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SEO Agency

Rank where it pays. Own the queries that move revenue.

SEO engineered against your P&L, not your keyword position tracker. We are a revenue-first SEO agency for established Australian brands, and we run organic search as a channel that has to earn its place on the balance sheet.

600+
#1 rankings held by client sites
100+
Australian brands ranked
$300M+
Client revenue from search, organic + paid

#1 rankings: non-brand keywords where client sites hold position 1 in Australian Google results, per Ahrefs, June 2026. The two largest client sites are counted at a 250-keyword cap each, so the true figure is higher.

google.com/search?q=best+rc+cars+australia
All Shopping Images Videos News
About 1,240,000 results (0.42 seconds)
#1 ORGANIC
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hobbiesdirect
https://hobbiesdirect.com.au
RC Cars & Scale Models | Hobbies Direct
Australia's largest range of RC cars, trucks, planes & parts. Free shipping over $150. Same-day dispatch from Geelong.
https://scoot.com.au
RC Cars Online | Hobby Store
Shop our range of remote control cars and accessories. Australia-wide delivery.
https://kogan.com.au
Remote control cars | Kogan.com
Shop online for RC cars at Kogan. Browse our extensive range of remote-controlled toys.
Position
1 of 1.24M
Our take

SEO is a revenue channel, not a rankings scoreboard.

Most SEO is sold as a service against rankings. Firewire's SEO is sold against your P&L. The work starts by mapping every product, service or category you sell against the queries that drive its revenue, not the queries with the highest search volume. The right SEO agency tracks conversions and revenue, not just organic traffic.

From there we build the technical foundation, content engine and authority signals that move your brand to the top of the queries that pay the bills. We engineer for Google's classic SERP, but also for the AI models (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini) that increasingly answer buyers before they ever click.

SEO is one part of a wider digital marketing mix, and we treat it as the channel that compounds. If a tactic does not move revenue, we cut it. If a ranking is not on a query that pays, we deprioritise it. SEO without commercial intent is just busy work, and Firewire does not do busy work.

The methodology, applied to SEO

How we engineer Earned Presence in organic search.

The same three-phase framework you've seen on the homepage, built around the surfaces SEO actually competes on.

01
Discover
"Map organic search against your P&L."

We audit your current organic share against the queries that drive revenue in your category. Every keyword is mapped to a product margin, every competitor benchmarked, every AI model checked. The output is a single view of where revenue is being left on the table, and which surfaces to compete on first.

02
Capture
"Build the engine that earns the rankings."

Technical foundation, content engine, authority signals, AI citation engineering: built as one system. Every brief, redirect, schema decision, and link target laddered back to a revenue-generating query. Paid and organic are briefed against the same keyword-to-revenue map.

03
Prove
"Report on revenue, not rankings."

Weekly walkthroughs against your P&L. Live dashboards covering organic revenue, AI citations across six models, and SERP positions on the queries that matter. If a tactic is not moving revenue, it is cut at the next review.

Operating across every search surface
Google SERPsAI ModelsBuyer Journey
What's included

What ships in a Firewire SEO engagement.

01
Technical SEO

Site architecture, crawlability, indexation, schema, Core Web Vitals and internal linking, engineered so search engines and AI models can read your site cleanly. Every engagement starts with a technical audit, because a well-structured site is the floor that lets everything else compound.

02
On-page SEO

Title tags, meta descriptions, headings, internal links and content quality, aligned to what each page is actually trying to sell. We match pages to commercial search intent, not just insert keywords, so the queries that convert land on the pages built to close them.

03
Off-page SEO and link building

Earned links, digital PR and brand citations from reputable sources that tell search engines you are worth ranking. We earn authority the safe way, editorially. No link buying, no PBNs, no shortcuts that put your domain one algorithm update away from a penalty.

04
Keyword research

The foundation of the whole programme: every tracked query mapped to a product margin and lifetime value. The keyword-to-revenue map decides what gets prioritised, what gets cut, and what success actually means.

05
Content marketing

Editorially-led SEO content briefed against revenue-generating queries. Existing pages refreshed for AI citation, new pages built for category authority, engineered to convert and to be quoted by AI models, not word count for its own sake. Written, edited and shipped in-house.

06
Local SEO

Google Business Profile optimisation, map-pack rankings, citations and directory consistency. As a local SEO agency working across every Australian capital, we make sure brands with physical demand show up where nearby customers actually search.

07
eCommerce SEO

Category and product page architecture engineered for revenue, synced with your Shopping feeds so paid and organic reinforce each other on every buying query. This is the discipline behind Hobbies Direct's +77% revenue: a P&L-mapped keyword strategy across thousands of SKUs.

08
AI search and GEO

Part of every Firewire SEO engagement, not a separate add-on. We engineer schema, entity signals and content so AI models cite your brand as the source, and we track citations across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini and others.

Boundaries

What we don't do.

To be useful, the work has to be focused. Here's what we explicitly don't do, so you can decide if we're the right partner before the first call.

No link buying

We do not buy, exchange, or rent links. Every authority signal we build is earned editorially or through digital PR.

No outsourcing

Strategy, content, and technical work are all done in-house by Firewire specialists in Australia. No overseas writing factories, no white-label resellers.

No long lock-ins

Engagements are reviewed every quarter against the P&L. If we are not the right partner anymore, we say so first.

No vanity metrics

We do not report on impressions, sessions, or rankings as success measures. The scoreboard is revenue.

The first 90 days

From booking the call to compounding rankings.

A real timeline for an Australian SEO engagement, built from what actually happens for the average Firewire client.

01 Week 1
30-min strategy call + diagnostic

A senior strategist scopes the engagement. A first-pass audit of your GA, GSC, organic share, and AI citation surface is delivered. You walk out with a prioritised view of where revenue is being left on the table.

  • Strategy call
  • Diagnostic delivered
  • Priority map
02 Month 1
Foundation built, first wins shipped

Technical foundation issues fixed in priority order. Keyword-to-revenue map built. Content engine briefed against the top-margin queries. First content shipped. Reporting dashboards live. Your SEO campaign has a spine by week four.

  • Technical fixes
  • Revenue map
  • First content live
03 Month 2+
Compounding gains, weekly cadence

Weekly walkthroughs against revenue. Content engine producing 4–8 briefs per month. Authority signals building. AI citation tracking live. By the end of month 3, organic revenue trajectory is visible against the pre-engagement baseline.

  • Weekly walkthroughs
  • 4–8 briefs/month
  • Revenue trajectory live
Anchor case

A rankings-obsessed account, rebuilt around revenue.

Hobbies Direct was ranking for generic hobby terms, but the traffic rarely turned into sales. Ads spend was climbing while margin wasn't.

We mapped every keyword to a product margin, rebuilt the account architecture around the highest-LTV categories, and synced SEO briefs with Shopping feeds so paid and organic reinforced each other on every buying query.

+96%
Paid revenue growth, YoY
+46%
Organic revenue growth, YoY
Spend scaled at constant ROAS

Firewire built the attribution framework before any content was created, so we always had clean data on what each channel contributed. The SEO wasn't cannibalising paid. It brought in customers we weren't reaching before.

HM
Hamish McRitchie
Co-Founder & Director, Hobbies Direct
Revenue, monthly
Sep 2023 to Feb 2025
+77% YoY
$100k $200k $0 SEP '23JAN '24MAY '24SEP '24FEB '25 Firewire started · Feb '24
Channels
SEOAdsGEO
SEO results

Australian brands ranking where it pays.

Six Firewire engagements where SEO carried the revenue story. Every figure verified before it shipped.

See all SEO case studies
LEGAL

Burke Mead Lawyers

“700+ thin blog posts diluting topical authority. Then Family Law closed mid-engagement and cut the site in half overnight.”

Pruned hard, rebuilt around authority. Audited 700 pages down to 80, restructured the foundation around personal injury and compensation, and turned the Family Law closure into a sharper category focus.

personal injury lawyer newcastle
#1 ORGANIC
burkemeadlawyers.com.au
Personal Injury Lawyers Newcastle, Burke Mead Lawyers
Newcastle's leading personal injury and compensation specialists. Expert representation across NSW.
+1,817%
Organic traffic
+145%
Qualified leads
178→5.7k
Monthly sessions
Who runs your SEO

The specialists you'd work with.

The actual people who'd ship your work. Strategy, execution and reporting from the same team.

8
Specialists
8yrs
Avg specialist experience
$300M+
Client revenue from search
Your team
What clients say

Quotes from the buyers we ship for.

Every quote here is from a real Firewire client. Numbers tied to verified analytics data.

We engaged Firewire to overhaul our SEO. They have incredible knowledge and understanding of SEO and have increased our organic traffic by 680%. Their work is high quality and produces results.
SK
Sheena Kearsey
Office Manager, Burke Mead Lawyers
1,817%
Organic traffic growth
145%
Qualified lead growth
2,078%
Top-3 ranking growth
Read the full story
FAQ

Common SEO questions, answered.

Cannot find what you are looking for? Send us a note and a senior strategist will reply within 4 business hours.

How is Firewire's SEO different from a typical SEO agency?
Typical agencies sell SEO against rankings and traffic; we sell it against your P&L. Every keyword tracked is mapped to a product margin, every tactic laddered back to revenue, and anything that is not moving revenue gets cut. You also work directly with the senior specialists doing the work: strategy, execution and reporting from the same team.
What does an SEO agency actually do?
An SEO agency optimises your site so search engines rank it higher and increase organic traffic, across technical SEO, on-page SEO, off-page SEO and link building, keyword research, content and local SEO. The honest difference between a good and a forgettable SEO company is whether they stop at traffic or tie it to revenue. We do the latter.
How much does SEO cost in Australia?
SEO in Australia typically runs $1,500–$10,000+ per month depending on competitiveness and scope. Firewire engagements are team-scoped, not retainer-priced (starting from $2,500 per month and scaling with team size and scope), and we quote against the revenue the channel should return, not a fixed package. If the maths does not justify the work, we will tell you. For the full breakdown of pricing models, delivery maths and the red flags, see our guide to how much SEO costs in Australia.
Is SEO dead in 2026, and does it still work with AI Overviews?
No. The queries moved into AI-generated answers; the revenue did not disappear. Search results now include AI Overviews and LLM answers, so we engineer your brand to be cited there as well as ranked. That is the GEO work baked into every engagement. SEO that earns presence across both surfaces matters more now, not less.
Can you guarantee a #1 Google ranking?
No, and any agency that does is a risk, not a safe bet. No one controls Google's algorithm, so guaranteed-ranking promises usually mean low-value terms or black-hat tactics that invite a penalty. We commit to revenue movement and report against it weekly, not to a ranking we cannot actually promise.
Is your link building safe, white-hat or black-hat?
White-hat only. We never buy, rent or exchange links. Off-page SEO authority is earned through genuine editorial links, digital PR and brand citations: the kind of authority both Google and the AI models trust, with none of the penalty risk that comes from bought links.
Do I need SEO or Google Ads, or both?
Usually both, when the unit economics support it, so you own the page twice, in the organic result and the ad. Firewire runs SEO, Google Ads and GEO off one keyword-to-revenue map, so paid and organic reinforce each other instead of competing. The Hobbies Direct result came from exactly this integration.
How long until I see results from SEO?
Foundation fixes and quick wins typically show in 6–12 weeks; compounding rankings on competitive revenue queries take 3–6 months to mature. We track a time-to-first-revenue-attributable-result metric on every engagement and report against it weekly.
How do I choose the best SEO agency?
Judge on track record and communication, not promises. Ask for results in a business like yours, ask who actually does the work, and ask what they explicitly won't do. A reputable SEO agency is happy to show verified case studies and name the senior team, and will tell you honestly if SEO is not your best next move.
Do you work with our in-house team?
Yes. About 40% of Firewire clients have an in-house marketing manager or specialist we work alongside; engagement scoping covers exactly how we integrate with your team.
What size client is the right fit for Firewire SEO?
We work best with established Australian businesses that have a marketing manager in place and a category where organic search is a material revenue channel. We are a remote-first team rooted in Newcastle, running the same model for brands across Australia. Smaller or earlier-stage brands are usually better served elsewhere.
Do you offer one-off SEO audits?
Yes, a single-engagement SEO and GEO audit for clients who want to diagnose before committing. The deliverable is a prioritised opportunity map against your P&L, delivered in a 90-minute walkthrough.
What's the contract length and lock-in?
3-month minimum to give the work time to compound, then month-to-month with quarterly scope reviews against the P&L. No long lock-ins.
Where we work

Firewire works with brands across Australia.

A remote-first team rooted in Newcastle, NSW. Working with clients in every Australian capital.

Open for Q3 2026 engagements

Ready to rank where it pays?

30 minutes with a senior Firewire SEO strategist. We will diagnose where organic revenue is being left on the table in your category, and tell you honestly whether we are the right SEO agency to recover it.

  • A revenue-mapped view of your organic search opportunity
  • A first-pass diagnosis of your technical, content, and AI citation surface
  • Honest view on fit: we will tell you if we are not right
  • No deck, no pitch, no commitment
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