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How Prepaid Travel Cards Built A New SEO Foundation

Site Redesign
Technical SEO
Affiliate SEO

CLIENT

Prepaid Travel Cards

PROJECTS

Site Redesign, Content Strategy, Technical SEO, Link Building

DATE

June 4, 2026

LOCATION

United Kingdom

Client Overview

Prepaid Travel Cards is a UK focused comparison and guidance site for travel money cards, helping travellers weigh fees, exchange rates, and features before they pick a card. The brand had a clear editorial purpose, but the website itself was holding it back. When CrawlCrest came in as the SEO consulting partner, the site needed major improvements across design, structure, SEO readiness, and content strategy. The presentation and the SEO foundation were not strong enough to support long term organic growth, so our role was to guide the redesign and the strategy that would give the brand a base it could compound on.

Problem

The first issue was credibility. In a category where readers are deciding whether to trust a comparison with their money, the website design was not strong enough to earn that trust before the data even loaded. The content strategy lacked a clear topical map. Blog topics did not always align with the buyer journey or the queries that actually drive comparison traffic, so the content effort was running without compounding. The technical and structural SEO foundation was not ready for long term growth. Indexation, structured data, and the hygiene factors AI engines now weigh when deciding who to cite needed attention, and backlink growth was minimal across the publications relevant to UK travel finance readers.

We came in as the SEO consulting partner and treated this as a transformation across design, content, technical SEO, and authority. We led the direction for each program while the team executed.

Guide The Website Redesign Direction

We first guided the redesign so the brand had a cleaner, more trustworthy, and more SEO friendly structure. The direction focused on the editorial trust signals personal finance readers expect, with a clear comparison experience and a structure built to support search from the ground up.

Rebuild The Content Strategy

After the redesign, we improved the content strategy from the buyer journey out, recommending blog topics and a topical map so every new piece could support a comparison page through internal linking rather than scatter.

Advise On Technical SEO And AI Visibility

We reviewed the website from an SEO and AI visibility perspective and advised on the technical improvements that mattered, from indexation to structured data, so the comparison content could be read cleanly by Google and the AI answer engines.

Guide Research Led Outreach For Backlinks

We guided outreach opportunities built on research led content that publications in the travel finance space would genuinely want to reference, so the link graph could grow on topical relevance rather than generic placements.

Results

The consulting support made the website stronger across design, SEO structure, and content direction. The redesign restored the editorial credibility the brand needs to earn comparison clicks, and the new content strategy gave the team a topical map that compounds rather than scatters. The improvements also positioned the brand better for AI Overviews, AI Mode, LLM mentions, and qualified organic discovery. With a cleaner foundation in place, the site is set up to turn search led visibility into stronger revenue potential in the prepaid travel card niche.

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