and Semrush prioritized a focused selection of industry and product-related keywords to target. Within each page of the website, those keywords were strategically included in content and metadata, such as page titles, descriptions, and more. Internal linking additions, including breadcrumb navigation enhancements, improved search indexing and optimization as well. These efforts provided a quick and impactful return in organic traffic acquisitions to the website.

Sights were then set on maximizing an identified advertising budget for available digital ad opportunities. Campaigns were led by Google Ads that focused on product-specific and gender-specific campaigns for apparel. There are products within Gordy & Sons' inventory, like firearms and even fish hooks, that are not permitted to be advertised throughout the Google Ad network. The apparel ad campaigns, however, have proven effective in attracting targeted shoppers who have shown an interest in every other product department within Gordy & Sons as well.

Select campaigns have focused on product seasonality by running campaigns for specific products during active hunting and fishing seasons.

Social media efforts for Gordy & Sons were producing consistently strong branded images for their posts on Instagram and Facebook. Consultation from the Americaneagle.com digital marketing team recommended increased frequency of posts led by a planned content calendar, more tagging of the store’s popular brands, engagement with the social media channels of those popular brands, as well as more links back to the Gordy & Sons website with featured products, promotions, or insightful content.

Gordy & Sons and Americaneagle.com have successfully teamed to grow customer engagement and sales via digital marketing. Measurable business growth has been directly attributed to all of the digital strategies deployed. That success is leading to the targeting of additional opportunities to continue to maximize digital marketing, such as personalized email campaigns utilizing abandoned cart information.

Gordy & Sons is confident the previous site’s performance inconsistencies and downtime will never return. Their online sales have greatly benefitted from the new site’s detailed SEO and strategic digital marketing campaigns. More of the right customers are finding Gordy & Sons online than ever before.