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.
Brands that trust our SEO
SEO services for finance, banking and investment brands.
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.
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).
Common SEO challenges for finance (and how we solve them).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Companies we've helped.
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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.
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 SpilkaFounder
- Rebecca SmithContent & SEO
- Heather LangleyContent & SEO
- Peter JobesContent & SEO
- ArsenOutreach
- Neve WilkinsonContent
- GregoryContent
- StefanContent
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