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Win the destination searches the brand's own website never answers.

Search engine optimisation for a courier counter goes after what a national brand site leaves alone. What may be sent to Canada, what a food parcel costs, how a passport document travels. GullySales builds those pages for your counter and your city, within whatever your franchise agreement allows on the brand name.

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Scope, fee, reporting and term are agreed in writing after we have read your brief and spoken to you.

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What search engine optimisation means

Search engine optimisation (SEO) is the work of getting your website to appear when a buyer searches Google for what you sell. GullySales builds pages around real search terms, fixes technical issues that block ranking, and tracks which searches actually bring enquiries.

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Last updated 5 Oct 2026.

For courier companies

Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.

  • “The brand's own site outranks you on anything branded”

    Type the brand name and the head office site and the tracking page fill the screen. Your counter competes on the destination, the item and the locality instead.

  • “The search is an item plus a country”

    Send pickles to Canada, courier medicines to the USA, send books to Australia. Each is a separate page with a different customs answer and a different packing rule.

  • “Tracking searches are traffic worth nothing”

    Most people typing a courier name want to find a parcel already in transit. That traffic books nothing, and chasing it burns the little effort a counter has.

What we do

What we deliver for courier companies.

Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.

  1. A page for each destination you send to most

    The USA, UK, Canada, Australia and the Gulf, each with what can go, what cannot, transit times and what happens at the other end.

    Result: The search a parent makes at night finds your counter.

  2. Item pages for food, documents and medicines

    Homemade food, sweets, spices, university and visa documents and prescription medicines, each with the packing and labelling that parcel needs.

    Result: You rank for the question instead of the product.

  3. A page for your counter and its locality

    The street, the landmarks, the hours, the destinations handled and whether packing is done on site, written for the person about to walk over.

    Result: A nearby search reaches a page about your actual shop.

  4. An explainer on weight slabs and volumetric weight

    How a light, bulky box is charged, what packing adds, and why two counters quote differently for the same parcel.

    Result: The rate conversation starts with the customer informed.

  5. Brand naming checked against the agreement

    Every use of the brand name, the logo and the wording of offers put in front of your franchisor before it is published.

    Result: Nothing you build has to come down.

  6. Pages for the office account and the online seller

    Separate pages on daily pickup, proof of delivery and monthly billing for offices, and on slab rates, pincode coverage and cash on delivery for sellers.

    Result: The account buyer finds something written for them.

  7. Reporting by page and enquiry type

    Traffic, calls and WhatsApp enquiries split between international, documents, accounts and sellers, against the baseline recorded before work began.

    Result: You can see which destination page earns its keep.

How the result is measured

  • Ranking positions
  • Organic traffic
  • Enquiries from organic search

Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.

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Searches senders type

What a sender types before booking a parcel, and the page that answers it.

send food parcel to USA from India
An item and country page. Say which foods are generally accepted, how to pack them and what must be declared. Rules change, so link the carrier's current list and give the date you checked.
courier to Canada documents
A destination page. Describe the service, weight slabs, the identity papers you need and how to book. Add the counter address so a sender knows where to bring the envelope.
courier service near me with pickup
A counter page matched to your Business Profile. Give hours, the pickup request route, areas covered for pickup and what to have ready when the executive arrives.
international courier charges per kg
A rates page. Explain weight slabs and volumetric weight with a worked method, and show when the table was last updated. Leave out figures you cannot back or have not checked.
bulk courier for online sellers with cash on delivery
A seller page. Explain daily pickup, packing, COD remittance and returns handling. Online sellers compare counters on reliability, so state what you commit to and keep it.
send Rakhi to abroad
A festival page. Say the last booking date you set, how to pack, the countries served and how tracking is shared. Remove or update it when the festival ends.

Who it is for

This is written for these courier companies.

  • Franchisee counters of national courier brands
  • Independent domestic courier companies
  • International courier and parcel consolidators
  • Document and legal courier services
  • Same-day and intra-city delivery services
  • E-commerce shipping partners for online sellers
  • Cargo and heavy parcel services
  • Packing and moving plus courier counters

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • Your franchise agreement forbids using the brand name on your own pages and you have not checked it.
  • The counter is closing or moving soon, so pages for its locality would go stale.
  • No one at the counter can answer a destination question in writing, so pages would promise answers the staff cannot give.

How it works

How the search engine optimisation work runs

The work itself, in order. How an engagement starts, from your brief to a written scope, is set out on our method page.

  1. 1

    Audit and baseline

    We record where the site stands today: positions, traffic, technical faults and the enquiries search currently produces. Nothing starts until this number is written down.

  2. 2

    Decide what to rank for

    We map the searches your buyers use, in your words and theirs, and pick the ones worth the effort for your margin and your capacity.

  3. 3

    Fix the foundations

    Technical faults first, because the cheapest gains are there. Then the Business Profile and directory consistency.

  4. 4

    Build the pages

    A page for each thing you do, written to answer the question it is searched for, with a clear next step at the end.

  5. 5

    Publish and earn mentions

    Content goes out on the calendar. Links and mentions are earned from real relationships, not bought.

  6. 6

    Measure, report, adjust

    At an interval agreed in writing we report what moved and what did not, and change the plan when the numbers say so.

Where this fits

Three pieces of sales work, in this order.

This work sits inside sales process design, at stage 1, prospecting and lead generation. The audit comes before it, and sales management keeps it running.

  1. Step 1

    Sales audit

    Find where deals are being lost and what to fix first.

    Start here if you cannot say where orders are lost.

  2. Step 2 · you are here

    Sales process design

    One written way to sell, from first enquiry to repeat order.

    Start here if every salesperson sells differently.

  3. Step 3

    Sales management

    A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.

    Start here if the team has targets and no routine.

Tell us what you need Your brief is read before we call. Scope, fee and term in writing.

FAQ

Questions owners ask before they call.

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Are we allowed to build pages using the brand name?
Ask your franchisor and get the answer in writing, because agreements differ on the name, the logo and the wording of an offer. We write inside whatever they allow. The destination and item pages that bring the bookings rarely need the brand name in them at all.
Which pages actually bring bookings?
The destination and item pages. Somebody asking whether sweets can go to the Gulf books with whoever answers clearly. A general courier service page competes with every national platform in the country.
Can we copy the brand's list of prohibited items?
Link to it instead. The brand's list changes and a copied list goes out of date. Say that senders should check the current list, and add what you personally advise, such as how to pack food.
Should customers track parcels from our site?
Link to the brand's own tracking page. Tracking searches take people to the carrier anyway, and a replica adds little. Use your site for what the brand's does not cover: your counter, your destinations and your packing advice.
How much does it cost?
There is no price list, because the work differs by business. The fee is scoped after we have read your brief and spoken to you, and put in writing before anything starts, split into our time, your media spend and production.
How long is the contract?
The term is agreed in writing after we have spoken, along with the fee and the reporting. It is never a default twelve months, and renewal is decided on the numbers against the baseline recorded at the start.
How soon will we see results?
It depends on the trade, the channel and what is already in place. After we have read your brief and spoken to you, we say what we would expect to move first and how it will be measured against the baseline. Nothing here is guaranteed.
Who will actually do the work?
The person you speak to before anything starts. We work from one office in Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru, with no account managers in between.
What do you need from us?
Your brief, and a conversation. After that, access to whatever this work touches, such as your website, your accounts or your enquiry record, and time with the people who handle your enquiries.
What if we are not happy with the work?
Tell us and the plan changes. Everything is reported against the baseline, so a number that is not moving is visible to both sides. The term is in your written scope, and the refund and cancellation policy sets out the rest.

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