BAY WEB CO. SEO
Rank higher on Google. Get found by more of the right customers. Grow your business through search traffic that compounds month after month.
Monthly SEO plans with measurable results. Pick your starting point below. All plans require active Hosting & Care (from $49/mo), Month to Month. No Contracts
Most small businesses in the Bay of Plenty leave real money on the table because they never show up for the searches their customers actually make. Not because the product is wrong. Because the website is invisible to Google.
SEO is the quiet compounding asset most owners underestimate. Month one feels slow. Month six starts hurting your competitors. Month twelve, you’re the default result when someone searches your service plus Tauranga. Unlike ads, it doesn’t stop the day you stop paying.
That’s what our Monthly SEO plans do. Real keyword research, proper technical work, content that ranks and a local authority build-up your out-of-town competitors can’t fake.
“We’ll do SEO for $200 a month” is the most expensive decision a small business can make. Here’s what the gap actually looks like once you strip out the sales pitch.
| Cheap / offshore SEO | Bay Web Co SEO | |
|---|---|---|
| Keyword research | Recycled lists, high-volume vanity terms | Real local commercial intent, backed by data |
| On-page work | Title tag edits, maybe | Full meta, H-structure, schema, internal links |
| Technical SEO | "Out of scope" | Speed, Core Web Vitals, schema, crawl, mobile |
| Content | Fiverr articles, AI spun, keyword-stuffed | Written in NZ, by humans, to rank and convert |
| Google Business Profile | Ignored or basic fill-in | Optimised regularly, posts, photos, services |
| Citations | Auto-blasted, inconsistent NAP | Hand-placed NZ directories with matching NAP |
| Link building | Spammy PBN or directory blasts | Earned links from real NZ publications |
| Reporting | Automated PDF nobody reads | Monthly plain-English progress and next steps |
| Who you talk to | An account manager reading a script | The person doing the actual work, based in Tauranga |
Every plan includes strategy AND execution. Because a keyword list without on-page work, content and link building is how SEO agencies burn client money for 12 months and then wonder why the results never came.
We find the exact phrases your Tauranga customers type into Google. Not vanity keywords, not volume-for-volumes-sake. Real commercial intent, local-first.
We look at who's ranking now, why they rank, and the specific gaps we'll exploit to overtake them. This shapes the content plan from day one.
Site speed, Core Web Vitals, schema markup, crawl errors, mobile readiness, indexing. Fixed before we try to rank anything, because unstable foundations leak authority.
Meta titles, descriptions, H1 hierarchy, internal linking, content structure. Boring, measurable, the stuff most competitors still get wrong.
Blog posts and service pages targeting the long-tail queries your customers actually search. Written to rank AND convert, not just stuffed with keywords.
Properly optimised GBP with correct category, services, NAP, description, photos, posts. Local search starts here and most Tauranga businesses miss it.
NZ directories, consistent NAP across the web, local authority signals. Tedious, slow, high-impact. No shortcuts.
Real, relevant, earned backlinks from actual NZ publications and partners. No spammy Fiverr blasts, no PBN nonsense, no penalties later.
The SERP for “SEO Tauranga”, “Tauranga plumber”, “Mount Maunganui cafe” and most local terms is full of recycled content, thin service pages and businesses that don’t even update their Google Business Profile. The bar is lower than you think.
We focus on Tauranga, Mount Maunganui, Papamoa and the wider Bay of Plenty. Local keyword targeting, local citation building, NZ-specific schema markup and Kiwi-voiced content Google trusts for this region.
Your competitors are paying Auckland or offshore agencies that treat your business as one of 300 accounts. We take on a small number of local clients and obsess over each one.
Where real clicks start. Click-through-rate drops off a cliff after position three. Getting there is the whole game.
Typical window to see compounding rankings growth on a Monthly SEO plan. Not instant. Durable.
We are experts in search engine optimisation for businesses in the Bay of Plenty area but we service all of NZ.
Google doesn’t rank sites on vibes. It ranks them on measurable signals: search intent match, on-page relevance, Core Web Vitals, backlink authority, local trust, and dozens of smaller factors. Most of them are invisible to business owners.
Our job is to tune all of those at once. Not one a month. Every month we work on keywords, content, technical, local authority and earned links in parallel. That’s how rankings compound instead of plateau.
If you’re on an Accelerated or Authority plan, we move faster, write more content, and pursue harder keyword targets. The plan is the throttle.
of online experiences begin with a search engine. If you’re not ranking, you’re invisible to the decision stage of your customer’s journey.
of users never scroll past the first page of Google. Page two is where rankings go to die.
click-through rate for position one. Position three drops to 10%. Getting into the top three is most of the game.
of all Google searches are looking for local information. For a Tauranga business, local SEO is the biggest single opportunity.
the return on SEO vs paid ads over a 2-year horizon. Ads stop the day you stop paying. SEO compounds.
how long it takes for serious SEO work to start compounding. Patience out-performs panic every single time.
Hosting on our NZ servers is a prerequisite for every SEO plan. Three reasons: Google ranks sites on measurable speed and uptime, we need admin access to do the technical work, and backups protect the SEO investment if something breaks. Hosting & Care starts at $49 + GST a month. Migration is free. Already hosted with us? Skip straight to an SEO enquiry.
From $650 + GST a month. Hosting & Care required. Month-to-month. Free migration if you need hosting too. Real Tauranga-based humans on the other end of every email. If your current site isn’t cutting it, our custom WordPress web design gives you the technical foundation SEO needs to work.