Kia Ora Digital runs a detailed SEO audit showing exactly how much room your site has to grow, and what is currently preventing it.
See where you rank and get your custom roadmap. No obligation.
Real brands we have grown with SEO and AI Search, across ecommerce, lead generation and local.
Unsure how the site is really doing, or watched traffic slide with no explanation? An audit settles both. We go through technical health, content, links and AI search visibility, then return a ranked list with the likely value of each fix and an honest note on how confident we are.
A straight assessment of the site's SEO health: what is working, what is not, and which is worth fixing first.
We go through the technical foundations: crawl errors, page speed, mobile usability, indexation, and rendering faults that make content invisible to search engines.
Once we know how the site is actually put together, we rebuild the strategy from the foundations rather than patching over structural problems.
Free Growth Plan
Your free audit is step one of a full Growth Plan that shows exactly what is holding your site back on Google and ChatGPT, and the fixes that will turn that visibility into leads and enquiries.
Tell us where to send it. No lock-in contracts, no obligation.
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Book a Free Strategy CallIf you want more from the site's performance and return, an audit is where it starts. In a market this size the wins are often unusually cheap, because most competitors have never had a proper technical review.
We connect audit findings to commercial goals, which most audits skip. In a small market that matters more, because there is less room to waste effort on the wrong fix.
Regular reviews track progress and tighten strategy as competitors move. In New Zealand competitors move slowly, which means a lead once established tends to hold.
Google changes constantly and problems accrue quietly. An audit pins down what shifted, when, and what it has cost since.
Google rewards content built for a specific audience. Templated pages compete with each other and generally all lose, which is common on New Zealand sites built once and left alone.
Stuffing keywords stopped working long ago. Google now judges whether a page actually resolves the query, which is a higher and steadier bar.
When a page is slow to load, visitors lose patience and bounce off to another website. That’s a poor user experience. Google notices this when it measures your Core Web Vitals and uses the data to rank your site accordingly. We offer speed optimisation services so you can keep that from happening.
Does it work properly on a phone? That is where most searching happens here, Google indexes the mobile version, and a desktop-first build is judged at its weakest.
Have your images been optimised for the web? If they aren’t search-friendly or they load slowly, that can take a real toll on your Core Web Vitals and the overall user experience on your site. This applies to features like sliders and banners too.
Are your URLs short and legible, or long parameter strings? It affects crawling and whether anyone clicks the result.
How navigable is the site? Dead links, orphan pages and tangled hierarchies all cut how much of it Google indexes.
This means using unethical tactics to build SEO and optimise your website. With link building, it might look like cramming too many internal links across your pages, or paying for links on other websites to manufacture backlinks.
Our team knows how to make pages rank, and will tell you plainly when a page is not worth spending on.
Request your audit today and get an assessment written to be acted on rather than filed away.
Our Process
The audit is not a report that sits in a drawer. It is step one of a plan built to grow your rankings, traffic and enquiries.
We crawl your site and benchmark your visibility on Google and ChatGPT to surface every issue costing you traffic.
We rank every finding by revenue impact so you know exactly which fixes to tackle first.
We resolve technical issues, strengthen key pages and rebuild authority signals in priority order.
We track rankings, traffic and enquiries, then re-audit regularly so your gains keep compounding.
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“Partnering with the team at Kia Ora has been an absolute game-changer for our organic growth. In just last month’s data alone, our non-branded search revenue is up over 41%. They execute a highly tailored strategy that delivers measurable revenue growth.”
“So happy with our results. Our organic web visitors more than doubled in 5 months, with sales coming through pages we run no paid advertising on. Always great to chat to Dan and Ben for extra inspiration.”
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“Kia Ora Digital have been our SEO partner and the results have genuinely exceeded our expectations. From the start they took the time to understand our business and our products, then built a clear, considered strategy to match.”
“From the outset, they took the time to understand our brand, our audience, and our growth goals. Their approach is data-led, transparent, and performance-driven.”
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“Partnering with Kia Ora Digital has been one of the best decisions we’ve made for our business.”
“Only 3 months in and they have already exceeded our expectations. Dan knows his stuff. We only wish we had chosen Kia Ora earlier instead of some of the other cowboys in the industry.”
Wondering how much an SEO audit can lift your traffic? The answer is in your data. At Kia Ora, we analyse the SEO KPIs that count to surface opportunities, diagnose problems, and lay out a clear path to better performance.
A strong SEO audit gives you the full picture, from technical fixes and on-page optimisations to keyword gaps and backlink strategy. These insights build your website’s authority over time, position you as a trusted leader in your space, and open the door to stronger visibility and sales growth. On top of that, detailed KPI reporting keeps communication clear with your stakeholders at every step.
Audits are groundwork rather than checklists. Every finding carries an estimate of what fixing it is worth, and with smaller volumes we are explicit about the confidence behind each one.
At Kia Ora, we specialise in tailored SEO audits for eCommerce businesses. Our aim is to help your store climb higher by uncovering technical issues, content gaps, and missed opportunities that may be holding you back.
With years of experience in the eCommerce space, we understand the specific challenges online retailers face, and how to solve them. You can count on our team for expert insight and clear, actionable recommendations.
Get in touch today for a quote on our complete eCommerce SEO audit services, and take the first step toward stronger visibility, traffic, and revenue.
Still have questions, or unsure whether an audit is the right place to start?
Technical foundations, on-page content, site architecture, Core Web Vitals, your backlink profile and your visibility in AI answers. We also benchmark against whoever is currently outranking you locally.
Both. On-page covers content, structure and technical health; off-page covers links and citations. In New Zealand the off-page gap is usually smaller than owners expect, which changes where the effort should go.
Yes, written for developers rather than marketers. Each item specifies what to change, where, and what it should affect, so it can go straight into a sprint.
We model it rather than guess. Using current rankings, New Zealand search volumes and realistic CTR curves, we estimate what each fix should return. Volumes here are small enough that we are explicit about margins of error.
Yes. Many clients implement the audit in-house and bring us back to verify. Others hand us the roadmap. We will say honestly which findings genuinely need specialist help.
Two to three weeks for a full audit. Anything faster is an automated crawl report, which finds broken links and explains nothing about why you rank where you do.
Yes. We map which terms you can realistically win against New Zealand competition. In a market this size that list is often shorter and more winnable than clients expect.
Yes. We assess link quality, relevance and velocity, and flag anything manipulative enough to carry risk. Disavowal is only recommended where there is genuine evidence of harm.
Pricing scales with site size and complexity. A 50-page service site and a large ecommerce catalogue are different exercises. We quote before starting and there are no additional charges after.
A prioritised list where every finding carries an estimate of the traffic or revenue at stake and what fixing it involves. Without that ordering it is a crawl export, not an audit.
Two to three weeks. Anything delivered in 48 hours is an automated crawl that finds broken links and explains nothing about why you rank where you do.
Often more than for a large one. Competitors here rarely have had a serious technical review done, so the gains tend to be cheaper and hold longer than they would in a bigger market.
Usually. Most drops trace to an algorithm update, a technical change, lost links or a competitor improving. An audit separates them, because the fixes differ entirely.
It should. Being cited in AI Overviews and assistant answers depends on structure, sourcing and authorship, and an audit ignoring that is measuring half the channel.
Yes. The audit is written to be actioned in-house, with each item specified clearly enough to hand straight to a ticket.
Therapy practices use our audits to find the trust and technical gaps limiting new client enquiries.
Law firms use our audits to surface the technical and content problems holding back high-value work.
Free Growth Plan
Your free audit is step one of a full Growth Plan that shows exactly what is holding your site back on Google and ChatGPT, and the fixes that will turn that visibility into leads and enquiries.
Tell us where to send it. No lock-in contracts, no obligation.
Your FREE Growth Plan is underway. Keep an eye on your inbox.
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