The appraisal search is the one that matters: a vendor asking what the house is worth is a vendor about to choose an agent. A page for it, an appraisal request that works on a phone, and a profile with recent reviews from vendors win the appointment. The portals and RateMyAgent hold the agent-name searches; the suburb and the appraisal are where an agency wins.
State licensing and the industry codes govern what an agent can say, and the property management side has its own compliance to answer. Everything is written for your state and checked by you.
The searches in Australia
The shapes real estate agents are found by in Australia. The words in brackets are whatever the searcher
puts there: the town, the suburb, the matter, the treatment.
- real estate agents [suburb]
- property appraisal [suburb]
- property management [suburb]
- sell my house [suburb]
What is different in Australia
Win the appointment, not the listing search
Buyers search the portals. Vendors and landlords search the agent, by suburb and by reputation. The site and the profile are built for the vendor: the appraisal, the recent sales in the suburb, the marketing plan, and reviews from people who sold.
Property management is its own search
Landlords search "property management [suburb]" and ask about fees, vacancy and compliance. A property management page that answers those wins the rent roll the sales pages never see, and it is searched year round.
A page per suburb, written about the suburb
An agency covering eight suburbs needs eight pages, each about that market: the streets, the property types, what has been selling, the schools. A template with the suburb swapped in reads as one to a vendor and to Google.
What a month of work covers for real estate agents in Australia
- One neighborhood or service page each month, written with the agent who covers it
- Sold-listing pages kept live with results, and a market update article each quarter
- Google Business Profile for the office and each agent who wants one
- Citations on property directories and local business listings
- Technical work: listing feed indexing, speed on image-heavy pages, schema for the agency and agents
- Monthly Search Console report by neighborhood
The industry page, SEO for real estate agents, 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.