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Earned Media

Earned Media

An AI SEO Agency Built for Where Search is Going.
4.7

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Singapore, Singapore

Los Angeles, California, United States

10-49

2019

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Earned Media is an AI SEO agency built for the search landscape that exists today, and where it's going.

We work with category leaders and ambitious SMEs across Australia and globally, fusing traditional Google dominance with AI-first visibility. Your brand ranks in blue links and shows up inside the answers ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Copilot generate for your buyers' most important questions.

What we do We run six core disciplines under one roof: Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO), SEO, Digital PR & Citation Engineering, Content Marketing, Link Building, and Technical SEO. Every engagement is powered by EMintel, our proprietary AI intelligence platform that synthesises Ahrefs, Semrush, Google Search Console, and live LLM probe data into a single decision-making layer.

EMintel & Negative Space EMintel continuously crawls ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews to track where your brand is mentioned, cited, or missing entirely. When it detects a gap, a query your competitors are winning in AI-generated answers, it flags it as Negative Space and generates a citation-optimised content brief to close it. Built in-house, trained on three years of Earned Media client engagements.

Who we work with Our roster spans enterprise SaaS, finance, infrastructure, education, and retail, including Salesforce, Rippling, Macquarie Data Centres, Charles Sturt University, Camplify, and Fresha. The people you meet in the pitch are the people doing the work: 20+ senior specialists across SEO, GEO, content, links, and tech.

Testimonial

Fayaaz Hajiani, Director of Global Web Production (APAC & Japan)

"Earned Media operates with a forward-looking perspective. They conducted detailed research to stay ahead of the rapidly evolving search and LLM landscape, successfully advising us on how to optimise for AI Overviews and LLMs. Exceptional expertise in SEO, high-quality content that consistently adheres to our brand guidelines. Impressive ability to secure high-value links from authoritative websites, bolstering our domain equity. Incredibly reliable, they integrated seamlessly with my team and consistently delivered on time, to an extremely high standard."

Budget per project
Starting from $2,500
Project duration
  • Starting from 1-3 months
Geographic focus
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Singapore
  • Australia
Languages
  • English
Success stories

Challenge

Goal 1: Increase top 3 position rankings for commercial intent keywords that drive traffic to the /services/ section of the website. Goal 2: Achieve revenue target of $300,000 in new development projects won from organic leads outside of Newcastle in the 12-month period

Solution

We focused on obtaining rankings quickly via content marketing by targeting commercial, evergreen queries with highly optimised content and an aggressive off-site SEO strategy to increase topical authority of the site for ‘web’ related queries.

Result

Goal 1 Result: 260% increase in keywords ranking in position 1 - 3 the total number of keywords in position 1 - 3 increased from 3.1% to 8%. Goal 2 Result: This goal was exceeded by 56%. Sales hit just over $469k in web project revenue won since Aug 2022 from organic search outside of Newcastle.

Challenge

Now in year 4 of our journey, we have gathered many learnings and recognised the impact SEO has had on our early success. Organic is our biggest traffic driver and highest converting channel. In addition to our always-on SEO work with Earned Media, we wanted to engage Nick and his team on a project to identify areas for improvement that would hopefully result in a notable organic growth spike. Within this time, we also agreed to 'double down' on offsite link-building to improve our DR by EOY.

Solution

This 6-month project was broken into key milestones, delivered by Earned Media. This included in-depth keyword research, a full site architecture review, delivery of insights and actionable recommendations, and reviews after actions were taken to assess their impact. Additionally ongoing high quality link building was built to pages across the site to increase DR.

Result

Since implementing these SEO improvements, we have clearly seen a spike in organic traffic as well as DR improvements (we exceeded our goal of achieving a DR of 33-35 by EOY, hitting 40 in December). We are also now seeing Gathar index for 105,000 additional searches per month (over 500 new queries) since these SEO recommendations were actioned.

Challenge

Our organic growth was stagnant over previous years. We needed an agency that could implement fast, work alongside our team & see incremental improvements in a twelve month period.

Solution

Implemented EEAT audits and updates to existing content to drive non-branded search growth. Identify new content opportunities and brief content to exceed competitors through in depth SERP audits. Drive authoritative growth through high quality link building.

Result

288% increase in organic traffic in twelve months. 84% growth in overall share of voice across relevant commercial organic terms. Website authority increased by 20% through offsite link building putting the client in the top 0.4% of websites in the world for authority.

Our clients
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia agency Earned Media helped redback solutions grow their business with SEO and digital marketing
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia agency Earned Media helped Camplify grow their business with SEO and digital marketing
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia agency Earned Media helped Easyshed grow their business with SEO and digital marketing
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia agency Earned Media helped Spacer Technologies grow their business with SEO and digital marketing
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia agency Earned Media helped Salesforce grow their business with SEO and digital marketing
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia agency Earned Media helped Charles Sturt University grow their business with SEO and digital marketing
Our awards
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia agency Earned Media wins Top Link Building from Clutch award
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia agency Earned Media wins Top SEO Company Australia award
Reviews

5

The average rating is based on reviews from both Google Maps and Semrush.
Fayaaz Hajiani
on
Nov 16, 2025

Earned Media possesses exceptional expertise in SEO, which is clearly demonstrated in the high-quality content they produce. This material consistently adheres to our brand guidelines, ensuring the tone of voice is always appropriate and on-message. I've been impressed by their ability to secure high-value links from authoritative websites, bolstering our domain equity. Crucially, Earned operates with a forward-looking perspective. They conducted detailed research to stay ahead of the rapidly evolving search and LLM landscape, successfully advising us on how to optimise for AI Overviews (AIOs)/LLMs.The team created and executed thoughtful experiments that allowed us to adapt our strategy quickly to capitalise on these technological shifts. Operationally, they are an incredibly reliable partner. They were highly effective at adapting their working style to integrate seamlessly with my internal team processes, consistently delivering all projects on time and to an extremely high standard. Finally, they are simply a pleasure to work with; professional, highly collaborative, and dependable. I highly recommend their services.

Eric Hahn
on
Nov 19, 2025

Earned Media brings value to our SEO efforts even though we already have extensive experience. They understand the technical aspects of on-page SEO, management of backlinks and even the production of some content. Daniel Law is our primary point of contact, and he is both professional and responsive to our needs.

Daniel Hall
on
Jun 11, 2025

Amazing service! We were struggling with content indexing and low CTRs in Google Search. This wasn’t our first attempt at solving the problem, we’d already worked with two other agencies, but their responses were generic and unhelpful. Earned Media was different. We got an SEO audit from them that was incredibly thorough. They provided a full site audit, complete with a Loom video that walked us through the details and explained the reasoning behind each recommendation. Their action plan was clear and easy to follow. The pricing was very reasonable, especially since we only needed a few things fixed. They were fast and accommodating throughout. We implemented the fixes ourselves over a three-month period using their audit document, and we’re already seeing great improvements. Our six-month-old blog posts that wouldn’t index are now finally showing up in search results. Thank you so much to Nick and the team at Earned Media! You really helped us get unstuck!

Ritu Gupta
on
Nov 6, 2025

Have been very happy with Earned Media and their approach to my SEO. Huge help in building up my website's domain authority and presence. Thanks so much!

Richard
on
Sep 5, 2025

Very happy with the link building work that Luke and Nick do. I've worked with Earned media for several years and these guys are the real deal. They're able to get links for websites in a huge range of niches and all white hat.

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