/ CASE STUDY
STM Canna
National top-three visibility in the industrial machine searches where procurement happens.
674
SEARCHES THEY RANK FOR
~752
VISITS PER MONTH
- VISITS A MONTH AT PEAK
- 722 → 2,285
- TRAFFIC LIFT
- ~3.2×
- SEARCHES IN THE TOP THREE
- 20 → 31
- SEARCHES ON PAGE ONE
- 102
| Period | Organic sessions |
|---|---|
| Dec 22 | 722 |
| Jan 23 | 864 |
| Feb 23 | 879 |
| Mar 23 | 892 |
| Apr 23 | 1,023 |
| May 23 | 1,521 |
| Jun 23 | 914 |
| Jul 23 | 722 |
| Aug 23 | 945 |
| Sep 23 | 563 |
| Oct 23 | 539 |
| Nov 23 | 555 |
| Dec 23 | 539 |
| Jan 24 | 606 |
| Feb 24 | 582 |
| Mar 24 | 733 |
| Apr 24 | 631 |
| May 24 | 619 |
| Jun 24 | 487 |
| Jul 24 | 545 |
| Aug 24 | 1,176 |
| Sep 24 | 820 |
| Oct 24 | 2,087 |
| Peak | 2,285 |
Every point is a real monthly reading from SEMrush — dips included.
Cannabis equipment SEO usually chases consumer-curiosity volume — “how to roll a joint,” “best weed strain,” “pre roll vs joint.” STM Canna sells commercial pre-roll machines to facility operators with capital budgets, not curious smokers. The category that mattered wasn't the one with the most traffic. It was the one where the buyer already knew what they were looking for.
The strategy was built around that distinction. Commercial and industrial searches — the kind a production manager runs when they've been told to evaluate machines this quarter — became the target. Consumer curiosity traffic was left alone on purpose. Depth of content, the RocketBox product names written consistently everywhere they appear, and a carefully kept mix of educational and sales pages supported the climb.
From 929 searches it ranked for and roughly 722 visits a month, the site reached 1,103 searches and 2,285 visits at its peak — about 3.2× the traffic. One page did an outsized share of that: the “How Much Should a Pre-Roll Cost?” guide ranks for 101 searches on its own and, at peak, brought in more than half of everything arriving from Google. That's what a single well-aimed page can be worth when it answers the question buyers are actually asking.
In commercial cannabis procurement, nobody scrolls past the first three results for a machine that costs as much as a car. STM Canna is the #2 organic result in the country for “industrial joint rolling machine” and #3 for “commercial joint rolling machine,” against every competitor selling into the same buyers. Across the category it holds thirty-one searches in the top three and a hundred and two on the first page — a footprint most equipment makers never build.
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