SEO Hawke's Bay: get found by locals ready to buy.
When someone in Napier or Hastings searches for what you do, you're either on the first page or you're invisible. We get Hawke's Bay businesses into the local results that matter, and turn those searches into calls and quote requests, not just traffic.
Open · Napier, Hawke's Bay
Open · Hastings
Opens 8am · Napier
Example local results. Not live data.
Three places Hawke's Bay customers find you. We work on all of them.
Most "SEO" only chases the blue links. Local customers actually pick from the map pack, the organic results and, increasingly, AI answers. Ranking in all three is how one business ends up with a full calendar while the next one wonders where the calls went.
The map pack
The three map results under the search bar take a huge share of local clicks. Your Google Business Profile, reviews and local signals decide whether you're in them.
The organic results
The classic blue links. Pages built around the exact jobs you do and the places you do them, on a fast site Google trusts, climb here and stay.
AI answers
More people ask Google's AI and ChatGPT who to call. We structure your site so those answers can read it, quote it and recommend you. Most Hawke's Bay businesses haven't caught up yet.
No dark arts. Just the local work done properly.
Local SEO isn't a secret trick, it's a set of jobs most businesses never get around to. We do them, keep doing them, and show you what changed each month.
Google Business Profile
Set up, verified and properly optimised: services, photos, posts and the details Google cross-checks. This is the single biggest local ranking lever.
A steady flow of reviews
Happy customers rarely review unprompted. We build the ask into your follow-up so your rating and review count keep climbing.
Location & service pages
A page for each service and area you cover, written around how Hawke's Bay people actually search. No thin, copy-paste town pages.
A fast, healthy site
Speed, mobile experience and clean structure. Every site we build passes Google's checks from day one; we can fix yours if it doesn't.
Citations & consistency
Your name, address and phone number consistent across the directories Google checks. Boring, fiddly and necessary. We handle it.
Monthly reporting, no spin
Rankings, traffic and, most importantly, the calls and enquiries that came from search. If something isn't moving, we say so.
Hawke's Bay businesses we've made easier to find.
We've been getting Bay businesses found on Google since 2019, across search, maps and ads. Real clients, numbers they can verify in their own accounts.
We set up and optimised their Google Business Profile so they rank in the local map results, built their online quote funnel, and have run their Google presence since 2021. Found by Hawke's Bay customers searching nearby, profitable every year.
Read the case studyThey came to us with a five page site that barely ranked and brought in next to no leads. We rebuilt it search-ready and ran Google, Facebook and Instagram alongside. Now customers book months in advance.
Read the case studySEO is the long game. If you need leads this month, say so.
Plenty of agencies will happily sell you SEO alone because it's hard to measure and easy to invoice. We won't. SEO compounds and pays off for years, but it takes months to build. If your phone needs to ring now, we'll tell you to put the first dollars intoGoogle Ads and let SEO build underneath it. Both together is how the businesses that own page one got there.
Get the right plan for youBased in the Bay. Not a call centre in Auckland.
We live here, so we know how people search here: Napier and Hastings are twenty minutes apart but they search like different towns, and your SEO should treat them that way. We work with businesses across Napier, Hastings, Havelock North, Clive and Central Hawke's Bay, plus clients NZ-wide.
Straight answers on SEO.
Local SEO usually shows movement in 2 to 3 months, with strong results in 6 to 12. That's the straight answer anyone should give you. If you need leads this month, Google Ads is the right tool while your SEO builds, and we run both.
No, and nobody genuinely can, because Google doesn't sell guarantees to anyone. What we can show you is exactly what we're doing, what's moving and what it's costing per enquiry, every month, with no lock-in contract if we're not delivering.
It depends on how competitive your services and area are, which is exactly what your free game plan works out. For most local businesses SEO is bundled into our monthly plans from $497 +GST, alongside your website and ads, rather than sold as a standalone line item.
Trades and home services are our specialty, but the same local SEO system works for any Hawke's Bay business that lives on local searches, from health to hospitality. If we don't think we're the right fit, we'll tell you on the game plan call.
Ads stop the moment you stop paying. SEO compounds: the same searches that cost you per click start coming free, and businesses showing in the map pack, the organic results and the ads together win a disproportionate share of calls.
We're based in Hawke's Bay and work with businesses in Napier, Hastings, Havelock North, Clive, Waipukurau and across Central Hawke's Bay, plus clients NZ-wide.
Get your free SEO game plan
We'll show you where you rank in Hawke's Bay right now, what's holding you back, and what it would take to own your local searches.
Own your local searches.
Get your free SEO game plan. We'll show you exactly where you sit in Hawke's Bay search results today, and what it takes to move up. No jargon, no obligation.
Free game plan · Local team · No lock-in contracts