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Sergio Patisserie Sydney Fish Market


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Patisserie
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Sydney Fish Market, Glebe
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Second location

Sergio Patisserie Sydney Fish Market

Sergio’s second site, inside the new Sydney Fish Market. Direct Local has it first in Google’s local results for the Fish Market’s bakery, cake, croissant, pastry and dessert searches, with 3,130 people a month finding it on Maps from a phone.

Savoury croissants and tarts at Sergio Patisserie Sydney Fish Market

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Sydney Fish Market searches at #1
Bakery, cakes, croissants, dessert
7
First-place rankings in August
None in March
3.4
Average map rank on ‘patisserie Glebe’
Across the Sydney grid
280
Customer actions in the last 30 days
Clicks, calls, directions
01 — The challenge

A second site starting from zero

A new location gets none of the first store’s history. This one opened with no rankings at all — not a single first place in March — into a Glebe market where Le Petit Tarte, Brune Bakery and Sonoma have years of reviews behind them.

02 — What we did

Own the landmark, not the suburb

Nobody walking through the Fish Market searches “patisserie Glebe” — they search the building they’re standing in. Direct Local built the profile around Sydney Fish Market and Blackwattle Bay, and around what people buy: croissants, cakes, coffee, dessert.

03 — The result

Seven first places by August

From zero first-place rankings in March to seven by July, held through August, an average map rank of 3.4 for “patisserie Glebe”, and 280 customer actions off the profile in the last 30 days.

Map grid — ‘patisserie Glebe’

Third or fourth across most of the city

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

3.4
Average map rank
8.3
Biggest grid movement
Google Maps rank grid for patisserie Glebe

Sydney search grid · 10 Aug 2026
Google local results

Six Fish Market searches at #1

Six searches tied to the building return Sergio first. These are people already inside the market, deciding where to finish lunch.

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Bakery Sydney Fish Markets
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Cake shop Sydney Fish Market
1
Cakes Sydney Fish Markets
1
Croissants Sydney Fish Markets
1
Pastries Sydney Fish Markets
1
Dessert Sydney Fish Markets
2
French pastries Glebe
3
French bakery Glebe

Google local pack and local finder positions, Glebe NSW, 10 Aug 2026.

Movement

March to August 2026

Across 30 tracked keywords in Google Search, Maps and the local finder.

Measure
March
August
Keywords at #1
0
7
Keywords at #2–5
2
7
Keywords at #6–10
3
8
Local pack coverage
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14.3%

Source: rank tracker, 10 Mar – 10 Aug 2026. 10 new ranking keywords over the period.

The Sergio Patisserie counter inside Sydney Fish Market

Discovery

Found on a phone, inside the building

3,130 of 4,600 monthly profile views come from Google Maps on mobile. In a market hall with dozens of operators, being the result that appears is the difference between a sale and a walk-past.

4,600
Profile views
3,130
On Maps mobile
72
Photos on the profile
Last 30 days

What the profile earned them this month

4,600
Profile views
143
Direction requests
120
Website clicks
17
Phone calls

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

What’s next

The work still in front of us

The Fish Market terms are won. Glebe itself is the harder half — local pack coverage sits at 14.3% and the suburb’s established bakeries hold the top of the grid. Eighteen reviews at 4.0 is the other gap, and it’s the one that moves rankings and walk-ins together.

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Build the review programme at this location
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Win the coffee and cafe searches at the market
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Push the Glebe suburb terms up the grid
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Add Glebe and NSW to the page titles
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Extend into Pyrmont and Blackwattle Bay searches

Pastries in the display cabinet at Sergio Patisserie Sydney Fish Market

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