The short answer
We run SEO for Stretton businesses: fixing the technical faults on your site, setting up your Google Business Profile as a service area listing, writing a page for each job you want more of, and earning links that count. Reports lead with calls and quote requests. No lock in contract, and the audit is free.
The work van parked on a big Stretton block
Drive the streets off Gowan Road and Illaweena Street and you'll see it. Trailers down the side of the house. A shed out the back with a roller door. A ute with a phone number on the tailgate. Stretton's larger blocks suit trades that need room for gear, so electricians, plumbers, tilers, landscapers, pool builders and handymen run their businesses from home here.
Their customers aren't in Stretton, or not only. The work is in Calamvale, Drewvale, Parkinson and further out, with some heading over to the industrial strips around Karawatha and Compton Road for commercial jobs. The call usually comes from someone standing in a kitchen or a car park, searching "electrician near me" on a phone.
That changes how SEO has to work. There's no shopfront to rank, no walk in trade, and the business address is a family home. Everything rests on the listing being set up correctly and the site answering a very specific question fast: do you do this job, in my area, soon.
The work, piece by piece
Technical fixes first.
Slow pages, broken links, missing titles and sites that don't work properly on a phone. Tradie sites built on cheap themes usually have a list of these, and they hold everything else back.
Your Business Profile, set up as a service area.
Address hidden, the suburbs you actually travel to listed, the right primary category and photos of real jobs. Done wrong, the listing can be suspended. Our local SEO work starts here.
One page per job.
Switchboard upgrades, bathroom renovations, retaining walls. Each gets its own page with photos, what's involved and the suburbs you cover, because "tiler Stretton" and "waterproofing Calamvale" are different searches.
Reviews that mention the job.
We set up a simple way to ask after every completed job. Reviews that name the work and the suburb help more than a row of stars.
Links from real places.
Suppliers, trade associations, local sponsorships. Not bought directories.
Call tracking.
So your report shows which calls came from search, not just where you rank.
What ranking from a Stretton home base takes
Google ranks service area listings partly from the hidden address, so your map results will be strongest close to home: Stretton, Drewvale, Calamvale and Karawatha. Our own pin is in Pallara, which means we see the same map behaviour on the southside every day.
Beyond that radius, it's organic pages that do the work. Common trades have plenty of competitors, but many rely on a thin listing and a Facebook page. A site with real job pages and steady reviews is usually competitive within months on the less crowded terms, and slower on "plumber Brisbane" style searches. We'll tell you which is which in the audit.
Southside suburbs we work in
We also run SEO for businesses in Karawatha, Drewvale, Sunnybank Hills, Calamvale and Kuraby, plus Parkinson. The full list is on our service areas page.
How the first months run
Free audit
Site, listing, reviews and the trade terms your competitors rank for.
Fix the foundations
Technical faults and the Business Profile, usually in the first month.
Build the job pages
Written for the work you want more of, checked by you before they go live.
Report on calls
Monthly, starting with enquiries, then rankings and what we changed.
Why trades work with us
No lock in contracts.
Month to month. If the phone isn't ringing more, you can walk away.
One account manager.
One person who knows your trade and your service area, and who picks up when you ring between jobs.
"I'm flat out already. Why would I need SEO?"
Busy now doesn't mean busy in the quiet months. SEO also lets you pick the jobs you want, not just the ones that call.