Case Study

Mustard: Source for AI Overview and Metal Prices

Hardalis Recycling Macedonia
+1526,67%
Words in Top 3
+316,17%
Top 10 words
+163,70%
Increase clicks
+141,53%
Increase non-brand clicks

Source: Google Search Console · July to Sep. 2026 compared to Jun. to Aug. 2025

Hardalis Recycling Macedonia

ORHardalis Recycling Macedoniais active in the purchase and recycling of old metals in Northern Greece. Thousands of searches every month for prices of copper, bronze and other metals.

The goal was top positions on Google, and especially onAI Overview, for searches of high commercial value.

Hardalis Recycling, metal grabber in recycling yard
Services SEO

The challenge

Anyone who writes "copper price today" wants a number, and wants it now, as does anyone lookingtransport Athens Thessaloniki. If it doesn't find it on the first screen, it goes back to the results.

The company had the price content, but the articles weren't easy to read, the service pages didn't have proper metas, and the reader didn't have a next step.

  1. 01

    Metal prices constantly changing, so content that needs to stay up to date

  2. 02

    Competition from other recyclers and price aggregator sites

  3. 03

    Articles without style, with text across the width of the screen and no images in the body

  4. 04

    Blog page with small H1 on mobile, no intro and pagination that hid articles

  5. 05

    No calling or visiting within the price articles

Our approach

  1. Step 01

    Price is the answer.

    Guides for copper, bronze, aluminum, batteries and cables, with the information requested by the user at the beginning and the details by type of metal afterwards. This structure makes an articlecandidate source for AI Overview.

  2. Step 02

    Each service, its own snippet.

    Nineteen pages got a new title and description: the original, the recycling and withdrawal services, the blog and the trust pages. No branding on service pages so all title space goes to the word the customer is searching for.

  3. Step 03

    The reader does not get tired.

    One CSS for all articles, within the Elementor kit, so that it applies to all future ones. 820px reading width, price tables with dark heading, content box, FAQ cards and correct breakpoints for mobile.

    • Images in each article, with Greek alts
    • Closed comments on all articles
  4. Step 04

    From the price to the phone.

    At the end of each article, a text box corresponding to the topic, for copper, aluminum or car retirement. Two buttons: call and the relevant service page, which also gains an internal link.

  5. Step 05

    The blog became a showcase.

    New H1 for scrap prices and metal guides, introduction mentioning the company's experience since 1977, the newest article on a large card and everything else on one page. No article is hidden on a second page anymore.

Tools we used

  • Google Search Console
  • Google Analytics 4
  • PageSpeed Insights
  • Schema.org
  • Site crawler
  • DataForSEO

The outcome

Hardali's price guides climbed to the front page for key copper, bronze and aluminum searches, and the companyappears as a resource in Google's AI Overview, as the screenshots below show.

The numbers from Google Search Console:

Click Increase +163.70%
Before 1.6K
After 4.3K
Impressions Increase +130.65%
Before 65K
After 150K
Average position improvement +31.87%
Before 9.1
After 6.2
Increase in clicks from general searches (non-brand) +141.53%
Before 1K
After 2.5K
Increase impressions from general searches (non-brand) +84.48%
Before 45K
After 83K
More keywords in the Top 10 +316.17%
Before 167
After 695
More keywords in the Top 3 +1526.67%
Before 15
After ​​244

Google rankings

  • #3 aluminum scrap price today Top 3
  • #5 copper price
  • #5 scrap copper price
  • #6 copper price today in euros
#2 on Google for “μπρουτζος τιμη κιλου”
Hardalis Anakyklotiki Macedonia, the page that appears in position 2 on Google for "bronze price per kilo"
Hardalis Recycling Macedonia’s page winning this search

Πετύχαμε

+316,17%
Top 10 words
+163,70%
Increase clicks
+141,53%
Increase non-brand clicks

Source: Google Search Console · July to Sep. 2026 compared to Jun. to Aug. 2025

Google Search Console, Hardalis Recycling Macedonia (1)
Google Search Console, Hardalis Recycling Macedonia (2)

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