Technical SEO Services That Power High Rankings
Your content and your design only matter if Google can actually crawl and index your pages. If your site is slow, throwing server errors, or built in a way search engines can't read, your rankings will suffer no matter how good everything else is.
We fix what's broken under the hood. Crawl errors, site speed, Core Web Vitals, redirect chains, duplicate content, structured data, and indexing problems. This is the foundation that makes your on-page SEO, local SEO, and keyword research actually pay off.
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Google Can't Rank What It Can't Crawl
Google sends bots to read your website. If those bots hit broken links, slow-loading pages, redirect chains, duplicate content, or a missing sitemap, they leave before they finish. Pages that don't get fully crawled don't get properly indexed. Pages that don't get indexed don't rank. It's that simple.
Technical SEO is the work that happens behind the scenes to make sure Google can access, read, and understand every page on your site. Site speed, mobile usability, clean URL structures, structured data, proper canonicals, and a crawl-friendly architecture.
Most sites we audit have 50 to 200 technical issues that nobody has ever looked at. Broken internal links, images that are 10x bigger than they need to be, redirect chains that are 3 or 4 hops deep, and pages that Google can't even find because the sitemap doesn't include them. We find all of it and fix it in priority order.
Why Most Sites Have Technical Problems
WordPress themes add bloated code. Plugins conflict with each other. Page builders generate unnecessary markup. Old redesigns leave behind redirect chains and orphaned URLs. It adds up fast, and nobody notices until rankings start dropping.
Technical SEO Comes First
We fix technical issues before doing on-page optimization or content work. There's no point rewriting your title tags if Google can't crawl the page fast enough to index the changes.
Local Rankings Need Clean Code Too
Slow site speed, missing schema, and crawl errors hurt your Map Pack rankings just as much as they hurt organic positions. Technical SEO and local SEO go hand in hand.
What We Fix in a Technical SEO Audit
Every technical audit covers these seven areas. We find the issues, rank them by impact, and fix them in order.
Crawl Errors and Indexing
Broken links, 404 errors, redirect chains, orphaned pages, and crawl budget waste. Every page Google can't reach or is ignoring gets logged and fixed.
Site Speed and Core Web Vitals
Image compression, code cleanup, render-blocking resources, and server response times. We get your LCP, FID, and CLS into passing range so Google and visitors both get a fast experience.
Mobile Usability
Google indexes the mobile version of your site first. Broken mobile layouts, tiny tap targets, and viewport issues hurt your rankings across all devices. We test and fix every page.
Structured Data and Schema
Schema tells Google what your business is, what services you offer, and how to display your pages in search. We add LocalBusiness, Service, FAQ, and Breadcrumb schema across your site.
XML Sitemaps and Robots.txt
Your sitemap should only include pages you want indexed. Your robots.txt shouldn't block important content. We audit both files and make sure Google sees the right pages in the right order.
Redirect Cleanup
Redirect chains waste crawl budget and dilute link equity. We audit every redirect on your site and collapse chains down to single hops pointing to the correct final destination.
Duplicate Content and Canonicals
Duplicate pages confuse Google about which version to rank. We set proper canonical tags, consolidate duplicate URLs, and make sure every page has one clear identity and one clear keyword target.
How We Fix Your Site's Technical Foundation
Every technical SEO engagement follows the same structured process. No guessing, no shortcuts.
Full Site Crawl and Diagnostics
We run a complete crawl of your site using Screaming Frog and cross-reference it with Google Search Console data. Every crawl error, broken link, server issue, redirect chain, indexing conflict, and Core Web Vitals failure gets documented and ranked by how much it's hurting your rankings right now.
Speed, Code, and Mobile Fixes
We compress oversized images, remove render-blocking resources, clean up bloated plugin code, and fix mobile layout issues. This is where most sites see the fastest improvements. A 2-second improvement in page load time can move rankings within weeks.
Architecture, Schema, and Indexation
We refine your site's URL structure, deploy structured data through Google Tag Manager, clean up your sitemap, and make sure only the right pages are indexed. Priority pages get pushed up. Thin pages, duplicate pages, and category archives get noindexed or redirected.
Monthly Monitoring
Technical issues don't stop after the initial fix. Plugin updates break things. New pages get created without proper canonicals. Server configurations change. We monitor your site every month, catch new issues early, and report on what we fixed in your monthly SEO report.
Why Long Island Businesses Trust Us for Technical SEO
Most agencies skip technical SEO because it's not glamorous. We start with it because nothing else works until the foundation is solid.
Other SEO Services That Build on Your Technical Foundation
On-Page SEO
Once the technical foundation is clean, on-page optimization makes every page work harder for your target keywords.
Learn MoreLocal SEO
Technical issues hurt Map Pack rankings just as much as organic. Clean code and proper schema help Google connect your business to your service area.
Learn MoreKeyword Research
Technical SEO tells Google your site is trustworthy. Keyword research tells it what you should rank for. Both are necessary.
Learn MoreSEO Reporting
Track how your technical fixes affect rankings and traffic every month. Clear data showing what moved and why.
Learn MoreWhat Our Clients Say
"Jason was great to work with. We had a lot of backend issues from a previous developer that were resolved quickly and professionally."
"I am extremely impressed with Jason and team at Design ME Marketing. They have been paramount in helping me grow my business with their extensive knowledge and strategy around all aspects of SEO and marketing."
"Design ME Marketing helped us revitalize our online presence and significantly improve our SEO to reach a broader B2B audience. They are knowledgeable, professional, timely, and incredibly responsive."
Technical SEO FAQ
Technical SEO covers everything that affects how Google crawls, indexes, and renders your website. That includes site speed, mobile usability, URL structure, redirects, sitemaps, robots.txt, structured data, and Core Web Vitals. It's the foundation that all other SEO work builds on.
On-page SEO focuses on the visible content of your pages: titles, headers, body copy, images, and internal links. Technical SEO deals with the infrastructure: how fast your server responds, whether Google can find your pages, how your URLs are structured, and whether your code is clean enough for search engines to parse. You need both.
Check Google Search Console for crawl errors, indexing issues, and Core Web Vitals warnings. Run your site through PageSpeed Insights and look at your mobile score. If your pages load in more than 3 seconds, if Google is reporting indexing problems, or if your rankings have dropped without any content changes, you almost certainly have technical issues.
Some fixes produce fast results. Fixing a sitemap that was excluding your service pages, collapsing a redirect chain on a high-traffic page, or compressing images that were slowing down your Core Web Vitals can show ranking movement within 2 to 4 weeks. Other structural fixes take longer as Google recrawls and reindexes your site.
Yes. That's our primary platform. We know where WordPress and Elementor create technical debt: bloated CSS from unused widgets, excessive DOM elements, theme-level redirect conflicts, and plugin conflicts that generate duplicate content. We fix the platform-specific issues alongside the general technical SEO work.
We review technical health every month as part of our ongoing SEO campaigns. Plugin updates, theme changes, and new page creation can introduce new issues at any time. A full re-audit makes sense every 6 months or after any major site change like a redesign, migration, or platform switch.