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

Gold Coast's
SEO Agency.

One of our two home offices: 50 Cavill Ave, Surfers Paradise. Walk-in meetings, on-site strategy days, and the same senior team that runs our national accounts. From our Surfers Paradise studio we rank Gold Coast brands across tourism, trades, ecommerce and professional services — senior strategists in the room, not junior account managers.

On-site

Office at 50 Cavill Ave, Surfers Paradise

150+

Australian brands ranked across SEO, AEO and SEM

3 yrs

Global Search Awards finalists, three years running

Partner

Google Partner & Bing Partner certified

Drop in, or book a call.

Drop in for a coffee, a strategy session, or a whiteboard sprint. Walk-in meetings, on-site days, and the same senior team that runs the work every other day of the year.

Your Gold Coast SEO team, on the ground.

The Gold Coast is one of Australia’s fastest-growing and most competitive local markets. Tourism operators, trades, clinics and ecommerce brands all chase the same searches, and the businesses that win treat SEO as a senior discipline, not a junior checklist.

We work from 50 Cavill Ave in Surfers Paradise, so Gold Coast clients get on-site strategy days, whiteboard sessions and a team that knows the patch first-hand, from Coolangatta to Coomera, Burleigh to Robina.

Every engagement is led by a senior strategist and reported in plain English. Technical SEO, content, local pack and answer-engine visibility, handled end to end, with KPIs you can hold us to from month one.

Gold Coast search is hyper-local and seasonal. A holidaymaker in Surfers Paradise, a homeowner in Robina booking a tradie, and a vendor in Burleigh Heads weighing up agents are all running very different searches, and they rarely cross suburb lines. We build the suburb-level pages, Google Business Profile signals and review velocity that win each pocket of the coast rather than chasing one blanket “Gold Coast” term.

A holiday economy that never really sleeps.

Search demand on the Gold Coast moves with the seasons — school holidays, major events and the summer tourism rush all shift the goalposts. We build strategies that capture peak demand and hold rankings through the quieter months.

It’s also a small-business-dense market where Google Business Profile and reviews decide who gets the call. We treat local SEO and reputation as first-class work, not an afterthought.

The team you'll actually work with.

SEO Lead · SEO Director

SEAN CLANCY

15+ years in digital marketing, including a decade as SEO Director at leading agencies across Australia and his native New Zealand. Sean owns SEO strategy at Paperstack, senior on every retainer, in the room when the roadmap is built, and on the report every month. Plain-English about what’s working, what isn’t, and where the next 10× is hiding. The brands we work with get him from day one.

AI Lead · Answer Engine Optimisation

CALEB JOHNSTONE

Where SEO ends and AI search begins, Caleb owns the playbook. Five years leading SEO with a background in web development, now focused full-time on how ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini and Google’s AI Overviews choose which brands to cite. He engineers the entity graphs, schema and retrieval-friendly content patterns Paperstack ships on every account, tracks share-of-voice across six engines weekly, and turns LLMs.txt, structured FAQ and prompt-tested copy into citations, not just rankings.

From audit to ranking, without the mystery.

01

Discovery & Audit

We use third-party and proprietary tools to audit your Gold Coast 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 Gold Coast & South-East Queensland

We work with businesses across the entire Gold Coast metro and surrounding South-East 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.

Surfers Paradise
Broadbeach
Burleigh Heads
Palm Beach
Coolangatta
Robina
Mermaid Beach
Bundall
Southport
Helensvale
Pacific Pines
Varsity Lakes
Tweed Heads
Currumbin
Mudgeeraba

We target the searches that convert on the coast.

Ranking in Gold Coast starts with understanding demand, not guessing at keywords. We map every search your customers run, classify it by intent, then target the terms you can actually win. On the Gold Coast that means separating holiday demand in Surfers Paradise from homeowner and vendor demand in Robina and Burleigh, and going after each on its own terms.

01

Map the demand

We pull the full universe of searches your Gold Coast customers actually run, from search and clickstream data, competitor gaps and your own analytics and Search Console.

02

Classify the intent

Every query is sorted by what the searcher wants, from ready-to-act local searches to early research, so budget follows the demand that converts.

03

Target what is winnable

We prioritise the keywords you can realistically rank for and that drive revenue, then build the pages, content and local signals to win them.
Every keyword is mapped to intent and tracked across Google, Maps and the AI answer engines, so you can see exactly which Gold Coast searches are driving enquiries, and where to push next.

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

Questions, answered straight.

Yes. We’re at 50 Cavill Ave, Surfers Paradise. Drop in for a coffee, a strategy session or a whiteboard sprint — and we’ll run on-site strategy days whenever the work calls for it.

Local-business retainers start around $1,000/mo and scale with competitive intensity and content velocity. Every proposal is fixed-scope, you’ll know exactly what’s delivered each month before you sign.
Most Gold Coast clients see ranking movement in 3–4 months and material traffic lift between months 6–9. SEO compounds; our longest-running local accounts are growing organic traffic at multiples of where they started.
We do — they’re two of our biggest local verticals. We know how seasonal demand, events and review velocity shape the Gold Coast SERP, and we build around it.
It depends on your suburbs and service, but the priority is always high-intent local terms like “[service] Gold Coast”, “[service] near me” and suburb queries across Surfers Paradise, Broadbeach, Burleigh Heads, Robina and Coolangatta. We map your real service area first, then build pages and Google Business Profile signals around the suburbs that actually convert.
Heavily, because the two share the same foundations. Answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google’s AI Overviews and Gemini build their answers from the same signals strong SEO produces: clean technical health, structured data, genuinely authoritative content, consistent entity information and real reviews. The work we do to rank you in Gold Coast search is exactly what makes you eligible to be cited when someone asks an AI engine about your service or suburb. We treat SEO and answer engine optimisation as one program, so every ranking gain compounds into AI-search visibility rather than being a separate project.

The local SEO playbook for Gold Coast businesses.

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

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Gold Coast Local SEO Playbook

The 52-point checklist our team runs on Gold Coast retainers.

Paperstack · 2026

12pp

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

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