SEO for an Online Pharmacy in the UAE
SEO for a licensed chain whose online store only attracts brand searches.
Results at a glance
- Industry
- Healthcare · Pharmacy
- Market
- United Arab Emirates
- Services
- Technical SEO, Content, Local SEO
- Timeframe
- 12 months
The starting point
The chain has 11 branches and an online store with 6,000 products, but search traffic comes almost entirely from its own name. Product copy matches every other retailer, prescription and over-the-counter items sit in the index together, and mobile category pages take over five seconds to load.
What changed
Categories by shopping need
Structure follows need, brand and age group.
Unique, reviewed product content
Pharmacist review plus full product schema.
Rules and speed
Prescription medicines stay out of search, and mobile gets much faster.
How the work ran, step by step
Reorganise the catalogue
All 6,000 SKUs move into searchable groups such as "vitamin D supplements" and "sunscreen for kids", with filters that avoid indexable duplicates.
Write guides for key categories
The top 40 categories get notes on dosage forms, suitability and when to see a doctor, signed off by the lead pharmacist.
Add schema, speed and controls
Product, Offer and availability schema goes on each SKU, prescription items get noindex, and mobile load drops from 5.2 to 1.9 seconds. Over 80% of orders come from mobile.
Connect the branches to the store
All 11 profiles show delivery areas and a store link, and three 24-hour branches get "open 24 hours" pages.
The results in charts
Search data over twelve months: flat during the rebuild, then clicks reaching about 31K a month.
Purchase revenue from organic search, set against a year earlier.
Lessons for pharmacies
- Keep prescription medicines out of search first, then optimise everything else inside the rules.
- A named pharmacist reviewer is what lets a retailer compete on health products.
- Marketplaces outspend you on ads, but you can own categories with better guidance.
Where to go next
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