Local SEO that puts you on the map.
Local search engine optimisation (SEO) for service businesses anywhere in Australia. The map results, your Google Business Profile, your reviews, and a page for every service and area you work in. Measured in calls and enquiries, not ranking screenshots.
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If your customers come from nearby, this is your SEO.
Local search engine optimisation (SEO) is the work that gets a business found for searches with a place attached, said out loud or not: "near me", a suburb name, a city, or just a search made from a phone standing in one. For anyone who serves customers inside a set area rather than selling to the whole country, that is most of the SEO worth doing.
It covers a different set of things than SEO in general. There is the map result and the Google Business Profile (GBP) sitting behind it, the reviews on that profile, a page for each service you sell and each area you cover, and the business details listed about you across the rest of the web. They either pull in the same direction or they quietly cancel each other out.
We run the lot as one job and report on what it produces. The wider organic work, including the parts that aren't location-led, sits on our SEO service page.
What's in a local SEO engagement.
Google Business Profile, run properly
Categories, services, service area, hours and photos set up right, then kept current instead of filled in once and forgotten.
A page per service you sell
Every service you want enquiries from gets its own page, so you're not asking one page to carry the whole business.
Location pages worth publishing
Pages for the suburbs and towns you genuinely work in, built where there's something real to say and skipped where there isn't.
A review habit that sticks
A simple way to ask customers at the right moment and a routine for replying, kept inside Google's review rules.
Business details that match
Your name, address and phone number corrected across the listings that still carry an old number, an old address or a name you've moved on from.
Calls and enquiries, reported
Calls, form submissions and direction requests tracked back to local search, in a monthly report you can read in two minutes.
Built for businesses with a service area.
Local SEO is for the businesses people search for with a place in mind: one shopfront, a few branches, or a van and a radius. If you'd take a job three suburbs away and not one three states away, this is the version of SEO that applies to you.
It suits smaller businesses particularly well, because the map results don't care how big you are. A one-van operator with a complete profile, steady reviews and a real page for each job can sit above a national brand in its own suburb, which is rarely true of the searches that have no location attached.
Some industries have their own page with the detail that matters to them: SEO for tradies, SEO for law firms and SEO for accountants.
We work with businesses across Australia, and there's a page for each city we're most active in: Gold Coast, Brisbane, Sunshine Coast and Darwin, where there's also a dedicated SEO Darwin page.
What local visibility has been worth.
Both clients had a new website and profile work as part of broader marketing, so these aren't local SEO on its own. Results vary. See the case studies.
Local SEO questions.
What's the difference between local SEO and SEO?
How long does local SEO take?
How much do local SEO services cost?
I don't have a shopfront. Can I still rank locally?
Can I do local SEO myself?
Can you guarantee a spot in the map results?
Start with something free.
Run one of these and you'll know where you stand in a couple of minutes.
Check your website
Speed, mobile and the basics Google looks for, scored on screen while you wait.
Run the checker →Free · about a minuteMap your site
Up to 30 of your pages and how they link, plus the structural gaps holding your traffic back.
Build my site map →Pricing guideSee what it costs
Our packages, what sits inside each one, and how we'd shape it around your business.
See packages →Want to know why you're not in the map results?
Tell us a bit about your business and we'll do a free review. We'll look at your Google Business Profile, your website and who's ranking above you in your own area, then tell you what's worth fixing first.
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Prefer to look around first? Run a free check on your site or read our SEO service.
Written by Lochie Burgdorf, Co-Founder, CLIQE. Last updated 21 September 2026.