Technical SEO agency in Manchester: fix what’s quietly costing you traffic
Content can’t rank on broken foundations. We find and fix the crawl, indexation and performance issues quietly costing you traffic.
Most sites leak search performance through problems nobody can see: pages Google can’t crawl, duplicates competing with each other, templates that take four seconds to load on a phone, redirects chained five deep. Technical SEO is the discipline of finding and fixing those leaks. It is where we start every engagement, because everything else compounds on top of it.
We handle the full technical stack: crawl and indexation control, site architecture and internal linking, Core Web Vitals and page speed, structured data, international targeting, and the high-stakes moments (migrations and redesigns) where sites lose years of equity in an afternoon when they’re done carelessly.
An international SaaS client more than doubled organic traffic with technical work at scale as the backbone. If you’d rather check your own site first, start with an SEO audit.
What’s included
Crawl & indexation control
Google crawling what matters and ignoring what doesn’t: robots, sitemaps, canonicals, parameters.
Site speed & Core Web Vitals
Real-world performance improvements, not just lab scores, measured on the devices your customers use.
Architecture & internal linking
A structure where authority flows to the pages that make you money.
Structured data
Schema that earns rich results and helps search engines understand exactly what you offer.
Migration support
Redesigns, replatforms and domain moves executed without losing the rankings you’ve built.
Ongoing monitoring
Alerts and monthly checks so technical regressions are caught in days, not quarters.
Technical SEO services your developers can actually use
Most technical SEO fails at the handover. An agency emails a 60-page PDF, the dev team files it under “later”, and six months on nothing has shipped. We write fixes as ticket-ready specifications: what to change, where, why it matters and how to verify it, sized so they slot into a normal sprint.
Then we check the work after deploy, because a surprising share of technical fixes ship subtly broken. If you don’t have developers, we make the changes ourselves; if you’re rebuilding entirely, our SEO-first website development team builds it right the first time.
Why Manchester businesses call us before a migration, not after
The most expensive technical SEO problems are self-inflicted in a single afternoon: a redesign that changes every URL without redirects, a replatform that noindexes the money pages, a new domain launched on a Friday. Recovering lost equity takes months; protecting it takes a URL map and a redirect plan drawn up before launch.
That’s why website redesign projects here run with SEO in the room from day one. It’s also how our SEO agency in Manchester keeps hard-won rankings intact while everything else about a site changes.
Who this is for
- Your rankings dropped after a redesign or replatform and nobody can explain why
- Pages you care about aren’t indexed, and Search Console reads like a foreign language
- Your site takes four seconds to load on a phone and you suspect it’s costing you more than patience
- You have a dev team who’ll happily fix things, if someone tells them exactly what and why
- You’re planning a migration and want the rankings to survive it
How we work
- 01
Crawl
A full technical crawl plus Search Console data, to see the site the way Google does.
- 02
Diagnose
Issues ranked by traffic impact and effort, not by whatever a tool flags loudest.
- 03
Specify
Ticket-ready fixes your developers can implement, or we make the changes ourselves.
- 04
Verify
Every fix checked after deploy, because plenty of technical fixes ship broken.
- 05
Monitor
Ongoing alerts and monthly checks catch regressions in days, not quarters.
Sound like a sensible way to work? Tell us what you’re trying to do.
Proof, not promises
All case studies →What our clients say
“We’ve been working with James from JM Digital Solutions for a few years now, and the results speak for themselves. Thanks to their consistent and strategic SEO work, we’re now ranking #1 for our key search terms. James has been reliable, knowledgeable, and always proactive in helping us grow our online presence.”
“We’ve worked with JM Digital Solutions for the past three years, and they’ve been instrumental in growing our organic presence. Their work has improved our keyword rankings, boosted website performance, and delivered measurable results. Professional, proactive, and knowledgeable, a great partner we’re happy to recommend.”
“Working with JM Digital Solutions has made a real difference to our business. They’ve helped us improve keyword performance and grow our revenue through a stronger organic presence. A reliable and results-driven partner we highly recommend.”
Questions, answered honestly
What is technical SEO exactly?
Everything that affects how search engines crawl, index and evaluate your site, independent of the words on the page: speed, structure, code, redirects, sitemaps, schema. Think of it as the plumbing: invisible when it works, expensive when it doesn’t.
How do I know if I have technical SEO problems?
Common symptoms: pages that never appear in Google, rankings that dropped after a redesign, traffic falling with no obvious cause, or Search Console warnings you don’t understand. An audit turns symptoms into a diagnosis.
Do you work with our developers?
Happily. We can brief your dev team with precise, ticket-ready specifications, review their implementation, or make the changes ourselves depending on access and preference.
We’re replatforming. When should we involve you?
Before you migrate, ideally the moment you decide to. Most migration damage is preventable with a proper URL map and redirect plan, and mostly unrecoverable shortcuts happen when SEO is brought in after launch.
Which platforms do you work with?
WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, custom builds and most things in between. The principles are the same everywhere; only the implementation details change.