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Case study · Recruitment

JTE Recruit

From a site with almost no SEO to 13,941 monthly impressions and 112 AI-assistant visits — in one focused build.

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JTE website homepage
13,941impressions · 28d
401clicks · 28d
17.0avg position
112🤖 AI visits
Figures straight from Google · last updated 12 Aug 2026
Beyond the build

I'm also JTE's Data Protection Officer.

Because I built the site that collects their candidates' and clients' data, I also serve as JTE Recruit's appointed DPO — keeping them compliant with Singapore's PDPA. That means mapping what personal data they hold, writing the policies, and being the point of contact if a question or incident ever comes up. One partner for the site and the data behind it.

Where it started

A website that was never really found.

JTE Recruit had a website for years — but it kept getting rebuilt and moved between platforms (WordPress and others), and SEO was never the focus. So for all that effort, barely anyone was finding it on Google. The traffic reflected it: close to nothing.

Honest version: before June 2026, JTE's site had almost no organic search presence at all. Not a little — basically none.
The turning point

June 2026 — I got to work.

I rebuilt the site with search in mind from the ground up, and started an SEO & AEO push — testing, measuring, and coming back to improve it. Here's what happened to impressions the moment that started:

Google impressions
13,941last 28 days · from ~0 before June
June · SEO rebuild starts
FebMarAprMayJunJulNow
What I actually did

The SEO & AEO rebuild.

Not tricks — just doing the fundamentals properly, end to end. The four things that moved the needle:

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Fixed the foundation

Rebuilt the site so Google could actually read and index it — clean structure, fast pages, proper titles, sitemaps and technical hygiene that had never been sorted.

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Pages for real searches

Built dedicated pages around the terms people actually type — "engineering recruitment agencies", "employment agency Singapore" — instead of one generic homepage.

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Content worth ranking

Wrote genuinely useful, specific copy for each page — so Google (and readers) had a real reason to rank and trust it.

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Built for AI answers

Structured the content so AI assistants can cite it — which is why JTE now shows up in ChatGPT, Copilot and Perplexity, not just Google.

The receipts

Ranking on page 1 — for real searches.

Non-branded terms (people who'd never heard of JTE), pulled live:

recruitRank 8 · page 1
engineering recruitment agenciesRank 10 · page 1
permanent recruitmentRank 11
engineering recruitment agency singaporeRank 19

Plus 220 queries sitting in striking distance (positions 8–20) — the next wave, one nudge from page 1.

Every layer of this — under one roof.

Design, copywriting, the SEO rebuild, the code, and the ongoing maintenance, handled together. No agency handoffs, no markup. That's why it's coherent — and why it works.

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