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SEO by industry · 25 dedicated guides

SEO for your industry, built around how your customers actually search.

The four pillars of SEO are the same everywhere. What changes by industry is where the effort goes. A plumber lives in emergency near-me search; a law firm wins on authority and content; a dentist rises or falls on the Map Pack and reviews. Pick your industry to see the plan that fits it.

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Trades & home services11 guides

Heaviest pillar: local and reviews. Most jobs start in the Map Pack or an urgent near-me search.

Health & care6 guides

Heaviest pillar: local and reviews, written inside the health advertising rules where they apply.

Professional services4 guides

Heaviest pillar: content and trust. The client reads before they call.

Hospitality2 guides

Heaviest pillar: the Google profile and near-me search.

Education & care2 guides

Searched by parents: quality ratings, suburbs and the run-up to exams.

A schematic map, not to scale: one district for each industry group, one pin for each of the 25 guides. Pick yours to open it.

Why it matters

Same pillars, a different plan for every industry

Every campaign is built on the same four pillars: a technical foundation, on-page content, local signals and authority. Our SEO services deliver all four in-house. What an industry page adds is the weighting, because searching for a dentist has almost nothing in common with choosing a law firm.

Search intent differs

An emergency plumber and a considered legal enquiry are opposite ends of intent. The same keywords strategy would fail both.

Rules differ

Health, legal and financial marketing sit under advertising codes. A plan has to win rankings without breaking them.

Value differs

A one-off job and a client kept for a decade justify very different spend. The industry decides what a ranking is worth.

A template with your industry's name pasted in is not industry SEOThe honest version

A national template with one word swapped in the heading gives the same advice whether you sell legal services or fix hot water systems, which tells you nobody looked at how your customers search. Each of our pages starts from that market's real behaviour: what people type, whether they're in a hurry or researching for weeks, whether they choose in the Map Pack or after reading a page, and what the business is allowed to say in its advertising.

Then the pillars get weighted. A trade business is mostly local SEO and reviews, so that's where the money goes and the content stays lean. A law firm or accountant is mostly authoritative content and trust signals, because the buyer reads before they call. A restaurant lives in its Google profile and near-me search, and a big site with technical problems needs the foundation fixed before anything else can rank. An industry page tells you that mix before you spend.

Illustration of many different small businesses standing on one shared four-layer foundation
The same pillars under every business, a different plan on top.
The menu

Find your industry.

Twenty-five guides across five groups. Filter to yours, or read the closest one.

Trades

SEO for Tradies

Own the near-me and emergency searches, and stop renting leads from the job-bidding apps.

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Trades

SEO for Plumbers

Win the 2am blocked-drain call and the planned hot-water job with a Map Pack listing that is complete and current.

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Trades

SEO for Electricians

Rank for the EV, solar and switchboard work worth real money, not just the $90 call-out.

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Trades

SEO for Builders

Attract the right few projects from clients who research for months and choose on trust.

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Trades

SEO for Roofers

Own the whole roof over decades, from a leak repair to a full re-roof, and catch storm demand.

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Trades

SEO for Mechanics

Win the car for its life, from a breakdown to a decade of logbook servicing, one search at a time.

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Trades

SEO for Cleaning Businesses

Get chosen instead of price-matched, and turn one clean into a recurring or commercial account.

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Trades

SEO for HVAC

Rank for the words homeowners really type, well before the first heatwave or cold snap.

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Trades

SEO for Landscapers

Turn every finished job into photos and project pages that keep ranking for years.

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Trades

SEO for Locksmiths

Build a listing that passes Google's checks, and publish the real prices bait-pricers hide.

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Trades

SEO for Pest Control

Rank for the termite inspection and the annual plan, not just the one-off spray.

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Health

SEO for Healthcare

Rank above the booking platforms and stop renting your own patients back from them.

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Health

SEO for Dentists

SEO for dentists that wins the Map Pack and builds treatment pages patients search by name.

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Health

SEO for Physiotherapists

Rank for the injury, not the industry, and win every funding stream and course of care.

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Health

SEO for Chiropractors

Win the patient you keep for years, ranking only for what you can legally claim to treat.

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Health

SEO for NDIS Providers

Be the provider participants, families and support coordinators can find and trust.

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Health

SEO for Psychologists & Therapists

Be found for the searches nobody mentions out loud, inside the advertising rules.

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Professional

SEO for Lawyers

SEO for lawyers, and SEO for law firms, built on practice-area and suburb pages, not one impossible head term.

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Professional

SEO for Accountants

SEO for accountants that grows the recurring fee base your practice is actually valued on.

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Professional

SEO for Real Estate

Win the vendor and own your suburb, instead of fighting the portals for buyers.

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Professional

SEO for Finance & Professional

Advice, broking and lending pages written to clear compliance sign-off, then rank.

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Hospitality

SEO for Hotels

Win the direct booking and keep the margin the online travel agencies would take.

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Hospitality

SEO for Restaurants

Get chosen before the craving passes, winning near-me, cuisine and booking searches.

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Education & care

SEO for Childcare

Put your quality rating where parents search, then turn the search into a tour.

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Education & care

SEO for Education & Tutoring

Rank ahead of exam season for the subject, suburb and year level parents search.

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Paying a middleman for customers who were already looking for youRent or own

Most groups on this page have a platform between the search and the business: shared-lead marketplaces for trades, booking platforms for clinics, travel booking sites for hotels, delivery apps for restaurants and property portals for agents. They do bring work, and dropping one overnight is rarely smart. The trouble shows when you add up a year and see the same customers arriving through the platform, with a fee every time. Divide the platform spend by jobs, bookings or listings that went ahead (not enquiries) and compare that with winning the same customer from your own Google profile and website. Keep the platform as a top-up while your own channels grow: a complete profile with real photos, a booking or quote link that comes straight to you, and reviews on your own listing. The guides for tradies, healthcare practices, hotels, restaurants and real estate agents each look at the middleman that matters in that market.

Illustration of five clusters of small businesses, trades, clinics, offices, cafes and a childcare centre, along one street
Twenty-five industries in five groups, each searched for in its own way.
Where to start

Your industry page is the starting point for the plan.

The industry guide shows how your market searches and where the effort should go. Most businesses then pair it with one or two core services to do the work.

  • Read your industry page first, so you know the mix before you spend a dollar.
  • Book a free audit, and we'll check that mix against your real site and competitors.
  • Start with the heaviest pillar: usually local for a trade, content for a professional firm.
You do not have to pick everything at onceStart where it pays

A common mistake is running all four pillars from day one on a budget that only stretches to one done properly. Fund your industry's heaviest pillar first, get it winning, and add the others as results pay for them. For most local businesses that means the Map Pack and reviews; for a professional firm, a handful of strong pages before any link campaign. Your industry page names the first move and the audit checks it against your site.

Illustration of an open folder on a desk with a path leading out toward a small town
Your industry page is where the plan starts, not where it ends.
How it fits together

Industry SEO is the four pillars, re-weighted.

Every campaign uses the same four pillars, and the industry decides how much of each you need and in what order. There's no secret fifth thing that only dentists or only plumbers get.

That's why our industry pages link straight to the core services. The guide sets the strategy for your market and the services deliver it, at a price that follows the work rather than the industry name.

Why the weighting is the whole gameThe part most plans skip

Two businesses can be handed the exact same list of SEO tasks and get opposite results, because the order and the emphasis were wrong for one of them. A trade business that pours its budget into long blog articles is spending on the pillar that matters least to it, while its Google Business Profile and reviews, which win the near-me search, sit half-finished. A law firm that spends the same budget chasing the Map Pack is doing the reverse, because its buyer reads a considered page before they ever call and rarely picks a solicitor from a map. Neither did anything technically wrong; both put the effort in the wrong pillar.

The weighting decides whether a campaign moves or quietly spends. A generic plan can't set it, because it depends on how your customers behave: whether they decide in seconds or over weeks, whether they trust a review or a credential, whether they search locally at all. That's why we start every engagement from the industry page instead of a task list that looks the same for everyone. Our case studies include two businesses where getting the weighting right paid off: Belvedere Building and Electrical logged 27 leads in 30 days, and Symes SA took 46 enquiries in the first 30 days after launch.

Illustration of four columns under one roof with workers from different trades walking between them
Industry SEO is the same four pillars, applied to your field.
Pricing

The industry rarely sets the price.

What sets it is how competitive your market is and how much work your site needs. Our published monthly plans are the same whatever your industry, and a free audit sizes which one fits.

Starter
$500/mo
A focused local campaign
Growth
$900/mo
Regular work across the site
Performance
$1,500/mo
Deeper or tougher markets

No setup fee, no lock-in. Full detail on our pricing page.

FAQ

Industry SEO, answered.

Yes, because the four pillars of SEO stay the same but their weighting changes completely by industry. SEO for dentists leans hard on the Map Pack, reviews and treatment pages, a law firm leans on authoritative practice-area content and trust signals, and a plumber lives almost entirely in near-me and emergency search. The industry page is where we set that weighting.

We have dedicated pages for twenty-five industries across five groups. Trades and home services covers tradies, plumbers, electricians, builders, roofers, mechanics, cleaning businesses, heating and cooling, landscapers, locksmiths and pest control. Health and care covers healthcare practices, dentists, physiotherapists, chiropractors, psychologists and NDIS providers. Professional services covers lawyers, accountants, finance and real estate. Hospitality covers hotels and restaurants. Education and care covers childcare centres and tutoring. Each page is written for that industry's search behaviour, customers and compliance rules.

We still work with you. The twenty-five pages are the industries we're asked about most, and the method applies to any business whose customers search for what it does. Start with a free audit and we'll map how your market searches, what your competitors are doing and where the effort should go. No page just means we haven't written that guide yet.

They overlap but are not the same. Local SEO is a pillar, the work that wins the Map Pack and near-me search for a business with a service area. Industry SEO is the whole plan tuned to your vertical, which for a local trade will be mostly local SEO, but for a national ecommerce brand or a law firm chasing considered enquiries will lean far more on content and authority. Our industry pages say which mix your business needs.

Yes, and it shapes the work. Health practices operate under AHPRA advertising rules that prohibit patient testimonials in advertising, accountants under Tax Practitioners Board obligations, and legal marketing under each state's rules on advertising legal services. Our health, dental, physio, chiro, legal and accounting pages are written with those rules built in, because a plan that wins rankings by breaking an advertising code is a liability. This is general information, not compliance advice, and we confirm the specifics for your registration before anything goes live.

Usually yes, even if it is only a starting price or a range. Across trades, clinics and professional firms, the same complaint comes up: hours lost quoting or calling back people who only wanted a number, and prospects who won't ring at all because they fear a surprise bill. A from-price, a fixed-fee package or a clear list of what is in and out of scope lets unsuitable enquiries filter themselves out and gives the serious ones the confidence to call. If every job really is different, explain what the price depends on and give a recent typical range, then ask for budget and timeframe on the quote form. Regulated professions should check what their own rules say about advertising fees before publishing; that is general information, not compliance advice.

Boltly starts at $500 a month for a focused local campaign, $900 a month for regular work across a growing site, and $1,500 a month for deeper or more competitive markets. There is no setup fee and no lock-in. The industry rarely changes the price directly; what changes it is how competitive your market is and how much work your site needs, which we size in a free audit. Our pricing page has the detail.

Some of it, yes. A ranking only turns into work if someone answers, and a person who rings a tradie, a clinic or a solicitor and gets no reply often calls the next result. You don't need a receptionist to fix most of it. Set up an automatic text back for missed calls, put a quote or booking form on every service page, say on the site how quickly you reply, and keep your Google profile hours honest, including any after-hours line. Only advertise 24/7 if someone really answers at 2am. We look at this in the free audit, because it is cheaper to stop losing the enquiries you already get than to buy more of them.

Maybe less of it than you've been told, but don't skip the basics. Referrals stay the best source for most accountants, lawyers, builders and allied health practices, yet the person who was referred almost always searches your name before they call. If they find an out-of-date site, no Google profile or nothing about the work they were told you do, the referral goes cold. The fix is modest: a maintained Business Profile, a page for each service you actually want more of, and a clear statement of who you work with and how you charge. Once that is in place, the Starter plan or a few months of focused work is often enough, and the free audit will tell you if it is.

Start with your industry page if it is listed, then read our guide to SEO for small businesses, which covers budget-first thinking and where a limited spend does the most good. Most small businesses lead with local SEO, because the Map Pack is the fastest, cheapest win when you serve a local area. Plenty of small operators need less than they've been quoted, so start with a free audit that shows what's worth funding and what can wait.

Ask for a free audit. We look at your site, your industry and your local competitors, then send a costed plan in writing with no obligation and no lock-in. You can read your industry page first for the specifics of how your market searches, but the audit is where we confirm the mix your particular business needs and what it should cost. If the honest answer is that you need less than you expected, we will say so.

Find the plan built for your industry.

Pick your industry above, or ask for a free audit and we'll map how your market searches, what competitors are doing and where your budget should go. In writing, no obligation.

Written per industry In-house team No lock-in