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Healthspan
Howwe grew organic revenue +72% YoY.

Healthspan is one of the UK’s best-known specialist supplement brands, selling vitamins, minerals and everyday wellbeing products direct to consumers. The goal: become the UK’s go-to supplement brand for everyday health and wellbeing.

Services
Industry Ecom, Sports Nutrition

Vision  // Goals

Overall, the supplements market demand fell around 9% year on year. Vitamins & Minerals was among the hardest-hit categories. So why did Healthspan grow?

The honest answer is that ranking well stopped being enough some time ago. AI Overviews, shopping modules and knowledge panels have changed who actually gets the visit, and tools like ChatGPT and Gemini are shaping purchase decisions before consumers reach Google at all. For a specialist brand competing against larger retailers and established category leaders, traditional rank tracking was already missing the point. Visibility across the right surfaces matters. So does what happens once you have it.

Healthspan needed to grow in priority categories while a contracting market and a shifting search landscape worked against it. The brands that came through wouldn’t be the ones chasing the latest thing. They’d be the ones who had the fundamentals in order.

Our approach

We focused on the categories with the clearest commercial importance: Magnesium Glycinate, Turmeric and Probiotics. The priority throughout was building authority, not chasing quick ranking movement.

Magnesium Glycinate got the most attention. On-page optimisation, technical improvements and targeted content to strengthen Healthspan’s position across high-value searches. The same logic ran through category and product pages: sharpen relevance, remove technical friction, make it easier for the right searches to land in the right places.

Supporting content served a different purpose. New guides on probiotics, GLP-1 and magnesium for sleep were written to meet consumers during research and consideration, stages that increasingly play out on AI platforms before a brand’s website enters the picture. That kind of expert-led content builds authority signals slowly. It doesn’t show up in a monthly rank report. But it’s the work that determines which brands get surfaced and cited when the question isn’t yet “where do I buy?” but “what should I take?”

Technically: structured data and indexation audits, crawlability work, SERP visibility improvements across commercial pages.

Unglamorous stuff. The kind that holds when conditions get harder.

The programme delivered on every front

Organic search revenue grew 72% year on year. Sessions up 64%. Orders up 70%. In a category where overall demand fell 9%.

The distance between those two numbers is the whole story. Traffic wasn’t redistributed by luck. It came from category authority built over time, technical work that removed friction, and content that was actually there when consumers were looking.

In the priority categories, Magnesium Glycinate visibility went from 64% to 87%, establishing Healthspan as one of the leading brands in the category and well past the original target. Turmeric went the other way: a highly competitive space dominated by large health and medical publishers, and the results reflected that. Probiotic visibility moved in the right direction, and the content work done there will matter more over time than it does right now.

Non-brand organic impressions grew 213% year on year to 23.5 million. Non-brand clicks up 130%. Healthspan was reaching consumers who hadn’t started with the brand in mind, which is a different kind of growth to simply converting people who already knew the name.

The authority picture beyond Google is worth noting too. Within ChatGPT, Healthspan held a 6.5% citation share across the competitive set, higher than every direct supplement competitor measured. AI citations overall still skew heavily toward large health publishers like Healthline and WebMD. Among specialist supplement brands, though, Healthspan is out in front. That position matters as more consumers start their research in AI tools rather than search.

172

pieces of coverage

+33%

YoY link growth - 231 links secured

240M

brand reach

+78%

YoY SERP visibility

+13%

YoY growth in branded searches

 

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