SEO by Industry: Same Search Engine, Very Different Rules
Every agency will tell you they work with your industry. Most mean they have run one checklist across a plumber, a dentist and a law firm, changing the suburb names between jobs.
SEO by industry matters because the constraints do not transfer. A dentist cannot publish the customer quote a landscaper can. An accountant's best month to publish is nearly a year before the enquiry lands. An NDIS provider has a Code of Conduct sitting over every sentence on the site.
Pick your sector below. Each page carries what we know about that trade, what the work costs and how long it takes to show up.
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- 1pm to 6pm
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Why SEO by industry beats a generalist playbook
Three examples, all ordinary, all of them things a generalist gets wrong in month one.
Dental and healthcare
AHPRA's advertising guidelines, made under the National Law, prohibit testimonials in any advertising a practice controls. The standard agency growth play is to gather the best client quotes and spread them across the site. Run that on a dental practice and you have built a compliance problem. Google reviews are treated differently, because they are unsolicited and sit on a platform the practice does not own, a distinction you either know already or learn expensively.
NDIS providers
The Code of Conduct shapes how outcomes can be described and how participants can be talked about. The person searching is also often not the participant. Support coordinators and family members use different words again, and the phrase that satisfies the rules is regularly not the phrase anyone types into Google.
Accountants
Here the calendar decides everything. Enquiries bunch up before EOFY and around BAS deadlines. A page published in May for a June rush has not been indexed long enough to rank for anything, so the work has to start months earlier. That means a content plan running from the new year, not one that starts the week the client begins to feel it.
None of this is specialist knowledge. It is just knowledge you either walk in with, or spend six months of somebody's retainer acquiring.
So we turn down industries we do not know. The sectors below are where the search behaviour, the seasonality and the regulator are already familiar.
Trades and home services
Tradies
The umbrella page: lead maths, map pack mechanics, and which suburbs earn a page. SEO for tradies
Plumbers
Emergency and planned work pay differently, and only one of them converts in minutes. SEO for plumbers
Electricians
Switchboard upgrades, EV chargers and compliance work, rather than downlight swaps. SEO for electricians
Builders
A research cycle running six to twenty-four months, and cost content that has to survive it. SEO for builders
Roofers
Storm demand arrives inside a week, so the ranking has to be sitting there already. SEO for roofers
HVAC and air conditioning
Installs before the first hot day, maintenance contracts after it. SEO for HVAC
Landscapers
Route density, tight suburb clusters, and a winter build for a busy spring. SEO for landscapers
Painters
Domestic repaints against two cheaper quotes, plus strata work that pays better. SEO for painters
Locksmiths
Lockouts, car key replacement, and the fake listings already ranking above you. SEO for locksmiths
Pest control
Termite and pre-purchase inspections, and the commercial contracts underneath them. SEO for pest control
Care providers
NDIS providers
Participants, coordinators and families search in three different vocabularies. SEO for NDIS providers
Aged care and home care
The searcher is usually the adult child, comparing four providers late at night. SEO for aged care
Childcare centres
Parents shortlist by suburb months before a place is needed, then book tours. SEO for childcare centres
Professional firms and practices
Dentists
Treatment value varies enormously, so the ranking that matters is rarely the obvious one. SEO for dentists
Healthcare and allied health
Practitioner pages, condition content, and bookings you own rather than rent. Healthcare SEO
Lawyers
Practice area pages carry the whole thing, and conduct rules govern the wording. SEO for lawyers
Accountants
Ranking before the EOFY rush, aimed at business clients instead of price shoppers. SEO for accountants
Real estate
The portals own buyer search, so the work aims at vendors, appraisals and rent rolls. SEO for real estate
Your industry is not on this list
Plenty of our work sits outside these pages. Retail is the obvious gap, and it is deliberate: an online store's problems are category structure, faceted navigation and product indexing rather than suburbs and seasons, so that work lives under ecommerce SEO instead.
If you sell to people who search locally and your sector is missing, start with SEO for small business and tell us what you do when you send the audit through. If we are the wrong people for it, we will say so rather than take the money.
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Start with the audit for your industry
Four fields: your website, your main competitor, your service area and your email. Within two business days you get three real findings, one quick win you can action yourself without paying us, and one thing that needs proper work.
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