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B2B SEO in Australia

An Australian B2B buyer reads widely before anyone at the vendor hears from them, and most of that reading starts with a search. The companies that have a page for each search get on the shortlist; the companies whose site is a home page and a contact form get compared and not called.

A procurement team in a glass meeting room comparing two supplier proposals on the table and a comparison grid on a laptop

Australian buyers see US and UK vendors in every result, and most never answer what an Australian buyer has to check: where the data is hosted, GST on the invoice, the Australian Privacy Principles, support in Australian hours, an ABN for procurement. Pages that answer those, for the categories where they matter, win the buyer who needs the product to work here.

What we report is enquiries and pipeline from search in your CRM, joined to Search Console, because a ranking for a term nobody buys from is not a result for a company with a sales cycle.

The searches in Australia

The shapes B2B companies are found by in Australia. The words in brackets are whatever the searcher puts there: the town, the suburb, the matter, the treatment.

  • [category] software australia
  • [competitor] alternative
  • [service] provider for [industry] australia
  • [category] australian data hosting

What is different in Australia

The Australian qualifier

Data sovereignty, the Privacy Act, GST and Australian-hours support are searched as qualifiers by buyers who have been burned by a vendor in the wrong time zone. A page that answers them plainly wins the search and the procurement checklist at once.

The category leader owns the head term

In most categories the bare search is held by the largest vendor and the comparison sites. The qualified searches, the category for an industry, a size or a use, are open, and they convert better because the buyer’s situation is in the search.

The comparison pages first

A buyer typing a competitor’s name plus "alternative" has already decided to switch. Those pages are built first, honestly, and they usually produce the first enquiries from search.

What a month of work covers for B2B companies in Australia

  • A solution or use-case page written or rewritten each month, in the words buyers use for the problem
  • Comparison and alternative pages for the searches that name your competitors
  • Guides for the questions buyers ask early, each linking to the solution page that takes the enquiry
  • Case studies with real numbers where clients allow it, and structured so an AI assistant can quote them
  • Technical fixes: speed, indexing, markup for products and organisation, forms that reach sales
  • A monthly report from Search Console and your CRM of the searches you appear for and the qualified enquiries behind them

The industry page, SEO for B2B companies, has the problems and the questions in full; the country page, SEO services in Australia, has the search landscape in Australia for every trade.

The search landscape in Australia

Suburb is the unit, not the city

Sydney and Melbourne are too large to be a catchment. Pages written for the suburbs you actually serve outrank a single city page in every one of them.

Regional terms are often uncontested

Outside the capitals the same search has a fraction of the competition and frequently the same commercial value per enquiry.

Licence numbers belong on the page

Australian buyers look for a licence number for regulated trades. It belongs on the page because it converts, not because it ranks.

Cities in Australia with their own page

Each is written for the way that city searches and for the trades that search there most.

Working with us from Australia

SEO happens in your accounts and on your website, so nobody needs to visit. We scope the work on a video call in your hours, send a written quote, and then work month by month with a call whenever you want one. The result is judged on the enquiries in your own records, never on a ranking report.

Results from real clients

Every number below is from the client’s own Google Search Console, for the period shown. Impressions are how often the site appeared; clicks are people who arrived. What each visit is worth is your sales process, not ours, so these are the visits we can prove rather than a conversion figure we cannot.

See all eight client results

  • 52,993clicks
    Up and Running Physical Therapy
    Physical therapy · 1 Mar 2023 to 14 Mar 2024
    Impressions
    2,238,155
    CTR
    2.4%
    Avg. position
    13.49

    +139,355% clicks against the previous period of the same length.

  • 12,285clicks
    Backcountry Physical Therapy
    Physical therapy · 6 Jul 2023 to 31 May 2024
    Impressions
    601,822
    CTR
    2.0%
    Avg. position
    19.3

    +2,059% clicks against the previous period of the same length.

Questions B2B companies in Australia ask us

Do you work with B2B SaaS as well as services?

Yes. The page types are the same and the measure changes: sign-ups and activations for a product, enquiries and meetings for a service. Both are tracked to the landing page.

How do you measure pipeline from search?

Every enquiry carries its landing page and its search where Search Console gives it, and your CRM carries the stage. Joining the two is the first piece of measurement work and it is done in your accounts.

We sell into New Zealand too. One site or two?

One site with pages that answer each market’s questions, unless the offer or the entity differs. The searches are similar; the compliance and hosting answers are not, and each gets its own page where it matters.

Book a call with us

A 30-minute call in your working hours. Tell us what you sell and where, and we will tell you what we would do first and what it involves. Prefer email? Send your website through the form and the Passieon Team will reply within two working days.

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