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TECHNICAL SEO

Fix the Foundation. Then Build Traffic That Lasts.

No rankings without it.

Technical SEO is the infrastructure that every other SEO investment runs on. A broken foundation means every piece of content you publish, every link you earn, and every dollar you spend on optimisation is working at 40% efficiency. We fix that.

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Site Audit Results

Crawl errors1420
Core Web Vitals3897
Page speed4496

Lighthouse scores

98

Perf

100

Access

100

SEO

96

Best P.

Page Speed

98/100

Technical SEO

Trusted by Canadian service businesses
Apex Dental
Toronto Limo Co
Hudson Outdoor
Cedar Law
Coastal Collective
Elevate Fitness
Maple Comfort
Greenscape Designs
Caldwell HVAC
Morrison Barristers
Oak & Vine
Purecycle Fitness
Apex Dental
Toronto Limo Co
Hudson Outdoor
Cedar Law
Coastal Collective
Elevate Fitness
Maple Comfort
Greenscape Designs
Caldwell HVAC
Morrison Barristers
Oak & Vine
Purecycle Fitness

97%

Avg. crawl score after audit

< 2s

Avg. LCP after optimisation

+48%

Avg. organic traffic lift

Senior

Technical team

Why technical SEO comes first

Every other SEO investment is limited by your technical foundation.

Most businesses invest in content and link building before fixing their technical foundation — and then wonder why results plateau. Crawl errors, JavaScript rendering issues, broken redirect chains, and Core Web Vitals failures silently limit the impact of everything else you're spending on SEO. We find and fix the foundation first, then build on top of it.

Technical SEO issues are often invisible to site owners. You can't see a broken redirect chain in your website editor. You can't feel a slow LCP without running a Lighthouse test. But Googlebot sees all of it — and it affects how efficiently Google indexes your content and how it ranks your pages. The businesses that invest in technical health consistently outperform their competitors at every content investment level.

Full technical audit before any content or link investment
Core Web Vitals optimisation (LCP, CLS, INP) to green across all pages
Crawl budget management for large sites (10,000+ pages)
Structured data and schema implementation for all relevant content types
Redirect audit and chain elimination for clean signal flow

97%

Avg. crawl score after audit

< 2s

Avg. LCP after optimisation

+48%

Avg. organic traffic lift

Senior

Technical team

Why technical health compounds

A clean technical foundation multiplies the return on every other SEO investment.

Think of technical SEO as the plumbing in a building. When it works, no one notices. When it doesn't, everything else underperforms. A site with crawl errors, broken redirect chains, and failing Core Web Vitals scores isn't just losing rankings — it's diluting the value of every piece of content it publishes and every backlink it earns.

We've inherited technical SEO situations where fixing the foundation — with no new content, no new links — produced a 40-60% lift in organic traffic within 60 days. The content was already there. The links were already there. The foundation was preventing Google from seeing them properly. Technical SEO is often the fastest path to organic growth for established sites because it unlocks value that already exists.

We crawl your entire site with Screaming Frog plus custom scripts before writing a single recommendation — no guessing, no pattern-matching from similar sites.
Fixes are prioritised by revenue impact: we tell you which issues are costing you the most traffic and fix those first, regardless of how 'severe' they look in an audit report.
For CMS-level fixes (redirects, canonicals, meta tags), we implement directly. For code-level fixes, we provide implementation specs and work alongside your development team to verify.
After every fix sprint, we re-crawl the affected pages to verify fixes are implemented correctly and haven't introduced new issues — before closing the item.
We set up GSC alerts and run monthly crawls to catch new technical issues before they compound — because a clean technical state requires maintenance, not just a one-time audit.
Our Core Web Vitals work produces measurable results: average LCP improvement from 5.2s to 1.8s, with Lighthouse scores consistently reaching 95+ across all key page templates.
What we cover

Every service under one roof.

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Technical Audit

Find every issue holding back your organic performance.

A comprehensive technical audit of your entire site — crawl coverage, indexation, redirect chains, Core Web Vitals, JavaScript rendering, structured data, internal linking, and more. Delivered as a prioritised action list with clear implementation instructions for your development team or ours.

Full crawl analysis with Screaming Frog + custom scripts
JavaScript rendering audit (Googlebot rendering comparison)
Core Web Vitals analysis by page template
Internal linking audit and equity flow mapping
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Active coverage area

Find every issue holding back your organic performance.

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Intent

Buyer need

Proof

Trust signal

Action

Lead path

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Full crawl analysis with Screaming Frog + custom scripts

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JavaScript rendering audit (Googlebot rendering comparison)

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Core Web Vitals analysis by page template

Coverage progress20%

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Capabilities

Built for performance at every layer.

Full Technical Audit

Crawl analysis, indexation review, redirect chains, and structured data — delivered as a prioritised fix list with clear implementation specs.

Core Web Vitals

LCP, CLS, and INP optimisation at the code level. Green Lighthouse scores across every page template, verified after every fix sprint.

Crawl & Indexation

Crawl budget management, sitemap optimisation, and canonicalisation strategy for sites of any size — from 50 pages to 500,000.

JavaScript SEO

Rendering analysis comparing what users see vs. what Googlebot sees. SSR and SSG recommendations for JavaScript-heavy sites.

International SEO

Hreflang implementation, ccTLD strategy, and geo-targeting configuration for multi-language and multi-region sites.

Redirect Management

Full redirect chain audit and elimination. Clean 301s that preserve every point of your accumulated link equity after any migration.

Structured Data

Schema markup across all relevant types — LocalBusiness, FAQ, Article, Product, Review, and more. Verified with Google Rich Results Test.

Security & HTTPS

HTTPS migration, mixed content resolution, and security header configuration. Full SSL compliance with HSTS implementation.

Log File Analysis

Server log analysis to understand exactly how Googlebot is crawling your site, where budget is wasted, and which pages are being ignored.

Technology

The platforms we build on.

We're platform-agnostic but opinionated. Every platform recommendation is made after understanding your business model, your team's capability, and your growth plans — not because it's easiest for us.

Screaming Frog

Site crawler

Our primary crawl tool for technical audits. We use custom extraction scripts and crawl configurations to identify every issue class — redirects, missing metadata, Core Web Vitals data, structured data errors, and internal link equity flow.

Google Search Console

Google data

The authoritative source for how Google is indexing your site. We set up proper GSC configuration, monitor coverage reports, and build custom alerts for new indexation errors, Core Web Vitals failures, and manual actions.

Lighthouse / PageSpeed Insights

Performance

We run Lighthouse audits in CI/CD pipelines so performance regressions are caught at the code level before deployment. Every Core Web Vitals fix is verified with before-and-after Lighthouse scores across all key page templates.

Ahrefs

Link analysis

Used for backlink auditing, toxic link identification, and tracking how link equity flows through your site architecture. Essential for understanding the true impact of redirect chain elimination and internal linking improvements.

Cloudflare

CDN & caching

For sites where server-level performance is a limiting factor, we implement Cloudflare CDN with optimal caching configuration. Often the fastest path to Core Web Vitals improvement for sites on shared hosting or slow server infrastructure.

Google Tag Manager

Tracking

Proper GTM implementation ensures analytics and conversion tracking don't interfere with page performance. We audit and optimise tag firing rules to minimise the performance impact of third-party scripts.

Selected Work

Proven outcomes.

All work

+165%

Organic traffic

340+

Issues fixed

SaaS

Nova FinTech

Full technical audit revealed 340+ crawl errors and 28 redirect chains accumulated across three site migrations. Fixed in 6 weeks. Organic traffic lifted 165% within 90 days of implementation.

+165%

Organic traffic

340+

Issues fixed

1.4s

LCP (was 6.8s)

+88%

Rankings

Real Estate

Prime Realty Group

Core Web Vitals overhaul on a 2,400-page property site. LCP improved from 6.8s to 1.4s. Page rankings lifted across all key queries within 8 weeks of Lighthouse scores going green.

1.4s

LCP (was 6.8s)

+88%

Rankings

100%

Traffic recovered

< 30 days

Recovery time

eCommerce

Coastal Collective

Post-redesign technical SEO rescue. Previous agency's missing redirect map caused a 60% traffic drop on launch. Full redirect mapping and crawl recovery completed in under 30 days.

100%

Traffic recovered

< 30 days

Recovery time

How we work

Our Strategic Process

Step 1

Crawl your entire site and document every technical issue class.

We use Screaming Frog and custom scripts to crawl your complete site — identifying crawl errors, redirect chains, duplicate content, missing or broken metadata, JavaScript rendering discrepancies, and every other technical issue class. The crawl output is the ground truth for everything that follows.

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FAQ

Answers, before you ask.

The most common questions we hear about services, process, timelines, and fit — answered plainly.

If your site has more than 50 pages, has undergone a redesign or CMS migration in the last three years, or has seen unexplained organic traffic drops, there are almost certainly technical issues present. Most technical SEO problems are invisible to site owners because they don't affect how the site looks or functions for users — only for Googlebot. An intro call with a prepared review is the fastest way to find out what's actually happening.

Insights

Industry perspectives.

Practical guides and data-backed insights from our senior team.

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Technical SEO

The Technical SEO Audit Process We Run on Every New Client Site

Technical SEO·7 min read

The Technical SEO Audit Process We Run on Every New Client Site

Most technical SEO audits are raw crawl outputs with a severity score next to each issue. That's not actionable. Our audit process produces a prioritised fix list ranked by expected traffic impact — so development resources go to the issues costing you the most organic revenue first. Here's the full methodology.

Technical SEO·7 min read

Core Web Vitals

Core Web Vitals Fix Priority: Which Metric Moves Rankings Fastest

Core Web Vitals·6 min read

Core Web Vitals Fix Priority: Which Metric Moves Rankings Fastest

LCP, CLS, and INP each affect rankings differently — and fixing each one requires different interventions. After optimising Core Web Vitals across 80+ client sites, we have a clear picture of which fixes produce the fastest ranking impact and which ones are important for completeness but slow to show results. Here's what to fix first.

Core Web Vitals·6 min read

Site Migration

How to Redesign Your Website Without Destroying Your SEO Rankings

Site Migration·5 min read

How to Redesign Your Website Without Destroying Your SEO Rankings

A website redesign without a proper technical SEO migration plan is one of the most reliable ways to wipe out years of organic authority. We've completed over 40 migrations without a meaningful ranking loss and rescued dozens of businesses from bad ones. Here's the complete pre-launch checklist we use on every migration.

Site Migration·5 min read
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