I am Jakob. I run SEO Monkey out of Campbells Bay, Auckland. Every account is mine, personally. No junior account managers, no offshore hand-offs.
Most NZ business owners have been burned by an agency at least once. We know because we have rebuilt their websites afterwards. The pattern is always the same.
Big shiny pitch. Big monthly invoice. Lock-in contract. Junior account manager you have never met. Reports full of green arrows but somehow your phone still does not ring.
If you cannot point at the leads we generated this month, you should not be paying us next month.
So we built it the opposite way. One person on every account (Jakob). Month-to-month. Flat fee. 30-day deliverables guarantee on results. Reporting in plain English you can read on your phone in 2 minutes.
If we are not earning our keep, you walk. Simple as that.
Get a free 18-min growth plan with JakobA few numbers about how SEO Monkey is structured. Boring on purpose.
A plumber mate paid an agency $2k for nothing. A cafe owner I know boosted Facebook posts for 6 months and got family likes. A spray tanner spent $400 on Google Ads and lost it all.
It pissed me off. So I started SEO Monkey to do it right for Kiwi service business owners who just want the phone to ring without the BS.
No suits. No 40-page reports. No 12-month contracts. Just real work, deliverables guaranteed, by someone who actually picks up the phone.
One flat number. Written down. What you're paying, what you're getting. Done.
If we don't ship the agreed deliverables in 30 days, you don't pay another invoice until we do.
No account manager handoff. You message, I reply. Usually within an hour.
"I am really impressed with the help that I have received to enable me to make my website more functional for viewers to peruse. Very understanding of where I am at and has even offered me more help. I would highly recommend SEO Monkey to anyone who is looking for help with their website."
"Jakob explained it all, and it was like a lightbulb moment as he described it in a manner that was easy to understand. I am looking forward to working with him."
"Jakob took the time to understand my business and help advise the best practices to implement CRM. Coming from Sugar CRM, Jakob's approach was refreshing."
"Jakob was fantastic. Incredibly patient, professional service and tailored to perfectly align with my business's needs. Cannot recommend them enough."
"Jakob goes out of his way to understand personal needs and provide a service that is just right for the customer. Great chap, willing to help out and comes with a disarming personality with all the knowledge to boot."
"Absolutely fantastic service that helped me with all the online aspects of my business. Jakob was very friendly and knowledgeable with any queries I had about my website build and helped give me the confidence to join the online marketplace."
"It was a pleasure working with Jakob. He was always able to find solutions to any issues I had and provided excellent ongoing support throughout the process."
"The service is outstanding. Friendly, knowledgeable, and always ready to assist. They make sure everything runs smoothly and treated me as a customer with great care. A top-notch experience."
Most digital agencies hand your account to a junior after the sales call. You end up emailing an account manager who relays your questions to someone you have never spoken to. SEO Monkey works differently: Jakob does the strategy, the keyword research, the on-page work, the reporting, and picks up the phone when you call. That is it.
That is not just a talking point. It means your campaign moves faster because there is no internal handover, no briefing document, no lost context. When something is working, it gets scaled the same day. When something is not working, it gets fixed the same day.
SEO Monkey is based on Beach Road in Campbells Bay, Auckland, but the clients span from Northland to Invercargill. Local SEO for a plumber in Hamilton has the same process as local SEO for a physio in Wellington. The fundamentals are the same and the work is done remotely via shared dashboards, calls, and screen shares.
There are no 12-month contracts here. If you stop seeing value, you stop paying. That might sound like a strange business model but it is actually the only model that forces quality work every single month. The second the results plateau, the incentive to fix them is immediate.
Reports go out monthly in plain English with actual numbers: how many calls came from Google, how your rankings moved, what was done that month and what is planned next. No vanity metrics, no impressions graphs dressed up to look like wins.
