New Wave Financial Planning Case Study: #1 Ranking for Financial Planner Gold Coast
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One domain change.
A #1 ranking.

How a website redesign and a move to an exact-match domain took New Wave Financial Planning to #1 on the Gold Coast for "financial planner gold coast".

New Wave Financial Planning team
#1
"Financial Planner Gold Coast"
926
Organic Keywords Ranking
182
Referring Domains

The right advice.
The wrong domain.

New Wave Financial Planning had a solid practice and a clear specialty: retirement, wealth and SMSF advice for Gold Coast clients. What it didn't have was a domain that matched how people actually search. The practice was running on newwaveadvice.com.au, a brand name with no geographic or service signal in it at all.

The brief was narrower than a full SEO engagement: redesign the website, and advise on the Local SEO strategy needed to make the most of it. The domain was the first and biggest lever.

What we changed

www.newwaveadvice.com.au
newwavefinancialplanning.com.au
  • Old domain carried no service or location signal
  • Website needed a redesign to match the new domain and positioning
  • Needed a Local SEO strategy to capitalise on the migration correctly

Redesign the site.
Advise on the strategy.

We redesigned the website to match the new domain and positioning, and advised on the Local SEO strategy needed to make the migration pay off, rather than running the full SEO program ourselves.

Website Redesign
A new website built around the practice's specialities: retirement planning, wealth building, superannuation and SMSF advice.
Exact-Match Domain Migration
Migrated from newwaveadvice.com.au to newwavefinancialplanning.com.au, matching the exact terms Gold Coast clients search for.
Local SEO Strategy & Advisory
Guided the on-page and local SEO approach needed to convert the domain migration into real ranking gains.

#1 for the exact term
clients search.

New Wave Financial Planning now ranks #1 on the Gold Coast for "financial planner gold coast", the exact phrase the new domain was built around. The site carries a real organic footprint to back it up: 926 ranking keywords and 182 referring domains.

#1
"Financial Planner
Gold Coast"
35%
Australian
Traffic Share
Semrush organic performance data for New Wave Financial Planning

Live Semrush data: 1.2K organic traffic, 926 organic keywords, 182 referring domains, 2.5K backlinks.

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