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Sergio Patisserie Barangaroo


Case study
Patisserie
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Barangaroo, Sydney
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New store

Sergio Patisserie Barangaroo

A brand-new patisserie in a precinct that already had Bourke Street Bakery, Black Star Pastry and Banksia Bakehouse in it. Direct Local has Sergio in the Google Maps top three for twelve Barangaroo searches, with 4,480 people a month finding them on Maps from a phone.

Customers at the Sergio Patisserie counter, Barangaroo

1.9
Average map rank on ‘patisserie Barangaroo’
Second across the grid
12
Barangaroo keywords in the Maps top three
Two of them at #1
7,530
Profile views in the last 30 days
4,480 on Maps mobile
497
Customer actions in the last 30 days
Clicks, calls, directions
01 — The challenge

Opening cold in a crowded precinct

A new store has no reviews, no history and no authority. Sergio launched with 28 backlinks and 9 points of domain authority into a market where La Renaissance carries 310,262 links and Black Star Pastry sits at 52 out of 100.

02 — What we did

Win Barangaroo before Sydney

Direct Local built the Google Business Profile around the precinct and the product — cakes, pastries, custom orders, coffee — rather than fighting “bakery Sydney” from day one. Barangaroo is where the foot traffic is, and where a new name can actually win.

03 — The result

Second on the grid, first on the name

An average map rank of 1.9 for “patisserie Barangaroo” across the whole grid, first place for “patisserie in Barangaroo”, and 497 customer actions off the profile in the last 30 days.

Map grid — ‘patisserie Barangaroo’

Top two at every point on the grid

We track rankings from dozens of search points across Sydney, not just from the Barangaroo Avenue door. Every marker is a real search location, and the number is where Sergio shows on Google Maps from there.

1.9
Average map rank
3.2
Cake shop Barangaroo
Google Maps rank grid for patisserie Barangaroo

Sydney search grid · 10 Aug 2026
Google Maps three-pack

Twelve Barangaroo searches in the top three

Office workers in the towers above, deciding where to get morning coffee or order a birthday cake from.

1
Patisserie in Barangaroo
1
European style patisserie Barangaroo
2
Cakes Barangaroo
2
Cake shop Barangaroo
2
Cake shop Barangaroo NSW
2
Artisan cake shop Barangaroo
2
Custom cakes Barangaroo
2
Custom birthday cakes Barangaroo
2
Pastries Barangaroo
3
Cake delivery Barangaroo
3
Coffee and pastries Barangaroo
3
Takeaway pastries Barangaroo

Local pack positions, Sydney NSW, 10 Aug 2026.

The competitive gap

Ahead of Bourke Street Bakery on their own street

On “patisserie Barangaroo” Sergio sits second across the grid, above operators with a thousand times the links and ten times the reviews.

Business
Backlinks
Reviews
Avg map rank
ENZE Barangaroo
453
1,290 · 4.9
1.1
Sergio Patisserie Barangaroo
16
87 · 4.2
1.9
Sweet Belem Barangaroo
103
30 · 4.5
3.0
Bourke Street Bakery Barangaroo
16,750
957 · 4.4
4.5
Banksia Bakehouse Barangaroo
162
39 · 4.6
4.5
Sacrebleu! Canelés
54
148 · 4.5
6.1
Bottega Coco Barangaroo
149
3,500 · 4.6
19.5

Average map rank for ‘patisserie Barangaroo’, 10 Aug 2026.

Discovery

Found on a phone, standing in Barangaroo

4,480 of their 7,530 monthly profile views come from Google Maps on mobile. For a store in a precinct full of alternatives, that is the whole game — being the one that appears when someone looks up from their desk.

7,530
Profile views
4,480
On Maps mobile
215
Photos on the profile
The Sergio Patisserie display counter
The Sergio Patisserie team at the Barangaroo grand opening
Last 30 days

What the profile earned them this month

7,530
Profile views
242
Direction requests
237
Website clicks
18
Phone calls

Source: Google Business Profile insights, 16 Jul – 13 Aug 2026.

What’s next

The work still in front of us

Barangaroo is close to won. The Sydney-wide terms — “patisserie Sydney”, “pastry shop Sydney” — still sit around 18th and 21st on the grid, and 87 reviews against competitors carrying a thousand is the gap that matters most for a food business.

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Build the review programme — 87 is the weak point
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Claim the 12 remaining directory listings
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Add NSW to the page titles
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Push the Sydney-wide patisserie and pastry terms

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