Client
Jay Campbell
Industry
Health and wellness
Work
SEO, content, digital PR, site architecture
Timeline
2019 to Apr 2026
Personal brand SEO case study

How Jay Campbell’s website more than tripled its organic traffic

He’d written the books, built the audience and earned the reputation. His website wasn’t keeping up.

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The results

2019 to Apr 2026

Monthly organic traffic
60,400in Mar 2026, from 18,000 when I started in 20193.3x
Ranking keywords, US
11,000+in Oct 2026, from 2,183 in Jul 20235x
Monthly impressions
1.6Min Apr 2026, the seasonal peak

Traffic: GA4, organic search; the 2019 baseline, on the old jayccampbell.com domain, is from my records, as the analytics history before May 2023 was lost. Impressions: Google Search Console, web search. Keywords: Semrush, US, checked 12 Oct 2026. Everything else checked 28 Sep 2026.

Contents

    The client

    Jay Campbell is one of the best-known voices on testosterone optimization, peptides and fat loss: a bestselling author, coach and researcher who has spent decades helping people understand their hormonal health.

    His readers range from biohackers and elite athletes to physicians looking for straight answers on subjects most of medicine still treats as fringe. He didn’t find a niche. He built one.

    The problem

    Jay had the authority. His website didn’t have the content structure to communicate it, to readers or to Google.

    The site underperformed for the very topics Jay knows best. Content wasn’t organized around what people search for, and the path through the site was unclear. His reputation was secure in his own community, but the website wasn’t turning it into search reach or a bigger audience.

    The authority was real. The website wasn’t doing anything with it.

    The strategy

    1. Medical credibility on the page

      In health, Google’s E-E-A-T standards (experience, expertise, authoritativeness and trust) are unforgiving, and opinion and experience aren’t enough. I brought in medical experts to review health content, added credentials where they mattered, and built a review and citation structure that shows readers and Google who stands behind each claim, without making the articles read like journal papers.

    2. A content engine around Jay’s core topics

      Peptides, testosterone and fat loss are high-intent subjects with serious commercial depth, and their audiences read. I built a content calendar around the best keywords at every stage of the funnel, then scaled it to daily publishing. The goal: when someone looks for an expert view on these topics, Jay’s is the first they find.

    3. Article pages that keep readers

      Traffic is worth little if readers leave. I added custom calls to action, key takeaways, newsletter signups and structured data across the blog. Those changes lift engagement and give Google clearer signals at the same time.

    4. Digital PR for earned links

      Jay’s expertise made him a natural fit for major health and wellness publications. I ran targeted PR and outreach to earn features in high-authority outlets. Coverage like that does two jobs: it tells Google the site is trusted, and it puts Jay in front of readers who would never have found him through search.

    5. The site structure and redesign

      I shaped the architecture as well as the content: a restructured navigation, a clearer path through the site, and the key pages and resource hubs that turn a blog into a destination. The redesign gave the content strategy a home that made sense.

    The outcome

    When I started in 2019, the site drew about 18,000 organic visitors a month. In 2022 it moved from jayccampbell.com to jaycampbell.com, and the growth carried across the move: by March 2026 it drew 60,400, more than three times as many. Between July 2023 and October 2026, the number of keywords it ranks for in the US grew from 2,183 to more than 11,000, about five times as many.

    ImpressionsClicks
    60k1.2k30k60000Feb 2026MarAprMay
    Google Search Console, daily clicks and impressions as a 7-day average, 1 Jan to 14 May 2026.

    In April 2026, Jay’s pages appeared in Google search results 1.6 million times. His topics are seasonal, and spring is the high point of the year.

    What changed was the infrastructure: the structure, the publishing cadence and the article pages. The website now matches the reputation of the person behind it.

    Worth knowing

    More results

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    If your reputation is ahead of your website too, that’s fixable

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