Written by our founder, who led this work in-house at Brain Station 23. The figures from internal systems appear as percentages and multiples only; the Ahrefs figures are public.
Less than one mid-size deal. That was the entire inbound pipeline of one of Bangladesh’s largest software companies in July 2025. After a period of rebuilding and eight months of measured work, the same pipeline stood at 43 times that figure.
The scoreboard above gives the headline numbers. This page explains where they came from, in what order, and which parts any reader can check in Ahrefs today.
One point before anything else: this is my in-house work at Brain Station 23. I have led inbound growth there, SEO and paid search, as a full-time role since 1 August 2025. It is not a client engagement, and it should not be read as one.
The before state: a website that hired, but did not sell
In July 2025 the site drew a steady stream of organic visitors. The trouble was who they were. Most were job seekers looking for a careers page, not buyers looking for a development partner.
Non-branded buyer-intent search, the queries a prospect types when choosing a vendor, made up roughly 5% of organic clicks. The pipeline reflected that: less than one mid-size deal.
That baseline is the reason 43x is possible at all. A multiple this large says as much about the starting point as the finish. Read it that way and it becomes more useful, not less.
What the figures say together
A pipeline multiple can be flattered by one large opportunity. So look at the second row of the table instead. Qualified leads, scored against budget, authority, need and timing, rose by 341%, or 4.4 times.
That is the number I trust most. It counts leads that passed a BANT screen, not form fills. It grew at the same rate as international organic users, which is what you would expect if the new traffic was the right traffic.
Read the scoreboard above as a chain, not a list. Rankings and referring domains feed organic users, 3.7x. Users feed qualified leads on BANT criteria, 4.4x, and leads feed pipeline, 43x.
The gap between 3.7x users and 43x pipeline is the point of the whole method. Traffic did not grow 43 times. The mix of who was arriving changed, and pipeline followed.
Split by geography, Bangladesh organic users grew 3.6 times and international 4.4 times. The international line is where the company meets Indian firms and global directories head on.
Sessions referred from ChatGPT rose 11.9 times over the same period. This page does not claim to know why. The figure is reported because it can be measured and because it moved with everything else.
All of these figures cover the eight months after an initial period of research and rebuilding. By agreement with Brain Station 23, internal results are published only as percentages and multiples.
What was done, in the order it was done
Every tactic on this page is ordinary: noindex, rewrites, new content, country targeting, links. Any agency brochure lists them. What moved the numbers was the sequence.
- Technical clean-up first. Pages that served no search purpose were set to noindex, and some were removed outright. Google was left with fewer, clearer pages to judge.
- Rewrite the service pages before writing anything new. The existing pages were rewritten and optimised for buyer intent. This produced the largest single jump of the whole programme, at no new-content cost.
- New content aimed at topics competitors were visibly winning. Where a rival firm was visibly drawing traffic on a topic, a page was built to compete for it.
- Bangladesh first, then one country at a time. Home market rankings came first. The United Arab Emirates followed, using the same playbook with local terms.
- Referring domains acquired steadily, not in bursts. Good-quality links were added at an even pace across the period. Ahrefs shows the count rising from about 600 to about 2.8K.
No other single step moved more than the service-page rewrite, and it cost nothing in new content. If you take one thing from this page, take that.
The figures you can check yourself: 131 keywords in the top three
Ahrefs, read on 2 September 2026 on a two-year comparison, shows 131 keywords in Google’s top three, up by 114. It shows 322 organic keywords in total, Domain Rating up from 68 to 71, and about 2.8K referring domains, up about 2.2K.
Organic traffic splits roughly three quarters Bangladesh and one fifth UAE.
Bangladesh
Position one for “tech companies in bangladesh”, “bangladesh it company list” and “top it firm in bangladesh”. Top three for “software company in bangladesh”, “it company in bangladesh” and “top software company in bangladesh”.
United Arab Emirates
Position one for “mobile app development company in dubai”, “it solutions company in dubai” and “top it companies in uae”. Top five for a long tail of Dubai and UAE service terms.
After the home page, the highest-traffic pages are competitive listicles: the Bangladesh software-company roundup, and the Dubai IT and mobile-app roundups. On these searches the company now competes with Indian development firms across several countries. It also competes with the directories buyers start from, Clutch and GoodFirms.
Ahrefs lags the live SERP by about two weeks. If you check a term today and see a different position, that is the reason.
What this means if you sell B2B services from Bangladesh
- Measure buyer intent, not traffic. Pull a month of Search Console data and tag each query as buyer, job seeker or brand. If buyers are a small fraction of clicks, traffic growth will not move revenue.
- Fix what you have before you add. Rewriting existing service pages was the single largest gain here. It cost writing time and nothing else.
- Win one country before you start the next. A top-three position at home is the proof you need to repeat the method abroad.
- Build the roundups buyers read first. Prospects start on listicles and directories. If you are not on the page they open first, you are not on the shortlist.
- Report pipeline, not traffic. The figure that matters in this case is 43x pipeline, not users. Tie SEO to BANT-qualified leads from the first month.
- Give it time. The first months here went to research and rebuilding. The compounding came in the eight months after.
Credit
This was in-house work, led by me, with support from members of the Brain Station 23 team. The results belong to them as much as to me, and they were shared with them.
Deliberately absent from this page: lead counts, user counts, pipeline values, revenue and analytics screenshots. Those belong to Brain Station 23. The Ahrefs figures are public and reproducible by anyone with an account.
What comes next: aims, not results
Everything above is done. What follows is not, and it is written as an aim.
The same method is now pointed at the United States. That is an intention, and nothing on this page should be read as a US result. When there is one, it will appear here with the same Ahrefs evidence.
The larger aim is to make Brain Station 23 the software company global search returns first, in Google and in AI answers. After that, to take each of its other service lines to the same position.
My own aim is narrower and harder to fake. I want to earn a place among the top one per cent of SEO practitioners. The way to do that is in public, where anyone can check the work.
The result above took eight months of compounding, one country at a time, and a refusal to count job seekers as progress.
