Buddii Finance / Case study

A better application.
Four times the leads.

A rebuilt finance application and local SEO for a Brisbane vehicle and asset finance broker. Fix the step that was losing applications, then win the searches a broker can actually win.

Buddii Finance

Cars, caravans, boats
and business equipment.

+297%
More website leads a month
2025 vs the 2023 baseline
Client
Buddii Finance
Industry
Vehicle & asset finance
What we did
Website · Conversion · SEO
Market
Brisbane, lending Australia-wide
The results

Organic overtook paid.
And the leads quadrupled.

+297%

More website leads a month

2025 vs the 2023 baseline
2023
100%
2025
397%
+46%

More leads from organic search

2026 so far vs all of 2025
2025
100%
2026
146%
70%

Of conversions from organic search

Up from 28% in 2025
2025
28%
2026
70%

Shown as a percentage of the earlier period.

Website leads come from Buddii’s own lead sheet, one row per website enquiry, as a monthly average for calendar 2025 compared with calendar 2023. Organic search leads and the channel share come from GA4 conversions by channel: 2026 to 22 September compared with all of 2025. The lead sheet and GA4 count a lead differently, so the two are reported separately and never combined.

Search clicks are down on last year while leads from search are up. The traffic that does arrive now finishes the application.

The challenge

The lenders.
The reputation.
Not the application.

Buddii Finance is a Brisbane broker arranging loans for cars, caravans, boats, utes and business equipment right across Australia, with a panel of lenders and a referral network of dealers feeding them work.

What they didn’t have was a website that could carry someone from “I want that ute” to a submitted application without losing them halfway.

Buddii Finance

Vehicle & asset finance broking
Brisbane, lending Australia-wide

01

The application was too big to finish

One long form asked for income, employment, identification and asset details on a single screen. On a phone that is a wall, and people who wanted the loan were leaving.

02

Outgunned on the biggest terms

Searches like car finance are fought over by banks, aggregators and comparison sites with budgets a broker will never match. Competing head on was never going to work.

03

One national page can’t win local searches

Broker enquiries are local: car loans in Brisbane, caravan finance in Cairns. A single national page can’t rank for all of it, or speak to all of it.

The approach

Win the application first.
Then win the local search.

● ● ●

buddii.com.au/car-loans

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The rebuilt Buddii Finance car loans page on a phone
01 / Conversion

The six-step
application.

Fixing the step that loses applications lifts every visitor the site already has. We rebuilt the apply online journey so it asks one thing at a time and never shows a wall of fields.

02 / Local SEO

Searches the banks
aren’t defending.

We skipped the national head terms and built pages for the city and loan-type searches a broker can win. Buddii now ranks third organically for “car loans brisbane”.

03 / Partners

Landing pages that
match the referrer.

Dealers send Buddii work. Each referral partner now gets a page written for their customers, instead of sending them to a generic finance page.

04 / The website

Built to grow
without us.

A WordPress site the Buddii team can extend, where a new loan type, location or partner page is a job of hours rather than weeks.

“
We’ve dived deep with the team at Dominate and really turned things around.
Blair Hammond
Buddii Finance
Services delivered

The services behind this result.

Website

Website design

A WordPress site the Buddii team can extend, with a page for every loan type, location and partner.

Conversion

Application rebuild

The six-step apply online journey, with every enquiry tracked to one list.

Organic search

SEO

City and loan-type pages, partner landing pages and monthly reviews of leads and rankings.

REAL BUSINESSES. REAL LEADS.

Here’s what happens when paid ads and SEO are done properly for service businesses.
ROOFING
69%
Increase in Leads
16%
More Jobs Booked
9%
Conversion Rate
REMOTE STAFFING
88%
Increase in Organic Traffic
16
0 to 16 leads in a month
24
Keywords on page 1
FINANCE BROKER
294%
Increase in Leads YOY
6.2%
Close Rate
84%
Pure Organic Traffic
A few common questions

Before you
take the next step.

Because it lifts every visitor you already have. For Buddii, leads from the rebuilt application form rose roughly tenfold in its first full month, before any new search pages went live.

Not on the biggest national terms. Buddii wins on city and loan-type searches instead, like “car loans brisbane”, where it now ranks third organically.

The traffic that arrives now finishes the application. Buddii’s search clicks fell over the past year while leads from organic search rose, and we manage that trade every month.

Yes. Dealers and other partners who send Buddii work each get a landing page written for their customers, with the finance options those customers actually need.

Dominate Digital offers month-to-month contracts with no lock-ins. Get in touch to discuss the scope and terms for your business.

Want to see the same numbers for your business?

We will review your site, your search and your application path the same way we review Buddii’s every month. It takes us about a week and you get it whether you hire us or not.

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