Awards and recognition
Smart Local has been nominated in the Sunshine Coast and Brisbane business awards. We're proud of that, and we'll be straight with you: the numbers on our results pages mean more to us than any trophy cabinet. Recognition is nice. Clients whose phones ring more this year than last year is the point.
How we think about recognition
Award nominations in both regions we serve tell you that people outside our own office rate the work. That kind of independent nod matters when you're choosing an agency.
We keep this page to claims we can back. You won't find a wall of badge logos here, because we'd rather show you measurable client outcomes than decorations.
Every result we publish traces to a real client report: sessions, calls, direction requests, keyword positions. If we can't source a number, we don't print it.
That standard comes from the work itself. We spend our days building trust signals for clients, so our own pages have to pass the same test.
The results we'd rather show you
Smart Local: +128% sessions
We run our own system on our own site. Sessions grew 128% and users grew 114%, which is the proof we show before asking anyone to trust us with theirs.
Bob Gunn Termite Solutions: +2,833% directions
Direction requests from Google grew 2,833% for this termite specialist after trust signalling went to work.
BJH Law, Noosa: 11 keywords at #1
This Noosa law firm holds the top Google position for 11 of its target keywords.
Billabong Pool Service: +338% interactions
Customer interactions for this pool company grew 338% through the same audit-to-expand process every client gets.
Caboolture Physical Therapy Centre: 133.5K AI audience
Our AI visibility work put this physio clinic in front of an AI search audience of 133,500.
Recognised where we actually work
The nominations came from the Sunshine Coast and Brisbane, the two regions where most of our clients run their businesses. Recognition at home counts for more than a badge from a directory nobody checks.
We've been doing this work for 20+ years and have optimised 200+ websites, most of them for local Australian service businesses.
If you want to judge us properly, skip the awards talk and read the case studies. Then call a couple of the businesses and ask them yourself.
Questions we get asked
Which awards have you been nominated for?
We've been nominated in the Sunshine Coast and Brisbane business awards. That's the claim we can verify, so that's the claim we make.
Have you won anything?
We list nominations because those are what we can back right now. If that changes, this page changes. We won't dress the page up beyond what's true.
Why so much focus on client results instead?
Because that's what you're actually buying. An agency can collect plaques and still lose your money. Calls, leads and rankings are the scoreboard that affects your business.
Where can I see the results for myself?
Our case studies and results pages show the reports behind every number on this page, including the work we've done on our own site.
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