Proposal · June 2026 Google Ads · SEO · AI Overviews

Win the call
before the tree
even comes down.

An SEO plus AI Overviews, Google Ads and Google Business Profile programme for True Roots. When someone across St George, the Sutherland Shire or greater Sydney searches for tree removal, an emergency make-safe or an arborist report, this puts True Roots in front of them at the exact moment they are ready to book, and turns that attention into phone calls and quote requests you can count. You have built a serious operation with the reviews to prove it. Now let's make sure Sydney finds it first.

◆ The opportunity
Own the searches that book jobs
AQF5 arborists, $20M cover, ISO 9001 and 64 five-star reviews already build the trust. What they do not do is catch the Cronulla or Oatley homeowner who types "tree removal near me" right now. That is where we come in.
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Prepared for
True Roots
Jimmy · Owner · trueroots.com.au
Prepared by
Mitchell Galvin
Senior Account Manager, Fresh Digital · Performance digital partner
01 · Executive Summary

The opportunity

Tree work is bought in two ways. Some of it is planned, a homeowner in Oatley or Menai finally deciding the big gum out the back has to come down, a strata manager booking a vegetation report. A lot of it is urgent, a branch through the fence after a storm, a tree on the powerlines, a make-safe that needs sorting today. In almost every one of those moments, the customer reaches for their phone and searches. True Roots has AQF Level 5 arborists, $20M in public liability, ISO 9001 certification, ten years on Sydney sites and a 5.0 rating from 64 reviews. The opportunity is to make sure True Roots is the name that shows up first when those searches happen.

◆ You have built the credibility. Now go and own the search.

What you are working with
  • The credentials and reviews are genuine assets. AQF5, $20M cover, ISO 9001, Arboriculture Australia membership and 64 five-star reviews. That is the trust most operators never build, and it is already done.
  • The website and brand are sharp. The hard part is sorted. What it is missing is traffic: people searching for tree work right now are not all finding it yet.
  • One crew covers tree work and landscaping end to end, from a dangerous removal to the garden rebuild after. That is a strong, ownable position in search that competitors who only cut trees cannot match.
  • That gap is where Fresh Digital comes in: SEO plus AI Overviews, Google Ads and Google Business Profile, the channels built to capture intent and turn it into booked jobs, working off the reputation you already have. Your social is a strength too, and we set out exactly how to run it in Section 02.

So this proposal is deliberately focused on the channels that win high-intent search: Google Ads targeted on the St George and Sutherland Shire heartland and out across Sydney, SEO plus AI Overviews building lasting visibility you do not pay per click for, and Google Business Profile work to own the map pack and the "near me" searches that convert fastest. Social sits alongside as something you run yourself, and we hand you the strategy to do it.

02 · Scope of Work

Three channels, one job pipeline

This is a single programme covering the search channels that work together. Google Ads buys you the top of the page from day one for the highest-intent searches. SEO plus AI Overviews builds the free, lasting visibility underneath it. Google Business Profile wins the map pack and the "near me" searches. All run by the same in-house Fresh Digital team and rolled into one plain-English monthly report. Social is set out separately below as something you run yourself, with our strategy.

1
Google Ads Management
St George, Sutherland Shire & Sydney · leads from day one

Paid search puts True Roots at the very top of Google the moment someone searches for tree work. We focus the budget on your St George and Sutherland Shire heartland, then out across the Sydney suburbs where the volume and the higher-value jobs are, so every dollar of ad spend chases real, nearby, ready-to-book demand rather than spraying across all of NSW.

Local-first geo-targeting. Tight targeting on Mortdale, Oatley, Cronulla, Miranda, Sutherland, Menai and the surrounding St George and Shire suburbs, scaling wider as it performs.
High-intent keywords. Tree removal, emergency tree work, pruning, stump grinding, palm removal and arborist report searches, the terms that mean someone needs an arborist now.
Emergency & call-first build. Call extensions and click-to-call so the easiest action is to ring you, ideal for your 24/7 make-safe and storm-damage work.
Conversion tracking. Every call and quote request from the ads is tracked, so we know which keywords pay and which to cut.
Negative keywords & budget control. Filtering out job-seekers, DIY and tyre-kickers so spend goes to genuine buyers.
Ongoing optimisation. Bids, ad copy and landing focus refined every month against the cost per booked job.
2
SEO & Organic Search
Sydney-wide + suburb-level · rank and stay there

Ads stop the moment you stop paying. SEO compounds. We take a two-layer approach: target the broad, Sydney-wide terms ("tree removal Sydney", "arborist Sydney") to build authority across the city, while suburb-level SEO works underneath to win the local and "near me" searches that convert fastest. Your service and suburb pages, and the tree-removal-cost and council pages you already have, give us a strong base to build on. Over time this lowers your reliance on paid clicks.

Technical audit & fixes. Speed, mobile, indexing and structure on the existing site checked and cleaned up so it can rank.
Sydney-wide targeting. The broad, high-volume tree-service and arborist terms across Sydney, building city-wide authority.
Suburb-level SEO. Your Mortdale, Oatley, Cronulla, Sutherland and Menai pages tuned to win the local searches that book jobs.
Tree work + landscaping crossover. Capturing the dual-service searches your one-crew model wins that pure tree operators cannot.
Content & blog support. Building on the blog you already publish, aligned to the questions and terms that win work.
Rank tracking. The same priority terms reported every month, plus the new ones we win.
3
Google Business Profile
Map pack & "near me" · where the fast jobs live

When someone searches "arborist near me" or "tree removal Cronulla", Google shows the map pack first, the three local businesses with a pin, a rating and a call button. Your Mortdale-based profile and that 5.0 from 64 reviews are exactly what wins that spot. We manage and optimise it so True Roots shows up, looks credible and is the easiest one to call.

Profile optimisation. Categories, services, service areas, hours and description tuned so Google understands exactly what you do and where.
Map pack visibility. Local SEO signals worked so True Roots appears for "near me" and suburb searches across St George and the Shire.
Reviews & reputation. Turning your strong review flow into ranking power, and keeping responses on track.
Posts, photos & updates. Real job photos and updates kept fresh so the profile looks active and well cared for.
4
AI Overviews & Answer Engines
Included with SEO · be the answer

Google now answers questions at the top of the page with AI Overviews, and more people ask tools like ChatGPT "who is the best arborist near me?" or "do I need council approval to remove a tree in the Sutherland Shire?" We structure your content so True Roots is named in those answers, not buried below them. Your tree-removal-cost and council pages are perfect raw material for this. It runs on the same foundations as the SEO work, so you build for both at once. Section 03 explains why this matters now.

Customer-question FAQs. Structured answers to the real questions people ask before booking: cost, council tree permits, insurance, access and timing.
Schema & structured data. Marked up so Google and AI tools can read and quote your content cleanly.
Quotable, authoritative copy. Each service explained the way an answer engine likes to surface it.
Entity & consistency work. Services, service areas and key details kept clear, accurate and current everywhere.

◆ Our advice on social: own it yourself.

A strength to lean into, not hand off

You already have the accounts and, more importantly, the best raw content in the business: AQF5 climbers in the canopy, the chipper running, powerline take-downs, big before-and-afters, the one-crew tree-to-garden transformations. No agency can manufacture that. Run it yourself and it will out-perform anything paid or staged. Here is the strategy we would hand you.

  • Film every big job. A 20 to 30 second vertical clip of the rigging, the chipper or the reveal. One a day from the crew's phones is plenty.
  • Lead with short video. Reels and Shorts are what the algorithm pushes and what wins tree content. You already have Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube, so post the same clip across all four.
  • Before-and-afters as the hook. The transformation is the content. Carousel the wide shot, the work, the clean handover.
  • Cadence beats polish. Three to five rough, real posts a week will always beat one over-produced one. Consistency is the whole game.
  • Caption with the suburb and service. "Storm-damaged gum, Cronulla" doubles as a local signal and tells the algorithm exactly who to show it to.
  • Reply fast, every time. Comments and DMs are warm leads. A quick reply and a pinned link to your reviews turns followers into quote requests.

We will give you a simple one-page content calendar to get going, at no charge. It costs nothing but ten minutes a day, it stays authentic, and it compounds. If you ever decide you would rather hand it over, we can talk about a managed option then, but our honest advice is to keep this one in-house.

The core programme is search. Google Ads, SEO plus AI Overviews and Google Business Profile are what bring the calls and booked jobs, and that is where the spend goes. There is no website rebuild and no paid social management in this scope. Everything is rolled into a single, plain-English monthly report, no jargon, no smoke and mirrors.

03 · AI Overviews & Answer Engines

Be the answer, not just a link

Google now answers questions directly at the top of the page with AI Overviews, and more people ask tools like ChatGPT "who is a good arborist near me?" or "do I need council approval to remove a tree in the Sutherland Shire?" Getting True Roots named as that answer is called Answer Engine Optimisation, and it runs on the same foundations as the SEO and Google Business Profile work, so you build for all of them at once.

Build a structured FAQ section around the questions tree-service customers actually ask
Answer the real questions on cost, council tree permits, insurance, access and timing
Mark up content so Google and AI tools can read and quote it cleanly
Keep services, service areas and key facts clear, accurate and current
◆ Why this matters now

The page is changing under your feet

More searches now end without a click, because Google or an AI tool answered the question on the spot. The businesses that get mentioned in those answers are the ones with clear, well-structured content. Tree-removal rules across the Georges River and Sutherland Shire councils generate a constant stream of "do I need approval?" and "what does it cost?" searches, and you already have pages on exactly those topics. Getting ahead of this now means True Roots is the name that comes up, whether the customer is on Google or asking an assistant. This work is included alongside the SEO programme.

Customer-question FAQs
The questions people actually ask, answered the way they ask them.
Clean, quotable content
Structured so search engines and AI tools can lift you straight into an answer.
Quality-score bonus
Strong FAQ content also lifts your Google Ads quality score, which can lower your cost per click.
04 · The Numbers

What the spend could turn into

No black box and no inflated promises. This calculator models the simple economics of paid search for a Sydney arborist: ad spend buys clicks, clicks become quote requests and calls, and a share of those become booked jobs. Drag the sliders to your own numbers and see how the maths plays out. The assumptions start conservative on purpose.

◆ Interactive estimate · adjust the sliders

Google Ads return model

Built around your Google Ads channel. The $1,290 monthly management fee covers Google Ads, SEO plus AI Overviews and Google Business Profile, and it is included in the return below. Your SEO and GBP results build on top of this over time at no extra click cost, so think of these figures as the paid-search floor, not the ceiling.

Monthly Google Ads spend $2,500
Paid directly to Google, never marked up by Fresh Digital.
Average cost per click $6.00
Typical range for Sydney tree-service searches.
Clicks that become an enquiry 10%
Calls and quote requests as a share of ad clicks.
Enquiries you win as jobs 35%
Your quote-to-booked-job rate.
Average job value $900
Blended across removals, pruning, stump grinding and landscaping.
Estimated clicks / month333
Enquiries (calls & quotes)33
Booked jobs / month12
Revenue from those jobs$8,750
Total monthly cost$3,100
Cost per booked job$266
Estimated return on every $1Ad spend + $1,290 management combined
$2.82

These figures are an illustration only, based on adjustable assumptions, and are not a guarantee of results. Total monthly cost combines your chosen ad spend plus the $1,290 + GST management fee. Actual clicks, enquiries, close rate and job values will vary with season, competition, your follow-up speed and the work you take on. SEO, AI Overviews and Google Business Profile results are not included in this model and accrue separately over time. Ad spend is billed directly to Google and is never marked up.

05 · How It Works

Our process. Simple, transparent, effective

No black box. From the first call to ongoing growth, you always know what we're doing, why, and what it's returning in calls and booked jobs.

01
Discovery
A deep dive into your most profitable jobs, your St George and Shire service areas and the competition, so the strategy is built on what's true for True Roots, not a template.
02
Setup
We build the Google Ads campaigns around St George and the Sutherland Shire, set conversion tracking, optimise your Google Business Profile, and run the SEO technical audit.
03
Launch
Ads go live and start bringing calls and quote requests straight away, while the SEO, GBP and AI Overviews work begins building in the background.
04
Optimise
Continuous tuning against your cost per booked job, bids, ad copy, negatives and rankings refined using real data so results compound month on month.
05
Report
Clear monthly reports in plain English, the calls, quote requests, rankings and spend that matter, with no jargon.
06
Scale
Once the numbers are working, we widen the keywords, suburbs and budget so you can grow the work to match your crews.
06 · Why Fresh Digital

Straight talking. Data driven. Results first.

We're a team of digital experts on the Gold Coast, genuinely passionate about helping businesses grow online. With 40+ years of combined director-level experience and 14 years established across the APAC digital arena, we've helped thousands of businesses solve their online marketing challenges.

14yr
Established & trading since 2011
2,000+
Clients served across AU & APAC
4.7★
From 67 verified Google reviews
40yr+
Combined director-level experience
Tailor-made strategies, never one-size-fits-all packages.
Simple, meaningful reports with metrics you'll actually understand.
Affordable pricing for real work, done by real people.
Gold Coast based, available and always responsive.
Peter Groves
Managing Director
Founder and driving force. 20+ years in digital strategy across Australia and APAC.
Rob Hickey
Director
SEO and Google Ads specialist building strategies that deliver measurable results.
Bell Thawornkul
Technical Director
Leads web development and infrastructure. Expert in performance and custom builds.
Nanthaporn Groves
Ads Marketing Manager
Manages paid advertising across Google and Meta with a data-driven approach to ROI.
07 · Investment

One simple fee, in plain numbers

One flat monthly management fee covers all the channels: SEO plus AI Overviews, Google Ads management and Google Business Profile, run by the same in-house team and reported together. Your Google ad spend sits on top and is billed directly to Google, never marked up by us. No setup fee, no lock-in contract, and no surprises.

Management · SEO & AI Overviews + Google Ads + GBP Single fee
Monthly managementInclusion
Google Ads build, management & optimisationIncluded
St George, Shire & Sydney targeting & trackingIncluded
SEO: Sydney-wide + suburb-levelIncluded
AI Overviews & schema workIncluded
Google Business Profile managementIncluded
Call & quote trackingIncluded
Monthly report + strategy callIncluded
Monthly management fee$1,290 + GST
Google ad spend · paid direct to Google
Your media budgetDetail
Billed directly to Google by youDirect
Never marked up by Fresh Digital0% markup
You set and control the budgetYour call
Adjustable any month, up or downFlexible
Suggested starting range$2,000–$3,500
Typical monthly spendFrom $2,000
What this buysDetail
Top-of-page visibility on high-intent searchesDay one
Scales as you take on more crews and workOn demand

The bottom line. A single $1,290 + GST per month management fee covers SEO plus AI Overviews, Google Ads and Google Business Profile, run and reported as one programme. On top of that sits your Google ad spend, paid straight to Google and never marked up, which you can set and adjust to match how many jobs you want and how big your crews are. Social stays in-house and yours to run, with our strategy behind it. Month to month, cancel any time with 30 days notice.

All fees are quoted in Australian Dollars and are exclusive of GST. The management fee is $1,290 + GST per month, covering SEO plus AI Overviews, Google Ads management and Google Business Profile, invoiced on the same date each month. Google advertising spend is additional, billed directly to Google by the client and never marked up by Fresh Digital. There is no setup fee and no lock-in: the engagement is month to month with 30 days notice to cancel. Performance figures, including those in the ROI calculator, are objectives and illustrations based on current data and are not guarantees. This proposal is valid for 30 days from issue.

08 · Next Steps

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02
Discovery & setup
We map your best jobs and service areas, build the Google Ads campaigns around St George and the Sutherland Shire, optimise your Google Business Profile, and start the SEO foundations.
03
Go live
Ads switch on and start bringing calls and quote requests, while the SEO and AI Overviews work builds in the background.
04
Reporting starts
Your first plain-English report lands at the end of Month 1, showing the calls, quote requests and spend in clear numbers.

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