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Picndrop SEO Case Study

A Two-Sided Delivery Marketplace, Found by Both Sides

Courier and delivery platform, Lagos

Engagement January to May 2021

Picndrop was a courier and delivery platform in Lagos, Nigeria, running a two-sided marketplace: customers booking deliveries on one side, drivers and partner businesses on the other, with a mobile app at the centre. ORM ran a short consultancy engagement on its search from January to May 2021.

Picndrop has since shut down and its domain now shows a parking page, so there is no site to visit and no analytics to quote. The account below covers the consultancy itself. Our founder records the same project on nizamuddeen.com.

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Nizam Ud Deen - SEO Observer
Nizam Ud Deen

CEO @ ORM Digital Solutions
(SEO Specialist)

10+ years experience

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The Platform at a Glance

A five-month consultancy on a Lagos delivery marketplace.

Two-Sided Marketplace

Customers on one side, drivers and partners on the other, one site for both.

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Lagos, Nigeria

An emerging-market logistics category with fast-growing search demand.

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2021

A short consultancy engagement, January to May 2021.

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Logistics

Courier and delivery, with a mobile app at the centre of the business.

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Three Routes In

Customer, driver and partner paths, each with its own way in from search.

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Business Closed

The business has closed and the domain is parked, so no data survives.

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What our Clients think about ORM!

Asadullah AbdulJabbar (AJDEVZ)

Best SEO services provided in this company. And also excellent services in web development. Thanks Nizam bro.

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Imran Khan

I worked with ORM Digital Solution. You have a very good professional team. I appreciate your quick response and professional services. Keep it up. Looking forward for more future projects with you.

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What It Shows

What This Case Shows

A marketplace has to be found by two audiences with opposite intent, and in an emerging market the demand often grows faster than anyone builds content for it.

  1. Two audiences share almost no vocabulary. Someone sending a parcel and someone looking for driver work search in different words.
  2. Each side needs its own path in. One generic homepage serves neither well.
  3. Emerging-market demand is barely competed for. The opportunity was reach in searches nobody was answering.
  4. Local intent beats generic logistics terms. Content was built on how Lagos actually searches.
  5. Honest about the gap. The company closed, so its numbers went with it.
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Picndrop case study card: courier and delivery platform in Lagos

The Marketplace

Picndrop connected people who needed things moved with the drivers and businesses who could move them, across Lagos.

  • Customers booking courier and delivery jobs
  • Drivers looking for delivery work
  • Partner businesses joining the network
  • A mobile app at the centre of the service
  • A Lagos service area in a fast-growing logistics market

Three kinds of visitor, one website, and search had to deliver each of them to the right place.

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Two Audiences, Opposite Intent

A customer wants a parcel moved. A driver wants work. A partner wants volume. They arrive with different questions and use different words.

  • Customers search for delivery, courier and sending services
  • Drivers search for work, sign-up and earnings
  • Partners search for delivery capacity for their own business
  • A single set of pages would have served none of them properly
  • Each group had to land on the page written for it

The structure of the site had to follow the structure of the marketplace.

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Card: two audiences with opposite intent
Card: customer, driver and partner routes

The Audit and the Routes In

The engagement began with a full audit, then rebuilt the paths each audience takes from search.

  • A full SEO audit identifying the technical issues holding the site back
  • On-page optimisation across the customer, driver and partner routes
  • Each audience given its own path in from search
  • Pages written in the vocabulary each side actually uses
  • Clear next steps on each route: book, sign up, or partner

Separate routes let the site rank for both sides of the marketplace instead of half-ranking for a blend of them.

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Local Intent and Content

In an emerging market, search demand for logistics was growing faster than anyone was building content for it. That made reach the opportunity.

  • Keyword research built on real local intent rather than generic logistics terms
  • A content strategy aimed at the questions the market was actually asking
  • Topics on delivery, courier services and moving around Lagos
  • Demand that existed but was barely competed for
  • Content that served customers and drivers alike

Where few competitors write, a site that answers local questions well can own them early.

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Card: local intent over generic logistics terms
Card: speed, indexing and Lagos service-area visibility

Technical and Local SEO

The technical and local work supported everything else.

  • Site speed, for users on mobile connections
  • Indexing, so the right pages were found and the wrong ones kept out
  • Visibility for the Lagos service area
  • Performance tracked in Analytics and Search Console throughout
  • Each decision driven by what that tracking showed

That data belonged to the business, and it closed with the business.

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What Picndrop Had by May 2021

At handover, Picndrop had a search presence built for both sides of its marketplace, and a content programme aimed at the questions its market was asking about delivery, courier services and moving around Lagos.

  • Customer, driver and partner routes, each with its own way in
  • Content built on local intent in an under-served market
  • A short engagement, January to May 2021
  • The business has since closed and the domain is parked
  • No data survives, so no figures are shown

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Card: engagement January to May 2021, archive project

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We are here to answer all your questions

Questions about this case study.

Picndrop no longer trades and its domain is parked, taking the site and every report with it. With nothing left to screenshot, this page describes the consultancy as delivered in May 2021.

Its two audiences search with opposite intent and almost no shared vocabulary. A customer sending a parcel and a driver looking for work need different pages, and one generic site ranks well for neither.

Because generic logistics terms are contested by global brands, while local questions about delivery and moving around Lagos were growing and barely answered. Content built on local intent reached demand nobody else was serving.

Yes. Any platform with more than one kind of user, such as a marketplace, a booking app or a delivery service, needs a route in from search for each side. The same audit and route structure applies.

Yes. Pakistani delivery, courier and booking platforms have the same two-sided problem, and local search in Urdu and Roman Urdu is similarly under-served. Separate customer and partner routes apply directly.

The founder’s portfolio at nizamuddeen.com holds the original entry; this page is ORM’s telling of it.

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