SEO Consultant MelbourneWork directly with a senior specialist
Skip the account managers. Your SEO consultant in Melbourne is one of two senior people — Blake P., founder with 17+ years, or Girish Kishore Sawlani, Head of Strategy & Growth — and the person who audits your site and sets the strategy is the person who does the work. Melbourne SEO consultants since 2006, with no lock-in contracts.
- Audit from $1,200
- Consulting from $1,500/month
- Free 30-minute strategy meeting
- Since 2006
- No lock-in contracts
- One client per industry
Your brief is relayed. Technical questions get passed along.
A direct line to the person doing the work.
Why businesses switch to a consultant
Most people who come to us have already paid an agency for months with little to show for it.
Handed to a junior
Your account was one of dozens, handled by a junior account manager. Every question went through them first.
Reports that don’t mean anything
Traffic graphs and rankings for words nobody buys from, instead of leads and revenue.
Advice nobody acts on
An audit that sits in a drawer because no one was ever going to implement it.
SEO consultant vs SEO agency
It comes down to who actually does the work on your account.
| Topic | Typical agency | Working with us |
|---|---|---|
| Who you talk to | Typical agency:An account manager who relays your brief | Working with us:The person doing the work |
| Who does the work | Typical agency:A specialist juggling 15+ accounts | Working with us:A senior practitioner with 20+ years in SEO |
| Technical questions | Typical agency:Passed along to someone else | Working with us:Answered by the person who looked at your code |
| Your competitors | Typical agency:Often clients of the same agency | Working with us:One client per industry, so never |
What our SEO consulting services include
Strategy and hands-on work from the same person. If you have a developer or in-house team, we work with them directly.
Strategy
- A deep technical audit: crawl, indexation, Core Web Vitals, schema, internal links and redirects
- A benchmark against your top five competitors
- A custom strategy built on the keywords that bring revenue, not just traffic
Hands-on work
- Hands-on implementation: technical fixes, title tags, internal linking and schema
- Content briefs and a topic plan, or the writing itself
- Visibility in Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity
- Local SEO and Google Business Profile work where it matters
Client per industry
We never work for your direct competitors, so your strategy stays yours.
No lock-in contract
We earn the work every month. Stay because it’s working, not because you’re tied in.
Reported every month
A monthly report and strategy review on rankings, traffic, leads and revenue.
- Rankings
- Traffic
- Leads
- Revenue
Consulting engagement options
Choose the level of help you need. No lock-in contracts.
You picked: Monthly consulting
Book a strategy meetingMost consulting retainers sit between $1,500 and $5,000 a month, depending on scope and how competitive your industry is. See our full pricing breakdown.
What senior SEO consulting delivers
Figures are from the published case studies.
Access4
Content realigned with how B2B buyers actually search, after previous agencies optimised for the wrong audience.
Read the case study →Proas
Growth built on strategic content and a long-term SEO partnership.
Read the case study →HIOD IT
services
Top ranking for their core IT hardware services.
Read the case study →What clients say
“We switched to SEO Melbourne after two agencies failed to move the needle. Their AI SEO strategies and technical expertise had us ranking in Google AI Overviews within three months. The monthly reporting is transparent and the results speak for themselves.”
“Our organic traffic increased by over 300 percent and we are now ranking on page one for all our target keywords. Their one-client-per-industry policy gave us confidence that our strategy was truly exclusive.”
“SEO Melbourne’s content and keyword strategy took us from invisible to #1 for our primary service term. The organic growth has been a game changer for lead generation.”
“SEO Melbourne has been incredible to work with! Their expertise and strategic approach have helped my website rank higher, bringing in more traffic and leads than ever before. They created a tailored SEO plan that delivered real, measurable results.”
More results: HealthScope (250% more online doctor bookings) and ANL Containers (399% organic traffic growth). See all case studies.
Talk it through first
Book a free 30-minute strategy meeting with the person who would do the work.
How a consulting engagement runs
- Free, 30 minutes
Strategy meetingFree
We learn your business, goals and market before recommending anything.
Audit and plan
A full technical, content and competitor audit, turned into a prioritised plan: what to fix, and in what order.
Implement
We make the changes ourselves or work alongside your developers. No handing you a report and disappearing.
- Every month
Review and adjust
A monthly report and strategy review. If something isn’t working, we say so and change course.
The SEO consultants you deal with directly
No sales team, no account managers, no juniors. These are the people who audit your site, build your strategy and implement the work.
Blake P.
Founder & Director17+ years across SEO, enterprise architecture and AI-native systems. Blake founded SEO Melbourne and SEO Sydney and has held Digital Director roles at multiple startups.
Girish Kishore Sawlani
Head of Strategy & GrowthData-driven digital strategist with deep SaaS and eCommerce SEO experience. MBA from Bond University. Leads competitive analysis, content strategy and growth planning.
Prefer to talk first? Call 0439 801 764 · About our team
Book a free 30-minute strategy meeting
Here’s what happens next:
- You tell us about your site and goals
- We reply within 24 hours to book a time
- A free 30-minute meeting: where the opportunities are and how we’d tackle them
What does an SEO consultant in Melbourne actually do?
An SEO consultant in Melbourne audits your website's technical health, identifies the keyword gaps your competitors are exploiting, and builds a prioritised roadmap to close them. Day-to-day work spans on-page optimisation, content strategy, link acquisition and tracking ranking movements across your target suburbs and industries. With us you work directly with the senior consultant — not a junior account manager — from strategy through to execution.
How much does an SEO consultant cost in Melbourne?
Our one-off SEO audits start from $1,200 and monthly consulting from $1,500 a month. Most retainers fall between $1,500 and $5,000 a month depending on scope, how competitive your industry is, and whether you need implementation or strategic guidance only. No lock-in contracts.
What is the difference between an SEO consultant and an SEO agency?
A consultant gives you direct access to the senior practitioner working on your strategy. An agency usually assigns an account manager who passes messages between you and the team. With a consultant there is no communication gap.
Do you implement the changes, or just advise?
Both. We implement technical fixes, title tags, internal linking and schema ourselves, write content briefs or the content itself, and work directly with your developers when they’re making changes.
How long does it take to see SEO results?
Most businesses see measurable improvements within 3 to 6 months of consistent work. Quick wins like title tag and technical fixes can show within weeks; competitive keywords usually take 6 to 12 months.
Can you guarantee a #1 ranking?
No, and nobody honestly can. Rankings depend on factors outside anyone’s control, like competitor activity and Google’s own updates. What we guarantee is a transparent process, measurable progress and honest advice about what’s realistic.