We help NZ businesses dominate local search. When someone nearby searches for what you do, we make sure they find you first.
organic traffic in five months. Belco Homes, builders.
Google ranks local results on relevance, distance and prominence. You cannot move your building, so local SEO is the work of winning the other two. That is the whole game, and most NZ businesses are only playing half of it.
How well your Google Business Profile and your website match what was typed. Categories, services, products and real content about the job people are searching for, not a homepage that says "welcome".
How far you are from the searcher. You cannot change it, but you can change which suburbs you are credible in, with real location pages and a service area Google understands.
How well known you are. Reviews, consistent listings across the web, mentions on NZ sites, and links. This is the slow one, and it is the one that keeps competitors out once you have it.
No packages of "10 backlinks a month". Six pieces of work, done by hand, in the order that actually moves rankings. You see all of it in a monthly report with your real numbers in it.
The single biggest lever in local search. Correct primary category, every service and product listed, real photos, Q&A seeded, posts running, and the fields most businesses leave blank actually filled in.
Your name, address and phone number identical everywhere Google looks. NZBN, List-It, Yellow, Localist, Neighbourly, Apple Business Connect and the industry directories that matter in your trade.
One genuine page per suburb you actually serve, written for that place. Not the same 400 words with the town name swapped out, which Google has been ignoring since roughly 2012.
A system that asks every customer at the right moment, plus replies written to include the words people search for. Review volume and recency both feed prominence.
The questions your customers type before they buy, answered properly on your own site. This is also what gets you quoted by ChatGPT, Gemini and Siri, not just ranked by Google.
LocalBusiness markup, service and FAQ schema, fast mobile pages, clean internal links and an XML sitemap Google can trust. The plumbing that lets everything else count.
Month one is not month twelve. Profile work can move the map pack in weeks. Organic local rankings take longer and then they stay. Here is the honest order of it.
We map where you actually rank across your suburbs, pull your profile apart, check every listing for mismatched details, and show you what the top three are doing that you are not.
Profile rebuilt properly, citations corrected, duplicates removed, schema added, site speed sorted. The unglamorous work that usually produces the first movement.
Location pages, service pages and the content people search before they buy. Reviews start coming in on a system instead of when someone remembers to ask.
Monthly reporting with your real rankings, calls and enquiries. We keep publishing, keep earning mentions, and keep the gap between you and second place widening.
Based in Mount Maunganui, working from Waihi Beach to Opotiki, and remotely for businesses anywhere in New Zealand.
Dedicated local SEO pages for each town we work in, with the search data and competitors for that specific patch.
SEO for businesses in the Mount. Dominate local search in one of the Bay’s busiest commercial hubs.
Local SEO for Papamoa businesses. From Papamoa Beach through to Te Tumu, ten minutes from our desk.
Local SEO for Te Puke, Paengaroa, Maketu and Pukehina. The most winnable search market in the Bay.
Local SEO services for Whakatāne businesses. Launching soon.
Not on the list? We work with businesses right across the Bay of Plenty and beyond. See every area we service.
Local SEO is the practice of optimising your online presence so your business appears when people nearby search for your services. When someone in Tauranga searches “electrician near me” or “best cafe Mount Maunganui”, Google decides which businesses to show based on relevance, distance, and prominence.
We optimise your Google Business Profile, build local citations, create location-specific content, and earn reviews that tell Google your business is the real deal. The result? More calls, more foot traffic, more enquiries from people who are ready to buy.
It is also the fastest-moving part of search right now, because the same signals that win the map pack are what get you named by ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity when someone asks them for a recommendation.
The three businesses Google shows with a map, above the normal blue links. Most people who search with local intent pick one of those three and never scroll. Position four is the first page of nowhere.
Local rankings are decided on a much smaller field than national SEO. You are not competing with the whole internet, you are competing with the other businesses in your suburb, and most of them have never touched their profile.
It depends on how competitive your town and your trade are. A single-location trade business in the Bay of Plenty is a very different job to a multi-branch operation in Auckland, and anyone quoting a flat number before looking at your market is guessing.
We write a fixed monthly figure into every proposal, with no lock-in contract, so you can leave if it is not working. If you want real numbers first, we have written up what SEO actually costs in New Zealand.
Google Business Profile work is the fast part. Fixing categories, services, photos and inconsistent listings can move you in the map pack within a few weeks, sometimes sooner.
Organic local rankings are slower. Expect three to six months for meaningful movement on competitive terms, and longer if your site is new or has no links. The trade-off is that once you are there it is much harder to knock you off than it was to get you up.
You need an address Google can verify, but it does not have to be shown publicly. If you travel to your customers, you set your profile up as a service-area business, hide the address, and define the suburbs you cover.
What you cannot do is invent an address in a suburb you want to rank in. Google catches it, and a suspended profile is a far more expensive problem than a slow ranking.
The local pack is the block of three businesses Google shows with a map, sitting above the normal search results. On a phone it fills the screen.
Most people searching with local intent pick one of those three and never scroll further. That is why local SEO is worth doing properly: the difference between third and fourth is the difference between a phone that rings and one that does not.
Yes. Regular SEO is about your website. Local SEO adds a second asset that Google ranks separately, your Google Business Profile, plus signals that do not exist in national search at all: proximity to the searcher, review volume and recency, and consistent listings across the web.
The two support each other. A strong website makes your profile rank better, and a strong profile sends traffic and trust back to the website.
No. We are based in Mount Maunganui and we know this region better than anyone working on it from Auckland, but local SEO is done remotely. We work with businesses across New Zealand and the process is the same wherever you are.
If you are in the Bay, you also get the option of us turning up in person, which most agencies quietly stopped offering years ago.
It is changing it rather than replacing it. When someone asks ChatGPT, Gemini or Siri for a plumber in Papamoa, the answer is assembled from the same raw material: your profile, your listings, your reviews and the content on your site.
So the work overlaps almost completely. The businesses winning the map pack are the ones getting named by AI too, which is why we build AI-ready into every local SEO engagement rather than selling it as an extra.
We will audit your current local presence, show you exactly where you stand against your competitors, and map out a plan to get you ranking.
No lock-in contract · Real humans in Tauranga · Reporting every month
