Vancouver's technical SEO agency for service businesses.
Broken indexing, slow pages, and bad site structure are costing Greater Vancouver service businesses rankings they've already earned. We find the technical failures other agencies miss, fix them in order of impact, and monitor for regressions so they don't come back.
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Most Greater Vancouver service businesses have heard about page speed, Core Web Vitals, and indexing issues without ever being shown exactly what's wrong or what it's costing them. We run the same diagnostic Google uses, rank the failures by impact, and fix them in a controlled sequence — no guesswork, no wasted sprint cycles.
Technical issues compound negatively. A slow site with a broken sitemap and noindex tags left from staging will suppress every other SEO investment you make. Our technical SEO service is the systematic process for clearing that backlog — typically in 2 to 3 weeks for the highest-priority issues, with monthly monitoring thereafter.
What a Vancouver service business technical audit covers
- Page speed on real devices. Not a lab score — real mobile connections, real first-paint times. Greater Vancouver HVAC, plumbing, and auto repair sites are consistently image-heavy. The median mobile PageSpeed score on sites we audit is 31/100.
- Indexing coverage. Every page you've published versus every page Google has actually indexed. On the typical Vancouver service business site we audit, 40 to 60 percent of published pages are missing from Google's index. The cause is usually one of: blocked in robots.txt, marked noindex by a plugin, no internal links pointing to it, or canonical pointing elsewhere.
- Site structure and internal linking. Pages that take more than 3 clicks to reach from the homepage are almost always underranking. We map the full link hierarchy and restructure where needed.
- Broken pages and redirect chains. Every 404 and every redirect chain bleeds authority from your strongest pages to dead ends. We find them all and fix them in order of authority impact.
- HTTPS and mixed content. SSL issues that browsers surface as warnings — customers see them and leave. We clear the warnings and verify the certificate chain.
- Schema and structured data. If your schema markup is missing or invalid, rich results like star ratings can't appear even when you have a 4.8-star review profile. Technical SEO and schema work in parallel.
How we work — Vancouver service businesses specifically
We audit in week one, sprint in weeks two and three, and monitor monthly. Changes go through staging first — never straight to production. We monitor Search Console for 30 days after every batch of changes because redirect and sitemap changes can have unexpected downstream effects. Methodology details live on our technical SEO service page.
Why this is worth prioritizing first
Technical SEO is the one investment that makes every other investment work. Content, reviews, and schema all compound — but only on a technically sound foundation. Vancouver HVAC operators, auto repair shops, and other service businesses that have been spending on content or ads without fixing their technical foundation are leaving the majority of their ROI on the table.
Technical SEO agency questions, answered.
How is a technical SEO agency different from a web developer?
Web developers build and style sites — their job is done when the site looks right in a browser. A technical SEO agency audits how Google sees the site, which is different from how a visitor sees it. Googlebot processes raw HTML, follows links, evaluates page speed on mobile connections, checks sitemap signals, and validates schema. Most web developers never touch those layers — and most CMS developers actively avoid the ones that require ongoing maintenance.
How long before technical SEO fixes show results in rankings?
The initial sprint is 2 to 3 weeks to clear the highest-impact issues. Ranking improvements typically appear 4 to 8 weeks after Google recrawls the corrected pages — the delay is Google's crawl frequency, not the fixes themselves. Page speed improvements are visible immediately on PageSpeed Insights after we ship.
Do you work with Vancouver service businesses outside HVAC — plumbers, roofers, electricians?
Yes. Technical SEO issues are consistent across service business verticals. The same page speed problems, indexing gaps, and redirect issues appear on plumbing sites, roofing sites, electrician sites, and auto repair shops regardless of the category. We've audited all of them across Greater Vancouver.
We're already getting traffic. Why would we need a technical SEO audit?
Because you're getting traffic in spite of your technical issues, not because of them. Most service businesses with technical problems still get some traffic from direct searches, referrals, and branded queries. Fixing the technical layer typically uplifts existing traffic by 20 to 40 percent without any new content or advertising spend — because you've been ranking below your actual potential.
Find out what's slowing your site down.
The audit runs the same technical checks Google uses to evaluate your site — page speed, indexing, redirects, schema — ranked by impact and effort to fix.
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