SEO results, October 2026: the monthly ledger, including our own baseline.

Short answer: the trades are where the movement is. Iron Works, Roam Offroad, Becks and May Paving all hold live-checked top-3 positions for searches customers actually type. Ten client sites brought in 41 website enquiries between them in September. Two rows went backwards this month and they are listed. And our own site, launched into the “seo adelaide” market, had 218 impressions and no clicks in its first full month, which is the baseline we will report against.

Live checks, 5 October 2026

Run on a mobile, logged out, from the town shown. Google results vary by location and day, so each check carries its date and place.

Search Console ledger, 5 Sep – 2 Oct 2026

Average position across every searcher. “Was” is the earliest of four 28-day windows from 13 June 2026 with at least five impressions for that search. A live check from one suburb can read lower than these averages; the previous section is the fairer test.

What it meant: website enquiries, September 2026

Rankings are the means; enquiries are the point. 41 website enquiries across ten client sites in September 2026, counted one by one from the copies of each form enquiry our inbox receives, with spam and tests removed. Phone calls and walk-ins are not in these numbers, so for most of these businesses the real total is higher.

• Spriggs & Co: 11 website enquiries in September 2026. Quote enquiries most days, and the renovation diary is booked out into 2027 (the owners’ own account, September 2026).
• Iron Works Mobile Welding: 6 website enquiries in September 2026. Busy enough to take on extra staff to keep up with the work coming in (Sean, August 2026).
• May Paving: 5 website enquiries in September 2026. Booked out weeks ahead, with steady enquiries every week and big jobs among them (Kayla, September 2026). Then 3 quote requests through the website in under 24 hours (7–8 Oct 2026).
• Becks Bathrooms & Tiling: 4 website enquiries in September 2026. #1 on Google Maps for “bathroom renovations” and “tiler” around Woodcroft (live check, 5 Oct 2026).
• A1 Roofing Adelaide: 4 website enquiries in its first month online. The site first reported in Search Console on 2 September 2026; four enquiries arrived in September while the rankings are still being built.
• Insect Invasion: 3 website enquiries in September 2026. Google clicks ten times the previous 28 days as spring started, 8th on Google for “pest control gawler” (live check, 5 Oct 2026).
• SA Elite Handyman: 3 website enquiries in September 2026. Owner Lindsay has since hired another employee (owner-reported, October 2026). Enquiries came from Gawler and the Riverland.
• Asian Tucker: 2 website enquiries in September 2026. Vietnamese takeaway in Tanunda. 78 Google clicks in September, its first full month in Search Console.
• Barossa Valley Cleaning Services: 2 website enquiries in September 2026. Cleaning in the Barossa Valley. Two genuine enquiries; the spam that arrived the same month is not counted.
• Team Teepee: 1 website enquiry in September 2026. Teepee sleepover party hire in the Barossa: an enquiry for a party in October.

What went backwards

• May Paving, “landscapers gawler”: averaged 1.1 in June and 6.9 in 5 Sep – 2 Oct 2026. The Business Profile is still #3 on Google Maps for “landscaper” from Gawler (live, 5 Oct), so the map side held while the organic page slipped.
• Becks, “bathroom renovations reynella”: 1.5 in the previous 28 days to 3.3 now, while the profile sits #2 in the map box for the same search from Morphett Vale.
• Iron Works impressions fell (4,515 against 5,719 the previous 28 days) while clicks rose from 48 to 81. Fewer, better-matched impressions is the pattern we want, but it is still a fall and it stays in the ledger.

Our own baseline: adelaideseoservices.com.au

This site was rebuilt on 5 October 2026 and redesigned on 6 October. Here is where it started, so the next ledgers mean something.

In plain terms: Google knows the site exists and is testing it on page four to six for the Adelaide SEO searches. There are no backlinks from anyone but our own client sites and our parent company. The plan is the same one we sell: real pages for real searches, proof on the page, a few genuine links, and reviews. We will report the “seo adelaide” family here every month, including if it goes nowhere.

What we are doing before the November ledger

• Two new case studies and the builders and renovators guide (published this month).
• A data piece on what South Australian small businesses are actually found for, from 19 sites’ Search Console.
• Listings on the agency directories that already rank for these searches, under the correct JB Digital Barossa details and with no invented address.
• Re-check every live result above on the same searches, from the same towns.

The work behind these results is described service by service on our SEO services page.