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The Brief

The state of play when they walked in.

Home Painting Geelong runs a broader business than the name suggests: full interior and exterior repaints, Venetian plaster and Marmorino finishes, heritage home restoration with period-correct colour consultation, fine-finish spray on cabinetry and joinery, premium wallpaper installation, across Geelong, the Bellarine and the Surf Coast. The work was already premium. The website read like every other painter’s site, because generic house-painter copy is the default nobody thinks to move past.

Seven months of local SEO fundamentals: suburb landing pages for the exterior and weatherboard searches, dedicated service pages for Venetian plaster, heritage restoration and colour consultancy, GMB optimisation, and content written by people who know the difference between a repaint and a restoration.

We'd been painting Geelong houses for years. Google just didn't know it yet.

Home Painting Geelong
Owner
Baseline · November 2025
Keywords in top 100 Not one keyword in the top ten. Invisible where quoting decisions start.
Average position22.7 Page three territory. Clicks effectively zero at that depth.
Clicks / 3 months71 The entire quarter's search traffic, at the starting line.
Impressions / 3 months10.3K Showing up occasionally, deep on the page, for the wrong queries.
The Website

Browse the site, live.

The local site every suburb page and service page hangs off. Built to convert quote-ready searches into phone calls.

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SEO & GEO

Zero to fifty-nine top-ten keywords.

Seven months of suburb pages, service pages and GMB work. Average position climbed from 22.7 to 16.1, clicks rose 70%, impressions 79%.

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Top-ten keywords, from zero in November 2025.
16.1
Average position, from 22.7 at the start.
+70%
Clicks, with impressions up 79% on the same window.
Clicks per month
Nov 2025 Feb 2026 May 2026
Keyword movement
One short paragraph
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The move that mattered

Suburb pages that say something, and specialty pages to match. Instead of one thin areas we serve list, every suburb got its own page, and Venetian plaster and heritage colour consultation got pages of their own. They don’t rank on a generic house-painting page

The Work

The projects behind the pages.

Real jobs from the projects gallery. The same photos the suburb and service pages rank with.

Heritage weatherboard exterior
Fine-finish spray, joinery
Heritage brick & render
Colour & render samples
Venetian plaster finishes
Weatherboard repaint
The Outcome

What the work produced.

Seven months from invisible to found.

Search visibility 59 Top-ten keywords, from zero. The top ten was empty ground in November 2025. Fifty-nine keywords by May 2026, with 10 more ranked 11-20.
The investment $3K Total spend to go from zero visibility to a website that finds work. A modest local engagement alongside the website rebuild. The business books more work now than it did before ranking for a single relevant search.
The right enquiries 73 Organic keywords ranked, built from the specialty pages. Venetian plaster, Marmorino, heritage colour consultation: the searches with a five-figure job behind them.
The compounding effect For a heritage-restoration specialist, the search that pays isn't painter near me. It's the one with a colour consultation and a Marmorino finish already in mind. Every suburb page and every specialty service page compounds on the last: more pages ranking, more of the right enquiries.
The Quiet Numbers

What it's actually worth.

The return, weighed against the real spend.

The return $78K-$168K In new work since the site started ranking, against a $3K engagement. At typical pricing for full-exterior and heritage-specialty painting, the work the new enquiries support lands in this band.
The multiple 26×-56× Return on the engagement cost, at that range. $3K in, up to $168K of work supported out. For a specialist trade, local search pays like a trade.
Job economics $6K-$12K What one full-exterior or heritage job bills. A single suburb page that wins one job a year pays for the whole engagement twice over.
The number Up to 56 times the engagement cost in supported work, seven months in. The pages keep ranking, and every month adds enquiries at no extra cost.

We don't just deploy AI, run ads, or optimise for results.

Because in a world of fleeting trends and market noise, the only real strategy is to build something unmistakable.

This project was led by Neeraj, along with the CrowdCypher team.

01
Darshan HiraniTech wiz with 12+ years of complex system implementation and integrations.
Complex Systems CrowdCypher
02
NeerajBusiness consultant with a knack for turning constraints into high-impact springboards.
Strategy · Orchestrator CrowdCypher
03
Lincoln SmithPoint of difference that Crowd Cypher has and others don't... LINCOLN!
Performance CrowdCypher
04
AnLeads where the world stops making sense to the rest of us.
AI & Robotics CrowdCypher
05
Grace KieuThe one to Koo-Koo before the clock, running the groundwork and managing details.
Client Success unmarket
06
Pearl WeeA formidable mum who can make a dollar-store look bougie.
Creative & Design prace.media
07
Gia DimitropoulosTurning the abstract into functional game-changing implementations.
UX UI unmarket
08
CarolineEnsuring success isn't just limited to clients, it has an impact on us too.
Growth prace.media
CrowdCypher · unmarket · prace.media
Ready when you are

No pitch. No decks.
Proof.

Two-week brief. Ninety days to a working system. A team you can call by name.

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Built by the pod at CrowdCypher · unmarket · prace.media

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