Getting found on Google is not luck. It is work — and it is the work we do every day for South African businesses.
Someone in Pretoria needs a plumber tonight. They pick up their phone, type “plumber near me”, and tap one of the first three results. They do not scroll to page two. Nobody scrolls to page two. That is the whole game, and SEO is how you end up in those first three instead of somewhere on page four where nobody will ever see you.
There are three parts to it. The technical part is whether your site loads quickly, works on a phone, and can be read properly by Google in the first place. The words part is using the terms your customers actually type, not the ones you would use talking to a supplier. The reputation part is other websites linking to yours, which is how Google decides you are worth trusting.
We work on all three. Not in one month — anyone promising that is selling you something — but steadily, and we show you the numbers as they move.
Four plans, billed monthly. What changes is how many keywords we go after and how much we write. Start where your budget is.
For a small business that wants to show up locally. Five keywords done properly beats fifty done badly.
R3 000 per month
For competing across a whole city — twice the keywords and twice the writing each month.
R5 000 per month
For crowded markets and long service lists, where you are up against people who have been at this a while.
R12 000 per month
For going national, or for a catalogue big enough that fifty keywords is the sensible floor.
R18 000 per month
None of these quite fit? Say so. If you need forty keywords but half the writing, or one suburb done thoroughly instead of a whole province, we will price that. Tell us what you need and we will put a number to it.
SEO is not one job, it is six running alongside each other. Here is what your monthly fee buys.
We find the words your customers type, which are rarely the words you would use yourself. Then we work out which ones you can realistically win, because chasing a term you have no hope of ranking for is just an expensive way to stand still.
Titles, headings, page structure and the words on the page, arranged so Google understands what you sell and a human still wants to read it. Plenty of sites get one of those two right.
Slow pages, broken links, pages Google cannot reach, a sitemap that has not been updated since 2021. Unglamorous work, and it quietly decides whether everything else lands.
Articles that answer questions your customers are already asking. Every one is another door into your site, and another reason for Google to send people through it.
Other websites vouching for yours. We earn them the slow way. We do not buy links or join schemes, because those work until the day Google notices and then they cost you everything.
Your Google Business Profile, your map listing, your directory entries, your reviews. This is the part that puts you in the top three when somebody nearby searches “near me”.
We have worked across most of these. What changes from one to the next is how people search — somebody looking for a conveyancing attorney types very differently to somebody looking for a car service.
… and many more. If your customers search for it, we can help you rank for it.
Four tools do most of the heavy lifting. Between them we can see what is working, what is not, and what your competitors are getting away with.
Shows us who links to you, who links to your competitors, and which of their pages are pulling traffic we could be taking instead.
Where your visitors come from and what they do once they arrive. It is how we tell which pages are earning their keep and which are just sitting there.
Google telling us directly what it makes of your site: which searches you turn up for, where you sit, and anything stopping it from indexing you at all.
Keyword tracking and site audits in one place. It is how we notice a ranking slipping in week two rather than in your quarterly review.
Straight answers to the things business owners want to know before they spend money on search.
Small movements in three to four weeks, usually on terms you are already close to ranking for. Something you would call a result — more enquiries, not just more positions — is more like four to six months. Anyone who tells you six weeks is either working in a market with no competition or is not telling you the truth.
Ads put you at the top tomorrow and stop the day you stop paying. SEO takes months and then keeps working. Neither is better; they solve different problems. If you need enquiries this week, run ads. If you want to stop renting your traffic, do SEO. Most businesses that can afford it do both, with ads covering the gap while the SEO builds.
No, and be careful with anyone who does. Google decides rankings using hundreds of signals it does not publish and changes constantly — nobody outside Google controls that. What we will commit to is the work: the keywords we are targeting, what we are doing each month, and the numbers, whether they are flattering or not.
An audit up front so we both know the starting point. Then keyword research, on-page fixes, technical fixes, content written for your site, guest articles to earn links, and your Google Business Profile kept in order. How much of each depends on your plan. At month end you get a report showing where your keywords sit and what changed.
Yes, and for most small businesses it is the part that pays first. If you serve Johannesburg, Kempton Park, Germiston or anywhere else specific, showing up in the map results for your suburb is worth more than ranking nationally for something vague. That means your Google Business Profile, your map listing, local directories and reviews.
You get a report every month covering keyword positions, organic traffic, and what we did. Written so you can read it without a glossary. If something went backwards it will say so, along with why and what we are doing about it — that is more useful to you than a page of green arrows.
An honest breakdown of website pricing in South Africa — what you get at each budget, and what really drives the cost.
The questions to ask, the red flags to watch for, and how to pick a designer who will still be there after launch.
If your site is slow, hard to update or losing enquiries, these are the signals it is time for a rebuild.
