SEO Services for NZ Businesses. Rank on Google, Get Cited by AI.
Media Giant is a Wellington SEO agency for New Zealand small businesses. We tighten the on-page and technical basics, publish the articles your customers search for, and build 25+ quality links every month, so Google trusts your site and AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews cite it.
Search engine optimisation is four jobs. We do all four.
Most SEO that disappoints is one of these done in isolation: a technical audit nobody acts on, blog posts with no links behind them, or links pointing at a site Google cannot read. Rankings come from the four together.
On-page SEO
Titles, headings, copy and internal links aligned to the searches your customers make, one clear page per service, with structured data so search engines know what each page is about.
Technical SEO
Page speed, mobile layout, indexing, sitemaps and redirects. If Google cannot crawl and load the site quickly, nothing else on this list works.
Content
SEO-optimised articles published to your site automatically, answering the questions people ask before they buy. Included in the plan, and explained on our blogging services page.
Link building and local SEO
25+ white-hat links every month, plus consistent citations and directory listings that support your Google Business Profile in local search. The method is set out below.
Where to start: an SEO audit. Send us your website and we will audit it free: what is holding rankings back, how your domain authority compares, and which pages to fix first. If you want to be quoted in ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews as well as ranked, see our answer engine optimisation (AEO) service. Wellington business? Our SEO Wellington page covers local search in the region.
Link building: AI research. Human placement.
Machines are good at finding the opportunities. People are what turn them into links that Google actually respects.
The brief is human
A real conversation about your trade, your service area and the pages that need to rank.
The research is AI
Relevant sites found at scale, with anchor text mapped to what you actually sell.
The placement is human
Directories, guest content, citations and digital PR. White-hat only, no link farms and no paid schemes.
The reporting is measured
Every link built shows up in your dashboard, with the page it points at.
Open term, no lock-in contract. 25+ links built and reported every month, plus SEO-optimised articles published automatically. Also included in the $850/mo Website + SEO and Blogging plan and the $1,100/mo Full Digital plan.
Links are votes. Google counts them.
When reputable websites link to yours, Google reads it as trust, and trusted sites rank higher. Domain authority is the single biggest lever most NZ businesses never pull, because building links properly is slow, manual work. That's the work we do for you, every month.
Real links from real sites. White-hat only.
Industry directories
Authoritative NZ and international directories relevant to your trade, the foundation layer of local trust.
Guest content
Articles placed on real publications in your industry, linking back to your key pages.
Citations
Consistent business listings across the sources Google checks for local search.
Digital PR placements
Mentions and links earned from newsworthy content about your business.
What 25+ links a month actually means.
A link is another website pointing at yours. Google reads it as a recommendation, and it weighs the reputation of the site doing the pointing.
So the number on its own tells you very little. What matters is where the links sit, whether real people read those pages, and whether the anchor text describes what you sell.
Foundations, then your trade
A typical month is a mix. Foundation listings and citations establish who you are and where you are. Industry directories cover your trade.
Publications your customers read
Guest articles land on publications your customers already read. Digital PR mentions arrive when your business does something worth writing about.
Nothing hides behind a total
Every link is listed in your monthly report with its source, authority score and anchor text.
Slow for a quarter, then it stops being slow.
Link building is the least exciting thing we do and the hardest thing for a competitor to catch up on. Somebody who starts a year after you spends that year behind. This is the shape of it.
Months 1 to 3
Foundations. Citations cleaned up, listings made consistent, the first authority links placed. Rankings often sit still while the groundwork goes in, and your report shows every link as it lands.
Months 3 to 6
Domain authority ticks up and mid-tail keywords start climbing. Most clients see measurable ranking movement inside this window, first on the terms with less competition.
Months 6 to 12
Everything built in the first half keeps working. New pages rank faster because the domain they sit on is already trusted, so each article and service page you add starts further up the results.
Guides on SEO and link building.
Common questions
Our SEO service is $600 a month ex GST on an open term. That covers 25+ quality links a month and SEO-optimised articles published to your site, with every link and ranking reported in your dashboard. SEO is also part of the $850/mo Website + SEO and Blogging plan, where the website build fee is waived. Agencies price SEO very differently, so whoever you talk to, ask exactly what gets delivered each month. Our prices are all on the pricing page.
SEO earns your pages a place in Google's ranked results. AEO, answer engine optimisation, earns your business a mention inside AI answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. They share most of the groundwork: clear pages, structured data, authority links and consistent business details. Our AEO service covers the extra steps.
Links earned through genuine placements on real websites: no link farms, no private blog networks, no paid schemes that Google penalises. Slow and steady beats banned.
Domain authority builds gradually. Most clients see measurable ranking movement within 3 to 4 months, compounding from there. Your dashboard tracks it the whole way.
Relevant directories, industry publications, guest content and citation sources, each listed in your monthly report with its authority score and anchor text.
No. Link building is open term: cancel any time with a month's notice. The links we've built stay yours.
Relevance matters more than geography. A link from an international trade publication in your industry can be worth more than a local one. That said, NZ directories, regional listings and local publications carry real weight for local search, so the mix we build for a Wellington business leans local at the foundation and goes wider as authority grows.
No, and it is well short of what an Auckland-scale programme would push at you. Competition across greater Wellington and the Kāpiti Coast is thinner than Auckland's, so a steady 25+ quality links a month usually goes further here than the same programme would in Auckland. We agree the target keywords up front and report movement monthly.
