hipages, Oneflare and ServiceSeeking hold the organic results for "electrician [suburb]" and charge for the lead. They cannot enter the map pack, and they cannot explain what a Level 2 connection involves in your area the way you can.
The licence is the trust: state licences, the Level 2 ASP accreditation where it applies and the CEC accreditation for solar belong on every page, because customers check them and so does Google.
The searches in Australia
The shapes electricians are found by in Australia. The words in brackets are whatever the searcher
puts there: the town, the suburb, the matter, the treatment.
- emergency electrician near me
- switchboard upgrade [suburb]
- level 2 electrician [city]
- ev charger installation [suburb]
What is different in Australia
Licence and accreditation on every page
The state licence number, the Level 2 accreditation in New South Wales and the CEC accreditation for solar are what a customer checks before they book. They appear on the page, the profile and the schema, and they match the register.
Suburb pages written about the suburb
Australian customers search the suburb. Pages for the suburbs you reach within your response time, written about the work there (switchboards in older houses, EV chargers in new estates), beat one city page and beat the directories in the map pack.
The newer work is a separate search
EV chargers, solar and batteries, and home automation are searched by buyers comparing installers on accreditation. Each has its own page with its own accreditation named, and none is a bullet on a services list.
What a month of work covers for electricians in Australia
- One job-type or neighborhood page each month: emergency service calls, panel upgrades, rewiring, EV chargers, solar, a neighborhood
- Google Business Profile with job photos weekly, services listed with from-prices, reviews replied to
- Citations on trade directories and local listings, license number included
- Technical fixes: click-to-call above the fold, quote form, speed, schema for the business and its service area
- Links from suppliers, local business sites and trade publications
- Monthly Search Console report by job type and neighborhood
The industry page, SEO for electricians, 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.