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#1 in ChatGPT Less than 90 days after launch

How a brand-new mortgage broker website got recommended by AI search inside 9 weeks, then grew its Google impressions tenfold in five months.

Partners
A Blue Mountains mortgage broker
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MGS Co

Performance highlights

10 days
From launch to #1 in ChatGPT for "local mortgage brokers in the Blue Mountains"
10x
Google search impressions a month: 3,040 in March to 30,217 in August
16 of 20
Blue Mountains broker searches now on Google's first page
Services provided
Website build
Technical SEO
Local SEO
AI search (GEO)
Content strategy
Industry
Mortgage and finance broking
Area
Blue Mountains, Hawkesbury and Western Sydney
Timeframe
March to September 2026

Background

A family-run mortgage and finance broker based in the Blue Mountains, working across the Hawkesbury and Western Sydney. They compare 70+ lenders and look after clients from first enquiry through to settlement: home loans, investment loans, refinancing and commercial finance.

Plenty of five-star reviews and word of mouth, but no website that worked for them online.

Challenge

The new site launched in March 2026 into a crowded market. National franchises and established local brokers already had years of reviews, links and domain authority behind them.

A brand-new website usually takes 6 to 12 months to show up on Google. The question was how to get found by the right people faster than that.

Our approach

01
A site search engines and AI can read

Clean page structure, schema markup that tells Google and AI tools exactly what the business is and does, fast mobile pages, a proper sitemap and internal links between the service pages.

02
Own the local area

Consistent name, address and phone everywhere online, a fully set-up Google Business Profile, and location pages for the Blue Mountains, Hawkesbury and Western Sydney written in the words locals actually search.

03
Content built for AI answers

Service pages written around the questions people ask, with clear facts (lender panel, service areas, how the process works) that ChatGPT and Google's AI Overviews can lift and cite.

Results

Recommended by AI. Seen 10x more on Google.

AI search, 10 days after launch
ChatGPT
"Local mortgage brokers in the Blue Mountains"
#1 listed
ChatGPT
"Blue Mountains broker"
#1 listed
Google AI Overview
"Find a local mortgage broker"
Featured with national brands
Perplexity
"Loan brokers in the Blue Mountains"
Recommended
Google search impressions a month
3.0k
Mar
4.6k
Apr
13.0k
May
16.6k
Jun
26.5k
Jul
30.2k
Aug
Source: Google Search Console, 2026.
16 / 20
Blue Mountains searches on page one
9 / 12
Hawkesbury searches on page one
8.5%
of organic visitors turn into an enquiry
What's next

Turning visibility into enquiries

Being seen is step one. Clicks haven't grown as fast as impressions, so the next phase is building pages for the money searches like "mortgage broker Penrith", sharpening titles so more searchers click, and tracking every enquiry back to where it came from.

Straight reporting is part of the job. If something isn't working yet, you'll hear it from us first.

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