IMAGE_CREDIT: Saxo Bank
Background
Saxo Bank is a Danish investment bank that serves clients in 180 countries, and our SEO campaign covers 15 markets. As a global agency, MediaGroup was in the unique position to manage these markets due to our technical expertise and international staff that were familiar with local markets.
The financial market is a very competitive one in general, and Saxo is up against fellow brokers with global presences. This competitiveness is also heightened in Asia, where the bank competes against locally and more established financial institutions.
Goals
To increase the number of monthly impressions of the domain by 50%
To increase monthly organic traffic to the domain by 50%
To increase the number of referring domains of the site by 50%
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Solution
MediaGroup targeted traders not yet registered with the bank as well as current clients across all campaigns. Native to Denmark, Saxo naturally has a bigger presence in Europe. However, as the bank begins to extend its geographic footprint with new partnerships launched in Asia, it was equally important for our local campaigns to reach and appeal to traders in the region.
Our focus overall was to increase visibility, traffic, and eventually, revenue, and our holistic strategy aimed to achieve this with all three aspects of SEO, including on- and off-site factors and SEO content.
On-site SEO
We diagnosed the problems and areas of weakness with ongoing audits and provided recommendations for implementation for all markets. We also evaluated sites against best practices to ensure all possible content was accessible to search engines and users. Some of these factors we audited included content tagging, site structure and navigation, compliance and construction, crawlability, mobile friendliness, and core web vitals.
Off-site SEO
After a comprehensive audit of the sites, we used analyses of keywords, local market landscapes, and competitors to inform our strategy of link acquisition through content efforts. This was done with the aim to boost local rankings in each market and to strengthen the backlink profile of each site in both quality and quantity.
We selected initial sets of keywords in local languages (unless otherwise specified) for each market, and we also set out to help Saxo reclaim links by finding pages on websites that have mentioned the bank without adding clickable links and doing outreach.
Content
While our on- and off-site SEO strategies were strong, we saw a need in diverting more of our SEO efforts into creating localised content from scratch. Thus, we deployed extra efforts in several markets.
We created new instrument pages for the Danish, Dutch, and global markets and improved existing ones to meet SEO best practices. This was done through extensive research in local and global markets.
For the Singaporean market, we created a cluster of on-site evergreen educational pages from scratch, in-house, to increase the number of organic keywords and visibility within the market. This was done through creating a visualisation of the current site’s content structure to see where the new pages will be implemented, and through targeted keyword research and content gap analysis. We also took steps to ensure that all content we put out was compliant with strict local regulations.
Some of the articles we created as part of the campaign:
home.saxo/en-sg/content/articles/forex/what-is-forex-trading-06072021
home.saxo/en-sg/content/articles/forex/about-the-forex-market-06072021
home.saxo/en-sg/content/articles/forex/how-to-trade-forex-06072021
Results
Our objective was to improve brand visibility, increase the number of organic keywords, and build strong and natural link profiles for all local sites.
From October 2020 to March 2022, we saw significant growth across organic traffic, impressions, and the total number of referring domains for Saxo’s main domain, home.saxo.
New referrals drove a significant diversification of the site’s link profile. In 2021, we provided over one thousand high-quality links from trusted, industry-relevant sites for the global market.
In 2021, we significantly improved client Trust and Citation Flow metrics thanks to the link building campaign.
Most of the keywords for the Danish, Swedish, Japanese and German sites improved or kept their top-ranking positions.
We are very happy with the success we have achieved with our campaign across all 15 markets with Saxo, and we are pleased to say that our SEO efforts are appreciated as we continue our partnership with the bank.
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