API manufacturers · Search engine optimisation
Appear when a sourcing manager types the molecule, the grade or the pharmacopoeia.
SEO for an API plant is the work of making each molecule you make findable by the exact terms a sourcing or quality team types. GullySales works on molecule pages, grade and pack wording and the internal links between related products.
Scope, fee, reporting and term are agreed in writing after we have read your brief and spoken to you.
What search engine optimisation means
Search engine optimisation (SEO) is the work of getting your website to appear when a buyer searches Google for what you sell. GullySales builds pages around real search terms, fixes technical issues that block ranking, and tracks which searches actually bring enquiries.
Last updated 18 Oct 2026.
For API manufacturers
Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.
“Buyers search with the molecule name and a qualifier”
The search is the molecule plus a grade, a pharmacopoeial standard, a polymorph or a word like manufacturer. A page that names these plainly can match the search. A page that says only pharmaceutical ingredients cannot.
“A table of names gives search nothing to read”
One long page listing every molecule in a table gives each molecule a single line. A separate page per molecule gives the search engine something to match and gives the buyer something to read.
“Synonyms and salt forms split the search”
The same active ingredient may be written by its chemical name, its salt form or an older trade name. A page that explains which names refer to the product catches searches that a single spelling would miss.
“The buyer who finds you will check the page against a database”
A sourcing team compares your page with the supplier directories it already trusts. Details that disagree between the two, such as pack size or storage, weaken the page, so the facts must match what quality holds.
What we do
What we deliver for API manufacturers.
Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.
A molecule page for each product
Name, synonyms, grade, standard, packing, storage and documents available, written from the facts your quality team holds.
Result: Every molecule you sell has its own address on the site, with the buyer's search terms in plain view.
A keyword map by molecule
A sheet of the terms a buyer types for each molecule, matched to the page that should answer.
Result: You can see which term points to which page, and which molecules have no page yet.
Internal links between related molecules
Links from a molecule to its intermediates, its related grades and the dosage forms it serves.
Result: A buyer reading one page can reach the related ones without going back to a menu.
Technical clean-up
Page titles, headings, addresses and speed fixes so search engines can read the site without trouble.
Result: A crawl of the site shows each molecule page reachable and titled correctly.
A search results check
A recorded look at which pages appear for which molecule terms, kept as a reference for later comparison.
Result: A saved list shows where each molecule page stands for the terms you care about.
How the result is measured
- Ranking positions
- Organic traffic
- Enquiries from organic search
Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.
Who it is for
This is written for these API manufacturers.
- Generic API manufacturers for domestic formulators
- Regulated-market API plants with overseas filings
- Intermediate and advanced intermediate producers
- Herbal extract and phytochemical API makers
- Vitamin, amino acid and nutraceutical ingredient producers
- Veterinary API manufacturers
- Peptide and complex molecule producers
- Custom synthesis and CDMO units making APIs to order
How it works
From your first message to the first report.
No open-ended retainer. Every step gives you something in writing.
First
Your brief
You tell us what you need in a few short steps: your business, what you want, where enquiries come from and how they are handled.
After the brief
A conversation and a written scope
We read it, then talk with whoever handles your enquiries. If you want our help, the scope, the fee and the reporting come in writing, and nothing starts before you have read them.
Before work starts
Baseline recorded
The numbers this work is meant to move, such as enquiries, quotations, orders, visits or renewals, written down so every later report has an honest comparison.
After the baseline
The first fix goes live
The fix we agreed to start with is put in place and measured against the baseline, whether that is a reply, a follow-up, a page, a listing or the handover between marketing and sales.
As agreed
Report against the baseline
What moved, what did not, and what changes next, in plain words. How often you get it is set in writing before work starts.
At renewal
Renew on the numbers
The term ends and you decide whether to continue from the results. The length is agreed in writing before anything starts.
How the search engine optimisation work runs
- 1
Audit and baseline
We record where the site stands today: positions, traffic, technical faults and the enquiries search currently produces. Nothing starts until this number is written down.
- 2
Decide what to rank for
We map the searches your buyers use, in your words and theirs, and pick the ones worth the effort for your margin and your capacity.
- 3
Fix the foundations
Technical faults first, because the cheapest gains are usually there. Then the Business Profile and directory consistency.
- 4
Build the pages
A page for each thing you do, written to answer the question it is searched for, with a clear next step at the end.
- 5
Publish and earn mentions
Content goes out on the calendar. Links and mentions are earned from real relationships, not bought.
- 6
Measure, report, adjust
At the interval agreed at the start we report what moved and what did not, and change the plan when the numbers say so.
Why us
Why owners pick GullySales over an agency.
Marketing and sales, as one job
Most agencies stop at the enquiry. We also fix what happens after it: the reply, the follow-up, the quote and the CRM.
The person on the first call does the work
No account managers in between. You are never handed to someone you have not met.
A baseline before anything starts
Your numbers are written down on day one, so every later report compares against something honest.
The fee in writing, split three ways
Our time, your media spend and production on separate lines. You always see what goes to us.
No guarantees we cannot keep
The term is agreed in writing and never a default twelve months. We never promise a ranking or a lead count, because nobody controls those.
One office, and we say so
Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru. We work across India by call and WhatsApp and travel when a session needs to be in person.
#257, 3rd floor, Sri Nanjundeshwara Complex, Nagarbhavi 8th Block, Outer Ring Road. How we work.
Your brief
Tell us what you need, and we will read it before we call.
Eight short steps about your business, what you want and who decides. Most questions are a tap, and you can skip any you would rather answer on the call.
FAQ
Questions owners ask before they call.
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Will SEO put us on the first page for our molecules?
Our competitors are listed on large directories. Does SEO replace that?
Can we publish impurity data on the pages?
How much does it cost?
How long is the contract?
How soon will we see results?
Who will actually do the work?
What do you need from us?
What if we are not happy with the work?
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Your next practical step
Tell us what you are trying to grow, and we will read it before we call.
Eight short steps, mostly taps. Skip anything you would rather answer on the call.