CASE STUDY

CASE STUDY

CASE STUDY

How Thomas Cook Found & Fixed Duplicate Content Cross Domains with AWR

How Thomas Cook Found & Fixed Duplicate Content Cross Domains with AWR

How Thomas Cook Found & Fixed Duplicate Content Cross Domains with AWR

Thomas Cook is Europe's biggest tour operator with over 22.5 million customers in 21 countries. Their in-house SEO team has been working for nearly a decade with AWR, being in charge of the technical SEO aspects for two domains: thomascook.be and neckermann.be.

Thomas Cook is Europe's biggest tour operator with over 22.5 million customers in 21 countries. Their in-house SEO team has been working for nearly a decade with AWR, being in charge of the technical SEO aspects for two domains: thomascook.be and neckermann.be.

Thomas Cook is Europe's biggest tour operator with over 22.5 million customers in 21 countries. Their in-house SEO team has been working for nearly a decade with AWR, being in charge of the technical SEO aspects for two domains: thomascook.be and neckermann.be.

business type

B2C

Industry

Travel & Tourism

employees

10K

headquarters

London, UK

Challenges

Duplicate Content Across Multiple Domains

Managing multiple websites across different regions, Thomas Cook faced significant SEO penalties due to duplicate content appearing across domains. This jeopardized their organic search visibility and overall traffic.

Difficulty in Monitoring Regional SEO Performance

With several regional websites, tracking SEO performance across each one became overwhelming. Thomas Cook needed to ensure that each website was optimized for its specific audience without losing track of overall rankings.

Inefficient Keyword Tracking Across Regions

Thomas Cook managed a vast number of keywords for each region, but lacked a clear way to monitor keyword performance efficiently. This led to missed opportunities in optimizing for search trends and responding to ranking changes.

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Complexity of Managing Large SEO Data

The company was generating enormous amounts of SEO data from multiple sources, making it difficult to extract actionable insights quickly. They needed a more efficient way to process and make use of this data.

Solutions

Duplicate Content Resolution

AWR's detailed tracking and reporting capabilities allowed Thomas Cook to identify and address duplicate content issues across their domains. This helped restore their organic rankings and prevent further penalties from search engines.

Custom SEO Monitoring for Each Region

AWR provided a tailored SEO tracking system for each of Thomas Cook’s regional websites. By organizing data specific to each region, the SEO team could easily monitor and optimize performance for each target audience.

Streamlined Keyword Tracking

With AWR, Thomas Cook was able to monitor a large list of keywords across multiple regions in real time. This provided them with crucial insights into keyword performance trends, enabling them to adjust their SEO strategies dynamically.

Efficient Data Management and Reporting

AWR’s scalable and intuitive platform made it easy for Thomas Cook to manage large-scale SEO data. With automated reporting and customizable insights, the team could make informed decisions faster and focus on improving their search performance.

Rank tracking for us is an important metric for measuring the success of our (technical) SEO changes/implementations. With the day-by-day / week-by-week comparisons we can discover the impact of several changes made on our websites and how this contributes in increasing organic rankings. In times where search engines are changing their algorithms every day, it’s important to understand how and when this affects our rankings, so we can react on it.

Floris Gouw

SEO Coordinator Thomas Cook BE

Team

Bogdan Muntean

Larisa Rosu

Robert Dinu

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