The honest version — including the situations where we'd tell you not to spend a cent.
| Model | Suits | The catch |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly retainer | Competitive Christchurch categories | Only works if the scope is written down and honestly reported |
| One-off audit | You have a developer to action it | Nothing improves unless someone does the work |
| Project / rebuild | A site migration or overhaul | Needs ongoing content and links to compound |
| "Page one guaranteed" | Nobody | Nobody controls Google. Walk away. |
If a customer is worth $4,000 to you and you close one in three enquiries, the maths on SEO looks very different than if a customer is worth $80.
Before you spend anything, work out what a customer is actually worth to you, and what share of that profit you can afford to spend acquiring one. That single number tells you whether SEO makes sense in your category — and no honest agency should quote you without asking it.
Because a fixed package that can't win your category is worse than nothing — you'd be paying for activity that could never work. Ranking a plumber in Darfield and a construction firm across Christchurch are completely different jobs, and pretending otherwise is how agencies sell you things that fail.
Yes, and it should be. Christchurch is the South Island's most competitive market — the incumbents have real authority, so it takes real content and real links to displace them. In a Canterbury town like Ashburton or Darfield, the same result costs a fraction.
Fix your Google Business Profile and start asking every customer for a review. Both are free, and for most Christchurch businesses they move the needle more than anything you could buy in the first month. We'll tell you that even though we earn nothing from it.
Yes. A deep, prioritised audit you can action yourself or hand to a developer. Not everyone needs an ongoing agency.
No. Month to month. If we're not earning it, leave.
A free, no-obligation SEO audit. We'll show you who's outranking you in Christchurch, exactly why, and whether they can realistically be displaced.