Three-year relationship
Website development, Google Ads, Meta Ads, AI integrations, POS-connected work and other digital support were delivered across the wider client relationship.
/ CASE STUDY, FRESHLY FOLDED
At the August 2026 reporting point, Freshly Folded was a three-year client relationship with six months of SEO work. Samuel built the website within a wider scope that included AI integrations, Google Ads, Meta Ads and POS-connected customer journeys.
/ ENGAGEMENT TIMELINE
At the August 2026 reporting point, the wider relationship covered roughly three years and the SEO engagement covered six months. Website, advertising, AI and POS work belong to the broader relationship, not to three years of SEO.
Website development, Google Ads, Meta Ads, AI integrations, POS-connected work and other digital support were delivered across the wider client relationship.
Technical SEO, search-intent work, service content, internal linking and organic-search measurement formed the six-month SEO period described in the August 2026 record.
During that six-month SEO period, Bluehost hosting blocked Google from crawling the website for almost one month. Our technical investigation identified the hosting restriction and we fixed it so Google could crawl the site again.
The Bluehost incident is material context: close to one-sixth of the six-month SEO period was affected by a crawl-access problem outside the intended SEO implementation.
/ VERIFIED VISITOR RECORD
Freshly Folded recorded 1,500 visitors during the dashboard’s 28-day reporting window, up 12.4% from the preceding 28 days. Organic search supplied 75.8% of those visitors; direct supplied 10.7% and paid search supplied 9.5%.
1.5K
The analytics dashboard’s total for the displayed 28-day period.
+12.4%
A period-over-period comparison, not a year-over-year claim.
75.8%
The largest attributed channel in the supplied analytics view.
/ GOOGLE SEARCH RECORD
Google Search Console provides a separate search-performance view: 1,300 Google Search clicks from 173,000 impressions, with 0.8% average click-through rate and 11.2 average position. The custom Web-search range runs from 28 July through 27 August 2026.
173K
Visibility in Google’s Web search results during the selected period.
0.8%
A blended click-through rate for the displayed period. Page and query analysis is needed before attributing it to a title, snippet or ranking issue.
11.2
A blended Search Console average across queries, pages, devices and locations.
/ BROADER CLIENT WORK
The August 2026 account covers six months of SEO within a roughly three-year relationship. The work connects the information customers discover in search with the website, advertising and ordering journey. The reported results do not isolate the contribution of each channel.
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The six-month SEO scope in the August 2026 account: technical SEO, search-intent mapping, service content, internal links and Google Business Profile work around the actual local offer.
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A faster, clearer path from service discovery to the action a laundry customer is ready to take.
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Paid campaigns coordinated with service areas, landing pages and measurement instead of managed as detached traffic sources.
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Workflow connections designed to reduce handoffs, preserve useful customer context and make acquisition data more actionable.
/ HOW TO READ THE EVIDENCE
The 1.5K analytics figure is a visitor count across attributed channels. The 1.3K Search Console figure is Google Search clicks. They use different systems and definitions, so they should not be expected to match exactly.
The records are client-provided dashboard captures identified by the client as Freshly Folded. The cropped screenshots do not display the property name, so we disclose that limitation instead of implying independent platform access.
Visits and clicks are not the same as leads, orders or revenue. The captures also do not isolate the incremental effect of six months of SEO from seasonality, brand demand, paid activity, the Bluehost crawl interruption or other work performed across the broader relationship.
Together, they show meaningful discoverability and audience growth. The next opportunity is equally visible: a 0.8% Search Console CTR and an 11.2 average position create a practical backlog for title, snippet, page and authority improvements.
Prepared by the LaundrySEO Strategy Team. Originally published 15 April 2026; evidence, scope and AI observations updated 4 September 2026. Results vary by market, competition, demand and implementation.
/ AI SEARCH VISIBILITY
Freshly Folded is appearing in AI-generated answers, including citations to its website. The project team has observed these appearances alongside the Google Search performance documented above.
An AI answer can introduce the business or link a customer to its services. Useful service information, clear coverage details and accessible pages support that customer journey.
The published dashboard captures show analytics and Google Search Console results. The AI appearances are project-team observations, not a measured citation rate or a platform-by-platform ranking study.
A citation is evidence of an appearance in that answer, not a permanent position or a confirmed booking. This case study does not assign a revenue figure to AI visibility.
Google’s AI search guidance recommends the same SEO fundamentals used for Search and makes clear that inclusion is not guaranteed.
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