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Your website might look fine on the surface, but hidden technical issues can quietly hold it back. Slow load times, crawl errors, and poor structure often prevent search engines from understanding your site and users from trusting it.

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What Is Technical SEO?

Technical SEO is the process of making sure your website follows search engine guidelines so it can be crawled, indexed, and understood correctly.

The goal is to uncover and fix technical gaps that block performance, cause crawling issues, or slow down user experience.

I help identify and correct these hidden problems before they affect your rankings or revenue, so your website performs smoothly and delivers a consistent experience to users and search engines alike.

Why Technical SEO Matters?

Search engines are getting smarter, and user expectations are higher than ever. Technical SEO is what ensures your website can be crawled, understood, and trusted while delivering a fast, reliable user experience.

1. Protect Rankings and Traffic

Slow pages, broken redirects, crawl errors, and poor site structure can all trigger ranking losses. These issues often go unnoticed until traffic drops. Technical SEO fixes these problems at the source before they impact visibility and revenue.

2. Create a Better User Experience

Technical SEO directly affects how users experience your site on mobile and desktop. Fast load times, clean navigation, and reliable page rendering reduce frustration and improve engagement. When users can move through your site easily, conversions naturally improve.

3. Improve Speed and Conversions

Performance is a ranking factor and a conversion factor. Even small delays can reduce form submissions, sales, and engagement. Technical SEO ensures your site is fast, stable, and built to perform consistently under real-world conditions.

What are Technical SEO Services?

Technical SEO services focus on optimizing the infrastructure of your website so search engines can crawl, index, and understand it correctly while users get a fast, reliable experience.

Search engines now prioritize websites that load fast, run smoothly, and create a positive experience for users. That means every successful business website needs a solid technical foundation.

I help business owners build that foundation through detailed technical SEO and performance optimization. It’s not glamorous work, but it’s what separates websites that struggle from those that grow consistently.

By diagnosing and fixing what’s broken under the surface, I make sure your site runs efficiently, gets crawled properly, and earns better visibility in search.

A deep look into your website’s technical health

My technical site audits uncover exactly what’s holding your website back. I analyze every layer of your site to find the issues that block Google’s understanding and frustrate your users.

  • Crawlability and indexing
  • Robots.txt configuration
  • Mobile performance and accessibility
  • Site speed and image optimization
  • Internal link structure and redirects
  • XML sitemap setup
  • Analytics tracking accuracy
  • Metadata and schema structure review
  • Keyword and content crawl depth analysis

Recover lost traffic and reputation

If your rankings suddenly dropped or your site was hit by a penalty, I can help you recover. Whether it happened after a poor SEO campaign or because of algorithm updates, I’ll identify the cause and rebuild your visibility safely.

  • Recover lost traffic
  • Regain rankings
  • Rebuild trust and authority with Google
  • Identify penalty type and cause using Search Console
  • Resolve harmful backlinks or duplicate content
  • Submit reconsideration requests when necessary

Protect your SEO during redesigns and platform changes

When moving your website to a new platform, domain, or HTTPS, small technical errors can cause big performance losses. I handle migrations carefully to preserve your rankings, traffic, and user experience.

  • Maintain search performance and domain authority
  • Secure your site with HTTPS
  • Improve mobile usability and engagement
  • Benchmark analytics and map URL changes
  • Remove duplicate content and manage 404 pages
  • Monitor traffic and rankings post-launch

No one wants to wait for a slow website

Website speed directly affects rankings, conversions, and user experience. I optimize your site to meet Core Web Vitals and load fast across all devices.

  • Reducing server response time (TTFB)
  • Minimizing unused resources
  • Improving caching and compression
  • Lowering bounce rates
  • Reduce redirects
  • Streamline code efficiency
  • Use content delivery networks (CDNs) for faster global response

Making WordPress sites faster, cleaner, and easier for Google to crawl

Most business websites run on WordPress, but few are configured to perform properly. Poorly coded themes, excessive plugins, and unoptimized hosting setups often slow everything down and create crawl errors.

  • Plugin and theme cleanup to remove bloat
  • Core Web Vitals and performance optimization
  • Server and caching configuration
  • Database optimization and post revisions cleanup
  • Image compression and lazy loading
  • Security hardening and uptime monitoring
  • Technical SEO alignment (schema, robots.txt, XML sitemap, redirects)
  • Hosting and CDN review for maximum efficiency

Help Google understand your content clearly

Structured data (Schema.org) makes your website easier for search engines to interpret. I implement JSON-LD markup that enhances how your pages appear in search results.

  • Better context for Google and AI systems
  • Eligibility for rich results and SERP features
  • Higher click-through rates from organic search
  • Validation and testing via Google’s Rich Results tool
  • Custom schema implementation for specific content types (FAQ, Product, Local Business, etc.)

Understand your competitive landscape

Competitor analysis helps identify what’s working for others in your industry and where your site can gain an advantage. I research technical and strategic data to reveal gaps you can use to outperform them.

  • Keyword and ranking performance
  • Technical health comparison
  • Backlink and off-page profile
  • Content quality and optimization depth
  • Page speed and UX factors
  • Schema and metadata usage
  • Overall SEO and PPC strategy insights

Fast, accessible visuals that boost performance

Images improve user experience, but unoptimized images can slow your site down and hurt rankings. I optimize every visual element to strike the perfect balance between quality and performance.

  • Reduced load times
  • Improved accessibility
  • Better visibility in Google Images
  • Enhanced user engagement
  • Choose optimal file formats
  • Compress without quality loss
  • Generate image sitemaps

Clean, strong, and secure link profile

Backlinks still matter, but poor-quality links can drag your site down. I analyze your backlink profile to identify harmful links and uncover safe opportunities for authority growth.

  • Provide a full backlink health report
  • Harmful link removal or disavow recommendations
  • Suggestions for new high-value link opportunities
  • Evaluate anchor text distribution
  • Identify toxic or low-quality links
  • Build a safe, sustainable link growth plan

Prepare your site for AI-driven search

AI platforms like ChatGPT and Google Gemini are changing how people find information. I optimize your site so that AI models understand, trust, and reference your content correctly.

  • AI-friendly content alignment
  • Enhanced schema and structured data
  • Better visibility across AI-powered search engines
  • Prompt-optimized keywords
  • Optimize for conversational search intent
  • Structure data for AI result integration

The Person Behind GrailHiiv

I’m a technical SEO specialist focused on fixing the infrastructure issues that prevent websites from performing well in search. My work centers on crawlability, site speed, WordPress optimization, and overall technical stability.

I work independently, which means every audit, fix, and recommendation comes directly from me. I take a diagnostic approach to technical SEO, starting with understanding how a site is built, how search engines interact with it, and where friction exists for users.

I don’t sell shortcuts or generic SEO packages. I focus on identifying root technical problems and resolving them in a way that supports long-term growth, scalability, and clarity for both search engines and site owners.

Technical SEO Pricing

Technical SEO work varies based on site size, platform complexity, and the type of issues involved. For that reason, pricing is based on scope rather than hours.

Full Technical SEO Audit

$790

For small to mid-size websites that need a complete technical SEO assessment.

  • Crawlability & indexation audit (robots, noindex, canonicals)
  • XML sitemap validation
  • Internal linking structure review
  • Status codes & redirect issues
  • Core Web Vitals & site speed analysis
  • Mobile rendering & JavaScript survivability check
  • Google Search Console validation (coverage, enhancements, CWV)
  • Prioritized fix roadmap (Impact × Effort)

Notes:

  • Covers up to 150 indexable URLs
  • No implementation included
  • Best for non-ecommerce or low-complexity sites

Advanced Technical SEO Audit

$1,800

Required for ecommerce, large, or complex websites with advanced crawl and indexation challenges.

Includes everything in the Full Audit, plus:

  • Faceted navigation & parameter analysis
  • Index bloat diagnosis
  • Pagination & category structure review
  • Ecommerce crawl budget optimization
  • Advanced internal linking evaluation
  • International SEO & hreflang audit (when available)
  • Optional log file analysis (when available)

Notes:

  • Required for ecommerce, 500+ URLs, or complex architectures
  • Final pricing based on site size and complexity

Technical SEO Retainer

$2,400/month

For businesses ready to fix technical issues and improve search visibility over time.

  • Full technical SEO audit (credited if already completed)
  • Implementation of prioritized fixes
  • Crawl & indexation optimization
  • Core Web Vitals & performance improvements
  • Internal linking refinements
  • Ongoing monitoring & validation
  • Monthly reporting & action plan

Notes:

  • Minimum 3-month engagement recommended
  • Scope adjusted based on site size and complexity

Technical SEO FAQs

Here are a few common questions I get about technical SEO and WordPress optimization. If you have a specific question about your site, feel free to ask.

Technical SEO focuses on how search engines crawl, index, and understand your website. It covers things like site speed, mobile usability, crawlability, and structured data, while on-page SEO focuses on content, titles, headings, and internal linking. Technical SEO creates the foundation that allows on-page SEO to work properly.

Yes, technical SEO can be challenging if you are not familiar with how websites are built or how search engines process pages. Fixing crawl errors, improving site architecture, and implementing structured data all require experience and precision. That is why many businesses work with a technical specialist to ensure it is done correctly.

A technical SEO audit is a detailed analysis of your website’s technical setup to identify issues that affect performance and visibility. I review how your site is crawled, indexed, rendered, and experienced by users, then use those findings to create a clear plan for technical improvements.

Technical SEO ensures your pages can be discovered and indexed by search engines. If search engines cannot properly crawl or index your site, your pages will not appear in search results at all. This becomes even more important as websites grow and accumulate more pages, where technical issues can quietly compound over time.

My technical SEO service covers a wide range of areas including crawlability, indexing, site speed, mobile performance, structured data, internal linking, rendering behavior, and platform-specific issues like WordPress optimization. I review each technical layer to ensure nothing critical is overlooked.

The timeline depends on the issues affecting your site. Some fixes can lead to improvements almost immediately if a major technical blocker is removed, while other changes deliver gradual gains as search engines recrawl and reassess your site. In most cases, technical SEO improvements begin supporting better performance as soon as the issues are resolved.

Let’s Talk About Your Website

If you are unsure why your website is underperforming, a technical review is the best place to start. Many issues are not visible on the surface, but quietly affect crawlability, speed, and visibility.

I can review your site and help you understand what is working, what is broken, and what should be prioritized next. Even if you are not ready to move forward, you will leave with clearer answers about your website’s technical health.

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