WordPress SEO services from people who work in the admin every day
Generic SEO advice stops at “improve your page speed” and “add schema”. On WordPress the useful answer is which plugin is emitting the duplicate markup, why your tag archives are eating your crawl budget, and what Elementor is adding to every page. That is the level we work at, for clients across the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
What WordPress does badly out of the box
None of this is a reason to leave WordPress. All of it is a reason not to treat a WordPress site like any other site.
Attachment pages
WordPress makes a page for every image you upload. Hundreds of thin URLs with no content, all crawlable, all competing with the pages you care about.
Category and tag archives
Tag pages generated from a single use tag, pagination running twelve pages deep with no canonical strategy, and the same posts listed in four places.
Duplicate schema
An SEO plugin outputs Article JSON-LD, the theme outputs its own, and a review plugin adds a third. Google picks one block or trusts none of them.
Page builder weight
Elementor and Divi wrap content in nested divs. It is not a penalty, but it slows the page and buries the text that should be prominent.
Default permalinks
Sites still running ?p=123 or dates in every URL, so the structure says nothing about the page and changing it now means a redirect map.
Plugin sitemaps fighting
Two plugins each generating a sitemap, one of them listing URLs the other marks noindex. Search Console reports both and trusts neither.
Rank Math or Yoast, and does it matter
Less than the internet suggests. Both handle titles, meta, sitemaps and schema perfectly well, and neither will rank you on its own.
We use Rank Math on most builds because the schema controls are finer grained and more of it is in the free tier. Yoast is the safer institutional choice and its content analysis is gentler on writers. SEOPress is the lightest of the three. What matters far more is that you run exactly one of them, that its schema is not duplicating the theme, and that somebody has actually been through the settings rather than accepting defaults.
If you are already on one, we will not move you unless there is a reason. Migrating SEO settings between plugins is a genuine risk and “the other one is slightly better” is not worth it.
What WordPress SEO services actually involve
Four areas, and what a WordPress SEO agency should actually be doing. We start by measuring, so you only pay for the ones your site needs.
Technical, on WordPress terms
- Attachment pages disabled and redirected
- Thin taxonomy archives noindexed, useful ones kept
- One sitemap, generated correctly, submitted once
- Permalink structure fixed with redirects where needed
- Core Web Vitals handled at the template level
Structured data that validates
- One source of schema, duplicates removed
- Organization, LocalBusiness and Article where they apply
- WooCommerce product, price and availability markup
- FAQ and HowTo only where the content genuinely is that
- Checked in the Rich Results Test, not assumed
Content and structure
- One page owning one keyword, mapped before writing
- Internal links that follow the silo rather than a plugin’s guess
- Post types and taxonomies arranged for how people search
- Titles and meta written per template, not by formula
Reporting you can act on
- Search Console and Analytics configured properly
- Rankings tracked per page, not as one average
- A monthly note on what moved and what we changed
- Honest about what has not worked yet
What it has been worth
WordPress sites we built or took over, then grew. Figures from the clients’ own Search Console and Analytics.
Organic clicks, six months against the six before. Migration law firm in Sydney, on WordPress, alongside 300+ quote form enquiries.
Organic leads a day. Mould removal company in Melbourne, rebuilt on WordPress then grown with local search.
Traffic and lead volume. Commercial cleaning group in Australia, custom WordPress site plus twelve months of local SEO.
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WordPress SEO questions, answered straight
SEO services for WordPress are the end of it we cover here. Our wider SEO services cover strategy and content on any platform, and the rest of what we do with WordPress is on the services page.
Want to know what is holding your site back?
Send the URL. We will look at the plugin setup, the schema and the crawl waste, and tell you the three things worth fixing first.
How much does it cost to hire someone to do SEO?
For WordPress specifically, a one-off technical clean up is a fixed price and usually the right first step. Ongoing work is a monthly retainer and the number depends on how competitive your market is and how much content needs writing. We quote after looking at the site and the search results you are actually trying to win, not from a package sheet.
Which SEO is best for WordPress?
Rank Math, Yoast and SEOPress are all capable, and the choice matters far less than the configuration. Run one, not two. Make sure it is not duplicating schema your theme already outputs. Then spend your effort on the pages themselves, because no plugin has ever ranked a page on its own.
Is SEO still worth it in 2026?
Yes, though the shape has changed. Fewer people click through from informational queries because AI answers them in the results. Commercial searches, where somebody is choosing who to hire or buy from, still convert through organic results. If your pages exist to win those searches, the work still pays.
Is SEO dead now with AI?
No, but ranking for definitions and how-to questions largely is. The answer engines need sources, and they cite pages that are specific, current and structured. That is the same work as ranking well, aimed slightly differently. We cover it properly on our AI search optimisation page.
Do I need to leave Elementor to rank?
No. We build in Elementor and rank sites built in it. What hurts is nesting sections eight deep, loading widget CSS on templates that never use it, and letting the builder bury your H1 under three wrappers. Those are build problems, not Elementor problems.
Can you do SEO on a WooCommerce store?
Yes. Product and category pages, variation URLs that would otherwise duplicate, filter and facet pages that eat crawl budget, and product schema with price and availability that stays accurate as stock changes.
How is this different from your main SEO service?
Same discipline, narrower lens. Our SEO services page covers strategy, content and links on any platform. This page is for when the site is WordPress and the problems are WordPress ones. Most clients end up using both.
Tell us what you need and we will show you how we would do it
Share a few details about your business and what you want to fix or build. It could be a new website, a WordPress site that keeps breaking, SEO that has stalled, or a sales process that needs automating. We will come back with honest advice, even if that means a smaller job than you expected.
A reply within one business day
A real person on the team reads your message and replies, usually the same day.
A free review of your current setup
We look at your website, rankings or systems before we talk, so the call is useful.
A written proposal
You get a clear scope, timeline and price in writing before any work starts.
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