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Hire a Local SEO Specialist.

Google Business Profile, citations and reviews, managed.

Also called: Local Search Specialist, Citation Builder, Reputation Management Specialist

From AUD $6 an hourAUD $6-27.50/hr

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  • Works your hours
  • Philippines hub, 2 to 3 hours behind Sydney
  • Month to month
What your Local SEO Specialist gets doneSample day
  • Audits and optimises each profileGoogle Business Profile
  • Runs citation audits in BrightLocal or WhitesparkCitations & NAP
  • Sets up policy-compliant review request automationReviews & Reputation
  • Writes briefs for, or optimise, location and service-area pagesOn-site Local SEODoing
In your tools
  • Google Business Profile
  • Google Search Console
  • Google Analytics 4
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Semrush
  • Apple Business Connect

Pick the level. See the price.

AUD $10.50an hourFull time, 38 hours a week, all-in

Level 2 of 4, also called mid-level.Recommended
Even a local mid-level admin costsAUD $31.11/hr
A tested Intermediate Local SEO SpecialistAUD $10.50/hr
60-75% lessBasis: a Seat's hourly price against the hourly wage of a comparable local hire at the same level. Super and on-costs would add to the local cost.

Owns GBP, citations and reviews for a portfolio of locations end to end.

  • Local SEO audit with prioritised actions
  • Citation clean-up report
  • Review generation setup

1-3 years of hands-on local SEO for multiple businesses.

How the Intermediate level works

Per hour, all-in: recruiting, testing and management. Prices exclude GST.

What you hand to your Local SEO Specialist

Tasks

  • Google Business Profile

    • Audits and optimises each profile
    • Publishes GBP posts and geotag-free photo uploads to an agreed calendar
    • Monitors and rejects unwanted 'suggested edits'
    • Reports spam competitor listings

  • Citations & NAP

    • Runs citation audits in BrightLocal or Whitespark
    • Builds and corrects citations on core platforms
    • Finds and suppresses duplicate or outdated listings

  • Reviews & Reputation

    • Sets up policy-compliant review request automation
    • Drafts and publishes on-brand review responses within the agreed SLA
    • Flags reviews that break policy for removal

  • On-site Local SEO

    • Writes briefs for, or optimise, location and service-area pages
    • Adds and validates LocalBusiness and related schema markup

  • Tracking & Reporting

    • Runs geo-grid rank scans for priority keywords
    • Utm-tags GBP website links

  • Multi-location Operations

    • Manages bulk profile updates, bulk verification and store-locator data

Tested before you meet them

  1. Written English and review responsesAll levels30 min
  2. GBP and citation issue-spottingAll levels45 min
  3. Local SEO audit work sampleIntermediate and up2 hrs
  4. Suspension and policy scenario role-playExpert and Specialist30 min
  5. Portfolio and case study reviewIntermediate and up30 min
  6. Multi-location playbook designSpecialist only60 min

One score on every profileSample shown

93%

Three checks before your shortlist

  • Skills tested: A skills test for the role, marked by a senior
  • English and comms: written English tested, spoken English checked on a call
  • ID, work history and references: photo ID, past roles and two referees

From booked call to day one

  1. Step 1: Book a demo

    Tell us the role, your hours and your tools.

  2. Step 2: Meet your shortlist

    Their level and hourly price, tested before you meet.

  3. Step 3: Pick your person

    Month to month. We handle the contract, the equipment and the onboarding, and make sure it all runs.

  4. Step 4: They start work

    In your tools, within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview.

Questions answered

An Intern Local SEO Specialist is AUD $6 an hour, Intermediate AUD $10.50, Expert AUD $16.50 and Specialist AUD $27.50, full time (38 hours a week). That is all-in: recruiting, testing and management, month to month. Prices exclude GST.

Google business profile, citations & nap, reviews & reputation and on-site local seo, run to your priorities. You choose what they own first.

Six practical tests, marked by a senior, including written English and review responses, GBP and citation issue-spotting and local SEO audit work sample. You see the score before you meet.

Tell us and we replace them free, with a new shortlist of tested people to meet. Seats are month to month with 30 days' notice.

More questions

Within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview. First you meet your shortlist, interview the people you like and pick your person.

Yes. Your Local SEO Specialist works your business hours in your time zone and joins your Teams or Slack like anyone else. The hub matched to Australia & NZ clients is in the Philippines, 2 to 3 hours behind Sydney.

Yes, where it helps. Your Local SEO Specialist works in the AI tools you already use. They use AI for first drafts and routine work, check every output, and follow your AI policy. You can ask for no AI on any task.

An Intermediate Local SEO Specialist owns GBP, citations and reviews for a portfolio of locations end to end. An Expert Local SEO Specialist owns local lead outcomes for an account and builds the 90-day strategy. We usually recommend Intermediate.

It stays under your rules: your admin settings and AI policy apply. Our talent rules ban client data in personal or free AI accounts, and passwords, card numbers, health details and ID numbers never go into any AI tool.

You direct the work day to day. We handle recruiting, equipment and quality checks.

Yes. Every Local SEO Specialist is tested live in the tools on your job description, such as Google Business Profile and Google Search Console, before you meet them.

In week one: access to Search Console, GA4, GTM and the website CMS confirmed; brightLocal/Whitespark workspace created and baseline citation audit run; and baseline geo-grid scans run in Local Falcon for 5-10 priority keywords per location. You agree the first priorities with them on day one.

Yes. It's also called Local Search Specialist, Citation Builder and Reputation Management Specialist. Same tasks, tests and prices, whatever the name.

Their written English, with a scored test, and their spoken English, on a call with us. We also check their ID, work history and references.

Yes. You meet your shortlist on a short call and pick the person you want. Nobody joins without your yes.

In our talent hubs in the Philippines, Vietnam, Kenya, Nigeria, Brazil and Colombia, and we hire from 60+ countries. Wherever they are, they work your hours.

Pay only for the hours they work. All your Seats are on one bill, and Studio plans are billed monthly.

It can, at most once a year. Your person's hourly rate may rise by up to 5% a year, from the first anniversary of the Seat's start, with 60 days' notice and the right to end the Seat before it applies.

Only when you and your person both agree to it in advance. Otherwise they work the hours you set, and you pay for the hours they log.

You aren't charged for hours your person doesn't work, apart from paid leave. After their third month, your person earns 8 hours of paid leave a month. Paid leave hours are charged at their usual rate.

Your person logs their hours each day in the Get Hands client app, where you can see them. Your next invoice is adjusted to those hours.

Yes, with no minimum hours. From 20 to 37 hours a week, the hourly rate is 10% higher than full-time. Under 20 hours, it's 20% higher.

Yes. Tell us the roles on a call and we shortlist tested people for each.

Yes. You give them access in your own systems, and you can change or remove it at any time.

They get their own login in each of your systems, never a shared one. Any password that has to be shared goes through your own password manager, never email, chat, code or prompts.

A tested shortlist within 72 hours of your call, or your first week is free. That's part of The Right Hands Guarantee.

Yes. Call us on +61 3 4421 6491, or choose Talk now on the booking form for a Microsoft Teams link straight away, any time.

Book a 15-minute demo on Microsoft Teams, any time, day or night. We show you the people, levels and prices that fit. No obligation.

Meet the people who fit your work.

A 15‑minute call on Teams. You leave knowing the level you need and its hourly price.

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