SEO Services Sydney
Your customers don't only use Google any more. They ask an AI who to call, check the map, read the reviews, then ring.
We make sure your business shows up at every one of those stops, with the same facts everywhere, so the engines trust you and the customer picks you. Every plan runs the same method, in the same order, and the first eight weeks do the heavy lifting.
Local trades, regional service businesses, national and regulated firms. The method is the same. The reach is what changes.
MEASURE
First
- Tracking verified so every result can be proven
DIAGNOSE
Properly
- Full audit, spam link check, real ceiling stated
FIX
Then verify
- Everything fixed then checked on the live site
ESTABLISH
Your identity
- Same facts on Google, Bing, Apple and AI
BUILD
And grow
- Answer content, links, reviews, monthly report
Start here: Search Strategy
Search Strategy
Know before you spend+GST
Once
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One-off, $900 + GST
- Tracking set up and verified
- Dated baselines: rankings, links, Business Profile, AI mentions
- Full audit: technical, on-page, local, AI, competitors
- Spam link check
- Authority ceiling as a number
- One keyword mapped to every page
- 12-month roadmap, now, next, later
- 30 minute walkthrough call
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Credited against your first month on any plan
Why start with a strategy?
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You find out what is actually broken
Technical faults, thin pages, wrong schema, spam links pointing at you. Most of it is invisible from the admin screen and all of it shows up in a proper audit.
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You get the real ceiling, not a pitch
We compare your authority to what actually holds page one for your terms and tell you, as a number, what is reachable. If it is not, you hear that before you spend a dollar on a plan.
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Every page gets one job
One primary keyword mapped to every page, so your pages stop competing with each other and the right page ranks for the right term.
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Tracking is fixed first
Forms and calls counted, vanity clicks excluded, Search Console connected. Without this, nobody can prove anything worked.
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You see how AI describes you today
What ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity say about your business, which competitors they name instead, and the errors they repeat.
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A roadmap in the right order
Now, next and later, each item with the outcome it is expected to produce. It becomes the first two months of any plan.
Not ready for that yet? Start with the AI Visibility Report.
For $99 + GST you get a report on how ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews describe your business right now: whether they name you, what they say, which competitors they recommend instead, and what they get wrong. Most owners have never seen it. Almost all of them want it fixed once they have.
The $99 is credited against the Search Strategy, and the Search Strategy is credited against your first month on any plan. Nothing you buy on the way in is wasted.
Monthly SEO plans
Pick the plan that matches your reach. Twelve months, paid monthly. Same method on every one.
SEO 1
Local+GST
monthly, 12 months
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One location, one service area
- Google organic, Maps, Bing, Apple
- Up to 10 money pages worked
- One answer article a month
- Business Profile: weekly post, Q and A, review replies
- Review request workflow in your CRM
- Citations, directories, industry listings
- AI mention check quarterly
- Monthly email report
- Search Strategy included in month one
SEO 2
Regional+GST
monthly, 12 months
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A region, several suburbs or services
- Everything in Local
- ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity citation work
- Up to 25 money pages
- Two answer articles a month plus a knowledge centre hub
- Regional hub, suburb pages only where the data justifies them
- Referral partner link programme
- AI mention check monthly
- Google Ads account audit, if you run one
- 90-day review call
SEO 3
Authority+GST
monthly, 12 months
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Multi-location, national or regulated
- Everything in Regional
- Weekly content once foundations are in
- Knowledge hubs per service line
- AI share of voice against named competitors
- Data-story PR and trade media commentary
- Google Ads audit and phased clean-up
- Every location's Business Profile managed
- Quarterly strategy review
One client per trade per region. If your competitor is already with us, we will tell you. Plans run twelve months, paid monthly. Most of the work lands in the first eight weeks, which is why it is a package paid off over the year rather than a month-to-month fee.
What is inside every plan
Measurement
- Search Console, GA4, Tag Manager
- Forms and calls counted, vanity clicks excluded
- Matched periods, one source per number
- Gaps named as "not measured"
Technical and defence
- Monthly crawl, speed, sitemap, schema
- Fixes verified on the live site
- Spam links found and disavowed
- Weekly backlink alert
Pages and content
- One keyword per page, no overlap
- Money pages just off page one first
- Answer articles with FAQs and schema
- Nothing live without your approval
Local
- Business Profile, Bing Places, Apple
- Citations matched character for character
- Review workflow and replies
- Map pack checked across your area
AI search
- Crawler access and llms.txt
- Entity schema and identifiers
- Citation checks across the assistants
- Answer blocks for AI Overviews and PAA
Reporting
- One email on the first of the month
- What moved, what we did, what is next
- Dips explained, not hidden
- 30, 90 and 180 day review gates
TWELVE MONTHS, PAID MONTHLY
A package, paid off over the year.
Every plan is a twelve-month engagement. The first eight weeks carry about half the year’s work: measure, diagnose, fix, establish, build. That work is done up front and paid off in twelve equal monthly amounts.
Twelve months is also how long search takes to answer. New pages need several crawl cycles to settle, links and reviews compound, and AI engines refresh what they cite on their own schedule. We review together at 30, 90 and 180 days so you always know where it stands.
Not ready for twelve months? Start with the Search Strategy. It is yours to keep whether or not you go ahead, and it is credited against month one if you do.
How the first eight weeks run
STEP 1 Measure
STEP 2 Diagnose
STEP 3 Fix
STEP 4 Establish
STEP 5 Build and grow
Work with the person doing the work
Scott Nailon, Sites By Design
I’m Scott Nailon. I have run Sites By Design for 20 years and I still do the SEO myself, with a set of tools I have built up over that time.
You will have been cold-called by offshore agencies promising page one in 90 days. Nobody can promise that. What I can tell you is what your site can realistically reach, what it will take, and then show you every month whether it is happening.
Questions people ask before they call
What is SEO, in plain terms?
Making your website the clearest, most trustworthy answer to what your customers are searching for, and making sure the engines can find and understand it. It covers the technical side of the site, the words on the pages, the links pointing at you, and your presence on Maps and directories. It is ongoing because the engines keep changing.
Do AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude matter for a local business?
Yes, and more each month. People ask them who to call. They answer from what they can find and verify: your Business Profile, Bing, directories, reviews and the pages on your site that answer questions directly. If your details differ from one site to the next, they hedge or name someone else. Getting that right is part of every plan.
What is local SEO?
Showing up in the map results and the local listings for your service area. It runs on your Google Business Profile, reviews, consistent business details across the web, and pages on your site for the services and areas you actually cover. A business will not win the map far from its address, and we will tell you where that line sits.
Why is it a twelve-month plan?
Because the work is front-loaded. Most of the year’s effort happens in the first eight weeks and the results arrive over the months that follow. A twelve-month plan lets us do that work properly up front and lets you pay for it evenly. If you want to see the plan before committing, the Search Strategy is the place to start.
Can you guarantee a ranking?
No, and neither can anyone else. Google decides. What we do is measure properly, fix the right things in the right order, and report what happened. The Search Strategy tells you what is reachable with your site’s authority before you spend a dollar on a monthly plan.
How soon will I see something?
Technical fixes and Business Profile work usually show first. New content takes several crawl cycles to settle. We check in at 30, 90 and 180 days and judge new pages on impressions before clicks, because that is the order it happens in.
What does "one client per trade per region" mean?
If we are working for a plumber in the Sutherland Shire, we do not take on another plumber in the Sutherland Shire. You cannot honestly work two competitors against each other for the same map pack. If your competitor is already with us, we will tell you when you call.
A report you can read in five minutes
Every month, in the body of an email, on the first: the short version in six lines, what we need from you, what moved up and down and why, the terms closest to breaking through, your local and AI visibility, the work done and checked, and the work planned. Search Console is the source for every organic number. If something is not measured, the report says so and names the fix.
Dips get explained, not hidden. If a page slipped because the law changed or a competitor published something better, you will read that from us first.
One source per number. Search Console for organic positions, clicks and impressions. Third-party tools only for links, authority and AI citations. You never see two keyword counts in one report, and you never see a figure we cannot trace to where it came from.
Genuine enquiries only: forms, calls and bookings. Direction taps and profile clicks are not counted as leads, and we tell you how the count works.
The first eight weeks on any plan carry about half the year’s work: measure, diagnose, fix, establish. Then it settles into a fixed monthly cycle across nine streams, with review gates at 30, 90 and 180 days.
Every change is backed up before it is made and checked on the live site after. Nothing is published without your approval, and nothing is reported as done until it is confirmed live.
Your customers look in more places than Google. Google Maps, Bing, Apple Maps, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, the review sites and the directories. Each one reads different signals and each one is covered in the plan.
The thread through all of them is identity: the same name, address, phone, licences and services, character for character, everywhere. The engines cite businesses they can identify without doubt.
Search is not set and forget. Updates ship, competitors move, AI engines refresh what they cite. The monthly cycle re-crawls the site, updates the spam link file, strengthens the pages closest to page one, publishes to your approved schedule, posts to the Business Profile, re-checks AI mentions and writes the report.
Content runs to a fixed cadence you approve in three-month blocks, and every piece meets the same standard: the answer first, question headings, tables where numbers exist, five FAQs, a named author and full schema.