Senior consulting capacity opens June 2026 · Reserve a strategy call
Sydney · Melbourne · Brisbane
Senior SEO consulting · Independent since 2008

The senior SEO partner
most agencies wish they had.

Eighteen years of organic growth — one consultant at a time. Greg Gillespie works directly with serious Australian SMBs to turn search into a reliable channel. No lock-ins, no theatre, only the work that earns its keep.

5-star Google reviews
Trusted by founders, marketing managers, and operations leads across professional services, retail, and trades.
Greg Gillespie, Senior SEO Consultant
Avg organic traffic lift,
9-month engagements
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Google algorithm
updates weathered
Selected clients
Polestar Pilates Hughes Limousines Glicks Furniture Pop Up Picnic Chilterns Catering Sphere Electrical
Eighteen years in the trenches

The kind of experience you can't shortcut.

SEO is a discipline that punishes shortcuts and rewards patience. Helium SEO has been quietly compounding both — for our clients and ourselves — since 2008.

2008
Year founded — and operating independently ever since
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Years of marketing & advertising experience behind the work
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Google core updates navigated, never panicked over
$0·lock-in
Cancel any time. We earn the next month every month.
What this looks like

Compounding traffic, audited every step.

A typical Helium engagement looks like this: foundations in months one and two, momentum from month three, and an asset that keeps paying long after our work is done. Every report tells you exactly what we did and exactly what it earned.

+312%
Organic sessions, M0 → M12
14 wks
To break even on retainer
82%
Of clients renew past Y1
Organic sessions · sample 12-month engagement
12.4k ↗ +312%
The Helium 6-Step Success Model

An audit-able process — not a bag of tricks.

We don't pretend SEO is mysterious. Here's how every Helium engagement runs, from first conversation to compounding growth.

Step 01

Friendly chat

Twenty minutes. We listen. You tell us what you're trying to grow and where it's stuck. If we're not the right fit, we'll say so on the call.

Step 02

Discovery

A full technical and content audit, competitor mapping, and a keyword opportunity model. You see the data we'd be making decisions from.

Step 03

Strategy

A 90-day roadmap with priorities, owners, and the trade-offs spelt out. No black boxes. You sign off before anything ships.

Step 04

Traffic

Technical foundations fixed, on-page rebuilt, content commissioned, links earned. We work alongside your dev and content teams, or solo.

Step 05

Conversion

Traffic that doesn't convert is vanity. We tune landing pages, intent matching, and tracking so the leads actually show up in your inbox.

Step 06

Scale & Compound

Once the engine's earning, we extend coverage — new categories, new geographies, new content franchises — without breaking what works.

Selected work

Real businesses. Real numbers. Named.

A small sample of clients we've worked with — most for years. We can introduce you to any of them on request.

Health & Fitness
Polestar Pilates
+375%
Increase in organic traffic

A national pilates brand competing with a flood of new studios. Authority content, methodology pages, and disciplined local strategy turned organic into the dominant channel.

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Premium Transport
Hughes Limousines
+265%
Increase in bookings

A 30-year-old corporate transport brand competing with VC-backed ride-hailing. We owned the corporate, airport, and event-transfer search verticals across three states.

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Furniture & Retail
Glicks Furniture
Website traffic, sustained

Family-run retailer competing with global e-commerce. Their 60-year heritage became a category-page advantage Google rewarded — 6,000+ extra monthly visitors and counting.

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Niche E-commerce
Gee Sheepskin
+425%
Increase in online sales

A specialist Australian brand fighting cheap import knock-offs. Authority content, technical hygiene, and patient link earning rebuilt their margin and their moat.

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Travel & Investment
Blue Powder Travel
+435%
Return on investment

A premium ski-travel operator with brutal seasonal demand. We engineered a content calendar that converted off-season research into peak-season bookings.

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Hospitality & Events
Pop Up Picnic
+180%
Increase in year-round bookings

Seasonal event business made year-round through content strategy and search dominance. Strategic keywords and local authority turned off-season months into consistent revenue.

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Gaming & Entertainment
Jacks Poker
+220%
Organic traffic growth

Niche entertainment venue competing in a crowded market. Authority content around poker, events, and community built unstoppable organic reach.

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Food & Hospitality
Chilterns Catering
+190%
Organic traffic growth

Corporate catering brand invisible on Google. Strategic keyword targeting and content expansion across event types and cuisines brought qualified leads and recurring contracts.

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Cleaning & Facilities
Superior Shine
+310%
Organic lead growth

Commercial cleaning operator fighting race-to-the-bottom pricing. We engineered premium positioning through expertise content and local search dominance.

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In their words

Hear it from the operators.

Two-minute conversations with founders and marketing leads who've worked with us for years.

Kent Joseph
Hughes Limousines
Oren Glick
Glicks Furniture
Dean Mortensen
Scenes By Dean
Chris Dair
Chilterns Catering
Why Helium

You'll work with the person who built this company. Not an account manager. Not a junior reading from a deck. The work is done where the relationship is.

Greg Gillespie
Founder & Senior Consultant

One senior set of hands

You hire a person, not an org chart. Decisions, work, and accountability sit in the same place.

Paid by performance, not procurement

No 12-month lock-ins. We retain clients because the work is good — month after month.

Audit-able by design

Every report shows what was done, why, and what it produced. No black boxes, no fluff metrics.

Built to compound

SEO done properly is the most patient money you'll spend on marketing. We optimise for the asset, not the campaign.

Common questions

What sophisticated buyers actually ask.

Most clients see meaningful movement in months three to four — earlier for technical fixes, later for competitive head-terms. Anyone promising you page one in 30 days is selling shortcuts that don't survive the next algorithm update.
Greg leads every engagement personally. We use a small senior team for content production and link work, but strategy and decisions sit with him. You'll always know who is doing what.
A monthly strategy session, a written report you can hand to a CFO, asynchronous updates as work ships, and Greg's mobile number. We work alongside your team in their tools — Slack, Asana, Notion, email — whatever already exists.
No. We say no often — usually because the unit economics don't support what proper SEO costs, or because the buyer is shopping on price rather than outcomes. The first call is free and ends with a clear yes or no.
Month-to-month. Cancel any time. We've never asked a client to sign a 12-month contract — and we have clients in their eighth year with us.
Let's talk

Book a 20-minute strategy call with Greg.

No pitch. No deck. Just a conversation about what's actually happening in your search channel — and an honest answer about whether we're the right people to help.

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