Johannesburg

The SEO company for Johannesburg businesses.

Johannesburg is the country's toughest search market: more businesses, more ad spend, more agencies. Our search engine optimisation wins it with specifics: the right nodes, the right services and links from Gauteng sites.

The short answer

Shown is an SEO company for Johannesburg and Gauteng businesses, B2B and local, with published pricing: a once-off build from R14,950, then from R4,950 a month. We work on Google rankings, Google Maps and AI answers across Gauteng. We plan pages around the business nodes you serve, from Sandton and Rosebank to Midrand and the East Rand, build your Google Business Profile and reviews, and earn links that prove you belong in the market.

What wins search in Johannesburg

One metro in the search results, many markets on the map.

Nodes

Plan by node, not by city

Sandton, Rosebank, Randburg, Fourways, Midrand, the East and West Rand and Soweto behave like separate markets in Maps. We choose the nodes where you can win and build for each.

B2B

Considered buyers, longer searches

Professional and B2B buyers compare before they call. Service pages, comparison pages and answers to the questions procurement asks earn those searches and the AI answers built on them.

Competition

Paid clicks are expensive here

Gauteng advertisers bid up the obvious searches. Ranking organically for them is one of the few ways to stop paying for every visitor.

Tshwane

Pretoria and Centurion too

Pretoria searches behave differently from Joburg ones. If you serve both, each gets its own pages, profile work and local links.

What we do first in Johannesburg.

Gauteng is won node by node. This is the order we work in.

  • Pick the nodes you can win: Sandton, Rosebank, Randburg, Fourways, Midrand, or the East and West Rand.
  • Give each one a real page, and set your Google Business Profile's service areas to match.
  • Build service and comparison pages for the searches B2B buyers make before they call.
  • Earn links and listings from Gauteng sites, associations and directories.
A Johannesburg plan, typically
  • Service pages for your money searchesMonth 1
  • Node pages: Sandton, Midrand, the Rand2 to 4 a month
  • Gauteng links and citationsOngoing
  • AI prompts trackedMonthly

Questions buyers ask us

Do you have an office in Johannesburg?

Our SEO experts work with Johannesburg businesses remotely, the same way we work with businesses across South Africa. Almost all of the work happens on your website, your Google Business Profile, your listings and the sites that link to you, so where our desks are does not limit your results.

How much does SEO cost in Johannesburg?

Our SEO packages have the same structure everywhere we work: a once-off build from R14,950, then a monthly plan from R4,950, which keeps affordable SEO within reach of small businesses. The quote depends on your industry, how competitive your searches are and how much work is needed. All three plans are on our pricing page.

Can one site rank in both Johannesburg and Pretoria?

Yes, with separate, genuinely useful pages for each and a profile or service areas that cover both. One page trying to rank for both usually wins neither.

Get a free audit.

Send us your website and the searches you want to win. You get a short audit back: where you rank today, where you are missing from Maps and AI answers, and the three fixes worth doing first.

Or write to [email protected]