Wellington SEO Company

Yes, remotely. We work with businesses across the region through video calls, a shared live dashboard and a monthly report written in plain English. You talk directly to the strategist who does the work.

SEO retainers begin at $2,500/month for local businesses and scale with scope, competition and how complex your site is. Enterprise engagements are custom-quoted. You get a dedicated strategist, monthly reporting and direct Slack access to our team, and we can phase the work to fit a tighter budget.

It can open new channels, though it rarely replaces a large contract overnight. We look for private-sector and consumer searches that match what you already do well, build pages to rank for them, and track the enquiries they produce, so you can see a new pipeline forming month by month.

If you serve them, yes. The region is split into catchments by the harbour and hills, and people search using those place names. Lower Hutt and Masterton grew fastest in 2025 while the central city shrank, so pages for those areas often deliver sooner than another CBD page.

Handled properly, it helps. People search using both Māori and English place names, and correct macrons matter for matching. We make sure your pages, URLs and structured data handle both forms, and that bilingual content is written well rather than machine-translated.

Two to three months ahead. Wellington On a Plate and Beervana in August, World of WearableArt from September and CubaDupa in late March all bring visitors searching for places to eat, drink and stay. Pages need time to be indexed and linked before those searches peak.

Yes, when the goal is the right audience rather than local foot traffic. Studios are usually hired by producers and brands elsewhere in New Zealand and overseas, who search for specific capabilities and credits. We build portfolio and capability pages around those searches, with structured data that connects your work, people and awards to your brand.

SEO is the work of making your site the result search engines and AI assistants choose when someone searches for what you sell: a crawlable site, content matched to buyer intent, and authority earned from other sites. It matters because search is where demand already exists. Someone typing your category into Google, or asking ChatGPT for a recommendation, has a problem right now, and organic visibility puts you in front of them without paying for every click. Unlike ads, the position compounds: the work you do this quarter keeps producing next year.

Most clients see measurable improvements within 3-6 months. Quick wins (technical fixes, content gaps) often appear in month 2-3. Sustainable ranking improvements for competitive keywords typically take 4-8 months. The key differentiator is that results compound. Month 12 is always significantly better than month 6. See our case studies for examples or read the SEO Playbook for the full framework.

A comprehensive technical audit covering crawlability, indexation issues, page speed, mobile usability, and schema markup. Plus a competitive landscape analysis showing your ranking gaps and opportunities. Delivered within 48 hours, no commitment required. Book your free audit.

No, and any agency that does is lying. What we guarantee is a systematic, proven approach backed by 15+ years of experience. Our retention rate is 94% because the results speak for themselves. See our client results for proof.

Three things: systems thinking, transparency, and AEO readiness. We don't just optimise for Google, we optimise for AI citation engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini. Our clients are future-proofed against the shift from traditional search to AI-generated answers.

Ask four things. Who will actually do the work, and can you speak to them directly? What will they measure, and does it end in revenue or in rankings? How do they earn links, and will they show you examples? What did they change on the last site they worked on? Then read their case studies and check whether the client is still ranking today. An agency that answers those plainly, and without a guarantee, is usually the safer choice.

Almost always, yes, but rarely by rewriting everything. Most sites need clearer page structure, titles and headings that say what the page is about, new pages for intents you are not covering, and pruning or consolidation of thin pages that compete with each other. We propose every change with the reason attached, you approve it, and we implement it. Your brand voice stays yours.

Yes, and starting early is cheaper. A new site lets us set the information architecture, URL structure, templates and schema correctly before there is anything to unpick, and build the content plan around real demand from day one. Expect the first months to be about indexation and foundations; ranking for competitive terms follows once the site has earned some authority.

You can, and for a small site with time to spare it is a reasonable place to start. Our SEO Playbook lays out the full framework. The case for an agency is speed, judgement and hours: knowing which of the hundred possible fixes matter for your site, having the tooling to prove it, and having people whose whole job is to ship them. Many clients come to us after a year of doing it themselves, with a much clearer idea of what they want.

Links from relevant, trusted sites are still one of the strongest signals that a page deserves to rank, and the hardest signal to fake. Earned links lift the pages they point to and pass authority through your internal links to the rest of the site. Bought links from marketplaces or private networks do the opposite: discounted at best, penalised at worst. Our link building is editorial outreach and digital PR only.

Against the outcomes you care about: qualified leads, transactions, revenue and pipeline attributed to organic search, alongside the leading indicators that predict them, such as indexed pages, non-branded clicks, ranking coverage and AI citations. You get a live dashboard and a monthly review that ties each movement back to the work that caused it.

Blocking or orphaning pages you want ranked, letting several pages compete for the same keyword, publishing content nobody searched for, ignoring page speed on mobile, buying links, and changing URLs during a redesign without redirects. The most expensive one is treating SEO as a one-off project rather than a compounding program.