SEO for pharma

Our Varn Health experts are a specialist pharma and healthcare SEO agency team

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A specialist expert SEO agency for healthcare and pharma

Varn Health is an experienced and expert healthcare SEO team at Varn, leading the way in innovation within search marketing. Our expertise extends to leveraging cutting-edge advancements in AI-powered search technologies, such as SearchGPT and Perplexity, ensuring that our clients stay ahead, achieving superior search performance and online visibility within the complexities of medical compliance.

Varn Health has worked for the last 15 years with companies including GSK, Pfizer, Roche, Stryker, and Kyowa Kirin in the analysis and planning of online search marketing and implementing strategies across technical SEO, data and analytics, AI search, as well as paid media, content and digital PR.

Experts in pharmaceutical SEO and healthcare search marketing.

As a Google-certified SEO agency, Varn Health specialise in search strategies tailored for ambitious biotech and pharmaceutical companies. With extensive expertise in SEO, data analysis, AI search and implementation, we help elevate your healthcare and pharma businesses website rankings, traffic and visibility.

Our CEO and founder, Tom Vaughton, brings a unique perspective with his background as a biologist and his vision to build a highly skilled, specialist healthcare and pharma SEO team.

We combine deep expertise in SEO techniques with advanced knowledge of AI-powered search platforms like SearchGPT and Perplexity. By staying ahead of AI-driven trends, we ensure your pharma brand remains discoverable and competitive and our solutions are always aligned with medical compliance standards, enabling you to grow your business faster while maintaining full regulatory adherence.

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“Varn Health's proven expertise in SEO and search marketing will be essential in meeting the needs of our audience in an increasingly digital healthcare landscape...

Varn Health is working with multiple brand teams within Alliance, not just to improve visibility but also to guide us through the ever-changing world of SEO, ensuring we remain at the forefront of audience engagement."

Sean Craig

Global Digital Marketing Manager, Alliance

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Why Varn Health?

Award winning in healthcare SEO

Varn Health is proud to be awarded Gold at the PM Society Digital Awards 2024, where we, in collaboration with Roche, received the Gold award for Digital/External Communications. This prestigious accolade highlights Varn Health’s dedication and expertise in delivering outstanding SEO strategies for the healthcare sector.

The winning project involved consolidating multiple micro-sites into a single global domain, protecting search rankings and significantly boosting organic traffic. With a 106% increase in clicks and 74% rise in search impressions, this project showcases the power of an SEO-first approach in healthcare digital marketing

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Leaders in search marketing and data analytics for the pharmaceutical sector

We are an expert specialist search marketing and data analytics agency in the pharmaceutical sector, with experience of the online marketing challenges faced by pharma companies. 

We have deep knowledge and understanding of SEO and our CEO and founder Tom Vaughton is a regular speaker at Brighton SEO, Europe’s largest and most respected conference for SEO professionals, as well as appearing on stage at the NEXT Pharma Summit. We are often asked to share our insights on the impact of AI-powered search technologies, such as SearchGPT and Perplexity, on healthcare businesses. Our Innovation team is at the forefront of understanding how these innovations are reshaping search strategies and driving visibility for pharma brands.

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A custom SEO strategy for your pharma business that will help you conquer Google

SEO is a complex blend of art and science, especially within the medical and pharmaceutical sectors, where regulatory compliance plays a key role. As a leading pharma SEO agency, we specialise in driving high-quality traffic to your healthcare website through a proven, two-stage approach.

First, we collaborate closely with you to gain a deep understanding of your pharma business, target audience, and the regulatory challenges you face. From there, we identify the most relevant and impactful keywords for your business to ensure we target the right audience.

The next phase involves optimising these crucial keywords for search engines, all while adhering to strict industry regulations. Our goal is to enhance your healthcare website’s visibility, drive qualified traffic and ultimately attract more business while staying fully compliant with industry standards.

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Search and effective SEO strategies are increasingly vital in healthcare

77 %

of people use search engines to start their patient journey

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physicians search for condition related keywords

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physicians abandon mobile websites if not optimised for smartphones

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How can SEO help your pharma business?

From improving your healthcare website’s ranking on the search engines, managing complex email marketing campaigns, to managing your paid media advertising on Google within pharmaceutical regulations, we can build and brand your pharmaceutical and biotech business online. We use a multitude of search marketing techniques that will help to drive traffic to your pharma website and ultimately increase your revenue.

If you want to improve your SEO and search marketing performance in the pharma & biotech sector, UK wide or internationally, we can be your digital marketing department.

Find out more why SEO is vital in pharma and why it’s important your healthcare website ranks in a search

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Our expert SEO services

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Technical SEO
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Off-page SEO
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AI search & innovation
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We deliver excellence in technical SEO to maximise search engine visibility in pharma. Our Technical SEO services offer technical expertise that makes your healthcare website faster, understandable for the search engines and easier to crawl.
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We offer data expertise, specialist statistical data analysis and reporting to help you make data driven decisions that will link directly to KPIs to improve your pharma website performance, search engine rankings and conversion rates.
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Our Off-page SEO experts deliver content strategy, content creation and proactive outreach digital PR to build brand reputation, ensure maximum online reach, build quality links & optimise your pharma website rankings.
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Our dedicated Innovation Team keeps pharma businesses ahead as search platforms evolve in healthcare. From optimising for AI-powered search engines like SearchGPT to unlocking data insights, we help brands stay visible and competitive.

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