Engineering

Search Engine Optimization

Technical SEO and content strategy that builds sustainable organic growth — not shortcuts that get penalized.

Phase
4-step engagement
Hypercare
30 days included
Cadence
Weekly demos

Trusted by teams shipping at scale

Drybar
Cuisinart
Conair
Revlon
Belkin
Beautiful
CruxGG
Joshua Tree Coffee
Mary's Gone Crackers
AMI Clubwear
Revitalash
Soil3
Capabilities

What we deliver

Every Search Engine Optimization engagement bundles these capabilities by default. We tune the depth of each to fit your scope.

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Technical SEO audits

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Schema markup implementation

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Core Web Vitals optimization

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Content strategy & architecture

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Link architecture

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International SEO (hreflang)

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Engagement

How we build Search Engine Optimization

A repeatable four-phase engagement. Same rigor every time, scoped to the work in front of us.

Phase01
Week 1-2

Discover

We map the current state, surface constraints, and lock the scope before any code is written. You leave the phase with a written success definition.

  • Audit document
  • Success criteria
  • Risk register
Phase02
Week 2-3

Architect

We pick the stack, design the data model, and prove the riskiest path first. Architecture decisions are reviewed with your team before build starts.

  • Architecture doc
  • Stack decision record
  • Spike on riskiest path
Phase03
Week 3-10

Build

Iterative delivery in weekly increments. You see working software every Friday, can redirect priorities each Monday, and never wait six weeks for a demo.

  • Weekly demo cadence
  • Production-ready code
  • CI/CD + tests
Phase04
Week 10+

Operate

We ship with observability, hand off runbooks, and stay accountable post-launch. 30-day hypercare is included on every engagement.

  • Monitoring dashboards
  • Operational runbooks
  • 30-day hypercare
Deep dive

The full breakdown

Architecture, decisions, and the operational details behind every Search Engine Optimization engagement. Skim with the table of contents, or read straight through.

search-engine-optimization.brief.md

SEO That Builds Business Assets

Search engine optimization done right creates a durable business asset: organic traffic that grows without recurring advertising spend. Done wrong, it creates short-term gains and long-term penalties.

We take the long view. Our SEO work builds on technical excellence, content authority, and user experience — not shortcuts.

Technical SEO Foundations

Before content or links, technical SEO ensures search engines can actually find, crawl, and understand your pages. We audit and fix:

Crawlability and Indexation

  • Robots.txt configuration
  • XML sitemap structure and freshness
  • Canonical URL implementation
  • Noindex/nofollow tag audit
  • Crawl budget optimization for large catalogs
  • Redirect chain analysis and cleanup

Core Web Vitals

Google's Core Web Vitals are a ranking factor and a user experience indicator. We optimize:

  • LCP (Largest Contentful Paint): Image optimization, server response time, resource prioritization
  • INP (Interaction to Next Paint): JavaScript performance, long task elimination
  • CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift): Image dimension attributes, font loading, dynamic content handling

Achieving "Good" CWV scores on mobile and desktop typically requires both frontend performance work and hosting/CDN configuration.

Structured Data

Schema markup communicates your content structure to search engines and enables rich results (product ratings, breadcrumbs, FAQ snippets). We implement:

  • Product schema (price, availability, reviews)
  • Organization schema
  • BreadcrumbList navigation
  • Article schema for content pages
  • FAQ schema for question-answer content

E-Commerce Specific Technical SEO

  • Faceted navigation handling (avoiding duplicate content from filter parameters)
  • Pagination implementation (rel="next/prev" or view-all pages)
  • Duplicate content from URL parameters (session IDs, tracking codes)
  • Product variant canonicalization
  • Out-of-stock product handling

Content Strategy

Technical SEO gets you indexed. Content strategy makes you rank. We develop:

  • Keyword research: Topic clusters and keyword prioritization by intent and opportunity
  • Content architecture: How pages link to each other to concentrate topical authority
  • Content brief development: Detailed briefs for category pages, blog content, and product descriptions
  • Existing content optimization: Improving ranking pages that are close to position 1-3

Content strategy for e-commerce focuses on the full purchase journey — from early-stage informational queries to product comparison and purchase intent keywords.

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Scope

Included in every engagement

scope_of_work.md
6 items
  1. 01

    Comprehensive technical SEO audit

  2. 02

    Prioritized issue remediation plan

  3. 03

    Schema markup implementation

  4. 04

    Core Web Vitals improvement report

  5. 05

    Content strategy document

  6. 06

    Monthly reporting dashboard

Stack

Technology

The tools and platforms we deploy on every Search Engine Optimization engagement.

stack.json
SEO & Analytics6
Google Search ConsoleGoogle Analytics 4Screaming FrogAhrefs / SemrushSchema.org / JSON-LD markupHotjar / Microsoft Clarity
Tooling7
Sitebulb (crawl)WebPageTestLooker Studio (dashboards)Google Tag ManagerSurfer SEO (content)Frase (content briefs)ContentKing (monitoring)
Testing1
Google PageSpeed / Lighthouse
Frameworks1
Next.js / Nuxt (SSR/SSG)
Infrastructure2
Cloudflare (performance)Vercel (edge rendering)
Data1
BigQuery (log analysis)
Observability1
PostHog
FAQ

Common questions

Everything you need to know before starting a project with us.

Technical fixes can improve rankings in 4-8 weeks. Content authority and link building compounds over 6-12 months. We set realistic timelines and track against baselines from day one.

We focus on link architecture (internal linking, earning links through content) rather than manipulative link building that creates penalty risk.

A technical SEO audit covers crawlability, indexation, site architecture, Core Web Vitals, structured data, and duplicate content issues specific to product catalogs. For ecommerce sites we also evaluate faceted navigation, pagination handling, and canonical tag implementation across thousands of product and category URLs.

Our ecommerce SEO strategy starts with keyword research mapped to purchase intent, then prioritizes high-commercial-value pages like product categories and comparison content. We align technical optimization, content development, and internal linking around the pages that drive revenue — not just traffic.

Site speed has a direct SEO impact through Google's Core Web Vitals ranking signals and an indirect impact through user behavior metrics like bounce rate and dwell time. We consistently see ecommerce sites gain 10-25% more organic traffic after resolving LCP and INP issues that push pages into Google's 'Good' threshold.

Programmatic SEO for ecommerce uses templated page generation to create optimized landing pages at scale — targeting long-tail queries like location-specific, attribute-based, or comparison searches. We build the data pipelines, page templates, and internal linking structures that let brands capture thousands of low-competition keywords without manually creating each page.

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