Five channels, checked live on 9 October 2026. Every line traces to a source captioned on the page.
| Channel | Tint Guru | R1 Auto | Happy Tint | What it means |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google rankings 6 money searches | Page one on 0 of 6 | Page one on 4 of 6 | Page one on 2 of 6 | R1 Auto is on page one for four of the six, mostly with price guides. You hold none yet. |
| Google Ads Transparency Centre, AU | 0 ads on record | 39 ads on record | 13 ads on record | Both are paying Google. The R1 Auto ads in view are for the Sunshine Coast and Toowoomba. |
| Meta Ads Ad Library, active now | No ads found | No ads found | No ads found | Nobody in this comparison is in the feed. The first shop in has it to itself. |
| Landing page Where the click lands | Enquiry form, prices, phone links | Quote buttons, phone links | Prices from $295, quote buttons | Your homepage has a form and prices up front. Happy Tint shows prices; R1 Auto asks for a quote. |
| Reputation Google rating (reviews) | 5.0 (27 reviews) | Listing phone differs, not used | 4.6 (84 reviews) | Your Truganina profile shows 5.0 from 27. An Epping Tint Guru listing with 388 reviews uses a phone your site does not, so I left it out. |
Tint Guru does what most tint shops do not: prices from $300 on the homepage, an enquiry form in the first screen and a 5.0 Google rating. None of your pages is on page one for the six searches here. R1 Auto holds four of them and has 39 Google ads on record.
Six searches a Melbourne driver types before booking a tint or paint protection job, read live from Google Australia on 9 October 2026.
| Search term | Searches / mo | Tint Guru | R1 Auto | Happy Tint |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| window tinting melbourne | High est. | Not in top 10 | #4 | Not in top 10 |
| car window tinting melbourne | High est. | Not in top 10 | #8 | #3 |
| paint protection film melbourne | Medium est. | Not in top 10 | Not in top 10 | Not in top 10 |
| ceramic coating melbourne | Medium est. | Not in top 10 | Not in top 10 | Not in top 10 |
| window tinting epping | Low est. | Not in top 10 | #2 | Not in top 10 |
| car window tinting cost melbourne | Medium est. | Not in top 10 | #2 | #4 |
K Mobile Tint holds #1 for window tinting melbourne, and R1 Auto sits #4 with a price guide rather than a service page. Google's own question box asks what the legal tint in Melbourne is. A page answering that, linked to your packages, is what this searcher is looking for.
The chain, with every assumption written down. Deliberately conservative.
The six searches in this report, at an example volume a Melbourne market this size supports. An example, not a measured figure.
The clicks you do not get today, once your service pages sit around position three, rounded down.
Enquiries at 5% of those visits, rounded down.
Three booked jobs, half the enquiries, at $300, the entry price of your Essential Tint package. PPF and ceramic jobs are worth more and are not counted.
Halve the example volume and it is still three enquiries a month, and at least one booked tint, going to the shops above you today. The service pages to catch them are already built.
Estimates, not promises. Each assumption is deliberately conservative so the number holds up.
Give the homepage a real title and meta description, title the window tint, PPF and ceramic coating pages for Melbourne searches, merge the two PPF pages, remove the default post, add an Epping page with local schema, and write one page answering the legal tint questions Google shows.
| Advertiser | Ads on record | Last ran | Headline seen | Lands on | Offer on the page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R1 Auto | 39 | Not dated | "Car Tinting Sunshine Coast - We Come To You" | r1auto.com.au | Mobile tinting, a firm quote on request |
| Happy Tint | 13 | Not dated | "Window Tinting Offices" | happytint.com.au/window-tinting/offices | Car tinting from $295, on-site quotes |
| Tint Guru | 0 | Nothing on record | Nothing running | tintguru.com.au | Packages from $300 +GST and a form |
R1 Auto has 39 ads on record pointing to r1auto.com.au; the two in the capture sell tinting on the Sunshine Coast and detailing in Toowoomba. Happy Tint has 13, including office tinting and paint protection in Melbourne. No paid results were seen on the six searches here. A capped search campaign on tinting, PPF and ceramic coating in Melbourne's north, landing on your packages, is the fastest way onto page one.
Your homepage does what a paid click needs: an enquiry form in the first screen, phone links, and three tint packages from $300 +GST. I did not submit the form. No GA4, Tag Manager, Google Ads or Meta tag was seen firing on the homepage, so an enquiry cannot yet be traced to the click that sent it.
Theirs: nothing to read. Neither R1 Auto nor Happy Tint has an ad running under its name. Missing: a headline written to the driver sitting in a hot car, not to the film brand.
Theirs: no copy in the library. Missing: named proof. Your site already shows prices from $300 and reviews that name Mirza, which is the kind of specific a driver checks before booking.
Theirs: no creative to compare. Missing: the car itself, before and after, and one clear next step. A driver should see the price in the first frame.
Why this matters: a stronger headline and hook lifts click-through. Higher click-through lowers what Meta charges per click. Cheaper clicks mean more visits from the same budget, and more visits mean more enquiries. In this comparison the feed is empty, so the cost of learning what works is as low as it will get.
R1 Auto has 39 Google ads on record and Happy Tint 13. A small campaign on the tinting, PPF and ceramic searches around Epping, landing on your priced packages, brings enquiries while the organic work takes hold.
No GA4, Tag Manager, Google Ads or Meta tag was seen on the homepage. Adding them means every form and phone enquiry can be traced to the click that sent it.
An Epping Tint Guru listing shows 388 reviews with a phone and street number your site does not use. If it is yours, matching it to the site puts those reviews behind every search.
Title the tint, PPF and ceramic pages for Melbourne searches, merge the two PPF pages, add an Epping page, and answer the legal tint question Google keeps showing.
Nobody in this comparison is running Meta ads. A small test aimed at drivers in Melbourne's north is the cheapest audience in this report to learn from.
Fifteen minutes on the phone, no pitch. I will walk you through the three service pages worth retitling first and what a capped search campaign to your packages would cost.
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Everything in this report I can read because I have spent my own money on the exact channels it covers. What follows is not theory. It is what I would fix first.
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