Technical
- Full crawl and remediation: speed, indexing, duplicate titles, broken links, thin pages competing with each other
- Core Web Vitals to the green on mobile
- Schema markup for the business, the services and the pages
SEO for Albury Wodonga businesses
We get your business found on Google and named by AI assistants.
There are now two places a customer looks for a business like yours, and most local businesses are invisible in both. We fix the technical faults, write the service pages Google ranks, work your Google Business Profile every month and make the site readable for ChatGPT, Gemini and Google’s AI.
Start with a free SEO audit. Give us your website and we check your rankings, your technical health and whether the AI assistants name you, before we speak.
The call takes thirty minutes. You keep the audit whether or not you hire us.
- Month 1 Site crawled, faults fixedSlow pages, broken links and duplicate titles cleared. Done
- Month 1 Google Business Profile completedCategories, service area, services and photos filled in. Done
- Month 2 One service page per jobWritten for Albury Wodonga, each with one search to win. Done
- Month 2 Business details in structured dataReadable by ChatGPT, Gemini and Google’s AI. Done
- Month 3 Moving up for “electrician albury”In the map results and the pages beneath them. Up
- Month 4 In the top three map resultsWhere most of the “electrician near me” calls are decided. Top 3
electrician alburyGoogle, map results
- Your business4.9 (38) · Open now · Albury NSWYou
- A competitor in Lavington4.6 (12) · Closes 5 pm
- A franchise with no local office4.2 (210) · Melbourne
An example. We check both of these for your business in the free audit, before the first call.
Trusted by businesses across Albury Wodonga and regional Australia
What SEO includes here, in one list.
Everything runs as one connected plan. A technical fix on a site with thin pages does nothing, and good pages on a site Google cannot crawl do nothing. So the scope always covers all four.
Content and pages
- Keyword research for your actual market, not the national volume tables
- One service page per job type, written for Albury Wodonga rather than for Australia
- Titles, headings, internal links and copy rewritten around the terms that pay
Local
- Google Business Profile set up and worked every month: categories, services, service area, photos, posts, review requests
- Name, address and phone made consistent across every directory that lists you
- Links from real local sources: clients, suppliers, sponsorships, the chamber, regional press
AI search and reporting
- Structured data and readable pages so ChatGPT, Gemini and Google’s AI can cite you
- An AI visibility check each quarter: who the assistants recommend in your category, and whether it is you
- Monthly reporting on impressions, positions, clicks and enquiries, with what changed and why
Where your customers look now.
Google
ChatGPT
Gemini
Claude
The question we get asked most is whether AI has made SEO pointless. The answer is the opposite.
Google, still
Someone types “electrician near me” and picks from what they see. This has not gone anywhere and it still pays the bills for most local businesses. The map pack decides most of those calls, and the map pack is decided by your Google Business Profile and how close you are to the person searching.
The assistants, now
Customers also ask ChatGPT, Gemini and Google’s AI for help choosing a business. These tools recommend what they can read: accurate details, clear service pages and structured data. Inclusion is never guaranteed, but a site the assistants cannot parse is never included. Most of the work that gets you ranked is the same work that gets you named.
If you want to check your own footing first, our Albury Wodonga local SEO checklist is the list we run through on every audit.
What it looked like for Frontline Trays & Trailers.
We rebuilt the site with SEO in the architecture rather than added afterwards: every vehicle page, every category and every piece of content structured around what their customers search for. The site is also readable by GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot, so it can be cited in AI answers as well as ranked. These are their Search Console numbers, and the enquiries now match what their paid ads produced.
- Impressions
- 17.1k
- Clicks
- 1.5k
- Click-through rate
- 8.8%
- Average position
- 12.3
Search Console, first reporting period after launch. Full write-up in the Frontline Trays case study, and the rest of the work on the portfolio.
More work we have shipped
Timelines, and the honest version of them.
SEO is slow, and anyone promising page one next month is selling something else. In Albury Wodonga you can expect meaningful movement within three to four months and strong results by month six. Local competition is lower than in the capitals, which speeds the whole thing up.
Why regional is faster
Most competitors here have not touched their SEO in years. The bar is lower than in Melbourne or Sydney, and that works in your favour.
The Albury Wodonga border problem
Your Google Business Profile sits in either NSW or Victoria, and Google weights local results by proximity. A Wodonga customer searching on a phone gets Wodonga-weighted results. You cannot fix that with the profile, so we carry the other side of the river through the website instead, where proximity does not apply the same way.
What we will not do
Buy links, spin content, or create a second Google profile at a virtual address to claim the other side of the river. That last one gets profiles suspended, and recovering a suspended profile costs more than the ranking was worth.
What we actually do, in the order we do it.
SEO gets sold as a monthly retainer with a report attached. Here is the work itself, with when it happens, so you can tell whether it is being done.
Month 1
Technical audit and remediation
We crawl the site and fix what stops it ranking: slow pages, broken links, missing or duplicated titles, pages Google cannot index, thin content competing with itself. This comes first because on-page work on a site Google struggles to read is wasted.
Month 1
Keyword research for your actual market
Not the highest-volume terms, the ones your customers type. In a regional market that usually means fewer searches with far higher intent. “Web designer Albury” is worth more than “web design” ever will be to a business here.
Months 1 to 2
On-page and content
Titles, headings, internal links and copy rewritten around those terms. Every page gets one job. Two pages chasing the same search is the most common problem we find, and it holds both of them back.
Month 1, then monthly
Google Business Profile and local signals
Complete the profile, choose categories precisely, set the service area, keep the posts and photos current, and make sure your name, address and phone match everywhere they appear online. For a local business this often moves the needle before anything on the website does.
Month 2
Schema and AI search
Structured data so search engines and AI assistants can read what you are and what you offer, rather than inferring it. We build this in as standard; it is how Frontline Trays ended up being cited in AI answers.
Every month
Reporting you can act on
Impressions, positions, clicks and enquiries, with what changed and what is next. If a number moved we tell you why. If nothing moved we tell you that too.
Every step above is work you can verify. Ask any SEO provider to show you the same list for what they are doing.
What clients say.
5.0 6 Google reviews, all five stars Read them allAbsolutely brilliant! Lee is extremely knowledgeable, not just in making websites, but also in business strategy and he has really helped me with both my website and to improve my business in general. Fantastic results! Anyone who is looking to take their business to the next level or just have it be more professional should definitely talk to Lee!
Automatrix made it so easy for me to develop what I required for my business. Their professionalism and knowledge is outstanding. Go with them. Best decision you could do for your business.
Lee has helped me heaps with improving my business, 10/10 recommend, easy to talk to and very knowledgeable.
We recently used Automatrix to re-build our website. The new site is great with a simple admin panel that has everything we need when updating our site. The SEO/AEO is really performing as well. The guys are always Helpful when we need them and are always on the front foot with updates etc.
Not getting your website AI ready is going to be the same as forgetting to renew your Yellow Pages spot back in the 80s. One month after launching we can already see a big improvement in traffic and enquiries through search.
Absolute gun at making websites. Lee helped me the whole way to complete the exact website I wanted and further in every way he could. Legit can’t even write how much I appreciate this guy. A+
Ranking well only matters if the site converts. If people arrive and leave, or the enquiry lands in an inbox nobody checks until morning, the ranking was never the problem. That half is web design in Albury Wodonga and business automation, and the audit tells you which half is yours.
Questions about SEO in Albury Wodonga.
How long does SEO take to see results in Albury Wodonga?
In a regional market like Albury Wodonga, you can expect meaningful movement in rankings within three to four months and strong results by month six. Local competition is lower than in the capitals, which cuts months off the timeline.
Do you set up Google Business Profile?
Yes. Google Business Profile is one of the most important local SEO tools for Albury Wodonga businesses. We set it up, optimise every section, and manage ongoing posts and reviews as part of our local SEO service.
What is the difference between local SEO and regular SEO?
Local SEO targets location-specific searches like “web designer Albury” or “plumber near me”. It includes Google Business Profile, local citations and location pages. Regular SEO targets broader searches. Most Albury Wodonga businesses need both.
How much does SEO cost?
SEO runs from $1,200 a month for a local campaign in a single service area, up to $3,500+ a month for several locations or a genuinely competitive category. One-off technical remediation starts from $2,500. Your free audit tells you which of those you actually need before you pay for anything.
Can you do SEO for a business in Wodonga or the surrounding towns?
Yes. We work with businesses across Albury, Wodonga, Wangaratta, Corowa, Yarrawonga and the broader border region. We also serve Wagga Wagga, Shepparton and businesses across regional NSW and Victoria.
Can you get us into AI answers?
We can make the site readable and citable, which is the part anyone can control: structured data, clear service pages, accurate business details and no crawler blocks. Whether a given assistant names you on a given day is not something anyone can guarantee, and we will not pretend otherwise. The free audit shows you where you stand today.
Get your free SEO audit.
Before we speak, we check your rankings, your technical health and whether ChatGPT, Gemini and Google’s AI name you. Then you get a fix order, a scope and a fixed price. You keep the audit whether or not you use us.
What you get before you pay us anything
- A technical crawl and the fault list. Every broken link, slow page, missing title and page Google cannot open, ranked by what it costs you.
- The searches your customers actually type. Not the highest-volume terms. The ones with intent behind them in your market.
- Where your competitors beat you, and on what. The specific pages and terms, so you can see the gap rather than take our word for it.
- An AI visibility check. We ask ChatGPT, Gemini and Google’s AI who they recommend in your category, and show you the answer.
- Your Google Business Profile, audited. For a local business this often moves the needle before anything on the website does.
- A fix order, a scope and a fixed price. So you can act on it yourself, hand it to someone else, or hand it back to us.
Nobody controls Google, so we guarantee the work, not a position. There is no lock-in contract: you own the domain, the hosting, the content and every change we make. Prefer to talk first? Book a 30 minute call.