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SEO Content Writing That Has a Job to Do

Most business blogs die at four posts. The last one is dated 2023, it's titled something like "Welcome to our new website," and it went up because someone at a networking breakfast said you should be blogging. The other version is worse. Forty posts, nobody reads them, they rank for nothing, and you paid for every one.

Neither failure is about effort. Both happen because nobody decided what the writing was for before the writing started. Good SEO content writing begins with a decision, not a word count. We write for Australian trades, care providers and professional services firms, same editor and same process whether you're in Parramatta or Fremantle.

$990
Entry price, published in full
30 days
Notice to leave. No lock-in
1pm to 6pm
AEST, senior-led, contactable

Free manual audit

Four fields. A senior spends 30 to 45 minutes on your site and comes back within two business days.

The one who keeps beating you. A name or a web address, whichever you have.

Two business days, written by a person. No obligation, and no sales call unless you ask for one.

Content that has a job versus content that exists

Before we write anything, it has to pass one of three tests. If a piece fails all three, we don't write it, and we'll tell you why.

  • It supports a commercial page

    An article on "how much does a switchboard upgrade cost" sends qualified readers to your electrical services page and links to it from relevant text. The article ranks. The service page converts.

  • It answers a question a buyer asks before they buy

    Not a question that's interesting. A question that stands between someone and a decision. "Can I claim NDIS funding for this?" is that question. "The history of aged care in Australia" is not.

  • It earns links or citations

    Original numbers, your own job data, a genuinely better explainer than the thin pages currently ranking. The only category where it's fine if the piece never converts.

Most of what agencies publish under the banner of SEO content marketing fails all three. It was written to fill a slot in a calendar, and the calendar was the deliverable.

How we decide what to write

This is the part you never see, and where the value sits.

We start with keyword and question research. Volume, the phrasing people actually type, the long tail around each service. Then we read the results page for every target query, because the top ten tells you what Google has already decided it wants there. Sometimes that's a 600 word direct answer. Sometimes it's a calculator. Writing a 2,000 word essay at a query that rewards a price table is a slow way to lose.

Then we look at what the top three pages missed. There's almost always something. They quote a price range but not what moves it. They explain the process but skip who's liable if it goes wrong. They cite US building codes.

The last input is the one almost nobody does. We get twenty minutes with your sales person, front desk or estimator and ask what people ask them on the phone. Every time, that call produces three or four topics no keyword tool surfaced. A receptionist at a Perth dental practice told us the most common question was whether a payment plan affected a health fund rebate. No page in Australia answered it. That article became the practice's second highest converting entry page inside four months.

Month by month

What the first year usually looks like, and when you can leave

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  1. Technical and local foundations
  2. Google Business Profile movement
  3. Organic rankings
  4. Compounding
  5. 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.

What a good page actually does

Structure does more work than prose style. A well-built page:

  • Answers the question in the first two sentences

    If the title asks what something costs, the price range appears before the reader scrolls. Burying it under 300 words of context is the fastest way to lose them.

  • Uses headings that match how people ask

    "How long does approval take?" beats "Approval timeframes."

  • Uses a table when a table is clearer

    Prices, comparisons, timeframes, eligibility. Prose is worse at all four, and tables get pulled into featured snippets and AI answers.

  • Puts a real number or a real example in every section

    A section with no specifics could have been written about any business in the country.

  • Ends with the next step

    Not a summary of what the reader just read. They were there.

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.

The AI question, answered straight

We use AI for research synthesis and for outlining. We don't use it to draft the words you publish. The reasons are practical rather than moral.

AI drafts default to the same shapes. The same opening move, the same tidy paragraph that says nothing. Once you've read fifty you can spot one in a sentence and a half, and so can your prospective client.

They also contain no first-hand knowledge. An AI draft can't tell you what a switchboard upgrade runs in Adelaide, or that the wait on a Level 3 Home Care Package blew out again this year. It recombines what's already published, errors included. And the sites publishing it at volume are the ones losing visibility, which is the pattern we see in client accounts and our own tests.

The thing that matters most is simpler. Readers can tell. They can't always name what's wrong, but they close the tab, and the enquiry you never receive shows up in no report.

What genuine expertise input looks like

We need you for about twenty minutes a month. That's the honest ask.

A recorded call where you talk about a job you just finished beats a week of desk research. You'll mention the part that always costs more than people expect, or the council that takes six weeks instead of two. Nobody can copy that off you.

The process: we interview, we write, you review. Review runs about ten minutes a piece, and most clients stop editing by month three because the voice is right by then.

Written for Australian readers

Australian spelling, Australian examples, Australian rules. We reference the ATO, Fair Work, state licensing, the NDIS and EOFY timing because those are what your reader operates inside. Content written for a US audience reads wrong to an Australian in ways they can't always articulate. Sidewalk instead of footpath, dollar figures that don't match local quotes, permits that don't exist here. They don't think "this was outsourced." They just trust it less.

What we write

Type Words What it's for
Service and location pages 800 to 1,200 The pages that actually convert. One per service, one per real service area.
Industry and vertical pages 1,200 to 1,600 Proof you've done this in their sector before.
Cost and process explainers 1,200 to 2,000 Highest converting type we produce. Buyers search price before they search providers.
Comparison pages 1,000 to 1,500 You versus the alternative, or option A versus option B, written fairly.
Case studies 600 to 900 One job, real numbers, what went wrong included.
Original data pieces 1,200 plus Your own job data turned into something worth citing. This is what earns links.

What this costs

Costs, in fullAUD, ex GST

Content is included in all three retainers. Local at $990 a month includes one article, Growth at $1,990 includes three, Authority at $3,490 includes eight plus digital PR. Full detail on our SEO pricing page.

For agencies buying wholesale, a researched and optimised 1,500 word article is $180, three business day turnaround, written to your brief and delivered unbranded. Keyword research and a content map is $390.

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.

  1. Local

    $990 a month · One service area

    3 enquiries a month to break even

  2. GrowthMost common

    $1,990 a month · Multi-suburb or service

    5 enquiries a month to break even

  3. 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.

Questions

Questions we get asked

Straight answers, including the uncomfortable ones. Anything else goes to the person who does the work.

Ask your own question
Do you use AI to write?

Not for the words we hand you. We use it to synthesise research and sort outlines, which is closer to a spreadsheet task. Every published sentence is written and edited by a person. If a piece ever reads machine-made to you, send it back and we'll rewrite it at no charge.

How do you write about our industry without being in it?

We don't try to. We interview the people who are, then we do the structural and research work you don't have time for. Twenty minutes of you talking about a recent job gives us more usable specifics than any amount of reading.

How long should a blog post be?

There's no correct number, and anyone quoting you one hasn't looked at the results page. We've ranked 550 word answers and 2,400 word explainers at queries of similar volume. Length follows what the query rewards.

How much of our time will this take?

One recorded call a month, twenty to thirty minutes, plus about ten minutes reviewing each piece. Less once your voice is established.

Who owns the content?

You do, from the moment it's delivered and paid for. No licence terms, no clawback if you leave. Take it with you.

Can you match our existing tone?

Usually within two or three pieces. Send the three things you've published that sound most like you, and tell us what you'd never say. That second list is more useful than the samples.

Free, by hand, no obligation

We'll write one page before you commit

Judge the writing, not the pitch. Pick a page or a topic, send the brief, and we'll write it properly: research, interview call, finished draft. No contract, no charge, no sales call required.

Fill in the form with your website and the topic you want written. You'll have a draft inside five business days. If it's good, we'll talk about a retainer. If it isn't, keep it anyway.

Turnaround
Two business days
Follow-up
No sales call unless you ask

What clients say

In their own words

Upwork reviews, reproduced unedited apart from the spelling of Arbaz’s name.

  • 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!

    Technical SEO Audit

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  • 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.

    Building high authority backlinks

    • Accountable for Outcomes
    • Clear Communicator
  • 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!

    SEO keyword research

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