Nourished Life

Shopify

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Introduction

For over a decade, Nourished Life has been a trusted destination for clean, natural, organic and cruelty-free products, helping health-conscious Australians make more informed choices for their everyday lives. What began as a blog in 2011 evolved into a large-scale eCommerce business, built on strong values, deep content, and long-standing organic visibility, the trusted brand was ready for its next wave of growth, a new website underpinning its future success.

Insight

Megantic were engaged to perform SEO for a migration from a 15-year-old Custom Platform to Shopify. The website was established in 2011 as a blog site and added ecommerce functionality after.

From the get go there was strong collaboration across teams, as we supported them through the website migration. Our team of technical SEO project managers understood that not all traffic is created equal. The goal was not just to preserve SEO performance, but to improve revenue quality post-migration by capturing high-intent users. Pre-migration work started in April 2024 for a late-September 2024 new website launch.

Our Approach

The Megantic team meticulously planned the pre-migration to ensure best-practice SEO was in place, and implemented a strategy to engage with the specific demographic and characteristics
of the target audience to drive traffic with ‘buying’ intent.

Stage 1:

Months before launch, we conducted deep analysis across GA, SEMrush and historical rankings to understand:

  • Which URLs actually drove revenue and high-intent traffic
  • Which legacy pages still held SEO equity
  • Where Shopify could unlock new commercial SEO opportunities

Key actions included:

  • Full URL scraping of the legacy custom CMS and proposed Shopify structure
  • Redirect mapping prioritised by revenue, rankings and intent (not just traffic)
  • Identification of over 1,000 potential new Shopify Collections aligned to real search
    behaviour

This shifted the SEO focus from discovery-only content to commercial entry points designed to convert.

Stage 2:

Working closely with Nourished Life’s internal team and external developers, Megantic ensured Shopify was implemented with SEO baked in from day one.

This included:

  • Preserving and optimising metadata and on-page content during migration
  • Cleaning up internal linking to avoid redirect chains
  • Consulting on Shopify best-practice URL structures for PLPs and PDPs
  • Ensuring schema was correctly deployed
  • Fixing over-styled PLP templates by restoring clean H-tag hierarchy
  • Supporting large-scale content updates using Shopify-friendly tools

Stage 3:

We provided support and ongoing optimisation across User Experience (UX), site speed, and on-page SEO to ensure the website improved usability, performance, and search visibility.

As expected with a large-scale migration, Nourished Life experienced a short-term dip immediately post-launch. However, because the migration was meticulously planned and
revenue-weighted, recovery was fast, growth was sustainable, and results continued to compound month on month, laying the foundation for long-term success.

Year on Year Results

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Summary

Our strategic redirection of effort and meticulous technical execution ensured every visitor counted, proving that a nuanced approach to traffic quality is the ultimate driver of sustained commercial success in the health sector.

Our campaign with Nourished Life didn’t just mitigate the significant risks of migrating a 15-year-old custom e-commerce platform, it transformed a potential nightmare migration, into a remarkable growth story within the health and wellness sector.

5 Stars

Abel Butler, CEO

Nourished Life

‘The team at Megantic did an incredible job of our complex, high-stakes SEO migration. We moved the Nourished Life site from a 15-year-old custom build onto Shopify – thousands of legacy URLs, a heap of historical SEO value, and loads at stake commercially. Megantic carefully prioritised the keywords, URLs and traffic that actually drove revenue, and executed the migration of these with incredible precision. While traffic dipped post-launch (as expected), our organic revenue soon significantly increased – a testament to their sharp strategy, thorough planning, and committed dedication throughout.’

I highly recommend Megantic for high-stakes SEO migration support.

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