Case Study 03 · Technical SEO

34 pages.
Zero errors.
Clean launch.

XR Studios builds AR, VR and MR solutions for B2B clients. Their design and development agency built a new site on Webflow. We were brought in for one job: make sure it launched technically sound.

Engagement at a glance

ClientXR Studios
IndustryExtended Reality (AR/VR/MR)
PlatformWebflow
EngagementTechnical & content SEO, pre/post-launch
Duration3 months pre-launch
StatusLive since Oct 2025
The numbers

Not a growth story.
A clean-launch one.

34/34
Pages indexed
Every page on the new site indexed in Google Search Console shortly after launch. No orphaned pages, no missed redirects.
50+
Technical checks run
Pre- and post-launch audits covering crawlability, indexation, Core Web Vitals, canonical setup, and redirect mapping.
0
Crawl or indexing errors
The migration from the old site to the new one went out clean. Nothing broke on launch day.
3 mo
Pre-launch runway
Brought in three months before launch, not three days - enough time to catch and fix issues in staging rather than after Google had already re-crawled a broken migration.
The problem

A great design.
Untested plumbing.

XR Studios provides Extended Reality technology - AR, VR and MR solutions for businesses building immersive experiences into their operations. Ahead of a company relaunch, they needed a new website to strengthen visibility for XR and VR-related keywords and position themselves credibly in an emerging category.

Their design and development agency built the new site on Webflow. It looked right. What nobody had properly checked was whether it would survive contact with Google: redirect mapping from the old URLs, canonical tags, structured data, crawl budget, Core Web Vitals, hreflang, log-file behaviour. A site can look finished and still lose most of its search visibility on launch day if that plumbing isn't right.

This is a specific, narrow ask we get from clients who already have a design and development team they trust: validate the technical SEO before it goes live, so a new site doesn't quietly undo years of search visibility the moment it launches.

The work

Three months before launch.
Not three days.

We didn't design or build the site - that was XR Studios' own agency. Our job was making sure the technical and content SEO underneath it was launch-ready.

01 / Research
Keyword and competitor research
Mapped the real search terms used across XR, VR and MR B2B buying journeys, not just generic "virtual reality" keywords nobody in this market actually searches. Benchmarked against the competitors XR Studios actually competes with, not the biggest names in the category.
02 / Content
Meta titles, descriptions and on-page copy
Rewrote meta titles and descriptions across the new site to match what the keyword research actually turned up, plus a wider on-page copy review and a blog content strategy - how-to guides, listicles, and trend pieces built for long-term organic growth rather than launch-week traffic.
03 / Technical
Pre- and post-launch technical audits
Redirect mapping, sitemap and robots.txt configuration, canonical implementation, Core Web Vitals, structured data, internal linking, URL parameter handling, hreflang, and log-file checks - the full list, not a sample.
04 / Validation
50+ point launch audit
Checked performance, crawlability and indexation before and after the switch went live, working directly alongside XR Studios' development agency rather than after the fact.
05 / Local
Google Business Profile setup
GBP configuration and citation support to back up local and brand visibility alongside the core organic strategy.
06 / Collaboration
Working with someone else's build
No control over the design or the codebase - just the ability to flag issues early and work with the development team to fix them before they became a launch-day problem.
What we won't claim

The honest part.
Because every case study should have one.

This isn't a site we designed or built - that was XR Studios' own design and development agency's work, and a good one. Our job was narrower and specific: validate the technical SEO before and after launch, so their work didn't quietly lose search visibility the moment it went live.

That's the whole case study. Not a growth campaign, not a content strategy rollout - a pre-launch technical check that caught what needed catching, on a site someone else designed and built.

In their words
"Working with Whizz People was a smooth and collaborative experience from start to finish. Their technical SEO expertise gave us complete confidence in launching our new website. The team was proactive, detail-oriented, and worked seamlessly with our developers to ensure everything went live without a hitch. We're already seeing results in visibility for competitive XR and VR keywords, a strong start that sets us up nicely for future growth."
P

Peps Circelli

Managing Director · XR Studios

What this proves

Three lessons.
For anyone launching a new site.

Lesson 01

A good design agency isn't an SEO agency.

Great visual design and solid technical SEO are different skill sets. Neither team is wrong to not fully own the other's job - but someone needs to own the overlap before launch day, not after.

Lesson 02

Validate before launch, not after.

Redirect mapping and canonical errors are cheap to fix in staging and expensive to fix after Google has already re-crawled a broken migration. The 3-month runway mattered more than any individual check on the list.

Lesson 03

Stability is a result too.

Not every engagement produces a 3x headline number. Sometimes the win is that nothing broke, and traffic held steady instead of falling off a cliff. That's still real, measurable work.

Launching a new site?

Let your designers design.
Let us check the plumbing.

If you already have a design or development team and just need someone to validate the technical SEO before you go live, that's exactly this kind of engagement. Book a 30-minute call - we'll tell you honestly what it needs.