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Write a page called "bathroom tiling" and you're up against Beaumont Tiles, National Tiles, Bunnings and a YouTube tutorial. In one snapshot of that search, no tiling contractor made the top 10. The searches that bring work name a fix or a tradesperson: "shower regrouting" has a difficulty of 8, and "cracked tile repair" just 6.

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Most tiling websites are a photo gallery and a contact form. That works for a homeowner who already has your name and does little for one who doesn't. People type the problem: a leaking shower, mouldy grout, a cracked floor tile, a pool that needs retiling. We don't have tiling SEO results yet, so what follows is the plan we would put to you, built from the figures on this page.
The local picture is encouraging. For "tilers near me", seven of the ten results in one national snapshot were tiling businesses, with Yelp the only directory. For "tiler sydney", hipages, Airtasker and a Facebook group shared the page with seven local tilers. Your suburb will look different.
Where a tiling business should start
Australian figures, in the order we would go after them.
Local first
tilers near me: 2,400 a month, difficulty 24
tiler sydney: 1,000, difficulty 28
tilers adelaide: 590, difficulty 20
tilers perth: 480, difficulty 28
tilers melbourne: 390, difficulty 23
tiler canberra: 260, difficulty 23
tiler gold coast: 170, difficulty 12
Repairs with low difficulty
shower regrouting: 880, difficulty 8
regrouting: 880, difficulty 12
tile repair: 1,000, difficulty 12
cracked tile repair: 720, difficulty 6
bathroom regrouting: 480, difficulty 17
leaking shower: 1,300, difficulty 17
Specialties, if you do them
pool tiling: 590, difficulty 8
bathroom tiler: 720, difficulty 21
floor tiler near me: 260, difficulty 17
splashback tiling: 480, difficulty 18
tiling over existing tiles: 210, difficulty 9
commercial tiling: 140, difficulty 6
Price questions
tiling cost per m2: 260, difficulty 8
how much do tilers charge: 260, difficulty 14
bathroom tiling cost: 210, difficulty 6
tiler cost per m2: 110, difficulty 5
Small numbers, but these people are close to asking for a quote.
What tiling SEO can involve
Each piece is aimed at how tiling customers search. What's covered depends on your tier.
Google Business Profile and map pack
Categories that match the work, photos of real jobs tagged by suburb, and a review request that goes out once the grout has cured.
Repair pages that explain the fix
Regrouting, cracked tiles and leaking showers, each covering what you check first, when a regrout is enough and when the waterproofing underneath has failed.
A price page with real ranges
What moves the rate per square metre: tile size, pattern, floor prep, removal and waterproofing. You set the ranges. A Facebook group leads that search today, which a clear page from a working tiler can compete with.
A page for builders and renovators
Licence class, insurance, crew size, the areas you cover and how you document waterproofing. It may never rank, but it's the link you send to a new builder.
Job write-ups by suburb
One finished job for each area you want more of: what was laid, how the floor was prepped and what you had to solve. That detail is hard for a template site to copy.
Listings beyond Google
One retailer's "find a tiler" page held position 2 for "tilers near me". If your local tile shops keep a list like that, ask to be on it.
Licensing on your website
Your website counts as advertising. NSW Fair Trading says every ad must carry the licensee's name and licence number, with the right category of work. Queensland's QBCC counts websites, social media pages and online directories, and asks for your licensed name, a statement that you're licensed under the QBCC Act and your licence number. In South Australia, CBS says building work contractors must publish their name and licence number in ads. We put those details in the footer and on the contact page, and we leave off any service, waterproofing included, that your licence class doesn't cover.
What we have measured elsewhere
There are no tiling SEO results on our site yet. The nearest is Marley Flow, a cooling tower specialist in Emu Plains: within six months, Search Console impressions rose from 46.8k to 82.9k, phone clicks rose 160% and contact form submissions rose 550%. It's a service business selling a specialist fix, much like a tiler who repairs leaking showers, but the market differs, so it isn't a forecast. Plasterers face a similar split between DIY guides and people who want a tradesperson.
Keyword and ranking figures: Semrush Australian database, checked 9 November 2026. Volumes, difficulty scores and click prices are Semrush estimates, and click prices are shown in US dollars. Rankings are a national snapshot, so local results will differ. Advertising rules: NSW building trade advertisements, QBCC advertising and CBS South Australia, 17 December 2015. Waterproofing scope: QBCC wall and floor tiling and NSW categories of work.
Tiling SEO, answered
Can a tiler outrank Bunnings for "tiling"?
Probably not soon, and it wouldn't bring much work if you did. Bunnings holds three of the top 10 with how-to guides, which suit DIYers. "Tilers near me" and your suburb searches are where the paying customers are.
Should we publish our price per square metre?
We would publish ranges and explain what moves them, rather than one number. People searching price are early in the decision, and the tiler who answers plainly is the one they call. You decide the figures.
What does tiling SEO cost?
SEO starts from $1,200 a month plus GST, covering Google Business Profile optimisation, up to 10 keywords, on-page work on up to 5 pages and local citations. Growth, from $2,000, adds technical SEO, a blog post a month, link building and schema. The tiers are on our pricing page.
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