The client: Quirónsalud
Quirónsalud is the leading group for healthcare services in Spain. This company has more than 60 years of experience, which means they are one of the hospital groups in Spain with the greatest prestige within the sector.
If there is one aspect that sets Quirónsalud apart is their way of understanding healthcare, offering a vision of medicine based on the patient, where personalised care, calling and closeness all come together, supported by the most advanced technology.
Needs and goals
The work trajectory between Quirónsalud and Súmate goes back more than five years. At that moment the main need they had was the merge of the Quirón group with IDCSalud, which meant they had to unify all the digital elements under the same brand and start growing as quickly as possible.
From that moment onward, their needs changed as the group grew: to strengthen the growth of their SEO, appear in new searches or having SEO-optimised websites were some of the new requirements they’ve had in the last few years.
We can place their last key goal: the launch of e-Quirónsalud, a platform that was focused on approaching patients in an easier way, making available to them a catalogue of medical tests and consultations in different areas.
The challenge for the Quirón group: SEO migrations, new launches and online platforms
From the beginning of our collaboration we have faced numerous challenges, which we have solved together:
- The initial challenge, one of the hardest in this project, appeared at the beginning of the collaboration, with the merge of the two groups. Consequently, the SEO migration was a complex process due to the amount of URL and sites to consider when migrating. Doing this with the smallest organic impact possible, and that the brand Quirónsalud was recognised soon after were points with which we really had to work hard together, from both sides.
- Throughout these years the group has not stopped growing, with new centres and services. This brought another challenge for Súmate: we needed to make sure this growth in the business was accompanied by optimised websites and a joint SEO strategy to maximise their organic benefits.
- Another challenging area we encountered these years, both at Súmate and Quirónsalud, has been opting for content and blogs. In particular, we could highlight the healthcare blog “Tu canal de salud”.
- Lastly, one of the latest needs this group had, and a difficult task for Súmate, has been to support with SEO the launch of e-Quironsalud, a platform geared towards offering medical tests and consultations to the patients.
How did we do it? The phases for organic growth
Even though the project is still ongoing and that we continue working to help Quirónsalud grow online, we will focus this success story on the three most important landmarks from the beginning until current time: the merge of both groups, Quirónsalud’s growth as a brand, and the launch of the e-quironsalud.es platform.
Phase 1: Merging the groups
The initial action plan was to take the weight of the two large groups onto a new common structure with a specific content strategy. To even contemplate such a large migration where several pages, sites and URL merge into a new website, it is essential to count with an effective communication flow between both parties, and a gruelling search effort, which is how we completed this task.
- Quirónsalud provided us with a list of the sites they wanted to migrate from Quirón and from IDCSalud.
- We revised the sites to identify which ones were the most popular, and if there were any sites that had not been detected and that we should take into account.
- Simultaneously, we carried out a SEO check of the new website in order to SEO optimise it as much as possible.
- Once we had the list with the sites that had to be migrated and their analysis to determine which ones should be given priority, the migration rules were created bearing the new website in mind.
- We were there, alongside Quirón during the migration process, and we later conducted an analysis to ensure that everything was completed correctly.
Phase 2: Growth of the Quirónsalud group as a brand
After the first phase, we could soon see the hectic growth rhythm achieved by the Quirónsalud group. As we mentioned before, new centres and services have been added to the group, and we have handled all of them so that everything was operating under the same organic strategy.
In line with this growing trend, we have always endeavoured to respond to all the challenges that appeared: integration, new domains, etc. This is a process of continuous improvement where we always can work further to keep growing.
In this phase we stood out because of Tucanaldesalud.es, a blog within the group, but outside the main domain. Quirónsalud opted for this option early on, and little by little, very patiently and with hard work, it multiplied its traffic, consolidating into a relevant healthcare blog with the support of affirmed medical opinions.
Phase 3: launching the e-quironsalud.es platform
During this new phase in the group’s expansion, at Súmate we supported their digital marketing team in the analysis for improvements in SEO and the site’s performance measurements, thus finding strategic points we could work on to continue growing.
Phase 4: Migration to the new .com domain
We help the Quiron team to minimize the impact of a migration and control all the organic aspects around it. We conducted a study prior to the change to organize and control the key URLs. During the migration we supported the team and once the migration was finished we evaluated the impact and detected improvements so that the change was carried out without alterations.
Results for the Quirón success story
The migration was carried out correctly, and it had positive results in a short period, so our next task was to optimise the website from a SEO perspective. For this, we had to bear in mind the system is extremely personalised and has very specific requirements. Little by little we have become a part of their routine, tending to the group’s diverse interests and online marketing strategies; this can be seen in the numbers we have achieved in these past few years. Thanks to the team effort, the main SEO KPIs have increased.
SEO growth in traffic and keywords
Old domain (jun 2021 Vs jun 2023):
Sessions + 23 %
Global keywords + 141%
Top 10 keywords + 135%
New domain (jun 2023 Vs jul 2024)
Organic sessions + 18%
Global keywords + 33.5
Keywords top 10 + 33.14 %
A result that has nothing to do with numbers, and that we are extremely proud of, is the relationship based on trust that has been established between the team at Quirónsalud and the SEO team at Súmate. Both those who have been working on this project from the beginning and those who joined in later. This relationship based on trust and respect goes both ways, where we all have a common goal: making the brand grow, which is definitely a cornerstone in the path to achieving goals while having a good work environment.