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Technical SEO that removes what is holding the site back

If search engines cannot crawl, render and index a page efficiently, nothing else you do to it matters. We find those blockers and fix them.

Want to see the problems first? Run the free Website SEO Audit and get a recommended plan from what it finds. Or see SEO plans.

  • Full crawl, log and Search Console analysis
  • Core Web Vitals diagnosed on real-user data
  • Structured data written and validated
  • Fixes delivered as code or as developer-ready tickets

What is technical SEO?

Technical SEO is the work of making a website easy for search engines to crawl, render, index and understand. It covers site architecture, status codes and redirects, canonical tags, sitemaps, robots rules, page speed, mobile rendering and structured data.

Technical problems are invisible from the front of the site. A page can look perfect to a visitor and still be blocked by a robots rule, canonicalised to a different URL, buried six clicks deep, or rendered by JavaScript that a crawler never executes. These faults tend to arrive in batches: after a redesign, a platform change, or a plugin update.

Technical SEO sits underneath the rest of our SEO services. It is also where search and engineering meet, so we work directly with your developers or through our own web development team.

Signs you need it

Pages are missing from the index

Search Console reports pages as excluded, duplicate, or crawled but not indexed, and the count keeps growing.

Traffic dropped after a redesign

URLs changed without redirects, internal links broke, or the new templates lost titles, headings and structured data.

The site fails Core Web Vitals

Pages are slow to show their main content, shift as they load, or respond late to taps.

Duplicate and parameter URLs

Filters, tracking parameters and session IDs create thousands of near-identical URLs that dilute signals and waste crawl budget.

What the service covers

Technical SEO audit

A full crawl compared against Search Console coverage and, where available, server logs. Every issue is listed with the affected URLs, the cause and the fix.

Crawling and indexation

Robots rules, XML sitemaps, canonical tags, noindex directives, pagination and redirect chains are corrected so the right pages are indexed and the wrong ones are not.

Core Web Vitals and speed

We measure LCP, INP and CLS from field data, find the cause on each template, and fix it: image delivery, render-blocking resources, font loading, script weight and server response.

Structured data

JSON-LD for organisations, services, products, articles, breadcrumbs and FAQs, written to Google's guidelines and validated. No markup for content that is not on the page.

Site architecture and internal linking

Important pages are brought within a few clicks of the homepage, orphan pages are connected, and link equity is routed to the pages that need to rank.

Migrations and redesigns

URL mapping, redirect plans, pre-launch checks on staging and post-launch monitoring, so a new site keeps the equity the old one earned.

How we work

  1. Crawl and collect

    We crawl the site as a search engine would, with and without JavaScript, and pull Search Console, analytics and Core Web Vitals field data.

  2. Diagnose

    Issues are grouped by template and cause, then scored by how many pages they affect and how much traffic those pages can earn.

  3. Implement

    We make the changes directly, or hand your developers tickets that state the problem, the fix and how to test it.

  4. Verify and monitor

    Fixes are re-crawled and validated in Search Console. Monitoring catches regressions after later releases.

What you receive

  • An audit document with issues ranked by impact
  • A list of affected URLs for every issue
  • Developer tickets with acceptance criteria
  • Validated structured data
  • A before-and-after report on indexation and Core Web Vitals

Who it suits

  • Sites planning or recovering from a redesign or migration
  • Large sites where crawl efficiency matters
  • JavaScript-heavy sites and web apps
  • Teams with developers who need precise SEO requirements

What it costs

A technical audit is a fixed-price project scoped by the size of the site and the number of templates. Implementation is either a fixed project or part of a monthly retainer. Send the site address through the contact page for a quote.

Questions we are asked

How is technical SEO different from on-page SEO?
Technical SEO deals with whether search engines can access and process the site at all. On-page SEO deals with what each page says once they can. Technical faults put a ceiling on what on-page work can achieve, so they are fixed first.
Are Core Web Vitals a ranking factor?
Yes, as part of Google's page experience signals, though relevance carries more weight. Their larger effect is on users: slow, unstable pages lose visitors before they enquire.
Do you need access to our server or code?
Read access to the CMS and Search Console is enough for an audit. For implementation we need either deploy access or a developer on your side to release the changes.
How often should a technical audit be run?
A full audit yearly, and again before and after any redesign, migration or platform change. Between audits, automated monitoring catches most regressions.
Can you work with our platform?
We work with WordPress, Shopify, WooCommerce and custom PHP builds routinely. For other platforms the principles are the same; tell us what you run and we will say plainly whether we are the right fit.

Find the faults you cannot see from the front end

We will crawl the site and show you what is blocking pages from being indexed and ranked.

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