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SEO for real estate agents in Australia

realestate.com.au and Domain own the property search in Australia, and no agent will outrank them for a listing. The searches an agent can win are different: "real estate agents [suburb]", "property appraisal [suburb]", "sell my house [suburb]", "property management [suburb]", and the questions a vendor asks before choosing whom to appoint. Those are where listings come from.

An estate agent handing house keys to a smiling young couple on the path outside a suburban house, a blank agent board by the gate

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.

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 real estate agents in Australia ask us

Can we ever outrank realestate.com.au?

For listings, no, and there is no need to. For the appraisal, suburb and reputation searches that decide who gets appointed, yes, because the portals do not compete for them.

Do you build appraisal forms?

We connect the one you use to the page so it works on a phone and the enquiry reaches you, and we write the page around it. The appraisal itself is yours.

How long until it works?

Profile changes show within weeks. Suburb and appraisal pages take a season. Watch the appraisal requests and the appointments rather than a ranking.

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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