There is a particular kind of stuck where you have done the work, published the pages, earned some links, and the graph stays flat. Often the problem is not what is on the site. It is whether search engines can reach it, read it, and trust it enough to serve it. Finding and fixing that is work we do for clients, and if the problem turns out to be something else we will say so.
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Content and links get the attention. This is the part that decides whether either of them counts.
Whether Google can find your pages and whether it chooses to keep them. A broken robots.txt is rarer than the internet suggests. A stray noindex is not, and it is what we most often find on sites that arrive already knowing something is wrong.
How pages connect tells search engines what matters. Pages nobody links to get crawled less and rank worse, which is a problem we find on a lot of sites that have grown one page at a time.
The score itself is not a ranking factor. It is a baseline. A painfully slow or unstable site will hold you back, but going from acceptable to excellent rarely moves rankings on its own. We have written about why, because teams do the work, watch the scores improve, and are then disappointed when nothing happens.
We prefer server-side rendering, and we have written about why. If your pages assemble themselves in the browser after load, we check what a crawler actually receives rather than what you see on screen.
Schema markup that describes your business, products, articles and FAQs in a form machines read directly. It shapes how your result looks, and increasingly how AI assistants summarise you.
The single biggest speed problem we see on WordPress is Elementor, and bloated page builders generally. They are pleasant to work in and they ship an enormous amount of markup and script to do things that need very little of either. Sometimes the fix is configuration. Sometimes it is getting off the builder.
We do not refuse to work with any host. We do prefer a fast dedicated cloud host, shared hosting is fine when it is good enough, and when it is not we move people. Slow hosting is one of the few problems you cannot optimise your way around.
Technical SEO goes wrong when people apply a checklist without checking what is actually broken. We work the other way round.
Technical SEO is not always the bottleneck, and we will tell you if it is not yours.
Technical work usually runs alongside one of these rather than on its own.
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