Technical SEO Consultant | Manchester & UK
Technical SEO: Fixing What's Holding Your Site Back
If Google can't properly crawl, interpret, and index your site, no amount of great content or backlinks will get you to page one. I diagnose and fix the technical foundations that underpin every successful SEO campaign.
I provide technical SEO consultancy to businesses across Manchester, Stockport, and the UK — fixing the crawlability, speed, and indexation issues that stop Google from properly seeing and ranking your site.
Book a Free ConsultationWhat a Technical SEO Audit Covers
A technical SEO audit is the starting point for every campaign I run. It gives us a complete picture of how search engines see your site and surfaces the issues that are directly costing you rankings and traffic.
Using tools including Screaming Frog, Sitebulb, Google Search Console, and PageSpeed Insights, I conduct a systematic review across every critical dimension of your site's technical health.
You receive a prioritised action plan, not a raw data dump. Each issue is explained in plain language with a clear recommendation, ranked by the impact it will have on your organic performance.
What I examine
- Crawlability & indexation: robots.txt, XML sitemaps, noindex tags, crawl budget, canonicalsation issues
- Core Web Vitals: LCP, CLS, INP across mobile and desktop; specific recommendations for improvement
- Site architecture: URL structure, internal linking, depth, orphan pages, pagination
- Structured data: Schema.org markup validation, rich result eligibility, implementation gaps
- Site speed: render-blocking resources, image optimisation, server response times, caching
- Mobile usability: mobile-first indexing compliance, tap target sizing, viewport configuration
- HTTPS & security: mixed content, redirect chains, HSTS, security headers
- Duplicate content: parameter handling, faceted navigation issues, thin content pages
- International SEO (where relevant): hreflang implementation, geo-targeting in GSC
- Log file analysis (advanced audits): how Googlebot actually crawls your site vs. what it should
Why Technical SEO is the Foundation
Technical SEO is the infrastructure that everything else sits on. You can produce the best content in your industry and earn high-quality backlinks, but if your site has fundamental crawlability or speed issues, Google will struggle to evaluate and reward that work.
The issues I most commonly find, the ones that cause the most damage, are the ones that are invisible to the naked eye. Canonical tags pointing the wrong way, JavaScript-rendered content that crawlers can't see, slow server response times on category pages, internal link structures that bury your most important pages. These aren't glamorous fixes, but they unlock everything else.
After a technical audit and implementation, clients typically see improvements in crawl coverage, faster indexing of new content, and meaningful lifts in Core Web Vitals scores, all of which feed directly into rankings.
Proven Results
+125% organic traffic · +552% organic revenue
A full technical audit of Illuminated Mirrors' site uncovered crawlability issues and over-optimised content suppressing their rankings. After technical fixes, content rewrites, and an outreach campaign, organic revenue grew by 552% in six months.
Technical SEO Services in Manchester and Stockport
Whether you're based in Manchester city centre, Stockport, Cheshire, or anywhere across Greater Manchester, technical SEO issues affect every site regardless of size or sector. As a technical SEO consultant in Manchester, I work with local businesses, eCommerce stores, and professional services firms across the region to diagnose and fix the technical problems holding their sites back.
Common issues I find and fix for Manchester and Stockport businesses:
- Slow page load times failing Core Web Vitals thresholds
- Crawl budget waste on large eCommerce sites
- Indexation problems where valuable pages aren't appearing in Google
- Broken internal link structures diluting page authority
- Missing or incorrect structured data (schema markup)
- Mobile usability issues causing ranking suppression
- Duplicate content created by CMS URL parameters
Technical SEO works best alongside a broader strategy. Once the foundations are solid, local SEO and on-page SEO build on those foundations to drive consistent, measurable ranking improvements. As a technical SEO expert in Stockport, I provide technical SEO services that give every other aspect of your campaign the best possible platform to perform.
Frequently Asked Questions
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A technical SEO audit covers crawlability and indexation, Core Web Vitals (LCP, CLS, INP), site architecture, structured data, site speed, mobile usability, HTTPS setup, duplicate content, and internal linking. You receive a prioritised action plan explaining each issue in plain language and how to fix it.
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For most small to medium business websites, a comprehensive technical SEO audit takes 3–5 days to complete. Larger eCommerce sites or those with complex architectures may take 7–10 days. You'll receive a full report with prioritised recommendations at the end.
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Yes — many ranking drops are caused by technical issues rather than content or link-related factors. Common culprits include accidental noindex tags, redirect chains diluting link equity, canonicalisation errors, and Core Web Vitals failures. Technical SEO should be the first thing investigated when rankings unexpectedly fall.
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A one-off audit is a great starting point that surfaces the issues currently holding your site back. Ongoing technical SEO makes sense for sites that publish frequently, run major development projects, or need continuous monitoring for crawl errors, indexation problems, and Core Web Vitals regressions. I offer both.
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