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Technical SEO services and audits

Technical SEO is the work that lets search engines and AI crawlers reach, read and index a website. It covers crawl paths, redirects, canonical and index rules, page speed and Core Web Vitals, structured data, and how scripted content renders. If a page cannot be crawled or rendered, nothing written on it can rank or be cited. At Peacock Search, every finding is ordered by what it costs you and written up for your developer.

What a technical SEO audit covers

  • Crawling: what search engines can reach, what they cannot, and where they waste time
  • Indexing: which pages Google has chosen to index, which it has dropped, and why
  • Redirects, broken links and the chains between them
  • Canonical tags, noindex rules and duplicate pages
  • Rendering: whether content built with JavaScript is visible to crawlers
  • Page speed and Core Web Vitals, from real visitor data where it exists
  • Structured data: what is there, whether it is valid and whether it matches the page
  • Access for AI crawlers: robots.txt, firewall and CDN settings that block them without anyone noticing

How the audit is done

The audit starts with Google’s own view of your site, from the indexing and page experience reports in Search Console. A full crawl follows, then render tests on the templates that matter, then a check of server logs where your host provides them. Each issue is checked by hand before it goes in the report. A crawler flags hundreds of things on most sites, and most of them do not matter. The audit says which ones do.

From findings to fixes

Every finding comes with what it costs you, what causes it and how to fix it, written so a developer can act on it without a meeting. The list is ordered: issues that stop pages being indexed come first, cosmetic warnings come last or not at all. Once the fixes land, the site is crawled again and the difference is recorded. Peacock Search can work with your developer, your agency or your platform’s support team, or make changes directly where the platform allows, WordPress included.

When a technical SEO audit matters most

  • Before and after a website rebuild or a move to a new platform or domain
  • After an unexplained drop in traffic or indexed pages
  • On large sites, such as shops and catalogues, where duplicate and thin pages build up
  • On sites built with JavaScript frameworks, where crawlers may not see what visitors see
  • When AI assistants never cite your site, even for questions it answers well

Who it is for

Technical SEO suits owner-run service businesses, B2B firms whose sites need to rank across the UK, and online shops with large catalogues. Peacock Search takes on sites built on any platform.

What Peacock Search will not do

  • Pad the report with crawler warnings that do not matter
  • Change your site without your agreement
  • Promise that rankings or traffic will come back after a drop or a move

Technical SEO services, local or remote

If you were searching for a technical SEO agency or a technical SEO consultant in Leeds, Peacock Search is based in the city and works with sites and development teams across Yorkshire and the rest of the UK. Most technical work is done remotely, against your site, your Search Console and your developer’s tickets.

Technical SEO from Peacock Search is run from Leeds for businesses in Leeds, York, Harrogate and Sheffield.

Questions

What is the difference between an SEO audit and a technical SEO audit?

A technical SEO audit checks whether search engines can crawl, render and index the site. A full SEO audit adds content, local signals and authority. The technical audit usually comes first, because content on a page that cannot be indexed cannot rank.

Do you fix the issues or just report them?

Both are possible. Many fixes belong with your developer or platform, and they get a written brief for each one. Where the platform allows it and you agree, changes can be made directly, and each change is logged.

How often should a site have a technical audit?

A full audit before and after any rebuild or migration, and a lighter check every month as part of ongoing SEO. Sites change constantly, and most technical problems arrive quietly with an update or a new plugin.

Technical SEO, place by place

Free visibility audit

Find out whether search engines and AI crawlers can read your site. Start with the free visibility audit.

A free visibility audit: where you show up on Google, the map pack and AI answers, where you do not, and the three things to fix first. In writing, within five working days.

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