Tom McSherry
Trades - specialist SEO

SEO for concreters who want to be found for the good jobs

For concrete contractors across Australia and New Zealand - found for driveways, house slabs, exposed aggregate and decorative work, so you're quoting the jobs worth having instead of chasing whatever comes in.

How it works
Free, honest analysisNo lock-in - month to monthPlain English, no jargonNew Zealand & Australia
The payoff

What good SEO does for your business

Not rankings for their own sake - more of the right enquiries, at a lower cost, from customers ready to book.

Get found for the searches that convert

People pricing a driveway or slab search 'concreter near me' and '[suburb] concrete driveway', then call a couple of the top results. Ranking there puts you on the shortlist before your competitors.

Win the higher-value decorative work

Exposed aggregate, coloured and polished concrete pay far better than a plain slab. Dedicated pages get you found for that work instead of only the price-shopped basics.

Own the Map Pack in your areas

Most concreting enquiries begin in the boxed map results at the top of local search. Ranking there across the suburbs you actually work puts you in front first.

Lower your cost per lead

Enquiries from ranking keep arriving without a per-click ad bill, so once your area is locked in each extra quote adds to margin instead of ad spend.

What's included

The SEO built for concreters

Built around how your customers actually search - no filler, no lock-in, everything tied to booked work.

Google Business Profile optimisation

Your Google Business Profile tuned to win the Map Pack for concreting searches - the right categories, service areas and photos of real finishes.

Service-and-suburb pages

A page for each service in each area - driveways, house slabs, exposed aggregate, patios and paths - so 'concrete driveway + your suburb' lands on a page built to answer it.

Decorative and high-value job pages

Dedicated pages for exposed aggregate, coloured and polished concrete - the profitable finishes buyers research and compare before they call.

Review growth and finish photos

A simple system to earn more genuine reviews and show off real finishes - the trust signals that lift your Map Pack position and win the better jobs.

Tom McSherry

Your account is handled directly by a 15-year SEO specialist - no account managers, no offshore team. Straight advice, an honest answer on whether SEO is even worth it for your business, and month-to-month terms with no lock-in. Same standard across New Zealand and Australia.

Want to know if SEO is worth it for your concreting business?

I'll take an honest look at where you rank now, what your competitors are doing, and whether SEO is the right spend - or whether your money's better placed elsewhere first. No pressure, no jargon.

Guides that go deeper

Practical, no-jargon reading on the points above.

Trades

Roofer Google Maps rankings: what changed across 24 cities

Roofers had a wider sampled top-three footprint than many premises businesses, but the result changed sharply between city panels and review count was positively linked with position.

Local SEO

Do Google reviews help Map Pack rankings? What 480 grids showed

More reviews were associated with better Google Maps positions in 17 of 20 industries. See where the relationship was strongest, what star rating showed and what the study cannot prove.

Local SEO

Local rank grid guide: how to read a Google Maps heatmap

A local rank grid shows how Google Maps results change across a market. Learn how to choose search points, interpret the colours and connect the map to leads instead of chasing a vanity score.

Google Business Profile

Your Google Business Profile service area is not a ranking switch

Adding more suburbs to a Google Business Profile does not create proof of wider rankings. Here is what the field does, what the study did not test and how service businesses should measure real coverage.

Local SEO

Why your Google Maps ranking radius changes street by street

Google Maps does not give a business one fixed ranking radius. Learn what 480 local search grids showed about distance, changing competitors and the right way to measure your own market.

Local SEO

Local rank grid size and spacing: how many points, how far apart

Use tighter grid spacing in dense local markets and wider spacing for larger service areas. The right setup covers commercially important places without creating false precision.

Questions you might have

How long before SEO brings in concreting jobs?

Months, not weeks. SEO compounds - the early work is foundation and the leads build from there. If you need bookings in the next 1-3 months, put that budget into Google Ads or a review push and let SEO build underneath it.

Should I have a page for every suburb I work in?

Only where there's genuine demand and you actually work, and only if each page has real local substance. Thin, find-and-replace suburb pages are content Google weeds out and can drag your good pages down. I build them deliberately, in batches, so each one earns its place.

Is it worth ranking for decorative concrete separately?

Yes - exposed aggregate, coloured and polished concrete are higher-margin and searched differently to a plain driveway. Giving each its own page lets you rank for the profitable work rather than competing only on price for the basics.

Does AI search mean SEO is dead for concreters?

No. Your customers search transactionally and call from the Map Pack, which AI Overviews barely touch. For local trades it's monitor, don't chase - I keep the work on what reliably drives calls: your Business Profile, reviews and strong service and suburb pages.

Want to know if SEO is worth it for your concreting business?

I'll take an honest look at where you rank now, what your competitors are doing, and whether SEO is the right spend - or whether your money's better placed elsewhere first. No pressure, no jargon.

Free, honest analysisNo lock-in - month to monthPlain English, no jargonNew Zealand & Australia