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Send us your details for a free, human-edited site audit. We won’t even add your email to a newsletter.
It will include a technical SEO report that identifies errors and issues that might be preventing your website from ranking higher in search engine results. We’ll also provide actionable recommendations and indicative pricing for our digital marketing services.
This can be the first step to understand where your site stands and what you can do to make it work better for you.
We Help Local Businesses Grow
At Rank First, we offer sensible Google marketing services designed to increase leads or sales. We can help you clarify your ideal clients and then make sure you are found when they are looking online for the services your provide. Our SEO and Google Ads management solutions are ideal for most businesses. From tradespeople to professional service providers. Retailers to health care providers. We can provide a clear expectation of what we will do and why. You can see the work happening on your website every month. That’s how search engine optimisation should be.
AI is not the end of SEO. It is a transition point and our lived experience can help you evolve and be found more and more in Chat GPT and other AI powered search results too.
All Things Google
We are not a full service digital marketing company, Rank First is an SEO company now mainly based on the Sunshine Coast and Melbourne.
With over fifteen years of experience, we’ve helped businesses in diverse sectors—from e-commerce to healthcare—to get found more prominently in Google and other search engines. They now get ChatGPT traffic too.
We don’t do social. We don’t do emails. We don’t do websites. We don’t do wishy washy.
We Do SEO And Google Ads.
Our commitment to openness helps set us apart. With Rank First, there are no hidden fees, no long-term contracts, and no surprises. We’re here to build long-term partnerships that help you achieve positive outcomes. We can tell you what we do each month. Show what we’ve done and tell you what the next plan is. Every month.
How Our
SEO Works
We like to keep things simple. There are no lock in contracts or keyword limits. Just a rolling monthly deal for as long as our clients see value. As results happen and your business evolves, so to our service can evolve with you. Clients stay with us for the long haul because we listen, we care and we take action.
Whether you are starting a new business or expanding an existing one, we have the solutions to get things moving in the right direction sooner. It’s what we do.
Reliable
SEO Services
We have the experience of over a thousand projects
PPC
Our Google AdWords and Google Shopping campaigns are designed to get your site found on search engines quickly. We focus on creating cost-effective and well-targeted campaigns that avoid wasteful clicks and deliver higher conversions. By continuously monitoring and adjusting your campaigns, we aim to achieve the best ROI for your marketing budget. We also provide transparent reports, so you’ll always know how your ads are performing.
SEO
Since 2008, we’ve been helping clients consistently rank at the top of search results. Our SEO strategies are transparent and sustainable, with no long-term contracts. We provide regular updates on keyword rankings, organic traffic, and conversions, sharing exactly what we’re doing and the results we’re achieving. Our SEO approach includes both on-page and off-page strategies that align with Google’s best practices.
CRO
Conversion Rate Optimisation (CRO) is a core part of our digital marketing strategy. By testing different conversion strategies—such as button colors, headlines, and content placement—we maximise the impact of your marketing efforts. Our CRO services are designed to ensure that every visitor who lands on your website has a clear path to conversion.
Why Choose Us As Your SEO Company On The Sunshine Coast Or In Melbourne
Ever since 2008, we have been providing SEO for small and medium businesses, Rank First has helped so many of them increase their online exposure and achieve their SEO goals. Our experience ensures that your effort to be found on Google and now also ChatGPT are both effective and cost-efficient. We can help you reach your target audience without breaking the bank.
The experience we have means that you get a strategy with knowledge and business sense behind it. Not one size fits all and not making it up as we go.
Our commitment to transparency means you’ll always know what we’re doing, why we’re doing it, and how it’s benefiting your business. Whether you need local SEO, a wider search engine marketing campaign or Google Ads help, we can be there for you.
Our Search Engine Optimisation Sales Process
See, we are honest. Its a sales process. It starts with our SEO Audit. If you ask for that, then we take the time to look at your website and run it through some SEO audit tools. The aim is to see if there are glaring technical errors, and to see where we can improve for you during the first few months.
We are happy to share all this info with your free of charge. It includes a bullet point list of the main things we would do on your website if we were to work for you. The language we use is a plain and simple as possible and at least, you will understand SEO much more clearly. That’s our aim anyway.
It also includes a description of what it is like to work with us, and the pricing we can offer for you. We work with our clients on a monthly basis with no lock in contract. Payment is by direct debit that is simple to both start and stop when that time comes.
Making An SEO Strategy
At Rank First, we believe that a successful digital marketing strategy begins with understanding your unique needs and challenges. Every business is different, so a one-size-fits-all approach won’t work. We create a custom digital marketing strategy for each client, developed in collaboration with our dedicated specialists who focus on your specific marketing goals. Our digital marketing campaigns are targeted and data-driven, ensuring you receive the maximum ROI.
Key components of our digital marketing strategies include:
– Content Strategy : Our team crafts compelling and relevant content that speaks directly to your audience’s needs and interests. Focusing on your ideal client with the services you most want to provide.
– Google Ads Campaigns : Whether it’s a Google Ads campaign or social media ads, we’ll create PPC strategies that bring quick and effective results.
– SEO Efforts : Beyond ranking on search engines, our SEO strategies focus on driving quality traffic that has a high potential to convert into sales or leads.
– Social Media Marketing: No just kidding, we don’t do social media marketing, but we can refer you to companies we have seen do well managing social Ads.
We’ll do our best to understand your business objectives and then translate them into an actionable SEO roadmap. All for free until you decide to hire us to implement it for you.
What Our
Clients say
After nearly two decades in the SEO industry,
we know what works for businesses, small and large.
We have helped hundreds of businesses increase revenue by getting them more exposure on Google. Over the years, we’ve provided successful SEO results across all sorts of industries. From Tradies to Healthcare Practitioners, Professional Services, E-commerce stores and more.
Our SEO strategies for clients are aimed to help their business engage with their target market. We know that online marketing is about achieving an ROI, and better rankings are just the start. We also improve click through and conversion rates too.
Digital Marketing Faqs
With Rank First, clients typically start noticing their rankings improving within weeks of us working on their site — not months. You won’t necessarily be on page one or ranking highly straight away, but the movement is visible early, and it keeps building from there the longer we work together.
That’s not likely to happen at all. Googles’ aim is to give the people the most accurate response for whatever they search for. That is why everyone uses it and also why they are billionaires. They are not going to mess with such a winning formula. If the person doing your seo knows what they are doing and takes an active interest it is possible to see the new improvements Google makes as they are making them and adapt to that. Car companies make new cars but they still have four wheels and we still drive on the left hand side of the street.
Google has made on update in the past which affected many Australian businesses. This was called the Penguin update. It was brutal. Websites were penalised and banished from the results. It was mostly due to fake link building on dodgy foreign websites. Most SEO companies were doing that and knew it would come to an end one day. That day happened many years ago now.
These days it is different and unlikely that such an event will happen again.
Ongoing SEO for small-to-medium Australian businesses typically runs from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars per month depending on competition and scope. We work on a rolling monthly basis with no lock-in contract, so you can scale up or down as needed.
SEO builds long-term organic visibility that keeps working after you stop paying for it. Google Ads gets you instant visibility but stops the moment you stop paying. Most businesses benefit from both — Ads for immediate leads while SEO builds momentum in the background.
Sorry for that, but we do unfortunately hear this many times. We love disgruntled clients from other SEO companies, and by talking with us we can help make sure that you do not have to go through any negative experience again.
Whether it was poor reporting, deception, or just not achieving the results promised, tell us what upset you and we will make sure it does not happen with Rank First.
Not every campaign is a success. But none should be a failure. Communication should always be open and tangible progress on your website should be visible.
Often, websites aren’t optimised for SEO by web developers. True SEO requires dedicated time and effort beyond what’s included in basic web design. Our SEO experts can take your site to the next level with strategies that increase your search engine rankings.
You can do the basics yourself — clear page titles, decent content, a Google Business Profile. But competitive rankings require ongoing technical work, content strategy, and monitoring that most business owners don’t have time for alongside running their business.
We offer affordable solutions and can work with various marketing budgets. SEO is a valuable investment, and we’re here to discuss options that make it accessible for your business.
Yes, and it matters more, not less. AI tools like ChatGPT pull from the same signals Google has always valued — clear content, structured data, and genuine authority. Businesses with strong SEO foundations are the ones showing up in AI-generated answers too.