Trusted by Northern Beaches Businesses

We’ve been part of the Northern Beaches business community for years — helping local brands build their online presence, grow their audience, and turn searches into paying customers.

Chalky's 


Brookvale
Digital setup

& launch strategy

Bucketty's Brewing Co

Brookvale
Website redesign

& digital setup

Manly Observer

Manly
Media kit, analytics

& web development

Aqua Culture Swim

Brookvale
Digital marketing
& local SEO

What Our Northern Beaches SEO Service Covers

Our SEO service is end-to-end — technical foundations, on-page content, local search signals, and the authority-building that Google rewards over time. Here’s what that looks like in practice.

On-Page SEO

On-page SEO is everything that makes a single page rank — for the right keyword, to the right audience. We audit and optimise every page on your site for:

  • Keyword targeting — one clear primary keyword per page, matched to real search intent
  • Title tags and meta descriptions — written to rank and earn the click
  • H1 and heading structure — a clean hierarchy that Google and readers both follow
  • Internal linking — connecting pages to pass authority and guide visitors deeper into your site
  • Image optimisation — alt text, file names, and WebP compression for speed and context
  • Content quality — useful, specific, and substantial enough to deserve page one
Technical SEO
A great page that Google can’t crawl, index, or load won’t rank — no matter how good the content is. Technical SEO removes the invisible barriers between your website and the rankings it deserves.
  • Site speed and Core Web Vitals — Google's performance benchmarks (LCP, CLS, INP)
  • Mobile optimisation — the Northern Beaches is a mobile-first market; your site needs to match
  • Crawlability — clean robots.txt, XML sitemap, and no accidental Googlebot blocks
  • Duplicate content — consolidated URLs, canonical tags, and 301 redirects
  • Schema markup — structured data for rich results (FAQs, reviews, local business, breadcrumbs)
  • Indexing health — Search Console monitoring, error resolution, and proactive re-indexing
Local SEO — Brookvale, Manly, Dee Why and Beyond
Local SEO is what puts your business in front of Northern Beaches residents when they search for exactly what you do, right now. We build the signals that earn your spot in Google’s Local Pack — the map results that appear above everything else on a local search.
  • Google Business Profile setup, optimisation, and regular posting
  • LocalBusiness schema markup — structured data that tells Google who you are and where
  • Geo-targeted landing pages for Brookvale, Manly, Dee Why, Narrabeen, Mona Vale, Avalon and more
  • NAP consistency — your name, address, and phone must match exactly across every listing
  • Local citation building — Yellow Pages AU, Truelocal, Localsearch, Clutch, and industry directories
  • Northern Beaches community links — local publications, business networks, and PR placements
Link Building and Domain Authority

Backlinks remain one of Google’s strongest ranking signals — but only the right ones. Relevant, authoritative links from sites Google already trusts. We build them the right way: earned through quality, not shortcuts.

  • Local link acquisition — Northern Beaches publications, directories, and business networks
  • Digital PR and content outreach — earning editorial links from credible Australian sources
  • Client and partner link-building — the fastest wins many businesses already have available
  • Competitor gap analysis — finding where they're earning authority and targeting the same
  • Ongoing backlink monitoring — disavowing toxic links before they cause damage
AI Search & Generative Engine Optimisation (GE

Google AI Overviews now appear above traditional search results for a large share of Australian searches — and ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Bing Copilot are sending real referral traffic to businesses that appear in their answers. A business can sit at position one in the standard results and still be invisible in the AI-generated answer that most users read first.

Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO) is the practice of structuring your content, strengthening your authority signals, and building the technical foundations that make AI systems more likely to cite your business as a trusted source. It extends traditional SEO — it doesn’t replace it. The same signals that help you rank on Google (E-E-A-T, structured data, authoritative content) also determine whether AI systems reference you when someone asks a question in your category.

  • AI Overview optimisation — structuring page content so Google's AI summary cites your pages rather than a competitor's
  • E-E-A-T signals — demonstrating Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness across your site and in third-party mentions
  • Schema markup — giving AI systems machine-readable context about your business, services, location, and credentials
  • Citation-worthy content — factual, specific, well-attributed content that AI engines draw from when answering queries in your category
  • AI search monitoring — tracking your brand's presence across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews as part of regular monthly reporting

Why Northern Beaches Businesses Choose TMR

We’re not a large Sydney CBD agency that’ll add you to a client list and assign a junior. We’re a tight specialist team based right here in Brookvale — and that means your account gets real attention from people who know this market.

We're local.

Our office is on Ada Avenue in Brookvale. We know the Northern Beaches, its businesses, its community, and how locals search online. That context makes our strategies sharper.

No lock-in contracts.

We earn your business every month. If we're not delivering measurable progress, you're free to walk. We rarely lose clients — that's the point.


Full transparency.

You see everything — rankings, traffic, work completed. Monthly reports with numbers that matter, not a dashboard full of metrics designed to look impressive. 


Don’t take our word for it

What they said

Martijn is my go-to guy for all our performance marketing needs. He and his team know their stuff, provide useful recommendations that are always relevant to the campaigns and our needs. On top of that they are very responsive and fun to work with!
Timi Siytangco
Branded Ltd
Martijn is a rare beast. He has a wide range of digital marketing skills, and an appetite for more. The point is, in fact, he's happy; so not only smart, skilled and co-operative but cheerful, easy-going and hilarious - a joy to work with.
Camilla Cooke
CMO Xinja Bank / Cure Brain Cancer
Timmer Marketing helped me rebuild our Shopify website and we couldn't be happier with the result. They listened to what we needed and took the time to ensure they understood and executed on the brief. We'll definitely be using them moving forward for our digital work.
Nick McDonald
Bucketty's
We have been working with Timmer Marketing for many years and couldn’t be happier with the results they have delivered in their most recent SEO project
Rebecca Swinfield
CEO Solentive
I wholeheartedly recommend TMR as exceptional Google Ads experts. It has been a pleasure collaborating with them on Engineers Australia's three accounts. Their expertise and guidance have been invaluable to our campaigns' successes.
Tanima Virmani
Marketing Manager - Engineers Australia
Great communication, highly responsive and patient to the nth degree - a great Northern Beaches based business to help elevate your marketing. Warm and friendly team too, which never hurts!
Kim Smee
Manly Observer

Frequently Asked Questions

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Find out exactly where your site is losing ground to local competitors — and what it would take to fix it. Free, fast, no lock-in contracts.

Q1 How long does SEO take to work on the Northern Beaches?

For most Northern Beaches businesses, you’ll start seeing meaningful ranking improvements within 3 to 4 months for local and suburb-level keywords — faster than competing for broad Sydney-wide terms. The timeline depends on your site’s current health, how competitive your category is locally, and how consistently we can build authority. We give you an honest forecast at your free audit, not an empty promise.

A focused local SEO campaign typically starts from around $1,200–$2,500 per month, depending on the competitiveness of your industry and the scope of work required. We build custom strategies — not packages — so you only pay for what actually moves the needle. Book a free audit and we’ll give you a clear, transparent scope and investment range with no obligation.
Yes — and it’s one of the highest-impact things we do for Northern Beaches businesses. Google Maps and the Local Pack are driven by your Google Business Profile, local schema markup, citation consistency, and review signals. We handle all of it. For businesses in Brookvale, Manly, Dee Why, or Narrabeen, Local Pack visibility often converts better than standard organic rankings because the intent is immediate and local.
Google Ads and SEO solve different problems. Ads get you to the top instantly but cost money every click — and stop the moment you stop paying. SEO builds organic rankings that keep driving traffic over time with no cost per click. The smartest local businesses use both: Ads for immediate leads while SEO compounds in the background. We manage both and can show you exactly how they work together.
No honest SEO agency can guarantee specific rankings — Google controls the algorithm. What we guarantee is complete transparency, consistent work, and strategies built on what actually works. We’ve helped clients outrank IBM and national brands in competitive Australian markets. We’ll show you real results we’ve delivered, not just what we promise.
Your free audit covers current keyword rankings, technical site health, on-page gaps, competitor positioning specifically on the Northern Beaches, and a prioritised list of the highest-impact fixes. Takes about 60 seconds to request — and you get a real analysis, not an automated report with a sales call attached. No lock-in, no obligation.

GEO is the practice of optimising your content and authority signals to appear in AI-generated search results — Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Bing Copilot. These systems are now answering a significant share of search queries directly, often without the user clicking through to any website. If your business isn’t being cited by AI search engines, you’re missing visibility that your competitors may already be capturing. GEO isn’t a replacement for traditional SEO — it’s built on the same foundations. The businesses that rank well organically tend to perform better in AI search too.

Google AI Overviews can reduce click-through rates for informational queries — if the AI answers the question completely, some users won’t click any result. However, for commercial and local queries (the kind that drive business leads), AI Overviews tend to cite sources and link out — which means being cited can drive higher-quality traffic than a standard ranking. Our approach is to optimise for both: traditional rankings and AI citation, using the same content and technical work.

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