When technical SEO becomes a problem
Technical issues usually show up indirectly.
Traffic stalls without a clear reason. Pages don’t index properly. Core Web Vitals refuse to improve. A redesign or migration causes visibility to drop. In some cases, everything looks “fine” in dashboards, yet performance tells a different story.
These are signs that technical foundations need attention — not more content or links. As part of our wider SEO services, technical SEO ensures search engines can access and trust your site before other strategies are layered on.
Crawling and indexing come first
If Google can’t crawl or index your site properly, nothing else matters.
As part of our SEO audits and ongoing technical work, we analyse how search engines access your site, which pages are crawled, which are indexed, and where that process breaks down. This includes robots rules, XML sitemaps, status codes, canonicals, internal linking signals, and how crawl budget is distributed.
We also uncover pages that have quietly dropped out of the index — and explain why that happened. Sometimes it’s thin or outdated content. Other times, pages are buried deep in pagination, poorly linked, or unintentionally de-prioritised. These issues are often fixable once they’re visible.
Site structure, internal logic, and scalability
Structure affects both visibility and stability.
We review site architecture, URL patterns, internal linking depth, orphan pages, and how templates are used across the site. Poor structure can dilute authority, confuse crawlers, and make future changes risky.
The goal isn’t just to “clean things up” — it’s to create a structure that supports growth, content expansion, and future SEO work without constant rework.
Performance, Core Web Vitals, and real-world speed
Performance issues aren’t just about scores.
We look beyond lab metrics to understand how real users experience the site. This includes Core Web Vitals, mobile performance, rendering behaviour, and the impact of themes, plugins, scripts, or third-party tools.
Rather than chasing perfect numbers, we focus on removing genuine bottlenecks that affect usability, crawl efficiency, and rankings.
Technical SEO across platforms and builds
Not every site fits neatly into a checklist.
We regularly work with WordPress, ecommerce platforms, and custom or heavily modified builds. Each comes with different constraints — from JavaScript rendering and CMS limitations to legacy code and plugin conflicts.
With software development experience, we can identify issues that aren’t obvious in SEO tools alone and communicate fixes clearly, whether we’re implementing them directly or working alongside developers.
Technical changes without unnecessary risk
Poorly implemented fixes can do more harm than good.
We prioritise issues based on impact and risk, recommending changes that improve stability without introducing new problems. This is especially important before or after migrations, redesigns, or structural updates.
Technical SEO should reduce uncertainty — not create it.
Let’s fix the foundation properly
Technical SEO isn’t glamorous, but it’s what allows everything else to work.
If your site feels harder to grow than it should, or performance doesn’t match the effort going in, technical constraints are often the reason.
Let’s identify what’s holding the site back and fix it in a way that supports long-term visibility, not short-term patches.