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Case study · SEO & PPC · Vending2026 update

Connect Vending

Three years working as one team with an award-winning UK vending supplier, and the growth is still compounding.

+42% organic visitsand still climbing, 18 months on
SectorVending & workplace refreshment
Established1996 · 30 years
ScopeOngoing SEO partnership
Results updated2026 · 18 months on
Connect Vending break-out zone with vending machines, snacks and a hydration station

The brief

A strong business that deserved a stronger presence.

Connect Vending is an independent, award-winning vending supplier that has served UK workplaces since 1996, with coffee machines, vending, micro markets, smart fridges and fully managed refreshment.

The team, led by CEO Elyas Coutts, already understood the value of online growth and had invested in SEO and PPC. What they wanted next was a partner who would get properly under the skin of the business rather than run a standard campaign at it.

Connect Vending break-out zone with coffee machines and self-checkout kiosks

18 months on

Growth that just kept building.

Eighteen months into the current phase of work, growth hasn’t slowed. Here is where the numbers stand today.

+20Average positionPositions gained
+7.69%Search visibility18-month change
+42%Organic visits18-month change
77Keywords in Top 3+108% increase
137Keywords in Top 10+158% increase

Keyword rankings, 18 months apart

37
77
Top 3 positions
53
137
Top 10 positions
18 months agoNow

The site behind the results

A presence that works as hard as the business does.

connectvending.co.uk
The Connect Vending website homepage
Commercial keywordsService pagesTechnical foundationsOngoing collaboration

Our approach

So, how did Amax Marketing collaborate with Connect Vending?

Every business has different goals, customers and challenges, so we don’t believe in applying a one-size-fits-all SEO strategy.

We spent real time with the Connect Vending team understanding their products, their customers and their long-term objectives before a single line of the campaign was written.

Since then it has been a steady rhythm of collaboration, review and refinement, strengthening their presence and bringing in more of the customers they actually want.

A partnership built on trust

More than a supplier, an extension of the team.

One of the biggest reasons this campaign has kept working is the relationship between the two teams.

We don’t behave like an external supplier. We work as an extension of Connect Vending’s marketing team, in the same conversations, measured against the same targets.

Regular communication, planning done together and a genuine understanding of the business let us move quickly when priorities shift, and spot new opportunities as they appear.

It’s that partnership, combined with our SEO expertise, that has turned a good first year into a sustained three-year run.

Connect Vending liveried fleet vans on the road
Three decades of trust, and a presence to match.

Why it works

Three years in, and still finding new ground.

“The best results come when a client lets us properly inside the business,” says Rahul Vekaria, Managing Director at Amax Marketing. “Connect Vending did that from the first meeting, and it’s the single biggest reason this campaign is still growing three years later.”

One team, not two

Shared targets, shared reporting, and a direct line between the people doing the work and the people running the business.

Built around the business

The campaign follows Connect Vending’s commercial priorities rather than a template, and it changes when those priorities change.

Playing the long game

Nothing here is a short-term spike. Every decision is weighed against where the business wants to be in three years, not three weeks.

We’ve seen a significant improvement since we started working with Amax Marketing, and it has kept building quarter on quarter.

The quality of the work has been excellent throughout. We saw an upturn in leads within the first three months and we’re excited to see what comes through in the next year.

Elyas Coutts, Managing Director of Connect Vending
Elyas CouttsManaging Director, Connect Vending

Every business is different

We don’t apply the same SEO strategy to every client. Every campaign is built around the individual business, its goals and its customers, so the work we deliver is aligned with long-term commercial success rather than a fixed formula.

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