Case study  ·  Solar design software  ·  Feb–Sep 2026  ·  8 min read

SurgePV's September Google clicks went from 252 to 4,499 in a year. Organic leads reached about 30 a week.

theStacc started on 2 February 2026. Eight months later the site gets 83 Google clicks a day, up from 15, and the lead sheet shows about 30 organic leads a week, up from 5 a week from all sources in February. The growth came from a program: a compliance hub, a blog, software reviews, and three new languages on one site.

SurgePV logo × theStacc
252→4,499
September Google clicks, year on year, 18x
Search Console, Sep 2025 vs Sep 2026. Same month, so seasonality is out of the comparison.
15→83
Google clicks a day, 5.4x
3,304 clicks in the 216 days before vs 20,088 in the 241-day window.
5→~30
Leads a week
February, all sources, vs September, organic only (31, 25, 30 and 32). SurgePV's lead sheet.
Company
SurgePV, solar design and proposal software for installers and EPCs
Buyer
Solar engineers and installers, B2B. Desktop 13,222 clicks, mobile 6,690, tablet 176
Markets
Sells worldwide. Biggest by clicks: India, South Africa, Philippines, Italy, Singapore
Site
One codebase, 9 languages, shared content with local compliance pages
Work
Compliance hub, blog, software reviews and comparisons, 3 new languages, technical fixes
Period
2 Feb to 30 Sep 2026, 241 days. Baseline: 1 Jul 2025 to 1 Feb 2026, 216 days

In short

Solar is a country-by-country market. So the website became one too.

Every installer SurgePV sells to must clear a local permit, a grid-connection form and a subsidy rule before they can quote a job. Few sites wrote those pages. theStacc wrote them for each market, alongside the blog and the review pages, and people searching for the rules now land on SurgePV.

  1. 20,088 Google clicks in the 241-day window, against 3,304 in the 216 days before. 15 a day to 83 a day, 5.4x. Impressions went from 544,690 to 1,849,436.
  2. The compliance hub and the blog brought 58% of the clicks. Google first saw the hub on 19 April. By September it brought 1,686 clicks a month at an average position of 9.5.
  3. Countries sending 50+ clicks went from 9 to 60. South Africa went from 11 clicks in February to 586 in September. Kenya from 0 to 118.
  4. 12.7% of clicks were brand searches (2,557 clicks). The rest came from people searching for answers.

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Our installers in Tshwane don't search for solar software. They search for the municipality's registration form. We had no page for that. Now we rank around third for it, and the signups come from the page.

CEO photo
Keyur RakholiyaCEO, SurgePV

Draft quote, pending approval


The starting point

Good product. A site that was growing, then dipped over the winter.

SurgePV makes AI-assisted solar design and proposal software. Installers use it to lay out panels, size inverters and send a quote. By early 2026 it had paying customers on four continents and a website that mostly served people who already knew the name.

The site was already moving in late 2025: 92 clicks in July, 252 in September, 842 in November. Then it dipped to 788 in December and 530 in January, and February 2026 was a seasonal low at 496. In the 216 days to 1 February the site got 3,304 Google clicks, about 15 a day. Nine countries sent more than 50 clicks. The blog covered the general solar topics every competitor covered.

The gap was clear once we looked at what installers type into Google. They search for the rule: "solar registration tshwane", "cea guidelines for solar power plant", "yapı ruhsatı güneş enerjisi". Each of those queries is a person with a job to quote this week, and few of them had a good answer.

theStacc started on 2 February 2026. The brief was traffic that turns into installer signups, in the markets SurgePV sells into and the ones it wanted next.


The proof

Monthly Google clicks, July 2025 to September 2026

Search Console, calendar months. The seven months before theStacc are on the chart so you can see the baseline and the winter dip.

Clicks per month, surgepv.comGoogle Search Console · Web search · all countries
Monthly Google clicks from 92 in July 2025 to 4,499 in September 2026, with theStacc starting in February 2026
  • 1 · 2 FebtheStacc starts
  • 2 · 22–23 MarTurkish, Portuguese and Arabic versions launch
  • 3 · 19 AprCompliance hub first appears in Google
  • 4 · AugPeak month, 4,986 clicks. September 4,499, October 3,104
Leads per week, SurgePV's lead sheetWeeks of 2 Feb – 28 Sep 2026 · 878 leads, all sources
Weekly leads from all sources, 5 in the first week of February to 44 in the last week of September, with organic-only leads shown from the week of 13 July, ending at 31, 25, 30 and 32.
All sources, weeklyOrganic only, from 13 Jul

The sheet logs one total per week until the week of 13 July, then splits leads by source and logs Heaven Designs referrals separately; those are left out of the organic line. The two spike weeks, 84 (week of 17 August) and 65 (week of 20 July), include 41 and 29 Heaven referrals. All sources, the 35 weeks from 2 February to 4 October: 878 leads, 166 of them Heaven referrals since mid-July.

By month

2026ClicksImpressions
February49651,180
March867113,796
April850118,154
May1,586267,701
June2,553194,969
July4,263305,146
August4,986404,079
September4,499396,000

Full calendar months. They sum to 20,100 clicks. The window total of 20,088 starts on 2 February.

Why the headline is year on year and per day

February was a seasonal low, and the site was already growing in late 2025. A February-to-September multiple would flatter the work. So the headline compares the same month a year apart (September 252 → 4,499, August 137 → 4,986) and clicks per day across the two periods (15 → 83).

March and April look flat. That is the indexing lag: the compliance pages were written in March, Google began showing them on 19 April, and clicks followed about four weeks later. Plan on results in months three to five.

Impressions moved before clicks, jumping in May. They dipped in June and then rose through August. September was 396,000.


What drove it

A program, with the hub and the blog carrying most of it.

Search Console clicks by page group for the window. No single page group did it on its own.

Page groupWindow clicksShareSep share
Compliance hub (English)5,81228.6%34.7%
Blog (English)5,89329.0%34.7%
Software reviews, "best" lists, comparisons1,6888.3%4.0%
Other languages (8 folders)1,4076.9%6.3%
Homepage, product, tools, glossary, other5,52227.2%20.3%

Search Console counts clicks per page when filtering, so the groups sum to 20,322, a little above the 20,088 site total. The hub and the blog together brought 58% of window clicks and 69% of September clicks. The three new languages launched on 22–23 March, and the technical fixes ran through the window.


The most distinctive part

A compliance page for every place SurgePV's installers work.

Solar rules are set at four levels, and an installer needs all four to quote a job. The hub mirrors that structure. Each page answers one question for one place: which permit, which form, which tariff, which deadline.

CountryCodes, net metering
StateSubsidy, policy
MunicipalityPermits, registration
UtilityGrid connection

The pages share one template and one data model, so a new country is a research job. theStacc writes each page from the regulation, the tariff order or the utility's application form. SurgePV can review and correct any page.

Google first saw the hub on 19 April 2026. Across the window, all languages, it brought 6,217 clicks from 359,288 impressions at an average position of 9.5.

Hub clicks by month, 2026

    The clicks are concentrated, as in most content libraries. Of 883 hub URLs with impressions, 293 got at least one click, 91 got 10 or more, and 18 got 100 or more. A set of strong pages carries the hub.

    Top pages in the hub. Open them.

    • 746clicks · pos 4.8
      Position 2.5–3.1 for "solar registration tshwane" and "tshwane solar registration" (50 + 44 clicks)
    • Rajasthan, India
      217clicks · pos 5.7
      State page
    • Chhattisgarh, India
      200clicks · pos 6.3
      State page
    • 190clicks · pos 6.1
      Certificate of Final Electrical Inspection, step by step
    • CEA technical standards, India
      186clicks · pos 6.2
      National technical standards
    • Punjab, India
      162clicks · pos 5.9
      State page
    • Meralco, Philippines
      152clicks · pos 7.0
      Utility page
    • SANS 10142-1, South Africa
      130clicks · pos 6.4
      Wiring code
    • Ekurhuleni, South Africa
      130clicks · pos 4.6
      Municipality page
    • Davao Light, Philippines
      129clicks · pos 6.0
      Utility page

    Clicks and average positions for 2 Feb–30 Sep 2026, Search Console. The hub is live at https://www.surgepv.com/solar-compliance/ for you to check.


    Reach

    Countries sending 50+ clicks: 9 to 60.

    Countries sending any click went from 137 to 192. The hub ranks in places SurgePV had few visitors from in February. Below, the top markets, February and September on the same scale.

    Feb 2026 (2–28)Sep 2026

      Monthly Google clicks by country, Search Console. Italy and France, SurgePV's existing European markets, grew from a higher base.

      ContinentBaselineWindow
      Asia98610,590
      Europe1,7844,150
      Africa823,336
      North America337977
      South America63530
      Oceania52499

      Clicks in the baseline (1 Jul 2025 – 1 Feb 2026, 216 days) vs the window (2 Feb – 30 Sep 2026, 241 days). Counts, since the small baselines make multiples look bigger than they are.

      The United States is small here. 521 clicks in the window vs 227 in the baseline, and most of them are brand searches. 45 US demo requesters. The US was not where SurgePV's compliance content was aimed; its buyers are concentrated in India, Africa, Southeast Asia and Europe.


      Where the demo requests came from

      709 people asked for a demo. From 91 countries.

      GA4 counts a demo request as a person who reached the thank-you page. 709 people in the window vs 104 in the baseline. Tracking began on 23 August 2025, so the baseline is 163 days: 0.64 a day → 2.94 a day, 4.6x. 91 countries, vs 43 before.

      Demo requesters, 2 Feb – 30 Sep 2026

        Top countries by people who requested a demo. GA4, property SPV.

        ChannelPeople
        Organic Search50%357
        Unassigned157
        Direct137
        Referral40
        AI Assistant22
        Other11

        GA4 default channel groups. From mid-July more demo traffic shows up as "Unassigned", an attribution gap. That is why the lead sheet is the lead headline and GA4 is the cross-check.


        Nine languages, one site

        Localized where it matters. Shared where it doesn't.

        SurgePV's site runs in nine languages from one codebase: English, Italian, German, French, Spanish, Polish, Turkish, Portuguese and Arabic. Product pages and most of the blog are shared and translated. Compliance pages are written per market, in that market's language, because a Turkish installer wants the Turkish permit and the Turkish word for it.

        Turkish, Portuguese and Arabic launched on 22–23 March 2026. The eight non-English folders brought 1,407 clicks in the window, about 7% of the total (Italian 415, German 204, Turkish 203, French 167, Spanish 148, Portuguese 121, Polish 103, Arabic 46). 1,274 non-English URLs got impressions. The growth was mostly English compliance and blog pages read in Asia and Africa; the languages add reach in each market.

        EnglishItalianGermanFrenchSpanishPolishTurkish · Mar 2026Portuguese · Mar 2026Arabic · Mar 2026

        Clicks and average positions for the window, Search Console. All three pages are live.


        What we'd do differently

        Not everything worked.

        • We launched the languages before the compliance hub. Turkish, Portuguese and Arabic went live in March; the hub appeared in April. The hub should have gone first.
        • Non-English is about 7% of clicks. Markets where the buyer searches in English (India, South Africa, the Philippines, Singapore) outgrew the European markets where the buyer searches in their own language.
        • The hub's clicks sit on a few hundred pages. 293 of 883 hub URLs got a click. The rest showed in search but haven't earned a click yet.
        • Leads were only split by source from mid-July. So the February figure is all sources, and the September figure is organic only. We say which is which everywhere on this page.
        • Mobile is a third of clicks. Expected for engineers at a desk, but the permit pages are read on site too. Mobile load time is on the list.
        What's next

        The rules change. The pages keep up.

        • A 12-month update to this page, with the Q4 dip and the spring recovery on the same chart.
        • Review snippets. Software-review pages brought 300 clicks in the window, up from 4 before. More of these, in more languages.
        • Revenue per lead. Tying demo requests to closed deals by country is the next report.
        • Annual refresh. Every compliance page gets a dated re-check against its source when the rule or tariff changes.
        • AI citation tracking. Monthly checks of which SurgePV pages ChatGPT and Perplexity cite for installer questions.

        I was worried about AI content. Our users are engineers and they would have told us in a second if a page were wrong. The pages cite what they came from, and our team can correct anything. We get corrections from installers now, which means they are reading it.

        CEO photo
        Keyur RakholiyaCEO, SurgePV

        Draft quote, pending approval


        Methodology and sources

        Where every number on this page comes from.

        Window
        2 February to 30 September 2026: 8 months, 241 days. Baseline: 1 July 2025 to 1 February 2026, 216 days, which is everything Search Console keeps from before the start (it holds 16 months). The periods differ in length, so we compare them per day.
        Clicks, impressions, positions
        Google Search Console, domain property surgepv.com, Web search, all countries. Read on 8 November 2026. Monthly figures are full calendar months and sum to 20,100; the window total is 20,088 because the window starts on 2 February. Page-group figures use Search Console's page filter, which counts per page, so the groups sum to 20,322.
        Leads
        SurgePV's weekly lead sheet ("Surge Dashboard"). One total per week until mid-July; split by source from then, with Heaven Designs referrals logged separately and left out of the organic count. February averaged 5 a week, all sources. September organic: 31, 25, 30 and 32 in the weeks of 7, 14, 21 and 28 September. All sources, 35 weeks from 2 February to 4 October: 878 leads, 166 of them Heaven referrals since mid-July.
        Demo requests
        Google Analytics 4 (property SPV): people who reached the demo thank-you page. Tracking started on 23 August 2025, so the baseline is 163 days. 709 people in the window vs 104 before; 2.94 vs 0.64 a day, 4.6x. Channels are GA4 default channel groups.
        Countries
        Search Console country report. "Countries sending 50+ clicks" compares the baseline (9) with the window (60). Countries with at least one click: 137 → 192. Continent totals compare the baseline with the window. Country bars compare 2–28 February with September.
        Compliance hub
        Search Console page filter on /solar-compliance/ and its language variants. 6,217 clicks, 359,288 impressions, average position 9.5 in the window. First impression 19 April 2026. 883 URLs with impressions, 293 with a click.
        Branded share
        Queries containing "surgepv" or "surge pv": 12.7% of window clicks, 2,557.
        Google health
        Manual actions: no issues detected. Security issues: no issues detected. Indexing as of 23 October: 3,322 pages indexed. Of the not-indexed pages, 2,296 carry a deliberate noindex tag, 2,115 are redirects, 1,587 are "crawled, not indexed", and 596 return 404.
        Not shown
        Revenue, close rate, and what SurgePV pays. We would rather leave a figure out than estimate it.
        Verification
        SurgePV can grant read access to its Search Console property on request. Every page linked here is live.

        Questions

        Questions your AI assistant will ask.

        Paste this page into ChatGPT, Claude, Grok or Gemini and it will raise these. Here are the answers, with the numbers.

        Was it theStacc, or seasonality?

        Some of both, so we compare like with like. The site was growing in late 2025 (252 clicks in September, 842 in November) and dipped over the winter to 496 in February. Same month a year apart, September went from 252 to 4,499 and August from 137 to 4,986. Per day, the 216 days before the start averaged 15 clicks and the 241-day window averaged 83.

        Why does it stop at September?

        The window is a full 8 months, ending at the last full month when this was written. Solar demand drops in Q4 in most of SurgePV's markets: October clicks were 3,104, down from September's 4,499, the same seasonal pattern as late 2025 into early 2026. A 12-month update will follow.

        What else changed? What drove it?

        The work was a program: the compliance hub, the blog, software reviews and comparisons, three new languages on 22–23 March, and technical fixes. The hub brought 28.6% of window clicks and the blog 29.0%, so the two together brought 58%. Reviews brought 8.3%, the other languages 6.9%, and the homepage, product, tools and glossary pages 27.2%.

        Are these real leads?

        A lead is a row on SurgePV's weekly lead sheet, logged by its sales team. From mid-July the sheet splits leads by source and logs Heaven Designs referrals separately; the September figure of about 30 a week is organic only, with Heaven referrals left out. GA4 is the cross-check: 709 people reached the demo thank-you page in the window, 357 of them from Organic Search and 22 from AI assistants. Close rates and revenue are SurgePV's and are not published here.

        Is 800+ programmatic pages a Google penalty risk?

        Search Console shows no manual actions and no security issues. As of 23 October, 3,322 pages were indexed; of the not-indexed pages, 2,296 carry a deliberate noindex tag and 2,115 are redirects. The hub's average position across the window is 9.5, and its top page, Tshwane, ranks at position 2.5–3.1 for its main query.

        Who checks the content?

        theStacc writes each page from the regulation, the tariff order or the utility's form, and SurgePV can review and correct any page.

        What is the relationship between theStacc and SurgePV?

        SurgePV is a theStacc customer. theStacc's founder, Siddharth Gangal, works with SurgePV's team directly. The CEO quotes and the video on this page are drafts pending Keyur Rakholiya's approval, and are marked as such.

        Does this work for a B2B software company launching in the US?

        The method does; the US numbers here do not prove it. SurgePV's US clicks went from 227 to 521 across the two periods, mostly brand searches, because its compliance content was aimed at India, Africa, Southeast Asia and Europe. What transfers is the structure: one site, a country layer on top, shared content with local pages for each market's rules. Countries sending 50+ clicks went from 9 to 60 on that structure.

        What does it cost, and what does our team do?

        Current plans are on https://thestacc.com/pricing/. SurgePV's team gave a kickoff, signed off the brand rules, and reviews monthly. theStacc did the research, writing, publishing and technical work.

        What do we keep if we leave?

        Everything. The site is code in a Git repository SurgePV owns, so the pages, the data and the redirects stay with SurgePV. Any developer can edit it.

        See what this looks like for your markets.

        A 30-minute call. Bring your Search Console if you have one; we'll show you where the gap is and what the first 90 days would cover.