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How L’Atelier d’Amaya Structured an SEO & GEO Strategy and Gained Autonomy in a Highly Competitive Market

+35%
average annual growth
+46%
non-branded impressions YoY
+19%
clicks YoY
Founded in 2007 by Laure de Gorostarzu and her daughter Amaya, L’Atelier d’Amaya is a French brand specializing in customizable jewelry made of silver and gold-plated materials. After opening its first boutique in Bordeaux in 2009, the brand quickly expanded online and through a network of physical retail locations in France and Belgium, while reaching a broader customer base through e-commerce.
Experiencing strong growth, L’Atelier d’Amaya operates in a highly competitive market dominated by well-established players. SEO and now GEO represent key strategic levers for the brand, supporting both e-commerce growth and broader expansion ambitions.
However, the team dealt with several priority issues:
- A website migration to a new platform in 2022
- Technical constraints
- The need to gain agility, autonomy, and visibility
“Botify clearly showed us what Google was actually crawling on our site. From there, we knew where to act.” — Anne-Solenne Ogée, Head of Digital and Omnichannel Project Manager, L’Atelier d’Amaya
Challenge
Because Google is a major traffic driver, L’Atelier d’Amaya’s SEO faced multiple challenges. They needed to:
- Sustainably grow organic traffic
- Anticipate key commercial periods (shopping season, Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, etc.) with visible and high-performing pages at the right time
- Simplify cross-team processes and reduce dependence on technical resources
- Grow SEO expertise internally
All within a complex technical environment:
- A legacy site migration with URL changes
- Open facets designed to capture mid- and long-tail traffic
- The need for clear prioritization and measurable actions
Two years ago, L’Atelier d’Amaya chose to begin working with Botify, seeking a solution that combined analysis, action, and autonomy.
Solution
L’Atelier d’Amaya relies on the Botify suite to manage its entire SEO strategy from analysis to execution, including reporting and the anticipation of new search behaviors related to GEO.
Large-scale optimization deployment
With Botify, the team implemented numerous structural optimizations, including:
- Hiding unnecessary pages
- Adding and optimizing internal linking (breadcrumbs, link blocks)
- Fixing incorrect links after the site migration
- Replacing pages returning 301/302 redirects
- Optimizing structured data
- Cleaning up more than 13,000 non-indexable pages (removing them and fixing redirect issues)
These actions helped strengthen alignment between the website and Google’s crawling and indexing requirements.
“What really changed the game was technical symmetry: we understand how Google sees the site, and we act accordingly.”
Anticipating seasonal events
Seasonal periods represent a key business opportunity for L’Atelier d’Amaya. Their goal was clear: encourage Google to crawl and index pages ahead of these peak moments.
Actions implemented:
- Integration of internal linking blocks at the bottom of category pages
- Improved discoverability for both visitors and all search/AI bots
- Preparing pages several weeks before events
Observed results:
- +5% increase in internal links per category page
- Increased crawl frequency before key periods
- Top 3 rankings for strategic queries (e.g., “men’s jewelry Black Friday,” “women’s bracelet Black Friday”)
SEO & AI search: Preparing for tomorrow’s use cases
Beyond traditional SEO, L’Atelier d’Amaya is anticipating changes in search behavior and the rise of AI-powered search engines.
Using AI Visibility, Botify’s newest GEO solution, the team can:
- Identify pages crawled by AI bots and measure the associated share of traffic
- Track brand mentions and citations across AI search engines
- Analyze prompts and questions associated with strategic queries
“The question is no longer just about being visible on Google, but about understanding how our brand emerges in AI search engines.”
But the utility goes beyond monitoring alone.
L’Atelier d’Amaya leverages AI search insights from Botify to guide its content strategy. These data points allow the team to rely on:
- Prompts generated in reports to create FAQs on product pages
- User-generated questions to identify new content opportunities
- Top keywords from Google Search Console integrated into Botify to enrich category pages (PLPs)
“Insights from Botify’s GEO solutions allow us to guide our content strategy based on real data. We identify emerging questions and build content around those intentions.”
In line with this approach, L’Atelier d’Amaya decided to increase its editorial publishing pace, with stronger focus on identified opportunities.
Results
SEO as a core business lever
The success criteria defined by L’Atelier d’Amaya are clear: organic traffic growth, strong performance during commercial peaks, growth of non-branded traffic, and increased team autonomy.
Traffic growth
- 1.5 million clicks in 2023, 72% brand-related
- +35% average annual growth
- +19% clicks in 2025 vs. 2024, with a growing share of non-brand traffic
Non-branded performance (2025 vs. 2024)
- +46% unique keywords
- +46% impressions
- +26% clicks
Greater autonomy and resource savings
In 19 months, L’Atelier d’Amaya completed 167 optimizations, 76% of which were deployed directly by the internal team.
“Today, one person can deploy the majority of search optimizations (SEO and GEO). It’s a real change of scale for a company like ours.”
With Botify, L’Atelier d’Amaya structures and manages its SEO to support growth challenges, seasonal performance, and innovation related to AI-powered search.
“Botify’s AI Visibility gives us confidence in our AI search strategy because the prompts are based on our keywords and on queries from ‘People Also Ask.’ We use these insights to understand the real questions people ask and to guide our content strategy—from FAQs on product pages to future blog article topics. The fact that the solution is directly integrated into our existing workflows makes the insights much more actionable and helps us focus our investments where they will have the greatest impact.”
— Anne-Solenne Ogée, Digital and Omnichannel Project Manager
“This partnership with Botify allows us to evolve with confidence and agility in a constantly changing digital environment.”
— Laure de Gorostarzu, CEO and Co-founder of L’Atelier d’Amaya
This experience underscores this long-term partnership serving a clear vision: making SEO and GEO a driver of business performance, today and tomorrow.