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SEO Packages Perth: The Prices, Checked Against Perth Jobs
Our SEO packages for Perth cost the same as they do in Brisbane or Hobart: $990, $1,990 and $3,490 a month, no lock-in, 30 days notice. There's no Perth premium and no Perth discount. The full list of what each tier includes sits on the SEO pricing page and we won't repeat it here.
What changes in Perth is the sum on the other side of the invoice. A Perth job pays a little more than the national typical, a Perth service area is longer than almost anyone's in the east, and a Perth business talks to us on Perth time. Those three things decide which tier you should buy, so this page works through them with Perth figures.
- $990
- Entry price, published in full
- 30 days
- Notice to leave. No lock-in
- 1pm to 6pm
- AEST, senior-led, contactable
What a Perth job is worth against each tier
One independent cost guide publishes a monthly tradie price index by city. Its October 2026 release puts typical Perth residential prices 5.0 per cent above its national guide. Brisbane sits level with national, Sydney 14.8 per cent above, Adelaide 8.0 per cent below. Same method, same month, same jobs, so those figures compare.
Five per cent is not a gold rush. It does mean the payback sums from the eastern states slightly understate a Perth job, never overstate it.
Here are four of that index's typical Perth prices, with GST taken out so they sit beside our fees on the same basis, and a 35 per cent gross margin assumed. Swap in your own margin.
| Typical Perth job | Price ex GST | Gross profit | Jobs to cover Local | Growth | Authority |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electric hot water system, supplied and installed | $1,727 | $605 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 6.6 kW solar system | $5,727 | $2,005 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Colorbond patio, 36 sqm | $13,091 | $4,582 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| General pest treatment, one visit | $259 | $91 | 11 | 22 | 39 |
Read the bottom row honestly. A pest controller needs eleven extra treatments a month to cover Local on the first visit alone. That only works because pest work repeats every year, so the sum belongs on a two or three year customer, not one call. A patio builder covers Authority with one extra job a month. That's a Growth or Authority business by arithmetic, not by ambition.
The local tier is $990 a month. Move these to what a hot water install is actually worth to you.
- Gross per hot water install
- $606
- Earned a month
- $1,818
- After the retainer
- $828
- Jobs to break even
- 2
at 35% margin
2 hot water installs a month covers it. Everything past that is yours.
Perth's corridors decide the tier more than its size does
Greater Perth is a long, thin strip down the coast. Joondalup and Rockingham sit roughly 60 kilometres apart in a straight line, and the north and south behave as separate search markets with their own map packs. The hills and the eastern suburbs, Midland, Kalamunda and Armadale, form a third.
So the Perth tier question is really a corridor question.
Local at $990
One corridor, one service line. A plumber working Fremantle and the inner south, or an electrician who stays north of the river. This is where most single-van Perth trades belong.
Growth at $1,990
Two corridors, or one corridor with three or four service lines. Five pages a month is what it takes to build suburb pages that differ from each other properly.
Authority at $3,490
The whole metro area, or a business where one client is worth thousands and the terms are contested, like a family law firm in the CBD or a multi-site dental group.
A Perth business claiming "all Perth metro" on one page usually ranks in the middle of every corridor and the top of none. Our pages on Joondalup, Fremantle and Rockingham show how differently those three markets behave.
Working with us on Perth time
Western Australia doesn't run daylight saving, and Australian Eastern Standard Time is two hours ahead of Perth all year. Our contactable hours are 1pm to 6pm AEST, which is 11am to 4pm in Perth, every month of the year.
That's a narrower window than you'd get from an agency in West Perth, and we'd rather say so before you sign. It suits most trades fine, because 11am to 4pm is when a Perth tradie can take a call between jobs. Fortnightly calls on Growth and Authority get booked inside that window. Email and Slack on Authority get answered within it.
Why we don't price Perth packages differently
A price that only exists after a discovery call leaves room to quote you on a guess. A Perth business could be quoted more on the assumption of resources money, or less on the assumption of a softer market. Either way the guess is about you, not about the work.
The work is the same in Perth as anywhere: profile optimisation, citations, pages, articles, links and tracking. A Perth citation takes the same time to build as a Geelong one. So the price stays fixed, and the variable is which tier your numbers support, which you can check yourself with the table above.
What this costs in Perth
| Plan | Monthly | Who it fits in Perth |
|---|---|---|
| Local | $990 | One corridor, one service line |
| Growth | $1,990 | Two corridors, or one with several services |
| Authority | $3,490 | All of metro Perth, or high-value contested terms |
All prices are Australian dollars, exclude GST and carry no lock-in. One-off work: SEO audit $1,500, Google Business Profile setup $690, consulting $250 an hour. Price rises apply to new clients only. Full inclusions on the SEO pricing page.
Questions
Questions we get asked
Straight answers, including the uncomfortable ones. Anything else goes to the person who does the work.
Ask your own questionIs this cheap SEO for Perth?
No, and it isn't trying to be. The $299 a month offers are usually bulk content and bought links, and cleaning that up costs more than the year it ran. $990 is the lowest price at which a real person can work one corridor properly every month.
Do you have a Perth office?
No. SERPDrive is a small senior-led team, and Arbaz does the work he scopes, with ten years across Australian local search. An office in West Perth would add rent to your invoice without moving a single ranking. If a monthly face-to-face meeting matters to you, hire a local agency.
Does Local cover Mandurah as well as Perth?
Not as one area. Mandurah has its own map pack and its own competitors, so it counts as a separate service area. A business working Rockingham to Mandurah usually needs Growth, or Local plus a clear decision about which end matters more this year.
Can you guarantee page one in Perth?
No. Nobody controls Google's results, and an agency promising a position is either lying or picking a phrase nobody types. What we commit to is the monthly deliverables, profile movement usually inside four to eight weeks, organic results from month three or four, and a straight answer if the numbers aren't moving.
What if a Perth job is worth less than your table shows?
Then the honest answer may be a smaller tier or no tier at all. If your average job clears under about $300 in gross profit and customers don't come back, the arithmetic on Local gets hard. The audit will tell you that rather than sell you a plan.
Free, by hand, no obligation
Get a free audit worked on Perth numbers
Four fields: your website, the competitor you keep losing to, the corridor you service, and an email address. Within two business days a real person spends 30 to 45 minutes on both sites by hand.
You get three genuine findings, one quick win you can do yourself, and one thing that needs help, plus a straight view on which tier your numbers support. No automated PDF, no sales call unless you ask. Start with the free SEO audit.
- Turnaround
- Two business days
- Follow-up
- No sales call unless you ask
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