An Australian managed IT provider serving small businesses showed up in three places in its October 2026 Semrush report: Google’s local map, the standard organic results, and Google’s AI Overviews. The report lists 761 ranking keywords and about 1,700 estimated monthly organic visits.
The company name, website and city have been withheld. This case study presents a documented search footprint, not a verified count of leads or contracts.
761
Organic ranking keywords
1,700
Estimated monthly organic visits
28
Keywords with an AI Overview citation
The Business Context
Small businesses looking for IT support usually search by need and location: “business IT support [city],” “small business IT services,” “IT support for law firms.” A provider that only ranks for its own name misses those buyers. This company needed to be visible for the searches small business owners use when choosing a provider.
Three Kinds of Search Visibility
Estimated traffic came from three different parts of Google’s results page. The local map supplied the largest share, but standard organic listings and AI Overview citations each added a meaningful portion.
Local pack (map results): 948 visits (55.0%)
Standard organic listings: 560 visits (32.5%)
AI Overview citations: 215 visits (12.5%)
The company held 38 local pack placements, 28 of them in first position. It was also cited in AI Overviews for 28 keywords, including “IT support for small business” (about 1,000 monthly searches) and “small business IT support [city]” (about 1,300).
Selected Rankings
City names are replaced with “[city].”
| Keyword | Placement | Monthly search volume |
|---|---|---|
| business IT support [city] | Organic #1 and local pack #1 | 1,300 |
| IT support [city] | Organic #3 | 1,900 |
| small business IT support | Local pack #2, organic #3 | 1,600 |
| support for IT | AI Overview citation | 1,900 |
| small business IT services | Local pack #1 | 590 |
| managed IT services for law firms | Organic #2 | 480 |
| managed IT services pricing | Organic #2 | 210 |
| Office 365 support [city] | Organic #1 | 170 |
Search volumes describe demand for each query, not visits the company received.
Niche Pages That Rank
Most visibility came through the homepage and business profile, but dedicated pages earned rankings of their own. An IT services for law firms page ranked first and second for law-firm managed services searches. A pricing page ranked second for “managed IT services pricing,” and a Microsoft 365 support page ranked first for its local search. A construction IT support page also held first place for its niche query.
These pages answer specific questions buyers ask before they make contact, such as cost, industry experience and platform support.
Standard Organic Rankings
| Ranking range | Keywords |
|---|---|
| Positions 1–3 | 26 |
| Positions 4–10 | 45 |
| Positions 11–20 | 86 |
| Positions 21–30 | 94 |
The 86 terms in positions 11–20 are the nearest opportunities. Larger examples include “managed IT services” (about 5,400 monthly searches) at position 26 and “IT support for small business” at organic position 12.
Semrush’s all-time keyword chart shows the domain ranking for a few hundred keywords through 2022–2025, then climbing to a peak near 1,000 in 2026 before settling at 761 in this report.
What This Illustrates for B2B Service SEO
B2B buyers search in more than one way, and Google now answers them in more than one place. A business profile reaches nearby searches, service and industry pages reach specific needs, and clear, direct answers make a site easier for AI Overviews to cite. Covering all three widens the number of searches where a provider is seen.
Our local SEO services, content strategy and technical SEO are built around that kind of coverage.
How to Read These Figures
Source: Semrush Organic Research: Positions (Australia, desktop), generated October 14, 2026, and the matching keyword export. Traffic, traffic value and search volume are third-party estimates, not first-party analytics or verified leads. Map and AI Overview results vary with location, device and time.
Keyword rows have individual update dates between August and October 2026. This is a dated snapshot rather than a before-and-after measurement, and it does not establish campaign actions, revenue or return on investment.
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