▲ Now tracking visibility across Google, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini & AI Overviews

Cairns’s
SEO Agency.

Cairns is tourism-driven, seasonally peaked and full of small operators competing with global OTAs and resort chains. We rank local Cairns businesses for the searches that put real heads on beds, in restaurants and on tours.

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Book a free 30-min SEO audit

An audit with a senior SEO lead. Not a sales call. Cairns market read, then a prioritised list of fixes ranked by impact.

    No spam · 1 business day response · Not a sales call
    Last 24 months.
    Increase in organic traffic
    + 0 %

    Shed Living

    Ecommerce

    Top 3 keyword positions
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    Kool Beanz

    Hospitality
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    Jackson Miles
    Ecommerce
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    50 yrs

    Combined senior SEO experience across the team

    Australian brands ranked across SEO, AEO and SEM
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    3 yrs

    Global Search Awards finalists, three years running

    Partner

    Google Partner & Bing Partner certified

    The team you’ll actually work with.

    SEO Lead · Managing Director

    Sean Clancy

    15+ years in SEO. Sean runs the strategy on every Cairns retainer personally. He reads your dashboard, writes the roadmap, and is in the room when the report lands. No graduate marketers, no junior account managers.
    AI Lead · Answer Engine Optimisation

    Caleb Johnstone

    Caleb owns the AEO playbook. If you want to rank in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Google AI Overviews as well as classic search, he is the one writing the entity graph, schema and retrieval-friendly content patterns that get you cited.

    An SEO agency that
    delivers results.

    At Paperstack, we’ve helped countless businesses across Cairns and Far North Queensland climb the search engine results pages with tailored SEO strategies that work. Whether you’re a small local business or an established enterprise, our SEO specialists use tried-and-tested services, technical SEO, on-page optimisation, content strategy and link building, to drive long-term organic growth.

    Unlike other agencies, we don’t believe in one-size-fits-all. Our senior SEO specialists take time to understand your business objectives, analyse your current rankings, and audit your website before recommending a strategy. We then translate that into a clear, prioritised roadmap, with KPIs you can hold us to, and a benchmark report so you can see exactly what changes from month one.

    From audits and keyword research through to top-quality content production and authority-building backlinks, every part of your campaign is handled by senior SEO specialists. No graduate marketers. No handoffs to junior account teams.

    The local SEO playbook for Cairns businesses.

    The exact local SEO checklist our team uses on Cairns retainers. Google Business Profile, citations, suburb pages, review velocity, and the structured-data wins most Far North Queensland agencies miss.

      Cairns Local SEO Playbook

      The 52-point checklist our team runs on Cairns retainers.

      Paperstack · 2026

      16pp

      From audit to ranking, without the mystery.

      01

      Discovery & Audit

      We use third-party and proprietary tools to audit your Adelaide site, technical SEO indicators, on-page health, backlink profile. Benchmark report on day one.

      02

      Strategy & KPIs

      We get to know your business, set clear KPIs against your growth targets, and build the SEO strategy on the back of those findings.

      03

      Implementation

      We’re not only experts in strategy, we look after every aspect of implementation, end-to-end. Technical fixes, on-page changes, content, link acquisition.

      04

      Report & Optimise

      Plain-English reporting that a CFO can read. We refine the strategy as algorithms, competitors and your business evolve.

      SEO across Cairns & Far North Queensland

      We work with businesses across the entire Cairns metro and surrounding Far North Queensland area. Whether you’re a single-location service business or a multi-site operator, we tailor your SEO strategy around the suburbs and regions your customers actually live and search in.
      Cairns City
      Cairns North
      Edge Hill
      Manunda
      Parramatta Park
      Bungalow
      Portsmith
      Manoora
      Westcourt
      Whitfield
      Trinity Beach
      Palm Cove
      Smithfield
      Yorkeys Knob
      Clifton Beach
      Kewarra Beach
      Edmonton
      Gordonvale

      Real brands. Real rankings.

      +1232%

      Increase in organic revenue

      Jackson Miles

      Jackson Miles

      Rebuilt category architecture, shipped product schema, and retired thin pages. Revenue compounded for 24 months and is still climbing.
      +892%
      68%

      +1400%

      Increase in organic traffic

      Shed Living

      Shed Living

      National retailer. Rewrote site architecture, hreflang and faceted nav. 70% of tracked keywords on page 1 within six months.
      70%
      6 mo

      +3259%

      Net ranking improvements

      Upstate Studios

      Upstate Studios

      Multi-location pilates studio. Suburb-level local SEO, GBP across every location, AEO rewrites for class pages.
      +186%
      36 mo

      Questions, answered straight.

      Our Cairns SEO retainers start from $1,000/mo for local-business engagements and scale based on competitive intensity, geographic spread, and content velocity. Every proposal is fixed-scope, you’ll know exactly what’s being delivered each month before you sign.
      Most Cairns clients see meaningful ranking movement in 3 to 4 months and material traffic lift between months 6 to 9. SEO compounds, the brands we’ve worked with for 24+ months are typically growing organic traffic at multiples of their starting baseline.
      No, we work with brands across Australia and abroad. But we know Cairns and Far North Queensland intimately, which matters for local SEO, Google Business Profile work, and understanding the competitive landscape your customers are searching in.
      SEO gets you found in Google. AEO (Answer Engine Optimisation) gets you cited in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Google’s AI Overviews. We do both, and increasingly, the work overlaps. Schema, entity, and authority signals lift both surfaces simultaneously.
      No lock-in contracts. Month-to-month engagements. We earn our place in your stack every month with results that show up in your dashboard, not in our pitch deck.

      Rank where Cairns searches.

      Free 30-minute SEO audit with a senior strategist who knows the Cairns market. No graduate. No sales pitch. Just a prioritised fix list.

      Talk to a senior strategist.

      Take the playbook with you.

      The local SEO checklist we run on every retainer. 52 checks, GBP walkthrough, NAP audit template. Free, no sales call.

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