Case study · Finance

SEO and AI Search for a Licensed Crypto Exchange in Dubai

SEO for a newly licensed exchange that needs visibility fast, inside VARA marketing rules.

Results at a glance

19K → 62K
Monthly clicks from Google search
2.7x
Verified sign-ups from organic search
80
Coin pages ranking for "buy [coin] UAE"
Industry
Finance · Crypto
Market
Dubai, UAE
Services
AI search, Content
Timeframe
12 months

The starting point

The exchange has just received its VARA licence and faces global exchanges and affiliates. News and affiliate sites hold "buy bitcoin UAE" and "is crypto legal in UAE". Each page has to meet VARA marketing rules.

What changed

Classic SEO

Coin and price pages

Built for "buy [coin] UAE" searches.

A verifiable safety story

The licence made clear and checkable.

AI search and GEO

Be named by assistants

News mentions and consistent entity details across the web.

How the work ran, step by step

  1. Build coin pages

    80 coins in English and Arabic, showing the live price, the AED purchase route, costs and a warning about risk.

  2. Explain the licence

    What the VARA licence covers, how custody works, proof of reserves, and how anyone can check it.

  3. Agree wording

    Compliance signs off language and warnings once, and guides stay free of promotional claims.

  4. Earn coverage

    Reporting on VARA licensing mentions the exchange, and its entity details match everywhere.

The results in charts

Organic searchJan 2025 to Dec 2025
Organic clicks, latest month60K+169%
Impressions, latest month3.06M+163%
Click-through rate2.0%0.0 pts
Average position8.28.4 places
Weekly clicksWeekly impressions

Search data over twelve months: clicks go from about 19K to 62K a month.

ConversionsJan 2025 to Dec 2025
Conversions, final month4,033+158% vs a year earlier
Conversions, whole period39K12 months
This periodA year earlier

Verified sign-ups from organic search, set against a year earlier.

AI search outcome

Assistants bring up the exchange when someone asks which UAE options hold a licence. Mentions like this cannot be promised.

Lessons for crypto businesses

  1. In crypto, the licence is the reason to choose you, so make it impossible to miss.
  2. Agreed wording means pages go live in days.
  3. Keep promotional claims out of educational content.

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