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Swift Growth Marketing Case Study Rehab Essentials

B2B2C digital transformation · Healthcare education · Platform live December 2025

Rebuilt to scale with every university partner. Zero search authority lost in the move.

Rehab Essentials sells physical and occupational therapy education programs to universities, then helps those universities recruit students. Swift Growth Marketing rebuilt its web platform as one WordPress multisite network, kept 100% of its organic search authority through the migration, and structured its content to be found and cited by AI answer engines.

100%Organic search authority kept through the platform migration
~3 daysTo launch a new university sub-site, down from about 2–3 months
115+High-intent keywords tracked, with top visibility in search and AI answers

Client profile & strategic need

Rehab Essentials, Inc. is a B2B2C healthcare education provider serving 50+ university partners worldwide.

Its business has two sides. It sells programs to universities, where presidents, deans and program directors decide on a high-value partnership. Then it helps those universities recruit students into the programs.

The website had to win both conversations, keep its search visibility intact through a platform change, and stay findable as buyers shift from search engines to AI assistants.

Key stakeholders

Cheryl CassalyChief Marketing Officer

Joseph BrenceChief Executive Officer

Primary offerings

enTandem DPT

A turnkey, hybrid Doctor of Physical Therapy program aligned with CAPTE accreditation standards.

Post-Professional Programs

Transitional DPT (tDPT) and post-professional OTD (ppOTD).

University Licensing Select

A flexible, cost-effective catalog of CAPTE-aligned courses that helps program directors fill curriculum gaps and rely less on adjunct faculty.

Swift Growth Marketing Case Study · Rehab Essentials

The challenge

Audience

Two audiences, one site

University leaders weigh a high-value partnership. Prospective students want to know how to apply. The site had to serve both without muddling either.

Platform

A platform that could not scale

The legacy architecture could not launch partner sites quickly, and hard-coded widgets made simple text changes a developer job. Replacing it put the site’s search rankings and performance at risk.

Discovery

Search is moving to AI

Buyers now ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. A page-one ranking alone no longer meant being found.

Our approach

Platform

A scalable WordPress multisite

One network runs rehabessentials.com, the main B2B2C hub, plus template-driven partner sites such as umt.rehabessentials.com for the University of Montana.

  • WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility standards
  • Cloudflare security, custom plugins and sitewide search
  • HubSpot and Calendly lead capture built into the network

Search + AI

SEO and answer engine optimization

Content built to rank in search and to be quoted by the AI tools buyers now ask first.

  • Topic clusters and pillar pages, planned in HubSpot’s content strategy tools
  • Answer Capsules: short, structured content blocks written for ChatGPT and Copilot to cite
  • Digital PR, including coverage in Healthcare Business Today: “The Rise of Hybrid Learning in Graduate Healthcare Programs”

Leads

User experience and conversion

  • Persona-aligned landing pages for each audience
  • Mega-menu navigation built around each audience
  • A shorter lead capture path for university leadership

Backend

A backend their team can run

We replaced hard-coded widgets and hard-to-manage page structures with an intuitive WordPress and Elementor setup. Their team updates subheadings, text blocks and links without touching code.

  • Blog block library: 20+ ready-made content blocks, such as tip boxes, checklists and FAQs, inserted with one click
  • Automatic brand styling on standard headings, lists and quotes
  • New partner sub-sites start from a ready template, not a blank site
Swift Growth Marketing Case Study · Rehab Essentials

Results & business impact

100%

Organic search authority kept

The full platform transition, completed in December 2025, protected all of the search authority Rehab Essentials had built. A site move is the step where sites most often lose rankings. This one did not.

~3 days

To launch a new university sub-site

Before the multisite framework, a new partner site took about 2–3 months. Now one launches in about 3 days. Each new university partner gets a site that is ready to recruit.

115+

High-intent keywords tracked

Keyword tracking now covers 115+ high-intent terms, with top visibility across traditional search engines and AI answer engines.

In the client’s words

“Swift Growth Marketing has been an invaluable partner for Rehab Essentials. They’re hands-on problem solvers who jump right in when we face technical challenges. Their work is consistently reliable, and the communication is always direct and collaborative, which makes moving complex projects forward straightforward. We meet with them weekly, and they continue to support our growth with content strategy, landing pages, and ongoing site improvements. I’d recommend them to any team looking for a technically skilled partner who delivers results.”
Cheryl Cassaly
Cheryl CassalyChief Marketing Officer, Rehab Essentials

Key takeaway

If you sell to institutions and recruit their people too, your website has two jobs. Build it as one system: a shared platform, pages written for each audience, and content structured for AI to quote.

And when you change platforms, protect your search history first. Rankings are slow to earn and quick to lose.

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