Purple.com Case Study

Samuel Edwards
|
January 16, 2026

Client Overview

  • Client: Purple.com
  • Industry: Sleep products and consumer home goods
  • Market Position: Category-disrupting brand known for proprietary mattress technology
  • Engagement Focus: Sustained visibility growth through keyword strategy and digital marketing support

The Problem

Purple entered a crowded, aggressively competitive mattress market dominated by legacy brands, DTC disruptors, and review-driven affiliates.

Key challenges included:

  • High competition for mattress and sleep-related keywords
  • Consumer education requirements, given Purple’s differentiated technology
  • SERPs dominated by reviews, comparisons, and affiliate content
  • Need to synchronize SEO with broader media and brand exposure efforts
  • Requirement for sustained momentum, not short-lived ranking spikes

The challenge was not awareness alone—it was translating brand buzz and media exposure into durable organic visibility.

Strategic Objective

The engagement focused on:

  • Supporting a sustained media and exposure strategy with SEO alignment
  • Identifying and targeting high-impact commercial and educational keywords
  • Ensuring Purple’s unique technology was visible across relevant search journeys
  • Creating a long-term digital marketing framework that scaled with brand growth

The Solution

Digital.Marketing partnered with Purple to deliver ongoing keyword research and a targeted digital marketing strategy designed to complement broader brand initiatives.

Continuous Keyword Research

  • Conducted recurring keyword analysis to:
    • Identify emerging sleep and mattress search trends
    • Capture both commercial and informational intent
    • Adjust targeting as consumer behavior evolved

Technology-Led Search Positioning

  • Positioned Purple’s proprietary technology within:
    • Educational content
    • Comparison and evaluation contexts
    • High-intent purchase pathways

SEO & Digital Marketing Alignment

  • Ensured SEO efforts aligned with:
    • Media campaigns
    • Brand messaging
    • Product launches and promotions

Sustained Optimization Framework

  • Maintained ongoing optimization to:
    • Reinforce keyword relevance
    • Support compounding visibility gains
    • Avoid volatility common in DTC-heavy niches

Execution Highlights

  • Delivered ongoing strategic support, not one-time optimization
  • Aligned SEO execution with a broader media-driven growth strategy
  • Focused on keyword precision rather than broad, unfocused targeting
  • Adapted continuously to a fast-moving consumer market

Results

While detailed metrics remain confidential, the engagement resulted in:

  • Stronger organic visibility across mattress and sleep-related searches
  • Improved alignment between brand exposure and search discovery
  • More consistent performance across competitive, high-intent keywords
  • An SEO strategy capable of scaling alongside national brand awareness

Why It Worked

  • Treated keyword research as an ongoing discipline, not a one-time task
  • Integrated SEO into the broader marketing ecosystem
  • Focused on educating consumers while capturing demand
  • Maintained consistency in a highly volatile DTC market

Takeaway

For brands like Purple, organic growth depends on connecting innovation with discoverability.

Digital.Marketing helped Purple translate sustained media exposure into long-term search visibility through disciplined keyword research and a targeted digital marketing strategy built to scale.

Author

Samuel Edwards

Chief Marketing Officer

Throughout his extensive 10+ year journey as a digital marketer, Sam has left an indelible mark on both small businesses and Fortune 500 enterprises alike. His portfolio boasts collaborations with esteemed entities such as NASDAQ OMX, eBay, Duncan Hines, Drew Barrymore, Price Benowitz LLP, a prominent law firm based in Washington, DC, and the esteemed human rights organization Amnesty International. In his role as a technical SEO and digital marketing strategist, Sam takes the helm of all paid and organic operations teams, steering client SEO services, link building initiatives, and white label digital marketing partnerships to unparalleled success. An esteemed thought leader in the industry, Sam is a recurring speaker at the esteemed Search Marketing Expo conference series and has graced the TEDx stage with his insights. Today, he channels his expertise into direct collaboration with high-end clients spanning diverse verticals, where he meticulously crafts strategies to optimize on and off-site SEO ROI through the seamless integration of content marketing and link building.

Purple.com Case Study

Samuel Edwards
|
January 16, 2026

Client Overview

  • Client: Purple.com
  • Industry: Sleep products and consumer home goods
  • Market Position: Category-disrupting brand known for proprietary mattress technology
  • Engagement Focus: Sustained visibility growth through keyword strategy and digital marketing support

The Problem

Purple entered a crowded, aggressively competitive mattress market dominated by legacy brands, DTC disruptors, and review-driven affiliates.

Key challenges included:

  • High competition for mattress and sleep-related keywords
  • Consumer education requirements, given Purple’s differentiated technology
  • SERPs dominated by reviews, comparisons, and affiliate content
  • Need to synchronize SEO with broader media and brand exposure efforts
  • Requirement for sustained momentum, not short-lived ranking spikes

The challenge was not awareness alone—it was translating brand buzz and media exposure into durable organic visibility.

Strategic Objective

The engagement focused on:

  • Supporting a sustained media and exposure strategy with SEO alignment
  • Identifying and targeting high-impact commercial and educational keywords
  • Ensuring Purple’s unique technology was visible across relevant search journeys
  • Creating a long-term digital marketing framework that scaled with brand growth

The Solution

Digital.Marketing partnered with Purple to deliver ongoing keyword research and a targeted digital marketing strategy designed to complement broader brand initiatives.

Continuous Keyword Research

  • Conducted recurring keyword analysis to:
    • Identify emerging sleep and mattress search trends
    • Capture both commercial and informational intent
    • Adjust targeting as consumer behavior evolved

Technology-Led Search Positioning

  • Positioned Purple’s proprietary technology within:
    • Educational content
    • Comparison and evaluation contexts
    • High-intent purchase pathways

SEO & Digital Marketing Alignment

  • Ensured SEO efforts aligned with:
    • Media campaigns
    • Brand messaging
    • Product launches and promotions

Sustained Optimization Framework

  • Maintained ongoing optimization to:
    • Reinforce keyword relevance
    • Support compounding visibility gains
    • Avoid volatility common in DTC-heavy niches

Execution Highlights

  • Delivered ongoing strategic support, not one-time optimization
  • Aligned SEO execution with a broader media-driven growth strategy
  • Focused on keyword precision rather than broad, unfocused targeting
  • Adapted continuously to a fast-moving consumer market

Results

While detailed metrics remain confidential, the engagement resulted in:

  • Stronger organic visibility across mattress and sleep-related searches
  • Improved alignment between brand exposure and search discovery
  • More consistent performance across competitive, high-intent keywords
  • An SEO strategy capable of scaling alongside national brand awareness

Why It Worked

  • Treated keyword research as an ongoing discipline, not a one-time task
  • Integrated SEO into the broader marketing ecosystem
  • Focused on educating consumers while capturing demand
  • Maintained consistency in a highly volatile DTC market

Takeaway

For brands like Purple, organic growth depends on connecting innovation with discoverability.

Digital.Marketing helped Purple translate sustained media exposure into long-term search visibility through disciplined keyword research and a targeted digital marketing strategy built to scale.

Author

Samuel Edwards

Chief Marketing Officer

Throughout his extensive 10+ year journey as a digital marketer, Sam has left an indelible mark on both small businesses and Fortune 500 enterprises alike. His portfolio boasts collaborations with esteemed entities such as NASDAQ OMX, eBay, Duncan Hines, Drew Barrymore, Price Benowitz LLP, a prominent law firm based in Washington, DC, and the esteemed human rights organization Amnesty International. In his role as a technical SEO and digital marketing strategist, Sam takes the helm of all paid and organic operations teams, steering client SEO services, link building initiatives, and white label digital marketing partnerships to unparalleled success. An esteemed thought leader in the industry, Sam is a recurring speaker at the esteemed Search Marketing Expo conference series and has graced the TEDx stage with his insights. Today, he channels his expertise into direct collaboration with high-end clients spanning diverse verticals, where he meticulously crafts strategies to optimize on and off-site SEO ROI through the seamless integration of content marketing and link building.