SEO Agency Melbourne — Rankings With the Screenshots to Prove It
Quick answer
SEO in Melbourne costs $990–$3,000/month for most small and medium businesses. Our local SEO starts at $990/month, growth campaigns at $1,690, and national or ecommerce campaigns at $2,990. Expect early movement in 4–8 weeks and meaningful commercial results in 4–6 months.
Documented results
Organic traffic growth — Spray Pave, Canberra
We restructured the site around its actual service and suburb search terms, fixed crawl and indexing problems that were keeping pages out of Google, and built genuinely useful topical content. Organic traffic rose 325%, with more than twenty keywords reaching page one of Google.
Read the full case study →Our SEO services in Melbourne
- Local SEO — Google Business Profile optimisation, suburb-level structure, the map pack
- Technical SEO — crawl and indexing fixes, site speed, structured data
- On-page SEO — titles, meta descriptions, heading structure, internal linking
- Content and keyword strategy — topical content built around real search terms
- AI search optimisation (AEO) — structuring content so AI Overview, ChatGPT and Perplexity can cite your business accurately
- Ecommerce SEO — Shopify and WooCommerce product and category structure
How long SEO takes
Early technical wins and indexing improvements typically show in 4–8 weeks. Meaningful commercial results — leads, calls, form submissions — usually build over 4–6 months, and SEO compounds from there. Anyone promising first-page rankings in weeks is not being straight with you.
SEO pricing for Melbourne businesses
| Tier | Price | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Local SEO | $990/mo | Single-location and trade businesses |
| Growth SEO | $1,690/mo | Businesses ready to compete on more terms |
| National / Ecommerce SEO | $2,990/mo | Multi-location and online stores |
Why we don't sell SEO under $990/month
The market has already told small business owners this: sub-$800 SEO is widely described as ineffective, and it's become a scam signal. We'd rather tell you that upfront than sell you a discount retainer that doesn't move the needle.
Local SEO and the Melbourne map pack
For most Melbourne service searches Google shows a map with three businesses before any normal results. Getting into that map pack depends on three things: how relevant your Google Business Profile is to the search, how close you are to the person searching, and how prominent your business looks online, which mostly means reviews and links. Our local SEO work covers all three.
- Google Business Profile: the right primary and secondary categories, services, service areas, photos and regular posts.
- Reviews: a simple process for asking every happy customer, plus replies to every review.
- Citations: consistent name, address and phone details across the Australian directories Google trusts.
- Suburb and service pages on your website, so Google can match you to searches in areas beyond your own postcode.
If the map pack is all you need, see our local SEO Melbourne service.
How we differ from other SEO agencies in Melbourne
- Reporting from your own Google Search Console, so you see the same impressions, clicks and positions we do.
- Month-to-month terms. If the work is not paying for itself you can stop, without a 12-month lock-in.
- Web developers in the same team, so technical fixes ship in days instead of sitting in a ticket queue.
- No link farms or bulk directory blasts. Links come from real Australian sites relevant to your industry.
- A real office at 12 Dimboola Rd, Broadmeadows, where you can meet the people doing the work.
SEO across Melbourne and Australia
We run SEO campaigns for businesses across Melbourne, from the northern suburbs around our Broadmeadows office to the CBD, the west and the south-east, and for businesses interstate with documented results in Canberra and Sydney.
SEO for trades
A large share of our SEO clients are builders, electricians, plumbers and other trade businesses where the map pack and local search decide who gets the call. See how we work with tradies on our builders & tradies industry page.
Frequently asked questions
Local SEO starts at $990/month with us, growth campaigns at $1,690, and national or ecommerce campaigns at $2,990. Across the Australian market generally, SEO runs $990–$3,000/month for most small and medium businesses, with the market openly warning against anything under $800/month as ineffective.
Expect early movement — indexing improvements, initial ranking shifts — in 4–8 weeks, and meaningful commercial results (leads, calls, enquiries) in 4–6 months. SEO compounds; the businesses that see the biggest gains are the ones that stay on a campaign past the first quarter.
No, and no legitimate SEO provider can. Google's algorithm isn't something any agency controls. What we do guarantee is the work: technical fixes, content built around real search terms, and transparent monthly reporting so you can see exactly what's being done and what's moving.
Because the market has already told small business owners the truth: sub-$800 SEO is widely described as ineffective, and it's become a scam signal. Selling a discount retainer that doesn't actually move rankings would cost you money and cost us trust. $990/month is what real, ongoing SEO work costs to do properly.
The setup included in every website tier covers titles, meta descriptions, heading structure and Google indexing — the fundamentals that make your site findable. An SEO campaign is ongoing work to actually rank against competitors: content, technical fixes, local SEO structure and link building. They're not the same thing, and we never blur the two.
Yes — a large share of our SEO clients are builders, electricians, plumbers and other trades where the map pack and local search matter more than almost anything else. See our work with Spray Pave in Canberra as a documented example.
A written, plain-English report showing what was done, what changed in rankings and traffic, and what's planned next — not a jargon-filled dashboard you need us to explain.
No. SEO is billed month-to-month. We'd rather earn the renewal every month than lock you into a term.
It's structuring your content so AI tools like ChatGPT, Google AI Overview and Perplexity can find, understand and cite your business accurately — direct-answer blocks, clear FAQs and structured data. Most Australian agencies haven't started doing this yet; we build it into every campaign as standard.
Yes, and it's a common, preventable problem. We audit what changed, map old URLs to new ones, implement redirects where they're missing, and rebuild the technical foundation the site is missing.
Yes — product and collection page structure, category architecture and technical fixes specific to Shopify and WooCommerce stores, priced under our national/ecommerce SEO tier from $2,990/month.
SEO is the better long-term investment if you can wait a few months for compounding results and want traffic that doesn't stop the day you stop paying. Google Ads gets you leads immediately but stops the moment you pause spend. Most businesses that can afford both eventually run them side by side.
With us: fix technical issues as they appear, build or improve one or more pages around a target search, optimise your Google Business Profile, earn local citations and links, and send a report from your own Search Console data showing which searches and pages moved. You see the work, not just a ranking chart.
No, and nobody honestly can. Google decides rankings, and any agency guaranteeing a #1 position is either targeting a search nobody types or not telling the truth. What we can commit to is the work: technical fixes, better pages, local signals and links, reported every month.
A good freelancer is fine for a single task like a technical audit. An agency suits ongoing SEO because it needs several skills at once: development, content, local SEO and link building. Because we also build websites, technical fixes happen in-house rather than being sent back to your web developer.
Local SEO is everything that helps you show up when someone nearby searches for your service: your Google Business Profile and reviews, consistent business details across directories, and pages for the suburbs you serve. For most Melbourne service businesses it brings in more calls than ranking nationally does.
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