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Technical SEO services for WordPress, one problem at a time

Technical SEO services fix the parts of a WordPress or WooCommerce site that stop Google crawling, rendering, indexing and understanding it: indexing, speed, schema, redirects and internal links. Each of the 20 below is one fixed-scope job, done by me, Muhammad Younus, a WordPress SEO consultant working remotely and booked on Upwork.

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$ ls /services/ ✓ Crawling and indexing 4 - Technical SEO audit, Crawlability and indexing, Robots and sitemaps, Duplicate content and canonicals✓ Speed and rendering 4 - Core Web Vitals, WordPress speed, JavaScript and rendering, Page builder SEO✓ Structure and content 5 - Internal linking, Local SEO, Content audit and pruning, Keyword cannibalization, Schema markup✓ Stores, moves and recovery 4 - WooCommerce SEO, Site migration, Penalty and drop recovery, Hreflang and multilingual✓ AI search 3 - Answer engine optimization, Generative engine optimization, AI SEO services
20Services, one person
8Case studies behind them
100+WordPress sites fixed
100%Job Success on Upwork
// start here

Which technical SEO service does your site need?

Start from what you're seeing, not from a service name. If more than one row sounds familiar, that's fine: the audit ranks them for you.

Which service matches which problem
What you're seeingWhere to startWhy
Traffic fell off a cliff Penalty and drop recovery The drop gets dated and diagnosed before anyone assumes a penalty
Pages stuck as crawled, not indexed Crawlability and indexing Each excluded group is traced to the setting or template behind it
A redesign or platform move coming up Site migration The redirect map gets built before launch, not after the drop
Store categories stuck on page two WooCommerce SEO Filter and sort URLs stop eating the crawl, and categories get worked on first
Search Console says pages are poor on speed Core Web Vitals Judged on the field data Google uses, not a lab score
The site is slow, and worst at checkout WordPress speed Server, caching, images and scripts get timed layer by layer
The wrong page ranks for your main search Keyword cannibalization One owner page per query, found in your own Search Console
Missing from ChatGPT and AI answers AI SEO services Crawler access gets checked before any content is rewritten
Not sure what's wrong at all Technical SEO audit A fix list ranked by the clicks each fault costs
// the definition

What are technical SEO services?

Technical SEO services are the work that makes a site readable to search engines before anyone judges its content. They cover crawling (can Googlebot reach the page?), rendering (does it see what a visitor sees?), indexing (does Google keep the page?), and understanding (do the canonicals, schema and internal links say what the page is?). Speed belongs here too, because Core Web Vitals are measured on the same pages.

That's different from on-page SEO, which is the words, titles and headings on each page, and from off-page SEO, which is the links and mentions that earn a site authority. Technical problems come first because they cap everything else: a page Google won't index can't rank for anything, however well it's written. If you'd like the plain-English version, here's what technical SEO is, the way I explain it to clients.

On WordPress, the causes are usually specific. The theme, the page builder, the SEO plugin, the cache and WooCommerce all write into the same HTML, robots.txt, sitemap and schema, and most faults are two of them disagreeing.

// scope

What's in these technical SEO services, and what isn't?

Everything on the left is diagnosed and fixed by one person. Everything on the right is work I don't sell, so none of it gets padded into a quote.

In scope

  • Crawling, indexing, canonicals, robots.txt and XML sitemaps
  • Core Web Vitals and WordPress speed, judged on field data
  • Schema markup, internal links and duplicate or thin pages
  • WooCommerce catalogues, migrations and traffic drop recovery
  • Local SEO on the website side, and AI search readiness

Not in scope

  • Link building, guest posts and digital PR
  • Paid ads and social media
  • Sites that aren't on WordPress and aren't moving to it
  • Ranking guarantees of any kind
// what the work turns up

What do technical SEO fixes find on WordPress?

Six faults I see again and again. None of them shows on the front end, and each one shows clearly in a crawl or in Search Console.

// found A noindex left on from staging One tick box under Settings, Reading, or a plugin's per-page switch, and whole sections drop out of Google. // found Archives nobody meant to publish Tag, author, date and attachment pages that the SEO plugin left indexable, competing with the pages that sell. // found Filter and sort URLs on a store WooCommerce layered navigation can spin a few hundred products into thousands of crawlable URLs. // found Redirect chains from old redesigns Each hop wastes a crawl and leaks the signal the old URL had earned. // found Two plugins printing schema The theme and the SEO plugin each output markup, and the duplicates contradict each other. // found A page builder's weight on mobile Nested containers, unused CSS and sliders that push Largest Contentful Paint past the limit.
// crawling and indexing4 services

Crawling and indexing

// not sure what's wrong Technical SEO audit Technical SEO audit services should end in a short fix list, each fault tied to the clicks it's costing. // pages not indexed Crawlability and indexing Hiring a Google Search Console expert gets you a diagnosis of which URLs Google can't reach, which it reached and passed over, and which were never worth indexing. // sitemap or robots errors Robots and sitemaps Sitemap could not be read means Google's fetch failed: a robots.txt block, a wrong URL, a server or firewall error, an unresolved manual action or low crawl demand. // duplicate URLs indexed Duplicate content and canonicals Most WordPress duplicate content is one page at several URLs, and the cost is split clicks, not a penalty.
// speed and rendering4 services

Speed and rendering

// poor vitals in Search Console Core Web Vitals A Core Web Vitals optimization service gets LCP, INP and CLS into Google's good range for the visitors you actually have. // slow pages, slow checkout WordPress speed A WordPress speed optimization service should fix the whole stack: server response, caching, delivery, images, scripts, the database and checkout. // content Google can't render JavaScript and rendering JavaScript SEO services make sure the content, links and tags that matter are in the HTML search engines actually process. // page builder bloat Page builder SEO An Elementor SEO service is mostly about what the builder puts in the HTML, not which SEO plugin runs alongside it.
// structure and content5 services

Structure and content

// orphaned money pages Internal linking An internal linking service decides which of your pages Google treats as important, and it's the cheapest ranking lever you own. // weak in the map pack Local SEO A local SEO consultant improves how an eligible business and its website appear when somebody nearby searches for what it sells, across Google Search, Google Maps and the Business Profile. // thin pages dragging the rest Content audit and pruning A content audit gives every indexable page a decision: keep, improve, merge, redirect, noindex or remove. Content pruning is the cleanup that follows. // the wrong page ranks Keyword cannibalization Keyword cannibalization is when two of your own pages split one query and Google keeps swapping which it shows. // rich results missing Schema markup A schema markup consultant makes your WordPress structured data accurate, single and connected, so machines read the business correctly.
// stores, moves and recovery4 services

Stores, moves and recovery

// categories stuck on page two WooCommerce SEO WooCommerce SEO services fix the URLs, schema and category pages a store creates by itself, not just titles. // a move or redesign coming Site migration Website migration SEO services protect rankings by redirecting every old URL with traffic to its closest new page. // traffic fell off a cliff Penalty and drop recovery Google penalty recovery services should prove there's a penalty before treating one, because most sudden drops have another cause. // wrong language version ranks Hreflang and multilingual Multilingual SEO services make sure Google shows each searcher the right language version, which comes down to hreflang, canonicals, URLs and the words each market types.
// ai search3 services

AI search

// never the quoted answer Answer engine optimization Answer engine optimization restructures a page so an engine can lift one passage as the direct answer. // not cited by AI engines Generative engine optimization Generative engine optimization makes a business easier to choose and cite when an AI engine writes an answer from several sources. // missing from AI answers AI SEO services AI SEO services should start with a readiness audit: can AI crawlers reach, render and read the WordPress site at all?
// proof

What have these services done on live sites?

Three results, each from the client's own Search Console with the window it was measured over. All 8 case studies also show the number that isn't good yet.

Search Console for gkjewelers.pk, three months: 40.4K clicks, 1.1M impressions, a mid June dip
// jewellery ecommerce - pakistan GK Jewelers
39,953clicks, 13 June to 11 September 2026

A redesign shipped without a redirect map. The redirects, then category and product page work, put the store back above its old line, at average position 4.0.

Read the case study →
Search Console for brightpathwaysaba.com, three months: 6.36K clicks, 615K impressions, pos. 12.5
// aba therapy - texas and colorado Bright Pathways ABA
6,330clicks, 13 June to 11 September 2026

Location pages across the towns the practice serves, built in WordPress, with the brand holding position 1.1.

Read the case study →
Search Console for alpenglowfireplace.com, 28 days: 54 clicks from 728 impressions, a 7.4% CTR
// fireplace sales and service - arlington Alpenglow Fireplace
7.42%click rate, 16 August to 12 September 2026

A new WordPress site launched on 9 August. The titles and descriptions matched what people search from the first month.

Read the case study →
// timeline

How long do technical SEO services take to work?

Redirect and indexing fixes can show within days. When GK Jewelers' redirects went in, daily clicks went from 49 on 15 June 2026 to 362 on 20 June. Most other technical changes need four to eight weeks before they're worth judging, because Google has to recrawl and re-evaluate each page first.

Speed takes longest to prove. The Core Web Vitals report runs on real visits collected over time, so a fix that's live today shows up in field data weeks later, not on the day. I'll tell you which of these to expect before the work starts.

// how booking works

How does booking a technical SEO service work?

i.

Book a short call

Tell me what's wrong and share the URL. If none of these services fits your problem, you'll hear that on the call.

ii.

Get a fixed scope

The work, the order and the price go on Upwork before anything starts, and payments stay in milestones.

iii.

Judge it in Search Console

Every change is dated and compared against a baseline after four to eight weeks, in clicks, not scores.

// one consultant

Why hire one consultant for technical SEO?

A bigger firm usually sells a bundle and a monthly report. These services aren't that: they're single problems, fixed by the person who found them. You'll find what to send first on the contact page. The posts on how I fix WordPress SEO show how I handle each job, and the industry pages show which of these matter most in your trade.

// a typical bundled package

What you usually buy

  • A retainer covering content, links and a ranking report
  • An account manager between you and the specialist
  • A plugin score instead of a list of fixes
  • Social media, email marketing and ads added to the bill
// these services

What you get here

  • One fixed scope per problem, quoted on Upwork
  • The person who diagnoses the site is the one who'll make the fix
  • A before and after report you'll read in your own Search Console
  • No link building, paid ads or web design, so none gets padded in
// before you book

Technical SEO services, your questions

Which technical SEO service should I start with?

If you don't know what's wrong, start with the technical SEO audit. It ranks every fault by the clicks it costs, and the other services pick up from that list.

How much do technical SEO services cost?

The technical SEO audit is $149 and the audit with its fixes is $999, the same figures as the homepage and the terms. The rest are quoted as a fixed scope after a short call, because a 20 page site and a 5,000 product store aren't the same job. There's no hourly meter running.

Is SEO still worth it now that AI answers exist?

Yes. ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews quote pages that search engines can already crawl, index and trust, so the technical work that ranks a page is the work that gets it cited. I wrote up whether SEO is worth it for your site, AI answers included.

Can ChatGPT do technical SEO?

It can explain an error or draft a title. It can't see your Search Console, crawl the site the way Googlebot does, or change what your theme and plugins output, and that's where technical problems live. A chatbot's guess is a starting point, not a diagnosis.

Which SEO plugin is best for WordPress?

Rank Math and Yoast both do the job, and I work in both. The settings matter far more than the logo: most of the problems I find come from defaults nobody changed. I've written up how I choose between Rank Math and Yoast.

Can you do more than one of these on the same site?

Yes, and most sites need two or three. They're scoped in the order the audit ranks them, so the biggest leak gets fixed first.

Do you work on sites that aren't WordPress?

No. Shopify, Wix and Webflow only come up as the origin of a move to WordPress, because WordPress and WooCommerce are the platforms I know down to the template files.

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// not sure which one?

Book a call. I'll tell you which.

Most sites don't need all of these. Book a call on Upwork, share the URL and read-only Search Console access, and you'll get back the two or three problems that are actually costing clicks, with nothing padded around them.

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