SEO Consultant Melbourne

Packages start at $2,000 per month for technical and on-page foundations, through to $3,990 per month for full-spectrum Search Engine Optimisation with content, link building and entity optimisation. Pricing is actually the simplest part once you understand what decides it: how competitive your industry is, and how far behind your competitors you are. If they have been investing in content and backlinks for three years and you want to close that gap in one year, you have to invest at roughly three times their pace, so most competitive Melbourne campaigns sit at Pro or Authority rather than the Growth floor. There is no ceiling on off-page work either: a single backlink from an authoritative Australian website can cost up to $5,000. Rather than quoting a fixed menu price in isolation, I show you exactly what each package includes and which one matches your competitive gap.

If your website is not in a negative trend and has not just been through a major change like a site migration, you should see meaningful, measurable traffic growth by the end of month three. If either of those applies to you, I will say so up front and we will set the timeline accordingly - recovering a declining site or stabilising a migration comes before growth. Either way, you watch the same live dashboard I do from week one.

Honestly: not yet. If your website is younger than three months, I do not recommend Search Engine Optimisation services and I do not take the project. Not because SEO would not work - but because a brand-new site has no historical data, so even perfect optimisation cannot be properly measured against a baseline. I am not willing to charge for work whose results cannot be demonstrated. Launch, run for a few months, collect some Search Console history - then we talk, and the work will be measurable from day one.

I start with a comprehensive audit of your website, competitors, and keyword landscape. From there, I build a custom strategy covering technical SEO, content creation, and link building. I execute the strategy personally - no junior staff - using a professional tool stack I name openly: Ahrefs for keyword and competitor research, Screaming Frog for technical crawls, Google Search Console and GA4 for performance data, Data Studio for live reporting dashboards, and independent rank tracking through Keyword.com. You get monthly reports and strategy calls so you always know what is happening, why, and what it returned.

You get direct access to a senior consultant with 15 years of Search Engine Optimisation experience. I handle strategy, technical audits, content, and reporting personally for every Melbourne engagement.

Melbourne consumers are more research-driven and quality-conscious than most Australian markets. Generic, thin content will not rank or convert here. The market rewards authentic expertise and genuine local knowledge. Melbourne also has stronger B2B and professional services SEO opportunities compared to other cities.

Yes - and they are published, not anecdotal. A Melbourne bathroom and kitchen renovations business: position 1 for a 12,100-searches-per-month keyword, 1,350% growth in top-3 rankings, and 94.8% of tracked keywords improved. A Melbourne plumbing business: position 1 for multiple 3,600-volume keywords with 2,800% top-3 growth. Both full case studies are on this site with the Search Console data shown. I walk every potential client through them on the first call.

AI search optimisation requires three things: entity-rich content that AI models can attribute to specific concepts and locations, schema markup that signals citation eligibility, and llms.txt configuration that tells AI crawlers what your site is about. For Melbourne businesses, this means mentioning specific Melbourne suburbs (CBD, Carlton, Collingwood, South Yarra), linking to authority sources, and structuring content with clear question-and-answer formatting that AI models can quote directly. I currently optimise for Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, ChatGPT web search, Bing Copilot, and Claude search citations.