About Digital Kiwis

Experience without
the autopilot.

We are an expert search agency built around a simple belief: deep experience matters most when it stays curious.

A long view of a fast-moving field
1997

Digital Kiwis is led by Peter Mahoney, a search strategist, web developer and relentless information devourer.

Peter began making websites professionally in 1996 and took his first search engine optimisation role in 1997. He blogged with b2 before it became WordPress and has spent the decades since working where technology, content and human behaviour meet.

That history is useful because search has never stood still. We have watched keywords become intent, ten blue links become blended results, and search pages become generated answers. The names change. The enduring work is to make good organisations easier to discover and easier to choose.

Digital Kiwis brings together specialist collaborators when the work needs them, while keeping strategy senior, communication direct and accountability clear.

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What we believe

Search should serve the
business behind it.

01

Search is a behaviour

Platforms change. The human need to find, compare, understand and decide is the durable centre.

02

Trust has a shape

Clear claims, consistent entities, useful evidence and third-party corroboration make brands easier to believe.

03

Good work compounds

Technical health, strong content and earned authority reinforce one another. The system becomes more valuable with time.

Wellington
Based here. Useful anywhere.

Wellington sharpens
our point of view.

We work from Te Aro with organisations throughout New Zealand and beyond. Our size keeps senior thinking close to every engagement and lets us assemble the right capability around the work.

65 Abel Smith Street
Te Aro, Wellington 6011
New Zealand
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