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Technical SEO: Fix What Google Actually Uses to Rank Sites

Rankings don't just come from content. Google has to crawl your site, render it correctly, understand its structure, and trust it's fast. We audit and fix the technical layer — Core Web Vitals, crawl health, schema markup, indexability — that most SEO agencies ignore because it requires actual development work.

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Technical SEO Audit — Site Health Report
Core Web Vitals — LCP 1.8s PASS
Core Web Vitals — CLS 0.04 PASS
Crawl Coverage 98 / 100 pages indexed PASS
Schema Markup LocalBusiness, Service, FAQPage, BreadcrumbList DEPLOYED
Canonical Tags All pages resolved CLEAN
Page Speed (Mobile) 91 / 100 91
Broken Links 0 detected CLEAN
XML Sitemap 34 URLs, submitted SUBMITTED

Technical Issues Are a Ceiling on Every Ranking You've Earned

Content wins don't matter if Google can't crawl you

Duplicate content, missing canonicals, crawl budget waste, and noindex tags in the wrong places mean pages that should rank simply don't exist to Google. You can publish great content every week and none of it will compound if the crawl foundation is broken.

Core Web Vitals is now a ranking signal

Slow LCP, layout shifts from late-loading ads or fonts, and poor interactivity scores actively suppress rankings — especially on mobile where most searches happen. Google's own data shows a direct correlation between page experience failures and ranking drops in competitive queries.

Schema markup is free ranking real estate you're leaving empty

FAQ snippets, star ratings, service cards, breadcrumbs — all of these are rendered in SERPs and drive clicks. They require structured data to appear, and most sites have none. Every undeployed schema type is a SERP feature your competitors can claim instead.

Audit, Prioritize, Fix, Monitor

Full Technical Audit

Crawl your site with Screaming Frog, pull GSC data, run Core Web Vitals across all pages, check schema coverage, and identify every indexability issue. Nothing is sampled — every URL is checked.

Prioritized Fix List

Categorize findings by impact: critical (fix first), high, medium, low. You get a ranked list of what to address and why, so budget is always directed at the changes that move rankings the most.

Implementation

We handle the actual dev work: schema deployment, .htaccess fixes, canonical tag cleanup, image optimization, render-blocking resource elimination. Not just a report — working fixes.

Monitoring Setup

Connect Google Search Console alerts, set up crawl monitoring, and track Core Web Vitals over time. Regressions get caught before they affect rankings, not weeks after.

What You Get

  • Full technical audit report (crawl data + GSC analysis)
  • Core Web Vitals assessment (all pages, not just homepage)
  • Schema markup implementation (Service, LocalBusiness, FAQPage, BreadcrumbList, Organization)
  • Canonical tag audit and cleanup
  • XML sitemap audit and resubmission
  • Crawl budget analysis and fix recommendations
  • Robots.txt review and update
  • Internal linking structure analysis
  • Redirect chain cleanup
  • Monthly monitoring dashboard
  • Page speed optimization (render-blocking resources, image compression, server-side caching headers)
  • Rich Results Test validation report for all deployed schema types
Screaming Frog Google Search Console PageSpeed Insights Chrome DevTools Schema.org JSON-LD Nginx .htaccess Google Tag Manager WebPageTest

We use Screaming Frog for crawl analysis and Google Search Console for indexability data. Schema is implemented as JSON-LD (not microdata) and validated against Google's Rich Results Test. Core Web Vitals are measured with field data from CrUX and lab data from PageSpeed Insights. For server-side fixes (Nginx config, caching headers, compression), we work directly with your hosting setup.

  • Full site crawl with Screaming Frog: status codes, redirect chains, canonical errors, duplicate content, missing meta
  • GSC coverage report analysis: excluded pages, soft 404s, discovered but not indexed, crawled but not indexed
  • Core Web Vitals lab + field data: LCP, CLS, INP across device types and page templates
  • JSON-LD schema deployment validated against Google's Rich Results Test before publish
  • Render-blocking resource elimination: defer/async scripts, critical CSS inlining, font preloading
  • Server-side performance: Nginx gzip, browser caching headers, HTTP/2 push, image compression pipeline
  • Internal link audit: orphan pages, link equity distribution, anchor text patterns
  • Redirect chain resolution: 301 → 301 → 200 chains flattened to single hops
  • XML sitemap validation: missing pages, excluded URLs, lastmod accuracy
  • Robots.txt audit: accidental blocks, wildcard disallow patterns, crawl budget directives

What These Fixes Look Like in Practice

Local service business with 50+ pages not indexed

The site had duplicate city-page content, missing canonicals, and a robots.txt blocking half the site. Fixed in 2 weeks: 47 additional pages indexed within 30 days of Googlebot recrawling, resulting in a measurable increase in organic visibility across target service areas.

E-commerce site with poor Core Web Vitals

LCP of 6.2s due to render-blocking scripts and uncompressed hero images. After eliminating render-blocking resources, compressing images, and adding lazy loading: LCP reduced to 1.4s. Mobile rankings improved across 200+ product pages within 6 weeks.

Professional services firm missing rich snippets

No schema markup on any page — the site was invisible to SERP feature eligibility. After deploying FAQPage, LocalBusiness, and Service schemas with JSON-LD, FAQ snippets appeared in SERPs within 3 weeks, increasing organic CTR on target queries.

What This Actually Does for You

3–5 Positions

Average ranking improvement for pages where technical issues were the primary suppression factor.

40–60%

Typical increase in click-through rate after FAQ rich snippets begin appearing in search results.

30 Days

Average time to see indexation improvements after crawl and canonical fixes are deployed and Googlebot recrawls.

100% Coverage

Every page audited, not just the top 10. Technical debt compounds — we find it all before it compounds further.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Regular SEO covers content strategy, keyword targeting, and link building. Technical SEO covers the infrastructure layer — how search engines crawl, render, and index your site. Both matter, but technical issues act as a ceiling: no amount of great content overcomes a site that Google can't properly crawl or that fails Core Web Vitals.
Most issues are fixed once and stay fixed. But sites change — new pages are added, plugins break things, CMS updates introduce new issues. We recommend a quarterly crawl audit and monthly GSC monitoring to catch regressions early.
Core Web Vitals are Google's page experience metrics: LCP (load speed), CLS (layout stability), and INP (interactivity). They became an official ranking signal in 2021. Sites that fail these metrics see a subtle ranking suppression, particularly in competitive queries where other signals are equal.
Yes. We've worked with WordPress, Webflow, Shopify, custom HTML sites, and headless stacks. The implementation approach varies — WordPress uses plugins and custom code, static sites need direct file edits — but the audit process and fixes apply regardless of platform.
Indexation improvements (pages getting indexed that were blocked) typically show within 2–4 weeks of Googlebot recrawling. Core Web Vitals improvements in GSC data take 28 days to fully update. Ranking changes from technical fixes typically appear within 4–8 weeks.