We're proud to share that Search Garden Digital has been named a winner in the 18th Web Excellence Awards, taking home recognition in the SEO category under Advertising & Marketing.

The win came from our work with Community Food Runners, a client we helped move beyond "set it and forget it" SEO. Instead of a one-time fix, we built a scalable technical foundation and layered on a modern SEO and GEO strategy designed to keep working as search itself keeps changing.

The Results

The numbers tell the story better than we can:

• 156%
  increase in organic traffic
• ~2.3s
  improvement in page speed
• 34%
  lift in conversions

That combination matters. Faster pages keep visitors around, stronger technical SEO gets more of them found in the first place, and a smarter strategy turns that visibility into actual results for the organization.

Why This Matters Beyond One Client

We built Search Garden Digital around a simple idea: SEO should be accountable, verifiable, and built by people who actually understand the industry they're working in. That's true whether we're working with a nonprofit like Community Food Runners or an irrigation company that's been in business for 30 years.

This award is confirmation that the approach works. Clear deliverables, technical work you can measure, and strategy that accounts for where search is actually headed, including AI Overviews and LLM-driven search, not just where it's been.

What's Next

We're not slowing down. Thanks to the Web Excellence Awards judges, and to Community Food Runners for trusting us with the work that made this possible.