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Case study
Web design & hosting
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Earlwood, NSW
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Ongoing

Praxio

A web studio that rebranded from Peregrinex and had to rebuild its search footprint from scratch. Four months on, Praxio ranks first in the Google Maps pack for landing page development and second for website hosting, against agencies carrying a hundred thousand backlinks.

Praxio

The Praxio website

#1
Google Maps pack for landing page development
Avg map rank 2.6
8
Keywords at position one in July
One in March
40
New keywords now ranking
March to July 2026
5.0
Star rating across 20 Google reviews
No review below five
01 — The challenge

A new name, no search history

Rebranding resets your visibility. Praxio started at 7 points of domain authority against a competitor average of 20.6, with 569 backlinks against 168,278, one directory listing out of thirteen, and reviews still carrying the old name.

02 — What we did

Own the service, not the category

“Web design Sydney” belongs to agencies with six-figure link profiles. Direct Local built the profile and content around what Praxio actually sells — landing page development, speed optimisation, managed hosting — and around the inner west suburbs on their doorstep.

03 — The result

Eight first places and climbing

First-place rankings went from one in March to eight in July, top-five rankings from three to sixteen, and 40 keywords now rank that didn’t before. The brand is at number one on Maps for its own name.

Map grid

Rank #1 at every point on the grid

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

1.0
Average map rank
2.6
Landing page development
Google Maps rank grid for Praxio across Sydney

Sydney search grid · Aug 2026
Google Maps three-pack

Where Praxio shows in the map pack

The searches a business makes when it needs a landing page built or a site hosted properly.

1
Landing page development
1
Praxio
2
Website hosting
2
Landing page designer Sydney
2
Landing page designer inner west
3
Website development

Local pack positions, Earlwood NSW. Praxio also holds first place in the Google local finder for website speed optimisation and website conversion optimisation.

Movement

March to July 2026

Across 100 tracked keywords in Google Search, Maps and the local finder.

Measure
March
July
Keywords at #1
1
8
Keywords at #2–5
3
16
Keywords at #6–10
5
6
Keywords at #11–20
3
10
Google reviews
16
20

Source: rank tracker, 23 Mar – 23 Jul 2026. 40 new ranking keywords and 39 positions gained over the period.

The competitive gap

Second on the grid for landing page development

Praxio holds an average map rank of 2.6 with 716 backlinks. Every agency below it has more links, more reviews or both.

Milk Digital
1.7
102,130 links · 18/100
Praxio
2.6
716 links · 12/100
Theme Press
6.9
9,350 links · 20/100
Sombrilla Digital
8.4
27,320 links · 18/100
Code and Visual
9.2
21,160 links · 21/100

Average map rank for ‘landing page development’, 23 Jul 2026.

Reputation

Twenty reviews, all five stars

Sixteen in March, twenty by August, and not a single review below five. The older ones still name Peregrinex — which is exactly how a rebrand should carry forward.

★★★★★

Working with Praxio has been a game changer for our marketing. The team really understands what they’re doing and made the whole process simple and stress-free.

Google review · Mar 2026
★★★★★

Praxio did a great job building my companys website and multiple landing pages. The team was professional, easy to work with, and delivered a high-quality result.

Google review · Mar 2026
★★★★★

They quickly improved my website speed and explained everything clearly along the way. The results were even better than expected.

Google review · Oct 2025
What’s next

The work still in front of us

Local pack coverage is at 6.3% — the specific service terms are landing, the broad category terms are not. Web design and website development across Sydney sit around 20th on the grid, and closing that needs authority rather than profile work.

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Claim the 12 remaining directory listings
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Add Earlwood and NSW to the page titles
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Build authority and links behind the site
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Push into the broad web design and development terms

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