HornTech is an SEO company in Auckland that plans technical SEO, local SEO and content around one question: will this bring your business more enquiries from Google? We have been optimising New Zealand websites for more than eight years, in English and in Chinese.
Get Your Free SEO AnalysisEvery SEO engagement covers the same six areas. The mix changes with your market: a cafe in Ponsonby needs Google Maps visibility first, while an ecommerce store shipping nationwide needs category pages and technical health first. We decide the order after the free analysis, based on where the quickest gains sit for your site.
Site speed, crawlability, indexing, structured data and Core Web Vitals. We fix what stops Google from reading and trusting your site, so every page you publish afterwards has a fair chance to rank.
Research built on how New Zealand customers actually search, including suburb and city terms. Each target keyword is mapped to one page, so your own pages stop competing with each other.
Service pages, landing pages and articles written to answer the questions buyers ask before they call. Titles, headings and internal links are set so Google understands what each page is for.
Profile categories, hours, photos, posts, reviews and consistent business details across directories. This is what puts Auckland businesses into the map pack for searches near them.
Relevant links earned from NZ directories, suppliers, industry sites and local media. No paid link schemes and no shortcuts that put your domain at risk.
Monthly reports show rankings and traffic, and also the form enquiries and phone calls your website records. You see what was done that month and what it changed.
Whether you need local SEO in Auckland or SEO NZ wide, most of our clients fall into one of four situations. If yours is different, the free analysis is the place to talk it through.
Trades, clinics, hospitality and professional services that need to show up for searches in their suburb and across the city. Local SEO and Google Business Profile work come first.
National SEO for brands that compete on product and category terms rather than location. Technical health, category pages and content carry most of the weight here.
We build and optimise both platforms, so platform level fixes do not wait on a third party. See our Shopify development in NZ and web design in Auckland services.
English and Chinese SEO are planned together by one team. Our Chinese language SEO service covers the Chinese side of the same plan.
A clear sequence, so you always know what is happening this month and why. Most sites see early movement in four to eight weeks and stronger gains from around three months; competitive national terms take longer.
We check technical health, current rankings, content gaps and the Auckland competitors you are up against, then show you what we found in plain language.
A written plan with target keywords mapped to pages, the fixes in priority order and the measures we will report on.
Technical fixes, on-page changes, content and link building run together, so each piece of work supports the others.
Monthly reporting and a regular check-in. What works gets more effort, what does not gets changed.
Four engagements we have written up in full on our blog. Each card links to the complete story, with the starting point, the work and the numbers.
Over 11 months of working together, Haakaa's site came to rank for 840 organic keywords, with several pages reaching the top of Google results. Search brought an average of around 6.5k visits a month from desktop alone. Read the Haakaa case study.
We built Midea's New Zealand online store and ran its search marketing. Within half a year of launch, organic search was bringing nearly 1,000 users a month and accounted for around 10% of the site's transactions. Read the Midea case study.
After eleven months with no Google visibility, a corrected and active Google Business Profile put the cafe in the map pack at position three for cafe Ponsonby within four weeks. By month six it had 53 reviews, ranked first for cafe Ponsonby and weekend mornings were fully booked by midday. Read the Auckland cafe case study.
The store had no website and no active Google profile. Eighteen months after we built its site and set up local SEO, it ranked for 133 keywords and had 44 referring domains, none of them paid for. Read the Auckland retail store case study.
Book a free SEO analysis with our Auckland team and we will show you where your site stands today and which of these approaches fits your market.
Get Your Free SEO AnalysisThe right SEO agency for an Auckland business is one that explains what it will do, does it, and shows you the result in enquiries. Here is how we work.
Talk to Our TeamMost New Zealand small businesses working with an agency invest between $1,000 and $2,500 a month. Where you land depends on four things. Our SEO cost guide for NZ sets out the market ranges in detail.
Legal, finance and real estate terms in Auckland need more content and links than a niche trade in one suburb.
Local SEO for one city is usually faster and cheaper than ranking across New Zealand.
A new or neglected site needs more foundation work in the first months than a well kept one.
Some industries need regular, detailed content to rank; others can rank with a few strong service pages.
After the free SEO analysis we quote a fixed monthly scope, so you know what is included before you start.
Customers in Auckland now find businesses through organic results, the map pack, paid ads and AI answers. We treat these as one search plan rather than four separate projects.
Rankings and local visibility keep bringing visitors after the work is done, which lowers your cost per enquiry over time.
While SEO builds, our Google Ads management can bring enquiries from the terms you do not rank for yet, and search term data shows SEO which keywords convert.
Clear, well structured pages are easier for AI assistants to cite. Our AI search optimisation service builds on the same SEO foundations.
You see organic, paid and enquiry numbers side by side, so budget moves to whatever is bringing in customers.
Doing some research before you choose an SEO company? These guides answer the questions we hear most often.
The fundamentals, the main types of SEO and realistic timelines in our complete guide to SEO in Auckland.
Price tiers, what each tier includes and how to stretch a budget in our SEO cost guide for New Zealand.
What to look for and what to ask in choosing the right SEO agency in Auckland and our SEO company vetting checklist.
Google Business Profile, reviews and local pages in our local SEO guide for Auckland.
Straight answers to the questions Auckland business owners ask before they hire an SEO company.
Most sites see early movement in 4 to 8 weeks and stronger gains from around 3 months. Local SEO for one city usually moves faster than national campaigns. You get a 90 day plan, monthly reports and regular check-ins.
Technical SEO, keyword strategy, on-page optimisation and content, local SEO and Google Business Profile management, link building, and monthly reporting that includes the enquiries your website records.
No. Google decides rankings, so no ethical SEO agency can promise a specific position. What we commit to is a clear plan, the work done each month and reporting you can check.
Most New Zealand small businesses working with an agency invest between $1,000 and $2,500 a month, depending on competition, site health and goals. We quote a fixed monthly scope after a free SEO analysis.
Yes. We build and optimise both platforms, including Shopify specific technical SEO and WordPress SEO.
Ads stop bringing traffic the day you stop paying, while SEO keeps working. Most businesses do best with both: ads for immediate enquiries and SEO to lower the cost of each enquiry over time.
AI tools such as Google AI Overviews draw on pages that are well structured, accurate and trusted. The same technical, content and local work that supports rankings also makes your pages easier for AI tools to cite.
Yes. Our team runs English and Chinese SEO, so businesses serving Chinese speaking customers in New Zealand can reach both audiences from one plan.
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