Compare the Market, MoneySuperMarket and the insurers themselves hold the consumer terms with budgets no broker matches. What they cannot do is explain what a scaffolding firm’s public liability has to cover on a council contract, or why a landlord with a mixed-use block keeps being declined, which is what the searcher reads before picking up the phone.
Everything stays inside the FCA’s rules on financial promotions: clear, fair, not misleading, and nothing that reads as advice a page cannot give. The work needs neither a claim nor a premium.
The searches in the UK
The shapes insurance agencies are found by in the UK. The words in brackets are whatever the searcher
puts there: the town, the suburb, the matter, the treatment.
- commercial insurance broker [city]
- fleet insurance broker
- professional indemnity insurance for [trade]
- insurance broker near me
What is different in the UK
A page per line, then a page per trade
Fleet, professional indemnity, commercial property, landlord, contractors all risks, cyber, directors and officers. Then the trades inside each: PI for architects, for surveyors, for IT contractors; liability for scaffolders, for roofers, for event organisers. The trade page ranks for the search a comparison site cannot answer, and it answers it.
Explain the decline
The most valuable page on a broker site explains why a risk gets declined or loaded: the flat roof, the previous claim, the mixed-use block, the trade the standard market avoids. It ranks for the question a business owner types at midnight, and it makes the enquiry.
FCA, BIBA and the profile
The FCA register number and any BIBA membership belong on every page and in the profile, because commercial clients check. The Business Profile is filled in with the lines you write, and the reviews come from your clients, in their words.
What a month of work covers for insurance agencies in the UK
- A page for each cover you actually write, explaining it and what it excludes
- Cover plus business-type pages for the trades you specialise in
- Area pages for the places you are licensed in, and only those
- Named agents with photographs, direct contact and their specialism
- Google Business Profile: services, hours, reviews replied to
- Monthly Search Console report by cover type
The industry page, SEO for insurance agencies and brokers, has the
problems and the questions in full; the country page, SEO services in the UK, has the search landscape
in the UK for every trade.
The search landscape in the UK
Directories hold the first page
For many trade and service terms the top results are aggregators. Two routes past them: the map pack, and pages specific enough that a directory listing cannot answer the question.
Town and postcode, not region
Buyers search by town. A page covering a whole county competes with pages written about each town in it, and loses to all of them.
British English, properly
Spelling, the word for the trade and the way an address is written all signal whether a page was written for this market or translated into it.
Cities in the UK with their own page
Each is written for the way that city searches and for the trades that search there most.
Working with us from United Kingdom
SEO happens in your accounts and on your website, so nobody needs to visit. We scope the
work on a video call in your hours, send a written quote, and then work month by month
with a call whenever you want one. The result is judged on the enquiries in your own
records, never on a ranking report.