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How Charly.si reached #1 on Google with 5 connected Petbase articles

Charly.si used Petbase to turn one pet health topic into a connected content cluster. The first article reached page 1 within 20 days of indexing, climbed to #1 within 4 months, and now rotates between positions 1-3, competing with national media, veterinary, and multinational retail websites.

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connected articles
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days to page 1
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months to #1
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#1 on Google in 4 months

#1 #5 #10
Dec 21 2025 Feb 28 May 3 2026
Source: Google Search Console 20 weeks tracked

"We had product knowledge, but Petbase helped us turn it into content that actually started showing up on Google."

TD

Tilen Drmota

Owner · Charly.si

Real Google proof

Two screenshots taken straight from Google for the same Slovenian pet health query.

Google AI Overview citing Charly.si as a connected resource for a Slovenian pet health query.
AI Overview citation Charly's Petbase article is cited as a connected resource in Google's AI Overview.
Google SERP from April 7, 2026 showing Charly.si ranked #1 for a competitive pet health query.
#1 on Google, April 7, 2026 On April 7, 2026, Charly appeared #1 on Google for a competitive pet health query.

Who is Charly.si?

Charly.si is a Slovenian pet store focused on helping dog and cat owners find practical products for everyday pet health, care, and wellbeing.

Like many pet businesses, Charly had product knowledge, real customer questions to answer, and useful products to recommend. The opportunity was to turn that expertise into structured organic visibility.

The growth challenge

The goal was not simply to "write more blogs."

The goal was to make Charly more visible in organic search for the problems their products help solve - and to make sure that visibility could lead visitors back to relevant products.

To do that, Charly needed a content system that could:

  • Publish consistently, instead of treating every article as a one-off project
  • Build topical authority around specific pet health and care problems
  • Reduce the internal workload of starting from scratch every time content needed to be created
  • Connect educational articles back to relevant products, so visibility could also support sales
  • Make the content easier for Google to understand, index, and rank

What Petbase did

Petbase created a focused cluster of 5 connected articles around one pet health topic.

Each article was built to support the others, instead of acting as an isolated blog post. The content included:

  • Clear SEO structure
  • Internal links between related articles
  • Product links to relevant solutions
  • Topic depth around one specific customer problem
  • A publishing structure Google could understand

The goal was not just to publish more content. It was to build a small but focused authority cluster around a topic Charly's customers were already searching for.

The timeline

November 2025

Petbase content cluster started.

December 10, 2025

First article indexed by Google.

December 20, 2025

The article reached around position 5.

March 1, 2026

Average position improved to around 3.5.

April 1, 2026

Average position improved to around 2.4.

April 7, 2026

Article appeared #1 on Google for a competitive pet health query - above national media, Zoohit, and veterinary websites.

May 1, 2026

Average position reached around 1.8. Now rotates between positions 1-3.

Google Search Console positions chart showing Charly's article climbing from early page-1 visibility to top positions over 4 months.
Google Search Console - ranking over 4 months Google Search Console showed the article climbing from early page-1 visibility toward top positions over 4 months.

The result

One Petbase article became the main ranking asset for a competitive pet health topic, supported by the surrounding cluster.

The main query climbed from first visibility to top Google positions over the following months. At its strongest point, the article reached #1 for the target topic. Rankings naturally fluctuate, and the page now rotates between positions 1-3, but the result still shows the core point:

A small, focused content cluster can create real Google visibility when the content is structured, linked, indexed, and tied back to products.

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