The directories cannot show a homeowner what your retaining wall on a sloping block in their suburb looks like two summers in, or explain when a structural job needs a licensed contractor in their state, which is what the homeowner reads before asking three companies to quote.
The licence belongs on the page where the state requires one for structural landscaping, and membership of the state landscape association belongs beside it. Nothing here needs an invented review count, and nothing quotes a rate.
The searches in Australia
The shapes landscapers are found by in Australia. The words in brackets are whatever the searcher
puts there: the town, the suburb, the matter, the treatment.
- landscapers near me
- landscaping [suburb]
- retaining wall builders [suburb]
- landscape design [city]
What is different in Australia
A page per job, then per suburb
Landscape design, retaining walls, paving, turf, decking, irrigation, pool surrounds. Each is a search with its own questions about drainage, council approval and how long it takes, and each page is written about the job with your own photographs. The suburb pages follow, each about the blocks and soil there.
Spring is decided in winter
Australian landscaping searches climb from August and peak before Christmas. The pages that catch them are ranking by September because they were built in the cold months; a page published in November is a page for next spring.
Licence, water and the map pack
Structural landscaping over the threshold needs a licensed contractor in several states, and homeowners check. Water restrictions and native planting are searches of their own. The map pack and the reviews decide the call, and the hipages profile is kept consistent with the Business Profile.
What a month of work covers for landscapers in Australia
- A service or guide page written or rewritten each month, timed to the season ahead
- Google Business Profile: services listed, project photographs added as they finish, every review replied to
- Review requests at handover, worded to draw out the project and the town
- Citations on the trade and local directories, identical everywhere
- Technical fixes: images compressed so the site stays fast, tappable number, service and area markup
- A monthly Search Console report of the project searches you appear for, and the enquiries behind them
The industry page, SEO for landscapers, 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.