Provider facts
What does COG Marketing charge, and what do you get?
Disclosure: Appear is run by creativebyjake, which appears in this comparison. Every fact is from each provider's own pages with the date we read them, ours included.
COG Marketing (Cronulla, Sydney: "8A Cronulla St, Cronulla. Australia 2230", "(+612) 9523 6007" (contact page)): A full-service agency in Cronulla with a named founder, dozens of case studies and one for a wedding celebrant. Below is everything its own pages say about price and packages, read 13 Oct 2026, with each source linked.
COG Marketing, from its own pages
Named by: ChatGPT (8 Oct) for "local SEO for marriage celebrants".
- Website price shown
- Not shown on the pages read (no website price or package price published)
cogmarketing.com.au/services/websites - What a build includes
- Not shown on the pages read as a priced package. The celebrant case study names three products supplied: "TechStack Maintenance Agreement (TMA)", "Website: WordPress Standard", "COG Cloud 3 Hosting: Website, Domain, Email" (no prices shown)
cogmarketing.com.au/case-studies/marry-me-nicky - Ongoing fees
- Not shown on the pages read as a price. Celebrant case study: the TMA "ensures ongoing support and maintenance of their entire digital ecosystem, including their website, emails, and domain management"; COG Cloud 3 Hosting covers "Website, Domain, Email"
cogmarketing.com.au/case-studies/marry-me-nicky - Local SEO or marketing
- SEO service page lists "Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)", "Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO)", "Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO)", "Local SEO", "SEO Audits", "SEO Content Writing". Local SEO: "Local SEO ensures your business appears in location-based searches, driving nearby customers to your website or physical location." Price not shown on the pages read
cogmarketing.com.au/services/seo - Platform
- Client builds on "Shopify, WordPress, WooCommerce, and more" (the page also lists Squarespace, Duda and Magento). COG's own site is served as WordPress (generator "WordPress 7.1.3") with the Divi theme
cogmarketing.com.au/services/websites - Named person
- "COG Marketing is led by Founder and Managing Director, Luke Sullivan."
cogmarketing.com.au/who-we-are - Reviews on its own site
- Testimonial only on the home page ("One of the most flexible and responsible agencies I have worked with. COG gets the job done", Chris Hole | Peaches Pilates); no Google rating or review count shown
cogmarketing.com.au - Example builds
- Case studies page links 57 case study pages (page 1 of a paginated list), with a "Filter by Category" list that includes "Wedding Celebrant"; the Marry Me Nicky card is labelled "Wedding Celebrant"
cogmarketing.com.au/case-studies - Page for celebrants
- Case study "Marry Me Nicky", https://cogmarketing.com.au/case-studies/marry-me-nicky/: "Marry Me Nicky is a Sydney-based wedding celebrant service specializing in personalized, memorable ceremonies."; "We upgraded their outdated website to a modern, responsive WordPress site optimised for both desktop and mobile." The case study body does not mention SEO work. No celebrant service page shown
cogmarketing.com.au/case-studies/marry-me-nicky - Based
- Cronulla, Sydney: "8A Cronulla St, Cronulla. Australia 2230", "(+612) 9523 6007" (contact page)
cogmarketing.com.au/contact
Other things its pages say
- "With over 300 clients and decades of hands-on brand building" cogmarketing.com.au
- "Our retainers run on a flexible, no lock-in basis with a 30-day minimum." cogmarketing.com.au
- Build time: "Most websites take around 6 to 8 weeks from strategy to launch" (the page writes the range with a dash) cogmarketing.com.au
- Partner badges listed include "Google Partner", "Meta Business Partner", "Wordpress Agency Partner", "Anthropic & Claude Partner" cogmarketing.com.au
- "An independent, all-in-one marketing agency in Sydney."; "We were once COG360, and COG Branding" cogmarketing.com.au/who-we-are
- SEO page: "Our SEO services improve visibility, credibility, and discoverability across search engines and AI-driven platforms" cogmarketing.com.au/services/seo
Is COG Marketing right for you?
Best for: businesses that want one Sydney agency for website, SEO and other marketing.
Worth asking them: for website and SEO prices in writing (none are published), and what its celebrant work covered: the case study describes a rebuild, hosting and maintenance, not SEO.
How does creativebyjake compare?
creativebyjake runs this site, so read this as our side of it. Same date, same kind of source.
| COG Marketing | creativebyjake (ours) | |
|---|---|---|
| Website price shown | Not shown on the pages read (no website price or package price published) cogmarketing.com.au/services/websites | $500 + GST for a two-page site, paid once; going live on a domain in the client's own name is $100 plus the domain's own fees creativebyjake.com.au/celebrant-websites/ |
| Ongoing fees | Not shown on the pages read as a price. Celebrant case study: the TMA "ensures ongoing support and maintenance of their entire digital ecosystem, including their website, emails, and domain management"; COG Cloud 3 Hosting covers "Website, Domain, Email" cogmarketing.com.au/case-studies/marry-me-nicky | Maintenance at $50 + GST a month, no contract, two weeks' notice to stop; hosting: not stated on its pages creativebyjake.com.au/celebrant-websites/ |
| Local SEO or marketing | SEO service page lists "Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)", "Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO)", "Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO)", "Local SEO", "SEO Audits", "SEO Content Writing". Local SEO: "Local SEO ensures your business appears in location-based searches, driving nearby customers to your website or physical location." Price not shown on the pages read cogmarketing.com.au/services/seo | Appear at $250 + GST a month: the Google listing kept up, details matched across directories, a review kit, a local page every second month, Maps read weekly and AI answers monthly; Appear and maintenance together are $300 a month including GST creativebyjake.com.au/appear/ |
| Reviews on its own site | Testimonial only on the home page ("One of the most flexible and responsible agencies I have worked with. COG gets the job done", Chris Hole | Peaches Pilates); no Google rating or review count shown cogmarketing.com.au | Not shown on the pages read creativebyjake.com.au |
| Example builds | Case studies page links 57 case study pages (page 1 of a paginated list), with a "Filter by Category" list that includes "Wedding Celebrant"; the Marry Me Nicky card is labelled "Wedding Celebrant" cogmarketing.com.au/case-studies | Example builds for made-up businesses, labelled as such: Vowsmith Ceremonies creativebyjake.com.au/celebrant-websites/ |
Worth asking us: about how new it is: its examples are builds for made-up businesses and its site shows no reviews, so ask Jake for a call and judge for yourself.
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