Find SEO gigs in Melbourne

SEO specialists on Unjumble typically charge $70 to $140 an hour. One-off audits run $600 to $1,800, local SEO setups $800 to $2,500, and the real earner is monthly retainers at $800 to $3,500, which on Unjumble run as time-based gigs, charged month by month. A handful of ongoing retainers is a full-time income.

Local SEO is the biggest stream: Google Business Profile setup, local rankings and review strategy for service businesses in Melbourne. After that it is site audits, on-page fixes for sites that were built pretty but invisible, keyword-led content plans, and cleanup work after a migration or redesign tanked someone's traffic.

Audits and setups price cleanly as outcome-based gigs with a defined deliverable. Ongoing work suits time-based gigs or a repeating monthly gig with the scope written down (pages optimised, content shipped, links built). Be upfront that rankings take 3 to 6 months; businesses respect honest timelines and churn on promised miracles.

Google Search Console and GA4 are non-negotiable, they are where you prove your results. Then a crawler (Screaming Frog), a research tool (Ahrefs or Semrush), and Google Business Profile inside out for local work. Businesses do not care which tools you use, but your reports should turn the data into plain English: what changed, what moved, what is next.

Report the numbers a business owner actually feels: impressions and clicks from Search Console for the searches they care about, Google Business Profile views and direction requests, and above all enquiries and calls. Tie every monthly report to those, never to activity ("50 directories submitted") that does not move anything. The freelancers with the best reviews here are the ones whose reports a non-marketer can read.

Evidence over promises. A bid that says what you would check first on THEIR site beats a generic pitch, and a portfolio or review trail showing real traffic gains beats both. Anyone can promise page one; show the receipts and avoid guarantees, the honest operators stand out fast on Unjumble.

New freelancers get a fair go in our ranking and a Just joined call-out. A sharp first move: offer a tightly-scoped audit at a keen price, deliver a report that is genuinely useful, and let it convert into the ongoing work. One retainer client from one good audit is the standard origin story.

On an outcome-based gig, like an audit, the work is split into stages agreed up front. The business funds each stage before you start, the money is held securely through Stripe, and it is released when the stage is signed off. On a time-based gig, like a monthly retainer, the business is charged for each month as it starts, and that month is released to you once it has been worked.