hipages, Oneflare and the franchise builders hold the organic results for "builders [suburb]", and the state licence registers hold the name searches. None of them can show a homeowner what your extension looks like on a house like theirs, or explain how home warranty insurance works on a job like theirs.
Licensing is state-based and customers check it: the builder licence with NSW Fair Trading, the QBCC or the VBA, the home warranty insurance the job requires, and Master Builders or HIA membership. They belong on the page and the profile.
The searches in Australia
The shapes contractors are found by in Australia. The words in brackets are whatever the searcher
puts there: the town, the suburb, the matter, the treatment.
- home renovation builders [suburb]
- extension builders [city]
- granny flat builders [suburb]
- deck builders near me
What is different in Australia
A page per job, written about the job
Renovations, extensions, second storeys, granny flats, decks, new homes. Each is a search with its own questions about approvals, timeline and living through the work, and one services page ranks for none of them.
Licence and insurance on the page
The licence number, the state, and how home warranty insurance applies to the job are what a homeowner checks before signing. They appear on the page, the profile and the schema, and they match the register.
Your own photographs, by suburb
A builder’s proof is on the street. Before, during and after photographs of your own jobs, with the suburb named, beat stock images and rank in image search where homeowners look for what a second-storey addition looks like on a house like theirs.
What a month of work covers for contractors in Australia
- One project-type page each month: additions, kitchens, bathrooms, new builds, commercial build-outs
- One case study each month written from your photos and a five-minute call
- Google Business Profile with project photos weekly and services listed
- Citations on trade and building directories, license number included
- Technical fixes: quote form, image compression, speed, schema for the business and projects
- Monthly Search Console report by project type and neighborhood
The industry page, SEO for contractors, 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.
If you would rather do the first part yourself, the Local SEO for contractors guide is
the list we start from.