Australia's white-hat-led SEO team.

We’re a Sydney-based SEO agency working with Australian cleaners, tradies, real estate, RTOs and e-commerce brands. 80% of what we do is white-hat. The other 20% is grey-hat — and we tell you exactly when we use it, in writing, in your MSA.

The people doing the work

Why we built Riseup-SEO

Riseup-SEO was founded in 2025 by Alim Ul Karim after a decade running SEO inside agencies that quietly cut corners and burnt clients with manual actions. We started this one to do it the other way: name the tactic, show the link, own the risk. Today we’re a team of specialists working out of Sydney and remote across AU, serving SMBs in 14 niches.

Since launch we’ve placed backlinks across AU publishers (AFR, SmartCompany, Mumbrella, news.com.au), shipped briefs through our content team, and held a clean record of zero manual actions across the book. Every campaign is run by a named lead — no offshore black-box, no mystery sub-contractors.

What we believe

Not your average company.

Friendly Atmosphere

Show your working, always. Every link we earn, every brief we ship, every ranking gain we make is logged in a shared Looker Studio dashboard you can open any time of day.

Our Mission

Own the risk. We sign hat-disclosure, asset-ownership and reversibility clauses into every MSA. You keep the domain, the content, the links — even if you fire us.

Charity Friendly

AU-first, no exceptions. We write in AU English, build links on AU domains, optimise for AU SERPs, and quote in AUD ex GST. No US playbooks bolted onto Aussie sites.