Most local trades businesses are invisible on Google — not because their work is bad, but because their Google presence isn't set up right. I'll show you exactly what's wrong and how to fix it. No agency fees. No six-month lock-in.
These are the issues I find on almost every tradie website I audit. All of them are fixable.
Missing service categories, no posts, wrong service areas, too few photos. Google treats an incomplete profile as low-trust and ranks it below competitors who filled everything in.
Google Maps weighs review recency heavily — not just count. If you got 15 reviews two years ago and stopped, a competitor who got 5 last month is likely outranking you right now.
No suburb names, no service area pages, no local keywords. Google can't rank you for "plumber Caloundra" if your site never mentions Caloundra. This single fix can shift rankings within weeks.
$500/month, a report with colourful graphs, and one blog post nobody reads. Most agencies rely on six-month contracts because results take time to verify — by then you've paid thousands.
No obligation at any point. The audit is free and the report is yours to keep regardless of what you decide next.
Tell me your website, your suburb, and what's frustrating you. No payment, no card details — completely free to start.
Free to startI manually review your Google Business Profile, website, rankings, competitors, and review count. A real human audit — not an automated scan that tells you nothing useful.
Manual auditPlain English. Here's what's wrong. Here's what to fix first. Act on it yourself, or we can talk about working together. Zero pressure either way.
No obligationThe same things I audited and fixed for my own local trades business.
Categories, photos, posts, features — compared to the competitors outranking you.
How many, how recent, and how your top 3 local competitors compare.
What you rank for now and which high-value local searches you're missing entirely.
Suburb mentions, meta titles, service area pages — the basics most sites still miss.
Who is outranking you and the specific things they're doing that you aren't.
Not a list of 50 items — the three things that will move the needle fastest.
Most SEO agencies know Google takes 6–8 weeks to discover new content — so they spread your work across 6 months, charge you every month, and call it "strategy." Here's the difference.
1 suburb page per month. That's it. A 500-word page that takes 20 minutes to write — billed as a full month of SEO work.
6-month lock-in contract. They need the contract because results take time — by the time you realise nothing changed, you've already paid thousands.
Generic content. Copy-paste templates with your suburb name swapped in. Not researched against your actual competitors.
Offshore or junior execution. What you're sold by the account manager is not what gets built. Your site goes in a queue.
You wait 6 months to see anything. Then they tell you "SEO takes time" and ask you to sign another contract.
Full content sprint in 60 days. All your suburb pages, blog posts, GBP setup, meta titles — done properly and up front.
One flat fee. No contract. You know exactly what you're paying for before you pay it. No monthly drip, no lock-in, no surprises.
Content matched to your top-ranking competitors. We research what's actually working in your suburb and service area — not a generic template.
Local. Australian. Tradie-fluent. Built by someone who runs a local trades business. We understand how your customers search and what they trust.
Results in 6–8 weeks. Because Google needs 6–8 weeks — and we front-load all the work so the clock starts immediately, not month by month.
Time to results — agency model vs RankLift
100% Australian. Brisbane based, we understand Australian suburbs, search behaviour, tradie culture, and what local customers actually trust. Not an overseas call centre. Not a template factory.
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