Provider facts
What does SEO Sydney 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.
SEO Sydney (Chippendale, Sydney: contact page "Office" "Suite 32/40 Meagher St" "Chippendale NSW 2008"; "Hours" "Mon - Fri: 9:00am - 5:30pm"; "Phone" "0439 801 764"; under "Sydney-Based Team": "No outsourcing, no offshore work. Our entire team operates from Chippendale, Sydney". No ABN shown on the pages read): SEO from $1,000 + GST a month with local SEO and Google listing work in it, 4.9 from 14 Google reviews, 18 case studies and a team in Chippendale. Below is everything its own pages say about price and packages, read 14 Oct 2026, with each source linked.
SEO Sydney, from its own pages
Named by: Bing Australia, page 1 (13 Oct) for "local SEO for marriage celebrants".
- Website price shown
- SEO web design page: "Projects $4,000 to $20,000", "Most projects 8 to 16 weeks"; pricing box "SEO web design project" "$4,000 to $20,000" "Depending on the size and complexity of the site."; FAQ: "Our SEO web design projects range from $4,000 to $20,000, depending on the size and complexity of the site." No GST note on that page
seosydney.com/seosydneyservices/seo-web-design - What a build includes
- "Research, architecture, structured data, speed work, redirect mapping and 90 days of post-launch monitoring are included." Listed: "Keyword research, competitor analysis and information architecture before any visual design", "Mobile-first, responsive design", "Structured data hand-coded into the build: LocalBusiness, FAQ, BreadcrumbList, Service and custom types", "Accessibility built in", "CMS guardrails", "90" "Days of post-launch monitoring", "In-house developers"
seosydney.com/seosydneyservices/seo-web-design - Ongoing fees
- No hosting, care or website maintenance price shown on the pages read. Web design FAQ "Do you handle ongoing SEO after launch?": "Yes. . Most clients continue with monthly SEO after launch." Monthly SEO retainers are in seo
seosydney.com/seosydneyservices/seo-web-design - Local SEO or marketing
- Home page pricing ("Transparent SEO Pricing for Sydney Businesses"): "Small Business" "$1,000" "/month + GST" ("Up to 20 target keywords", "Local SEO & GBP optimisation", "2 content pieces/month", "Monthly ranking report"); "Growth" ("Most Popular") "$2,500" "/month + GST"; "Enterprise" "$5,000+" "/month + GST". Pricing page packages: "Local Sydney Package: $1,000/month" "Designed for Sydney small businesses with a clearly defined local service area, typically 1 to 3 suburbs", including "Google Business Profile setup, category optimisation, and ongoing post management", "LocalBusiness and FAQPage schema on all key pages", "1 keyword-targeted content piece per month"; "Growth Sydney Package: $2,500/month"; "Competitive Sydney Package: $5,000+/month". Pricing page range card "Local / Small Business" "Single-location, low competition" "$1k to $2.5k" "/mo"; FAQ "How much does local SEO cost in Sydney?" "$1,000 to $2,500/month covering GBP, citations, on-page, and review management." "All prices are in Australian dollars and exclude GST." The local SEO page lists the work (Google Business Profile optimisation, "Weekly Google Posts and regular photo uploads to keep your profile fresh", "A citation audit across 60+ Australian directories", suburb landing pages, review system, schema) with no price, "No template packages".)
seosydney.com/seo-pricing-sydney, seosydney.com, seosydney.com/seosydneyservices/local-seo - Platform
- Client builds, as stated in the SEO web design FAQ: "WordPress, Shopify, and static or headless builds, depending on your business needs." Their own site: not stated; the served HTML has no CMS generator tag and no WordPress paths, with scripts and styles loaded from hashed files under /assets/
seosydney.com/seosydneyservices/seo-web-design - Named person
- "Blake" "Founder & Director": "Blake founded SEO Melbourne and SEO Sydney over 17 years ago"; "Girish" "Head of Strategy & Growth". First names only. "We're a small, senior team of SEO specialists who've spent two decades helping Australian businesses"
seosydney.com/about - Reviews on its own site
- Badge on every page read: "4.9 on Google (14 reviews)" with five stars, "14 Google reviews"; three testimonials shown by first name and initial ("Allison L." "Business Owner", "Michael K." "Managing Director", "Sarah R." "Operations Manager"). Home page also shows "4.9/5" "Avg Client Score" and "Google rating · 14 reviews"
seosydney.com/contact, seosydney.com - Example builds
- SEO case studies page: "18" "Case Studies", "12" "Industries": Clean My DPF, Are You Selling, Cash for Cars Removal, South QLD Restorations, Jim's Electrical, Complete Education Australia, City Phones, Luxton Property, Direct SMS, Mechanic Desk, Aircon, HealthScope Medical Centres, Sanctuary Lakes Golf Club, Eastcoast Sailing, One Stop Adventures, Ecoliv, Greenslist Barristers, MegaSorber. Three (One Stop Adventures, Greenslist Barristers, MegaSorber) show "Active" "Campaign" instead of a figure. These are SEO results; no website build portfolio was found on the pages read
seosydney.com/seo-case-studies - Page for celebrants
- No celebrant page. The page Bing showed is a guide, titled "SEO for Wedding Services Sydney | 2026 Industry Guide", at /seo-guides/seo-sydney-wedding-services/: "SEO for Wedding Services in Sydney", "By SEO Sydney", "24 min read", "Updated Sep 2026", "The definitive SEO guide for Sydney wedding venues, planners, florists, photographers, and celebrants." Its keyword table lists "wedding celebrant Sydney" at "1,900" monthly searches: "Essential vendor, celebrants need strong GBP and review presence". No wedding or celebrant package or price on the guide
seosydney.com/seo-guides/seo-sydney-wedding-services - Based
- Chippendale, Sydney: contact page "Office" "Suite 32/40 Meagher St" "Chippendale NSW 2008"; "Hours" "Mon - Fri: 9:00am - 5:30pm"; "Phone" "0439 801 764"; under "Sydney-Based Team": "No outsourcing, no offshore work. Our entire team operates from Chippendale, Sydney". No ABN shown on the pages read
seosydney.com/contact
Other things its pages say
- "SEO Specialists Since 2006"; home results ticker: "+3,000% organic traffic" (Mechanic Desk), "+941% organic clicks" (Clean My DPF), "+498% organic traffic" (South QLD Restorations), "+445% organic traffic" (Complete Education Australia), "+239% organic traffic" (City Phones), "+237% organic traffic" (Are You Selling), "+217% organic traffic" (Direct SMS), "+171% organic traffic" (Aircon) seosydney.com
- "Founded in 2006, Built on Results"; "20+" "Years in SEO"; "In twenty years, not a single client has received a Google penalty under our care."; "Among the first Australian agencies to develop dedicated AI SEO strategies for Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity."; "pattern recognition from managing campaigns across 45 Sydney suburbs and 43 industry verticals simultaneously"; "We've operated exclusively in Sydney and Melbourne for two decades" seosydney.com/about
- About page "Verified Results": "+385%" "Jim's Electrical" "Organic Traffic Growth"; "+260%" "Healthscope Medical" "Patient Enquiries"; "+310%" "Greenslist Barristers" "Keyword Rankings" seosydney.com/about
- Exclusivity: "From day one, we committed to an exclusive one-client-per-industry model." (about); home FAQ: "we take one client per industry per suburb" seosydney.com/about, seosydney.com
- Contracts, about FAQ "Do you require long-term contracts?": "No. Every engagement is month-to-month with no lock-in contracts." Pricing page FAQ "Do you require minimum contract terms?": "Yes. ... We work with minimum engagement terms that give campaigns enough time to deliver genuine outcomes." seosydney.com/seo-pricing-sydney, seosydney.com/about
- Pricing page FAQ: "What is the ROI of SEO for Sydney businesses?" "5x to 15x over 12 months."; "Is cheap SEO worth it?" "Below $500/month is almost never effective. Quality SEO requires $1,000/month minimum." seosydney.com/seo-pricing-sydney
- "17+" "Years in Business"; "1" "Client Per Industry"; "100%" "White Hat SEO" seosydney.com/contact
- Local SEO page results "from the published case studies": Aircon "+171%" organic traffic, HealthScope Medical Centres "+62%" new patients and "76%" "of target keywords on page 1", South QLD Restorations "+498%" seosydney.com/seosydneyservices/local-seo
Is SEO Sydney right for you?
Best for: businesses with a real marketing budget that want an established Sydney SEO agency, a website build included.
Worth asking them: to put the package, the hourly rate and the contract term in writing: its own pages give different figures for each; and note it has no celebrant page (the page Bing showed is a general wedding services guide).
How does creativebyjake compare?
creativebyjake runs this site, so read this as our side of it. Same date, same kind of source.
| SEO Sydney | creativebyjake (ours) | |
|---|---|---|
| Website price shown | SEO web design page: "Projects $4,000 to $20,000", "Most projects 8 to 16 weeks"; pricing box "SEO web design project" "$4,000 to $20,000" "Depending on the size and complexity of the site."; FAQ: "Our SEO web design projects range from $4,000 to $20,000, depending on the size and complexity of the site." No GST note on that page seosydney.com/seosydneyservices/seo-web-design | $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 | No hosting, care or website maintenance price shown on the pages read. Web design FAQ "Do you handle ongoing SEO after launch?": "Yes. . Most clients continue with monthly SEO after launch." Monthly SEO retainers are in seo seosydney.com/seosydneyservices/seo-web-design | 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 | Home page pricing ("Transparent SEO Pricing for Sydney Businesses"): "Small Business" "$1,000" "/month + GST" ("Up to 20 target keywords", "Local SEO & GBP optimisation", "2 content pieces/month", "Monthly ranking report"); "Growth" ("Most Popular") "$2,500" "/month + GST"; "Enterprise" "$5,000+" "/month + GST". Pricing page packages: "Local Sydney Package: $1,000/month" "Designed for Sydney small businesses with a clearly defined local service area, typically 1 to 3 suburbs", including "Google Business Profile setup, category optimisation, and ongoing post management", "LocalBusiness and FAQPage schema on all key pages", "1 keyword-targeted content piece per month"; "Growth Sydney Package: $2,500/month"; "Competitive Sydney Package: $5,000+/month". Pricing page range card "Local / Small Business" "Single-location, low competition" "$1k to $2.5k" "/mo"; FAQ "How much does local SEO cost in Sydney?" "$1,000 to $2,500/month covering GBP, citations, on-page, and review management." "All prices are in Australian dollars and exclude GST." The local SEO page lists the work (Google Business Profile optimisation, "Weekly Google Posts and regular photo uploads to keep your profile fresh", "A citation audit across 60+ Australian directories", suburb landing pages, review system, schema) with no price, "No template packages".) seosydney.com/seo-pricing-sydney, seosydney.com, seosydney.com/seosydneyservices/local-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 | Badge on every page read: "4.9 on Google (14 reviews)" with five stars, "14 Google reviews"; three testimonials shown by first name and initial ("Allison L." "Business Owner", "Michael K." "Managing Director", "Sarah R." "Operations Manager"). Home page also shows "4.9/5" "Avg Client Score" and "Google rating · 14 reviews" seosydney.com/contact, seosydney.com | Not shown on the pages read creativebyjake.com.au |
| Example builds | SEO case studies page: "18" "Case Studies", "12" "Industries": Clean My DPF, Are You Selling, Cash for Cars Removal, South QLD Restorations, Jim's Electrical, Complete Education Australia, City Phones, Luxton Property, Direct SMS, Mechanic Desk, Aircon, HealthScope Medical Centres, Sanctuary Lakes Golf Club, Eastcoast Sailing, One Stop Adventures, Ecoliv, Greenslist Barristers, MegaSorber. Three (One Stop Adventures, Greenslist Barristers, MegaSorber) show "Active" "Campaign" instead of a figure. These are SEO results; no website build portfolio was found on the pages read seosydney.com/seo-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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