Square: Accelerating Productivity & Global Organic Growth

This fintech leader boosted productivity by 10X, while transforming its search strategy across 9 markets, to achieve +30% organic search traffic.

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    The Challenge: Navigating Competitive Global Markets

    Square is a fintech powerhouse that supports over 4 million businesses worldwide.

    In a hyper-competitive industry and fast-moving digital environment, Square faced a familiar challenge for enterprises: growing visibility across 9 global markets without stretching internal teams.

    However, maintaining performance proved challenging enough. Square’s team struggled with fragmented workflows, siloed insights, and delayed responses to market shifts.

    Traditional tools couldn’t keep up. Square needed a centralized, scalable solution that could surface high-impact opportunities across markets and exceed the competition.

    The Solution: Automations to Unlock Scalable Strategy

    Square adopted Semrush Enterprise, as the platform was purpose-built for organizations managing large-scale, multi-market visibility strategies. It proved to be a game-changer, empowering Square’s team with a 10x increase in SEO productivity.

    With new tagging and segmenting capabilities, Square could granularly track performance across their American, European, and Asia-Pacific markets, giving their team the ability to see real-time shifts in rankings and Share of Voice. They could then understand precisely where they were gaining or losing ground. This visibility became a powerful advantage and helped fuel a 30% increase in organic search traffic, as performance gaps could now be identified and acted on immediately.

    Using Semrush Enterprise’s “What Has Happened?” tool, Square's team was now pinpointing traffic drops and understanding the impacts of algorithm changes on their visibility in seconds. Traditionally, this process could take months. Now the team was saving 12 hours per week.

    The Content Optimization workflow brought yet another boost. This provided AI-powered insights for internal linking, keyword variety, and content structure. Through this automation the team gained immediate content recommendations they could review and deploy at scale across their sites. The outcome? A 25% boost in global keyword rankings. The ever-important balance of consistency with performance maintained.

    “Since we started using Semrush Enterprise we've outperformed our competitors on both traffic and content and we've improved our rankings in virtually all markets.”

    Sean Carey, Global Head of Organic Discovery, Square

    The Results: Outperforming and Outproducing Competitors

    Square streamlined their team’s workflows to together create a force multiplier for their digital success. The impact was immediate and measurable:

    • +30% increase in organic search traffic
    • +25% boost in global keyword rankings, across all markets
    • 10x increase in SEO team productivity, with 12 hours saved per week
    • Faster time to insight, through near-instant identification of issues or opportunities.

    Thanks to its holistic feature set—from predictive SEO forecasting through to historical or competitor analysis —Semrush Enterprise quickly became the backbone of Square’s organic growth strategy.

    “Semrush Enterprise is by far the most advanced solution on the market. The way they use AI in each workflow is brilliant. And we're happy we were able to incorporate it into our daily operations so early on.”

    Sean Carey, Global Head of Organic Discovery, Square

    Conclusion: Continuing to Outpace the Competition

    In a competitive landscape, Square needed a partner that could help them identify opportunities and deliver on them at scale. With Semrush Enterprise, they have unmatched agility: adapting strategies, optimizing content, and capturing growth opportunities in real time.

    Now Square isn’t just keeping up, they’re setting the pace.

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