Searcht
Small Brisbane search shop with published SEO retainers and AI-search monitoring
- Founded
- 2010
- Team size
- 2-10
- Headquarters
- Brisbane, Australia
- Hourly rate
- $100–$149/hr
- Avg. cost
- AUD $2,500–$10,000/month across three published retainer tiers
Overview
About Searcht
Searcht (formerly OnQ Marketing) is a boutique Brisbane SEO agency founded in 2010 by Quentin Aisbett. A team of roughly six covers organic SEO, Google Ads, content strategy and digital PR, with AI search visibility tracking built into its retainers. It mainly serves ecommerce, healthcare, education, legal and real estate brands.
Searcht is a Brisbane SEO agency that started life in 2010 as OnQ Marketing, founded by search strategist Quentin Aisbett. The rebrand kept the same founder-led structure. Clutch lists the business at Ground Floor, 477 Boundary Street in Spring Hill with between two and nine staff, and the team page shows about six people, including content lead Jaclyn Amoroso and a paid search specialist who previously managed accounts at Google UK and YouTube Australia.
Work centres on organic search. Retainers combine technical and on-page SEO, content planning, structured data and digital PR, with Google Ads available as a supporting channel. The agency also sells a fixed 10-Day SEO Sprint for teams that want a defined, short engagement. Its pricing page is unusually open: three tiers run from roughly AUD $2,500 to $10,000 a month, and each step up adds more content pieces, more locations, more frequent reporting and tracking across more AI search surfaces, with the top tier focused on entity optimisation and knowledge graph alignment.
The clearest evidence is a SkinKandy engagement. Searcht reports an 800% ROAS lift, a 125% increase in top-three rankings and 161% booking growth from blog content, and the client’s former global marketing head is quoted on the site. Zero Co and Leading Teams are also named. On Clutch the agency holds 4.9 from nine reviews, the latest from a psychology practice in July 2025, and it was an APAC Search Awards finalist in 2024.
The fit is mid-sized ecommerce, health, education, legal and property brands that value a senior team and plain pricing. The constraint is scale: a team this size cannot staff an enterprise programme across many markets, and its review base is small.
What they do
Services
- SEO strategy and technical SEO
- Content strategy and writing
- Digital PR
- Google Ads management
- Local SEO
- AI search / GEO visibility monitoring
- 10-Day SEO Sprint
Specializations
Industries served
Ideal client
Who they help
Growth-stage ecommerce and service brands that want a senior, hands-on SEO and content team, clear published pricing, and early work on visibility in AI answer engines, rather than a large account-managed agency.
Pros & cons
Pros
- Transparent retainer tiers from AUD $2,500 to $10,000 per month published on the site
- Founder-led with 15+ years of SEO history, including the earlier OnQ Marketing brand
- Named result for SkinKandy: 800% ROAS gain and 161% more bookings from blog content, per the agency
- Bakes AI-surface monitoring, entity optimisation and digital PR into higher tiers
- APAC Search Awards 2024 finalist
Cons
- Very small team, so capacity for large multi-site programmes is limited
- Only nine Clutch reviews, several of them years old
- Paid media is a secondary service next to SEO and content
Pricing
Notable clients
Awards & recognition
- APAC Search Awards 2024 finalist
Common questions
FAQ
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What services does Searcht offer?
Searcht offers SEO strategy and technical SEO, Content strategy and writing, Digital PR, Google Ads management, Local SEO, AI search / GEO visibility monitoring, and more.
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Where is Searcht based?
Searcht is headquartered in Brisbane, Australia and works with clients remotely worldwide.
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How much does Searcht cost?
Searcht operates on a monthly retainer model, with an hourly rate of $100–$149/hr, a minimum engagement of $1,000, typical costs of AUD $2,500–$10,000/month across three published retainer tiers.
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Who is Searcht best for?
Growth-stage ecommerce and service brands that want a senior, hands-on SEO and content team, clear published pricing, and early work on visibility in AI answer engines, rather than a large account-managed agency.
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What industries does Searcht serve?
Searcht serves clients in Ecommerce, Healthcare, Higher education, Legal, Real estate.
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How big is Searcht and when was it founded?
Searcht was founded in 2010 and has a team of 2-10 people.
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How do I contact Searcht?
You can visit searcht.au, or call (07) 3041 3297.
Editor’s take
Hire Searcht for a focused, senior SEO and content programme with clear pricing. Brands needing a big multi-channel team or heavy paid social should look elsewhere.
