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Financial services SEO agency · since 2015

Financial services SEO
agency for banks, lenders
and investment brands.

Solvid is a financial services SEO agency for banks, building societies, lenders, brokers, wealth and asset managers, insurers and payments firms. The work sits under YMYL scrutiny and FCA, SEC and FINRA promotion rules, on a results page crowded with comparison sites and newspapers.

30,000+
Backlinks built
50M+
Words written
100+
Satisfied clients
11+ years
In SEO, since 2015

Brands that trust our SEO

WealthifyFreedom24MetaTrader 5Payouts.comEpos NowKuCoinBitgetHostingerWealthifyFreedom24MetaTrader 5Payouts.comEpos NowKuCoinBitgetHostinger
Financial services SEO

SEO services for finance, banking and investment brands.

11+ years
of SEO since 2015
30,000+
backlinks built for clients
15+
link building strategies
2 offices
London and Beverly Hills

We earn rankings, citations and authority there without shortcuts.

Finance keywords sit at the top of Google's YMYL pile. Mortgage, ISA, pension, life insurance, business loan, ETF: behind each term is a household or a business about to make a decision with its own money. Google's quality rater guidelines treat those pages as the highest-stakes category on the web, and regulators treat the copy as a financial promotion. The bar to rank reflects both.

For most finance brands the first page is now a contest between national newspapers, the big comparison sites, the publishing arms of incumbent banks, FCA-authorised reviewers and a thinning tail of independent advice sites. Beating them takes E-E-A-T, content depth and editorial link building. There are no quick wins in financial services SEO, only patient work that compounds for years.

We have been running SEO for financial services brands across the UK, the US and Europe for more than a decade; our longest-standing client is a fintech at over six years. We know the difference between an appointed representative and a directly authorised firm, why your Trustpilot integration matters for review schema, and how to build a content programme that satisfies the Consumer Duty, the FCA's financial promotion rules under COBS 4 and the search engine at once. In the US the same programme has to respect SEC marketing rules and FINRA Rule 2210. That is the fluency this category demands from a financial services SEO agency.

What separates finance from every other vertical is how trust is earned. In ecommerce a strong product photo and a good review block can carry a page. In finance you need named authors, named reviewers, sourced data, dated updates, regulator references and a brand entity Google already recognises. None of that arrives in one sprint, and the agencies that try to shortcut it get their clients de-ranked in the next core update.

What’s included

What's included in our financial services SEO retainers.

One team covers money pages, expert content, compliance review and authority building.

01

Keyword research for high-intent finance queries

We map intent across product categories (mortgages, savings, investing, pensions, business finance), informational queries (what is a SIPP, how to compare ISAs), comparison queries (best stocks and shares ISA, best business bank account UK) and regulatory queries (FCA-authorised mortgage broker, Consumer Duty explained). Each cluster is scored for volume, intent and what already ranks, so the roadmap is honest about which terms you can win.

02

Technical SEO for large finance sites

Big finance sites tend to carry legacy CMS sprawl, faceted navigation that spawns thousands of crawlable URLs, broken hreflang on international rollouts and product pages that render slowly behind rate widgets. We audit crawl, log files, rendering, internal linking, schema (FinancialProduct, Article, FAQPage, BreadcrumbList) and Core Web Vitals, then order fixes by traffic impact rather than audit-tool severity.

03

On-page optimisation for money pages

Product pages, comparison pages and rate pages are the engine of banking SEO. We rewrite titles and metas, repair heading hierarchy, strengthen internal links from supporting content, surface trust signals (FCA reference numbers, FSCS protection, reviewer bios, last-reviewed dates) and align each call to action with the search intent rather than the marketing team's preferred funnel.

04

Expert-authored content

Every piece carries a named author. Where credentials exist (CFA, ACCA, CII, CeMAP, Chartered Financial Planner) we show them; where they do not, the writer is paired with a reviewer who has them. Claims are sourced, figures are dated, and any "best" or "lowest" is qualified so compliance can sign it off.

05

Off-page SEO and digital PR

The finance press needs data, so we build it: regional cost-of-living indexes, savings rate trackers, mortgage affordability models, investing behaviour surveys. We pitch those to national, trade and regional titles, alongside unlinked mention reclamation, broken link reclamation and credentialled guest contributions. Our link building for financial services page covers the outreach side in detail.

06

Authority, citations and review reputation

We coordinate Trustpilot, Feefo and Google reviews, keep citations consistent and build the entity signals (sameAs links, Companies House alignment, consistent NAP) that get Google's knowledge layer to treat your firm as an institution.

07

Conversion-aware structure for application pages

A mortgage enquiry, an ISA application or a business loan submission is the moment the SEO work either pays off or evaporates. We work with your UX and compliance teams on application page structure, trust signal placement, disclosure wording and form field order, so the friction satisfies the regulator and the conversion still happens.

08

GEO (AI SEO)

People now ask AI assistants which savings account, mortgage lender or investment platform to use. We build the entity signals, clear product information and third-party citations that get your brand named in ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Overviews.

09

Thought leadership

Your economists, advisers and product specialists quoted in money and business press, building the named-expert profile that finance content needs to clear Google’s YMYL threshold.

10

Digital PR

Data-led campaigns on savings rates, household finances and investing behaviour, pitched to personal finance and national titles for links from the publications Google trusts most.

11

Local SEO for branches and advisers

Branch, office and adviser pages with Google Business Profiles, reviews and local citations, for banks, building societies, lenders and advice firms with a physical presence.

12

SEO audits

Forensic audits for large finance sites, covering migration risks, duplicate rate tables, compliance-driven noindex mistakes and toxic links, delivered as a prioritised plan.

Financial services SEO

Why finance brands choose Solvid.

We run a fully managed service, which matters in finance because the operational load is heavy: glossary entries, regulatory explainers, calculators, comparison tables, expert commentary and digital PR data drops, all queued for compliance. We carry that weight so your in-house team can stay on product and acquisition.

Our published financial services SEO results are on the case studies page. Freedom24, an online broker and investment platform, went from 3,200 to 72,000 monthly organic visits (+2,150%) and from 1,000 to 12,500 organic keywords over 48 months, with 1,000+ backlinks and 520+ brand mentions placed. Wealthify, an investment app, grew organic traffic from 22,000 to 27,000 (+23%) in eight months with 162+ backlinks. MetaTrader 5 grew from 335,000 to 515,000 monthly visits (+54%) in six months.

Content passes an internal review covering brief, sourcing, accuracy, on-page SEO, schema and compliance signals before your team sees it, and every link prospect goes through our 10-point quality control process (site history, traffic trends, content quality, metric discrepancies, outbound linking).

FCA, SEC and FINRA aware

We write inside the financial promotion rules, the Consumer Duty and high-risk investment guidance, and route every asset through your compliance team before it goes live.

E-E-A-T as a system

Author entities, credentials, citations, reviewer sign-off, last-updated dates and external corroboration on every money page as well as the blog.

Editorial link building

15+ link building strategies, placements on DR 50 to DR 90 sites, every prospect through a 10-point quality control process. No PBNs, no link farms.

Tool and data content

Calculators, comparison tables, glossaries and product roundups built to rank and to attract citations from journalists who need a source.

AI search visibility

We track and grow citations in ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. Freedom24's AI visibility rose 447% and Wealthify's 92% under our programmes.

Dedicated SEO manager

One named point of contact with finance experience who owns your roadmap, your compliance queue and your reporting.

Monthly SEO reports

Rankings, organic sessions, organic-attributed applications, links placed by domain, and the plan for the next sprint.

Published finance results

Freedom24, Wealthify and MetaTrader 5 case studies with real traffic and backlink figures.

AI search

Be the provider AI trusts with money questions.

When someone asks AI which ISA, lender or bank account to choose, the answer cites a small set of brands and the comparison sites that review them. Being in that set is now part of finance SEO.

  • Expert-authored content with named, credentialed reviewers
  • Coverage in money and personal finance media AI cites
  • Product facts kept consistent across comparison sites and your own pages
  • AI visibility tracked for product and “best…” prompts
AI visibility increases from our case studies
+2,455%
Recruitment service
12 months
+902%
Epos Now
8 months
+447%
Freedom24
48 months
+126%
MetaTrader 5
6 months
Challenges

Common SEO challenges for finance (and how we solve them).

1

Comparison sites own the SERP

MoneySuperMarket, MoneySavingExpert, Compare the Market and their peers dominate top-of-funnel queries, and we do not try to beat them at their own game. We build different content shapes (deep guides, expert commentary, calculators, niche product pages) that win the queries comparison sites serve with a templated table and nothing else.

2

Compliance slows publication

Legal sign-off is the biggest constraint on finance content velocity. We write briefs that pre-empt compliance concerns, use your approved disclosures and footers, and run a multi-track pipeline so compliance can review in batches without becoming a single point of failure.

3

YMYL updates hit hard

Sites that grew on thin content lose badly in core updates. We harden you against that by upgrading author signals, consolidating low-value pages, deepening commercial pages and adding external corroboration to any claim that could be challenged.

4

Backlinks are scrutinised heavily

A spammy link profile in finance is a liability with Google and with a regulator asking how a promotion reached a particular site. We run periodic backlink audits, disavow what needs disavowing and build a profile any compliance officer could read without flinching.

5

Conversion paths are heavily regulated

You cannot put a "Get started" button on a high-risk investment page and call it done. We work with compliance and UX on appropriateness assessments, risk warnings, cooling-off messaging and gated steps that satisfy the rules while preserving the organic conversion.

6

Internal SEO buy-in is fragmented

In a larger bank or asset manager, SEO touches product, brand, compliance, legal, IT, content and PR. We run that coordination and present one roadmap and one monthly report.

7

Rate-driven content goes stale fast

Best-buy savings tables, mortgage rate roundups and ISA comparison pages need maintenance, not one-off publication. We set a refresh cadence so rate-sensitive pages are reviewed weekly or monthly, with visible last-updated dates and a changelog that proves freshness to readers and to search engines.

8

AI-generated finance content has poisoned the well

Search results are full of thin, machine-spun finance content that gets the basics wrong. That opens a clear gap for properly written, properly reviewed content from credentialled authors, and we aim at that gap rather than competing with the noise.

Who we help

Financial services businesses we work with.

Each part of the sector searches, buys and is regulated differently. Here is how SEO works for each:

Banks and building societies

Current accounts, savings, mortgages and business banking, where the head terms belong to comparison sites. Banking SEO here means product pages that carry FSCS and FCA trust signals, rate pages with a refresh cadence, and content that answers the questions comparison tables cannot.

Wealth and asset managers

Wealth management SEO is a long-cycle, high-value game: SIPPs, ISAs, discretionary management and fund pages. The winning pattern is credentialled authorship, fund-level content with dated performance disclosures and digital PR that puts your investment team into the money press. Wealthify sits in this segment.

Brokers and trading platforms

Investment SEO for brokers is where our deepest published results sit: Freedom24 and MetaTrader 5, both below. Platform comparison pages, instrument and market guides and risk-warning-compliant landing pages are the core assets.

Lenders

Personal loans, car finance, bridging, buy-to-let and SME lending. Representative APR rules shape every page, and eligibility content (who qualifies, what affects your rate) usually outgrows product pages because it answers the borrower's real question.

Insurers

Life, income protection, home, motor and commercial cover. Insurers face the same comparison-site wall as banks, so we focus on product variants, profession and location pages and claims-process content. More on our insurance SEO services page.

Payments and B2B fintech

Payment gateways, embedded finance and treasury tools sell to finance and operations teams rather than consumers. The keyword set is smaller and more technical, integration and comparison content does most of the work, and fintech trade press links matter more than consumer coverage. Payouts.com and Connectum are clients.

Companies we've helped.

HostingerBitgetKuCoinEpos NowPayouts.comMetaTrader 5Freedom24WealthifyLookersThe Access GroupPageGroupThe Open UniversityHostingerBitgetKuCoinEpos NowPayouts.comMetaTrader 5Freedom24WealthifyLookersThe Access GroupPageGroupThe Open University
Our approach

How we run a finance SEO campaign: our approach.

Realistic timelines: financial services SEO usually shows visible progress at six months, with the strongest gains between months 12 and 24. Freedom24's growth ran over 48 months. Treat it as a two to three year compounding play, not a quarterly campaign. Compliance note: we work alongside your compliance function, not in place of it. No reputable SEO agency can guarantee rankings, and nothing we produce should be published without formal sign-off from an appropriately authorised person inside your firm.

Step 1

Technical and content baseline

Full audit of crawl, indexation, rendering, schema, internal linking, content quality, E-E-A-T signals and backlinks, benchmarked against three named competitors.

Step 2

Compliance-aware strategy

We agree priority product lines, keyword clusters, content formats and link targets with your marketing and compliance leads, and sign the roadmap off before anything is produced.

Step 3

Technical remediation

The highest-impact issues go first: indexation, internal linking, schema, render-blocking scripts, Core Web Vitals on money pages, hreflang on international properties.

Step 4

Content and PR production

Credentialled authors produce content, digital PR pitches data-led stories, and both feed your monthly report with named assets and named links on named domains.

Step 5

Measurement and compounding

We measure rankings, organic traffic, organic-attributed applications and pipeline. Each quarter we revisit the strategy and reinvest where the compounding is strongest.

Comparison

Solvid vs other financial services SEO agencies.

Choosing a financial services SEO agency? Here’s how we compare with what most agencies offer.

What matters
Other agencies
Years in business
You can never beat experience
11+
Solvid was established in 2015
4
The average age of an agency
Core focus
Focusing on too many services dilutes your specialism
SEO
Our sole focus is SEO and AI SEO
Varied
No singular service focus
Regulated-sector experience
FCA, SEC and FINRA expectations
Comprehensive
Since 2015 in YMYL finance
Narrow
Little regulatory knowledge
Published finance results
Proof you can check
Yes
Wealthify, Freedom24, MetaTrader 5
Rare
Case studies hidden or vague
Client retention
You’re only as good as your retention
24+ months
Average retention of 2+ years
8 months
Retention of only 8 months
Locations
Global reach shows ambition and expertise
International
Based in the UK and USA
Local-only
Often focusing on a single city

Case studies

Results, on the record.

Organic traffic, keywords, backlinks, brand mentions and AI visibility, from the first month to the latest report.

Link building · Digital PR · 48 months+2,150%organic traffic for Freedom24
Backlinks gained
1,000+
Brand mentions
520+
AI visibility
+447%
Organic keywords
+1,150%
Monthly organic trafficRead the case study
020k40k60k80k20222023202472.6k / month

Source: Ahrefs organic traffic estimate, Feb 2021 – Oct 2024.

Organic keywords1,000 → 12,500
Familiar to millions

Read across the web.

Our clients have been featured in some of the most prominent publications in the world. Links and brand mentions on sites like these are what move rankings in Google and visibility in AI search.

MarketWatch
Kiplinger
MoneyWeek
GoBankingRates
Finder
Seeking Alpha
InvestorPlace
Investing
Independent
Financial Express
Yahoo News
Fintech Magazine
New York Post
Finance Magnates
FinanceFeeds
Pricing

Financial services SEO pricing.

Fully managed financial services SEO starts at £2,500 ($3,250) a month with a six-month minimum. Every package includes technical SEO, content, link building and AI visibility.

ConquerorPOPULAR
£7,500/month

Go-for option for businesses with evil outranking plans for their competition. Ideal for competitive industries, medium-sized businesses and eCommerce stores.

Hours
66–84 hours per month
One-off fee
£1,500
Links
12+ DR50+ Links/Month
  • On-Page and Off-Page SEO
  • Technical SEO
  • Content Marketing
  • Digital PR and Thought Leadership
  • AI and LLM Visibility
  • Backlink audit
  • Content audit
  • Internal content
  • Keyword research
  • Competitor analysis
  • Analytics and reporting

6 months minimum commitment

CustomTailored
Custom

Not sure which SEO package you need? Get in touch for a tailored SEO service. Whether you're a small start-up in a unique niche or an S&P 500 company, we'll have an SEO solution for you.

  • Custom DR50+ Links/Month
Our team

The people behind the results.

Professional SEOs, content strategists, writers and link builders who work together on every campaign, led by founder Dmytro Spilka.

  • Dmytro Spilka, Founder at Solvid
    Dmytro Spilka
    Founder
  • Rebecca Smith, Content & SEO at Solvid
    Rebecca Smith
    Content & SEO
  • Heather Langley, Content & SEO at Solvid
    Heather Langley
    Content & SEO
  • Peter Jobes, Content & SEO at Solvid
    Peter Jobes
    Content & SEO
  • Arsen, Outreach at Solvid
    Arsen
    Outreach
  • Neve Wilkinson, Content at Solvid
    Neve Wilkinson
    Content
  • Gregory, Content at Solvid
    Gregory
    Content
  • Stefan, Content at Solvid
    Stefan
    Content
International reach

Based in London and Los Angeles.
Ranking brands worldwide.

Clients across the UK, the US, Canada, Europe and Australia, and coverage in publications read around the world.

London · HQ
6 St. Davids Square, E14 3WA
Los Angeles
9100 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills

Clients in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, Cyprus, Switzerland, France and Australia.

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FAQ

Financial services SEO agency FAQ.

Not sure where to start? Book a call and we will review your site and your AI visibility with you.Get started

Yes, over a two to three year horizon it is usually the highest-return channel a finance brand has. Lifetime values are large enough that modest organic gains compound into serious revenue, and organic traffic does not stop when the paid budget does. Freedom24's organic traffic grew from 3,200 to 72,000 a month with us.