Best Local SEO Expert in Gold Coast
MRG Marketing has been called the best local SEO expert in Gold Coast. I'm Mitchell Giles, I run MRG from Ormeau, and local SEO is the whole job: getting a local business into the top 3 on Google Maps for the searches a few kilometres from its door, and keeping it there. “Best” is a big claim, so here is what it rests on. Every number is from a client Business Profile or a ranking scan.
2 days
page two to the top 3 on Google Maps
11 days
for a second client to do the same
266
calls in five months from one profile
+273%
website clicks from Maps, year on year
What local SEO looks like when it works.
Rankings, calls and website clicks straight out of Google. Tap any screenshot to open it. Some business names are cropped out because the work is done white-label for other agencies.
Four plumbers, white-label
Work I do for another agency, so the businesses are not named. Two plumbers went from 79 calls from Google in the three months before the work to 208 in the latest three, one of them 2.7x and the other 2.5x. A Perth plumber went from number 1 at 5 of 49 grid points to all 49 in five weeks. Each one is written up with dates, scans and caveats in the case studies.
Page two to the top 3, with the scans to show it
Local SEO is measured on a map, not a keyword tool. Polish Hub Marine Detailing went from outside the top 10 across most of a ranking grid to the top 3 on most points in two days. Ceramics Gold Coast did the same in eleven, from an average rank of 20 across the grid to 3.02. Both are written up with dates, search terms and the limits of the scan in the case studies.
Why it moved: the website and the profile said the same thing
Both fixes were the same. A page for each service and suburb, in the words people here actually type. The Business Profile set to the same categories and services as the website. Real photos, every review answered, then the weekly routine. Google rewards a business whose profile and website agree. Most local sites contradict their own listing.
Rankings that turn into calls
One profile took 266 calls in five months, up 23% on the year before, through the quietest stretch of the year. Another did 89 calls in a month, up 324% on the same months last year. A brand-new profile went from zero to 33 calls in its first three months. "Calls" is Google’s own metric, taps on the call button, so it counts people who tried to ring, not jobs won.
And into website visits
Website clicks from one profile rose 273% year on year to 164. Another rose 197% to 303. These are people who found the business on Maps and went looking for the site, which is where the service pages do their job and the booking happens.
Keep reading
Where the proof comes from and where it goes: the services, the parts of the job, the trades, the suburbs.
The three services
The parts of the job
One service, one person, until the numbers move.
I only do local SEO, Google Business Profile and AI search work. The person you speak to on the call is the person in the account. No account manager, no packages, no lock-in. I plan for 90 days, tell you on the call what is realistic for your category, and you can check every result yourself, including the reviews on Google.
If you are looking for the best local SEO expert in Gold Coast, don't take the label on trust. Book 30 minutes, tell me what you do and where, and I'll show you the scans and profile numbers closest to your situation. If I can help, you get a plan. If I can't, I'll say so.
No pitch.