Cheap SEO in Adelaide: what $349 a month actually gets you.

Short answer: $349 a month buys you the local basics done properly and kept up every month: your Google Business Profile, Google Maps, your business details, tracking for every call and form, one new page or post, and a monthly report that shows the enquiries. It doesn’t buy Google Ads, link building or a ranking guarantee. Nobody can honestly sell you that last one.

The price, in plain numbers

We publish all three plans: Local $349, Growth $599 and Serious $1,099 a month. Every plan is month to month. There’s no lock-in contract, just 30 days’ notice by email to cancel, and your Google Business Profile, Search Console, Analytics and website content stay yours.

For context, when we checked the published prices of 14 agencies selling SEO in Adelaide on 5 Oct 2026, the median entry plan was $1,350 a month. That is a market average of other agencies’ prices, not our price. The full cost breakdown shows the range.

What the Local plan does each month

1. Your Google Business Profile, set up and kept up. Categories, services, products, service areas, attributes and description, plus photo guidance and a Business Profile post every month. For most local businesses this is where the calls come from.
2. Google Maps and local SEO for the suburbs and towns you actually serve: your pin, your service area and the signals behind the map pack.
3. Your details the same everywhere. Google, Apple Maps, Bing, Facebook and the SA directories that matter. Mismatched phone numbers and addresses quietly cost you rankings.
4. Tracking that counts enquiries. Google Analytics 4 set up to track calls, form enquiries and email taps, Search Console with your sitemap submitted, and keyword tracking for the searches that bring you work.
5. On-page work. Titles, descriptions, headings and internal links on your main service pages, up to 1 new page or blog post a month where it helps, and 1–2 existing pages improved.
6. AI search basics. Structured data, llms.txt, AI-crawler access and clear FAQ answers, so ChatGPT, Gemini and Google’s AI have the facts to find and quote you.
7. Facebook. A page refresh in month one, then a monthly check of reviews, messages and page health.
8. A branded monthly report in plain English, the first one month after you start, plus a review-request kit (link, wording and QR code) and a client portal login.

Fixes are made directly in your website by our web team, not handed to you as a list. The full list sits on the pricing page.

What $349 doesn’t include

• Google Ads. Local is SEO only. On Growth, 20% of the fee (about $120 a month) goes into Google Ads that we run, and on Serious 35% (about $385 a month). It’s already in the price, and you can swap that share for other work if you don’t want ads.
• Link building and the bigger content plan. Genuine SA links and mentions, 2 new pages a month, competitor tracking and technical fixes as they come up all start on Growth.
• More than one location, or an online store. Multi-location and e-commerce scope sits on Serious.
• A new website. If you need one, that’s JB Digital Barossa, the same team.
• A guaranteed ranking. Nobody controls Google. If a provider promises page one by a date, walk away.

What this kind of groundwork has done, with dates

These are businesses our team looks after. In fairness, not all of it was done on a $349 plan: several started with a new website from JB Digital Barossa. But the work that moved them is the same local groundwork the Local plan is built on, and it’s mostly trades.

Live rankings move from day to day, so we date every check and say where it was searched from. The full write-ups are on the Iron Works, A1 Roofing, May Paving and ASP Build & Co case studies.

Who the $349 plan suits

• One location, a sound website, and customers nearby. A trade or shop that wins work from its own suburbs and towns.
• Businesses where the phone is the measure. Most of the gain is in the map and the Business Profile, and the report counts calls and forms.
• Not a fit if you want Adelaide-wide rankings for crowded searches in a few months, or you need ads running from day one. Growth suits that better.

Give any SEO plan at least three months. You get a report every month, so you can judge it as it goes, and you can leave with 30 days’ notice if it isn’t working.

Four checks before you buy cheap SEO

• Is the price on the website? If you have to book a call to find out, the price is probably whatever they think you’ll pay.
• Does the report show calls and enquiries? Rankings and traffic are the means. Enquiries are the point.
• Where do the links come from? “100 backlinks a month” usually means unrelated sites overseas. That can hurt you.
• Is there a lock-in? A 12-month minimum means you keep paying even if nothing improves.