Case study · Finance

SEO for a Payment Gateway in the UAE and GCC

SEO for a gateway with hidden pricing and disconnected documentation.

Results at a glance

3.9K → 13.2K
Monthly clicks from Google search
2.6x
Merchant sign-ups from organic search
4.2x
Organic traffic to developer docs
Industry
Finance · Payments
Market
UAE · GCC
Services
Technical SEO, Content, Links & PR
Timeframe
12 months

The starting point

A UAE-licensed gateway competes with global brands and local banks. Pricing sits behind a sales form, docs live on an unlinked subdomain, and "Apple Pay integration UAE" goes elsewhere.

What changed

Cover integrations

Every ecommerce platform and payment method.

Show pricing

With fair comparisons.

Join up the docs

Developer pages become part of the main site.

How the work ran, step by step

  1. Build integration pages

    Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, OpenCart, Apple Pay, Google Pay and Tabby, with setup, fees and currencies.

  2. Publish a calculator

    Standard pricing and a fee calculator, plus a fair look at UAE gateway fees.

  3. Move the docs

    A subfolder, navigation and internal links, with API references tuned for developers.

  4. Build partner authority

    A yearly payments report and links from platform partner directories.

The results in charts

Organic searchFeb 2025 to Jan 2026
Organic clicks, latest month13K+228%
Impressions, latest month506K+213%
Click-through rate2.6%0.1 pts
Average position9.29.1 places
Weekly clicksWeekly impressions

Search data over twelve months across site and docs: clicks go from about 3.9K to 13.2K a month.

ConversionsFeb 2025 to Jan 2026
Conversions, final month182+147% vs a year earlier
Conversions, whole period1,53912 months
This periodA year earlier

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

Lessons for payment companies

  1. Developers often choose the tool, so their search journey counts.
  2. Hidden pricing slows the sale, while open pricing filters and speeds it.
  3. Partner directories send merchants already setting up a store.

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