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Why these aren't named case studies — yet

We'd rather tell you plainly than dress up placeholders as proof. The engagements below are anonymized and illustrative: they describe what a specific stage of The Hard Way typically surfaces or produces for a business of that profile, not an audited metric attributed to a named client. As real engagements complete and clients agree to be named, this page updates with attributed results — no invented company names, no borrowed logos, no fabricated percentages in the meantime.

All six, in full

A Berlin-based B2B SaaS platform, six months post-migration.

22 issues resolved

Three of them — a broken canonical chain, an unintentionally disallowed section, and a render-blocking third-party script — accounted for most of the lost crawl budget.

A Berlin-based DTC skincare retailer on Shopify.

140+ URLs consolidated

Rebuilding the category-page templates was the single highest-priority fix to come out of the Audit stage.

A DACH manufacturer expanding into the UK market.

3 markets, 1 hreflang map

The Audit found DE/EN pages competing against each other for the same commercial terms before a single new page was written.

A multi-location service business across three Berlin districts.

4 directories unified

Each location's Google Business Profile and landing page were rebuilt to stop cannibalizing the others.

A B2B software company previously burned by a marketplace link vendor.

18 referring domains, 0 purchased

The first Execution cycle focused entirely on manual pitching tied to one genuine data story.

A multi-location service business with several years of blog content.

12 pages, 1 topic cluster

Fewer, better-mapped pages replaced a larger library of thin, competing ones.

0stages in The Hard Way

0working languages, natively

0SEO Audit starting price

0Berlin office

These are facts about how we operate, not claims about client results — see the transparency note above for how we handle the difference.

What working with us sounds like

“The Audit didn't just list problems — it told us which three to fix first and why.”

Marketing Lead, a Berlin-based B2B SaaS company

“We'd been burned by a link-marketplace vendor before. What stood out here was hearing, plainly, what wouldn't work and why.”

Founder, a DACH software company

“This was the first agency that built the strategy in both languages from the start.”

Head of Growth, an international company entering the German market

“We always know what stage we're in and what's coming next, instead of a monthly PDF that raises more questions than it answers.”

Operations Director, a multi-location DACH service business

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