Australian SEO agency
An SEO Agency in Australia Where a Senior Does the Work
No account managers, no junior handover, and no discovery call to find out the price. Every tier is on the pricing page, and you can leave on 30 days notice.
- $990
- Entry price, published in full
- 30 days
- Notice to leave. No lock-in
- 1pm to 6pm
- AEST, senior-led, contactable
Three things you can check before you talk to us
Every price is published
$990, $1,990 and $3,490 a month, with the deliverables listed against each one. Read them before you speak to anybody.
No lock-in contract
Thirty days notice, any month, no exit fee and no clawback.
Senior-led, Australian hours
The person who scopes your work does your work. We're contactable 1pm to 6pm AEST.
What clients say
What clients said in their own words
Seven reviews from Arbaz’s Upwork engagements, reproduced in full and unedited apart from his name, which clients spelled three different ways. Clients are not named because Upwork does not publish names.
Working with Arbaz has been an absolute pleasure. His expertise in managing our off-page strategy is evident in the tangible results and increased visibility we've achieved. Arbaz is professional, diligent, and consistently goes above and beyond our expectations. He not only understands our goals but also offers insights that add tremendous value to our strategy. I appreciate his proactive approach and clear communication. We feel fortunate to have him as a part of our team and I highly recommend him to anyone looking for top-tier off-page strategy services.
Arbaz was incredibly helpful and dependable. His expertise in SEO is evident, and he did an outstanding job restoring many of our websites. I highly recommend working with him.
Great service, great communicator, patient, kind, helpful, and knowledgeable. Arbaz delivered a solid report that listed all the issues we face with our site, and answered all our questions. Happy!
I hired Arbaz to build links for our company website. He did well in his job. He manually outreached the website administrators and got us do-follow high DR/DA backlinks from the real website with high organic traffic, as we demanded. We noticed a great increase in our website domain authority due to the links Arbaz built for our website. He delivered on his commitments and was a pleasure to communicate with. I am extremely pleased with the outcome and will certainly work with Arbaz again.
Thank you for the invaluable SEO keyword research support you've provided during our recent projects. In a short period, your expertise has made a noticeable impact on our strategy and outcomes. Your ability to quickly identify relevant keywords and analyze market trends has been particularly impressive, directly contributing to enhancing our content's reach and effectiveness. Thank you Arbaz!
I had the pleasure of working with Arbaz, an exceptional SEO Specialist who surpassed my expectations. From the start, his professionalism and expertise were evident. He conducted a thorough website audit, developed a tailored strategy, and optimized on-page elements and off-page backlinks. His knowledge of the latest SEO trends and proactive recommendations greatly improved our website's visibility and organic traffic. His ability to collaborate with the content team and implement technical SEO optimizations further solidified their effectiveness. Overall, I highly recommend this SEO Specialist for his remarkable results and dedication to driving business growth.
We had an amazing work experience with Arbaz in the past, so we decided to rehire him for the SEO dofollow link building for our other websites. He delivered excellent results and met our expectations. He is a highly skilled and reliable SEO expert. We will definitely hire him again for our future projects. Thank you for your hard work and dedication. 👍
What usually went wrong last time
Most people who enquire have already paid for SEO once. Often it was the $299 a month provider. You got a login to a dashboard, twenty green arrows, and rankings for phrases like "emergency plumber repair services Blacktown area" that nobody has ever typed into Google. The report looked like progress. The phone did not ring any differently.
Sometimes it's the opposite problem. A polished agency, a senior strategist in the pitch, a slide deck with your logo on it. Then the work landed with someone eight months out of a marketing degree who had never seen a Google Business Profile suspension, let alone fixed one. You kept paying $2,500 a month for a junior learning on your account.
The third version is the twelve month contract. Month four came and went with nothing to show, and you were told SEO takes time, which is true, and also the most convenient sentence in the industry. By month nine you had spent $20,000 and had no way out.
None of this means SEO doesn't work. It means you bought it from people whose business model didn't depend on it working. That's the part we're trying to fix.
Compare the models
What you are actually buying, laid side by side
Three ways people have bought SEO before they ring us, and the way we sell it.
SERPDrive
$990, $1,990 or $3,490 a month
- Who does the work
- The senior who scoped it. No account manager, no junior handover, contactable 1pm to 6pm AEST.
- What the report shows
- The deliverables listed for your tier, every month, with the work shown and an honest read of the numbers when they are not moving.
- When it goes wrong
- At the three month mark we go through the data honestly. If the volume in your niche is too thin, we say so rather than roll you into another quarter.
- The contract
- None. Thirty days notice in writing, any month, no exit fee and no clawback. You keep everything.
Who we work with
We do not take every industry. These six are where we already know the search behaviour, the seasonality and the compliance edges.
Tradies
Most of your work sits within about eight kilometres of the van, and the map pack decides who gets the 9pm burst pipe call. SEO for trades
NDIS and disability providers
Participants and support coordinators search differently, and one referrer sending three participants a month changes your year. SEO for NDIS providers
Aged care and home care
The person searching is usually the adult daughter, not the client, and she is comparing four providers at 11pm. SEO for aged care
Childcare centres
Parents start looking six months before they need a place, and they shortlist by suburb before they ever ring. SEO for childcare centres
Lawyers
High intent, brutal competition, and a compliance line you cannot cross in the copy. SEO for law firms
Accountants
Enquiries cluster before EOFY and around BAS deadlines, so the work has to be done months earlier. SEO for accountants
Try it
What the page looks like when someone in your suburb searches
Three businesses get the map pack. Everyone else sits under a “more places” link almost nobody taps. Pick your trade, type your suburb, and see the difference the work is meant to make.
- 1Blacktown Plumbing Co.4.8 ★ · 127 reviews · Blacktown
- 2A1 Plumbing Blacktown4.6 ★ · 89 reviews · Blacktown
- 3Blacktown Plumbing Group4.7 ★ · 64 reviews · Blacktown
- More places › (Your plumbing business, and everyone else who does not get the call)
- example1.com.au › blacktownPlumbing services in Blacktown
- example2.com.au › blacktownTop rated plumbing near Blacktown
- example3.com.au › blacktownBlacktown plumbing directory
What we actually do
Local SEO
Google Business Profile, service area pages and reviews, aimed at the suburbs you can physically get to. Local SEO
Technical SEO and migrations
Crawl, indexation and site speed work, plus replatforms done without losing the rankings you already have. Technical SEO
Ecommerce SEO
Category structure, faceted navigation and product pages that earn rankings instead of cannibalising each other. Ecommerce SEO
AI search visibility
Being cited in AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity answers when someone asks for a provider in your area. AI search visibility
SEO audits
A manual, prioritised audit you can hand to any developer, not a 90 page automated export. SEO audits
How it works
Free manual audit, two business days
You give us four things: your website, your main competitor, your service area and your email. A senior spends 30 to 45 minutes looking at it properly.
A scoped roadmap
We tell you what we'd do, in what order, at which price tier, and what we would not bother doing. If your problem is a bad website rather than bad SEO, we say so.
Month one: technical and local foundations
Crawl issues, tracking, Google Business Profile, the pages that earn money first. Month one is setup-heavy and we don't dress it up as results.
Month four onward: compounding
Profile movement usually shows in 4 to 8 weeks. Organic results typically land in month three or four and build from month six, because the work stacks.
Month by month
What the first year usually looks like, and when you can leave
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
- Technical and local foundations
- Google Business Profile movement
- Organic rankings
- Compounding
- You can leave
Month 1
Setup-heavy. Crawl issues, tracking, the Google Business Profile, and the pages that earn money first. We do not dress month one up as results.
Typical timing, not a guarantee. Thirty days notice applies in any month, with no exit fee and no clawback.
Pricing, published, on the homepage
Almost every SEO company in Australia hides this behind a form. We think that tells you something about the pricing rather than about the strategy. Here it is.
| Plan | Per month | Built for |
|---|---|---|
| Local | $990 | One location or one service area. GBP optimisation and weekly posts, 8 citations a month, review system setup, 2 pages optimised, 1 article, 20 keywords tracked, monthly report plus a 20 minute call. |
| Growth | $1,990 | Everything in Local, plus 5 pages optimised a month, 3 articles, 4 quality links, technical fixes, 50 keywords tracked, conversion tracking, fortnightly call. |
| Authority | $3,490 | Everything in Growth, plus 8 articles, 8 links, digital PR, AI search visibility work, 150 keywords tracked, quarterly strategy session, Slack access. |
One-off work sits alongside it: an SEO audit at $1,500, an ecommerce audit at $2,500, a site migration from $3,500 to $8,000, Google Business Profile setup at $690, consulting at $250 an hour.
Price rises apply to new clients only. If you sign at $990, you stay at $990.
Run the sum
How many enquiries a month each tier has to bring in
The only sum that matters, and it changes completely with what you sell. Move these to your own numbers.
Each enquiry is worth about $420 at that rate. That is revenue, not margin, so apply your own margin.
Local
$990 a month · One service area
3 enquiries a month to break even
GrowthMost common
$1,990 a month · Multi-suburb or service
5 enquiries a month to break even
Authority
$3,490 a month · Competitive metro
9 enquiries a month to break even
Fees are the published monthly prices, in Australian dollars, ex GST. If the number for Authority is not realistic for your business, Authority is the wrong buy, and we will say so.
What we will not do
No lock-in contracts
Thirty days notice, any time, for any reason.
No rank guarantees
Anyone who guarantees position one for a competitive term is lying to you, and they know it.
No AI content dumps
We will not publish forty thin articles a month and call it a content strategy.
No junior handover
You will not be introduced to a senior and then managed by someone else.
No Google Ads or social bolted on
We're an SEO firm. If you need paid media, we'll tell you who's good at it.
No reporting theatre
If a month was slow, the report says the month was slow.
Who we are
SERPDrive is a small, senior-led team working Australian hours. No sales floor, no account manager layer, no office tour to impress you with. What you get instead is direct access to the person doing the work, contactable 1pm to 6pm AEST, and an ABN in the footer you can check on the ABR before you send a dollar anywhere.
We'd rather be the SEO agency with twelve clients who stay than sixty who churn at month seven.
Arbaz, founder. Ten years in SEO, split between Australian local search and international organic growth. I have spent most of that decade on the side of the work nobody photographs: the crawl logs, the redirect maps, the map pack that will not move, the category page that finally starts converting in month five. I also run and rank my own sites in competitive markets, which is a better test of whether any of this works than a client logo wall.
The pricing on this page is published because I got tired of watching good businesses pay $4,000 a month for something worth $1,200, and having no way to tell them without sounding like a pitch. Numbers on a page fix that faster than any conversation.
Free, by hand, no obligation
Find out what is actually wrong with your site
Four fields: your website, your main competitor, your service area, your email.
Within two business days, a real person sends you three genuine findings about your site, one quick win you can do yourself without paying us anything, and one thing that needs proper help. It's written by hand, not generated. No automated PDF, no drip sequence, and no sales call unless you ask for one.
If the audit tells you that you don't need an SEO agency right now, that's what it will say.
- Turnaround
- Two business days
- Follow-up
- No sales call unless you ask
Results
9 engagements, with the chart behind each one
Ahrefs traffic, keyword and link estimates from the client’s own dashboard at the date shown. Traffic data, not money, and none of the clients are Australian.
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