Search engine optimisation services · for NZ businesses
SEO servicesthat get you real results
Our SEO services in New Zealand start from a list we agree together: the exact searches you want your business found for. Every month from then on, we report how your new service pages perform in ranking.
- Technical SEO
- Local SEO
- National SEO
- Content writing
- Web design
What we do
SEO services for businesses
Type what you sell into Google and count the names above yours, because every business on that list is quoting jobs you never heard about.
Digital Movement provides SEO services, and the first job is always the same: choosing which searches are worth your money. We check every one we recommend against what Google in New Zealand shows on the day, with Semrush for the numbers and our own eyes on the results page. If a search looks big in the tool and dead on the live page, it goes off the list. We look after New Zealand ourselves, and you speak to us directly from the first call.
SEO is slow to start and hard to knock over once it stands. The first weeks go on repairs and new pages, and Google can take three to six months to change its mind about a site it has known for years. If you need customers this month, Google Ads will get you there faster, and we would rather tell you that than sign you up.
Each month ends with a one-page report listing the work we finished, the searches that moved and the jobs planned next. When a number goes the wrong way, the report says that too, because a chart that only shows good news is an advert.
This page is for New Zealand business owners who count enquiries before they count rankings.
What you gain
More people ringing you with our SEO services to ask for a quote
Somewhere near you, a person is typing what you do into Google right now.
- Visibility
Show up for the searches near you with the right SEO services
A plumber in Albany and a plumber in Howick are not after the same customer, and Google shows different results in each suburb. We put the searches for your services and your suburbs in writing before we start.
- Audience
Reach the people ready to buy with the right SEO services
A search that names a suburb and a service means the job is live.
- Authority
Have a website that converts
Pages that show your work, answer common questions and name the towns you cover give people a reason to pick you over the next result.
How we grow your business
Effective SEO services must follow a proven methodology
The work splits four ways: the state of your site, your place on the local map, the pages you publish, and the numbers showing what moved. Every plan we run covers all four.
Technical
SEO services – Technical setup
Google reads your site the way a building inspector walks a house. A room they cannot enter never makes the report. A page Google cannot crawl will never rank, so the crawl is where every one of our jobs starts.
- The whole site crawled with Screaming Frog
- Speed scored by PageSpeed Insights on Core Web Vitals
- robots.txt, sitemap and redirects put right
- Every fix confirmed in Google Search Console
Local
SEO services – Google Maps and "Near You"
Search for an electrician in Hamilton and Google puts a map with three businesses above every other result. Local SEO is the work of getting into those three spots, and it is won suburb by suburb, review by review. Google has published the three things that decide the map: relevance, distance and prominence. You cannot move your shop closer to the searcher, so we work on the other two.
- Your Google Business Profile filled in and kept up to date
- A separate page for every suburb you serve
- Name, address and phone matching on every listing
- Review replies and fresh photos on your profile
Content
SEO services – Search Term Strategy
Nobody types 'quality heating specialist' into Google. They type 'heat pump repair Tauranga' and call one of the first names they can see. We write one page for each search like that, in the words your customers use.
- Each search checked against live Google results before we write
- One search per page, one page per search
- Page titles that quote the search itself
- Old pages rewritten before new ones are added
Reporting
SEO services – Tracking and Optimisation
We track the numbers you would look at anyway: how often you appear on Google, who clicks through, who fills in the form. Each month they sit next to the list of work done, so you can see what the month changed.
- Google Search Console and GA4 read side by side each month
- A report you can read in two minutes
- Enquiries counted and matched to the pages they came from
- Next month's jobs listed before the month starts
What We Deliver
This is what you get with our SEO services
You pay the same amount each month, and the list below is the whole of it.
Strategy
- Technical SEO audit
- Search terms chosen & mapped
- Six-month content plan
- NZ competitor analysis
- Pages built to get enquiries
Execution
- Technical fixes (speed, broken pages, indexing)
- Content production (4–8 pages/month)
- On-page optimisation
- Other trusted sites linking to yours
- Schema.org & structured data
Reporting
- Live dashboard (rankings, traffic, enquiries)
- Monthly plain-English report
- Direct line to your specialist
- No account-manager ping-pong
- Clear wins, clear next steps
The first 90 days
The first ninety days after project kick-off
Below is what happens on day 1, day 30, day 60 and day 90. We put dates on the work so you can check each piece arrived.
Day 1
Audit & kick-off
Your audit arrives by email and we spend an hour on the phone going through it. You end day one knowing what is broken and what comes first.
Day 30
Foundation in place
The technical repairs are done, the first pages are live, and Search Console and GA4 are recording.
Day 60
Climbing the rankings
Google has recrawled the fixed pages. Search Console shows which searches are moving, and the next pages go after those.
Day 90
The first full review
You see the list we agreed on day one, search by search: where each stood then, where it stands now, and what enquiries arrived. From day 91 it runs month by month.
Proof you can inspect
Our SEO services use industry-leading tools
The evidence stays in accounts you own: indexed pages, agreed searches, completed fixes, visits and enquiries. The monthly report links those records to the work finished.
Google Search Console
Queries, clicks and indexing checked here first, including pages Google has excluded and the reason it gives.
GA4 + Tag Manager
Calls and forms connected to the page that produced them, with test enquiries recorded before the numbers are trusted.
Semrush
The agreed search list, current positions and competitor gap kept visible between monthly reports.
Screaming Frog
Broken links, blocked pages and duplicate signals logged before repair and crawled again afterwards.
Schema.org
Structured facts tested against the visible page and Google's validator instead of being added as hidden claims.
PageSpeed Insights / Lighthouse
Mobile speed measurements saved before and after material performance work so the change can be checked.
Common questions
Frequent questions about our SEO services
The questions come from first calls with New Zealand owners. The answers are the same ones we give on the phone.
Ranking movement usually shows in the first two to four weeks, because Google picks up technical fixes fastest. Enquiries take longer. They tend to arrive once the new pages have been live for a month or two, and anyone promising enquiries in week one is selling you something.
Everything in the list under 'What We Deliver' is in the price. There is no setup charge, and we do not charge extra when a month calls for more pages or more links than planned.
We ask for three months at the start and run month by month after that. The early weeks go on repairs and new pages, and Google needs time to recrawl them, so judging the work sooner tells you nothing. From month four you can leave whenever you like.
The people you meet on the first call are the people who do the work. Your contact is based in New Zealand, and no part of your account is handed to a junior to learn on.
They work well together and we often run both. Ads bring visitors the day you pay and stop the day you stop. SEO takes months to arrive and keeps working after that. Many clients run both and shift the balance over time.
Nobody can, and Google says so itself: its advice on hiring SEOs warns that no one can guarantee a number one ranking. What we put in writing instead is the list of searches we are going after, the monthly work, and a report showing where you stand on each one. If the audit shows SEO is the wrong tool for you, we will say so.
You choose month by month whether to continue. The pages, the accounts and the data are in your name, so all of it stays yours if you leave. Rankings do not drop overnight, but they fade once nobody is tending them.
Before you decide
See what you're missing out on
We read your site page by page and crawl it the way Google would, then sort what we find by what it is costing you. You get one page in plain English, and it is yours whether you hire us or not.
- The searches you're missing, and who's winning them instead
- What's broken on your site, ranked by what it's costing you
- The three fixes worth doing first
- A short video walking you through it
In your inbox within one working day. No spam, no obligation.
Talk to us
Contact us now
Send us your website address and the town you work in. Within one working day you get back the searches your customers run, the ones a competitor is winning, and the three fixes we would make first. Nobody rings you to sell anything.