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Local SEO for Devonport businesses, run from Campbells Bay by the person who does the work. Flat fee from $597 a month. 3 months, then month to month.
5.0 from 22 real Google reviews One person on every account
30-day deliverables guarantee. If we do not ship what we agreed in writing, your next invoice does not go out until we do.
Nobody in Devonport wants to drive up Lake Road for something they can get in the village. So they search with the suburb in it. The question is whose name comes up.
Google weighs how well known a business looks, not only how close it is. A busier Takapuna or Belmont business can show for a Devonport search ahead of the one on Victoria Road.
Locals search by what they need. Visitors search by where they are standing. Old photos, missing services and the wrong category answer neither.
Long weekends and sunny Saturdays are when the village fills up. If your profile says closed, or says nothing, they walk past.
Google ranks local results on relevance, distance and how well known you look. You are already close. The other two are the job.
Categories, services, photos, holiday hours and posts, so a local finds what they need and a visitor can decide in ten seconds.
Google Business ProfileA proper page for Devonport, then one for each place your customers come from: Stanley Bay, Cheltenham, Narrow Neck, Bayswater and Belmont.
How local SEO worksA request flow that asks every happy customer and nudges them to say what they came for and where. Google reads those words.
How the review flow worksNone of these are Devonport businesses, and I will not pretend they are. They are what this work did for a shop, a clinic and a car detailer elsewhere, straight from Google Search Console.
Every figure here comes out of an account I can open on the call.
"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."
"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."
"Jakob was fantastic. Incredibly patient, professional service and tailored to perfectly align with my business's needs. Cannot recommend them enough."
I run SEO Monkey from Beach Road in Campbells Bay, at the other end of the Shore from Devonport. There is no account manager and no offshore team. The person you talk to is the person working on your rankings.
Devonport is its own market. One road in, a ferry, and locals who would rather not leave the village for a haircut. Your pages and your profile get written for that, not copied from a Takapuna page with the name swapped.
Three steps. You can stop after the first one and keep the plan.
I run your main Devonport searches before we speak, so the call starts with the actual map and who is on it instead of you.
The work, the timeline, the flat monthly fee and what success looks like in 30 days. No deck and no surprises.
Where you rank, what moved, what I did and what is next. If the numbers are not moving, I tell you before you have to ask.
Want to see who Devonport finds instead of you?
Eighteen minutes, no pitch deck. I bring the map for your searches.
Two plans. Start with the village and add the rest of the peninsula when the first one is paying. Prices are plus GST.
Devonport on its own. Up to 5 priority keywords.
Up to 5 suburbs and up to 12 priority keywords.
Three-month minimum, then month to month. No setup fees. See every price.
Every engagement starts with a one-page list of deliverables. If we have not shipped that list in the first 30 days, the next invoice doesn't go out until we ship. Ad spend is paid direct to Google or Meta, that's separate.
See how the guarantee works
Fewer people search for Devonport than for Takapuna, and fewer businesses are chasing them. The ones who do search are close by and ready to book. I look at your actual searches before the call, and if the numbers are too small for monthly SEO to pay, I will say so. Sometimes the right answer is a properly set up Google profile and nothing else.
Yes, and it matters more. A visitor decides on their phone, usually after they have arrived. They search, they see a map with three names on it, and they pick from the photos, the hours and the reviews. That is your Google Business Profile doing the selling, so that is where the work starts.
Sometimes. Distance is one of the three things Google weighs, so the map results lean toward whoever is closest to the searcher. A strong page for Takapuna and reviews that mention it can get you there, and the multi-suburb plan covers up to five suburbs. I will tell you on the call whether it is realistic for what you do.
No. I take on clinics, shops, hospitality and professional services as well. The method is the same. What changes is which searches matter and what your profile needs to show.
Yes. Ads can put you at the top of a Devonport search this week, and you disappear the day you stop paying. SEO is slower and keeps working. Plenty of businesses run ads while the SEO builds, which is what the Get Leads bundle at $1,497 a month is for.