Great content cannot rank if search engines cannot find it, crawl it efficiently or add it to their index. Technical SEO is the foundation under every other part of SEO. Broken redirects, blocked pages, slow load times and duplicate URLs can quietly hold back an entire website, and they often stay invisible until someone looks closely at the data.
Jays Rocky runs a full technical SEO audit of your website and fixes the problems that matter most. We check how Googlebot crawls and indexes your pages, clean up sitemaps, robots.txt and redirects, improve page speed and Core Web Vitals and analyze your server logs, so search engines spend their time on the pages that bring you business.
Before a page can rank, a search engine bot such as Googlebot has to find and crawl it. Bots follow links and sitemaps, but they can get stuck in redirect chains, endless filter and parameter URLs, broken links or content that only appears after complex JavaScript runs. Every wasted request is a request not spent on your important pages.
We crawl your website the way search engines do, with tools such as Screaming Frog and the Crawl Stats report in Google Search Console. We find broken links, crawl traps, deep pages and JavaScript rendering problems, then fix the site structure so every important page can be reached in a few clicks. Large websites also get a crawl budget review.
Full website crawl audit
Broken link and crawl trap fixes
JavaScript rendering checks
Crawl budget optimization
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Indexing
Crawled does not mean indexed. Google decides which pages to store and show in search, and it leaves out pages it considers duplicate, thin or blocked. The Page Indexing report in Search Console often lists URLs marked "Crawled, currently not indexed" or "Duplicate without user-selected canonical", which can mean important pages are missing from search entirely.
We review every indexing status, find out why pages are excluded and fix the cause: incorrect noindex tags, conflicting canonical tags, duplicate content, thin pages or weak internal linking. We also make sure the pages you do not want in search, such as filters, internal search results and staging copies, stay out, so the index reflects your best content.
Page Indexing report review
Canonical tag fixes
Noindex and duplicate content cleanup
Index bloat reduction
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XML sitemaps
An XML sitemap is a list of the URLs you want search engines to crawl and index. It helps Google discover new and updated pages faster, especially on large websites, new websites with few backlinks and online stores with many products. A sitemap full of redirected, broken or noindexed URLs sends mixed signals and becomes much less useful as a guide.
We make sure your sitemaps contain only live, indexable, canonical URLs that return a 200 status, with accurate last-modified dates. Large websites get a sitemap index split by content type, such as pages, posts, products and images. We submit the sitemaps in Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools and check them regularly for errors.
Clean, canonical-only sitemaps
Accurate lastmod dates
Sitemap index for large websites
Search Console and Bing submission
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Robots.txt
The robots.txt file tells search engine crawlers which parts of your website they may and may not crawl. A single wrong line can block an entire website from Google, which happens more often than you might think after a redesign or migration. Robots.txt controls crawling, not indexing: a blocked page can still appear in search if other pages link to it.
We review your robots.txt rules to block low-value areas such as admin pages, cart and checkout URLs and endless filter combinations, while keeping every important page, CSS and JavaScript file open. We also add your sitemap location and help you decide how to handle AI crawlers such as GPTBot and Google-Extended. Every change is tested before it goes live.
Robots.txt audit and rewrite
Blocking low-value URLs
Rules for AI crawlers
Testing before deployment
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Redirects
Redirects send users and search engines from an old URL to a new one. Used correctly, a 301 redirect passes the ranking signals of the old page to its replacement. Used carelessly, redirects create chains, loops, broken destinations and soft 404 errors that waste crawl budget, slow pages down and can lose the value of hard-earned backlinks.
We map all redirects on your website, collapse chains into single hops, fix loops and update internal links to point straight to the final URL. We choose the right type for each case: permanent (301 or 308) or temporary (302 or 307). For migrations and redesigns, we build a complete redirect map before launch, so you keep your rankings and traffic.
Redirect chain and loop fixes
Permanent vs temporary redirect review
404 and soft 404 cleanup
Migration redirect mapping
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Page speed and Core Web Vitals
Page speed affects both rankings and conversions. Google measures real-user experience with Core Web Vitals: Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) for loading, Interaction to Next Paint (INP) for responsiveness and Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) for visual stability. A good result means LCP under 2.5 seconds, INP under 200 milliseconds and CLS under 0.1 for at least 75% of page visits.
We test your pages with PageSpeed Insights, Lighthouse and the field data in Search Console, then fix the causes: oversized images, render-blocking CSS and JavaScript, heavy third-party scripts, slow server response and layout shifts from ads or fonts. Where needed, we work with your developer on caching, a CDN and code changes. Mobile performance always comes first.
Core Web Vitals audit (LCP, INP, CLS)
Image, CSS and JavaScript optimization
Caching, CDN and server response
Mobile performance fixes
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Log file analysis
Your server logs record every request made to your website, including every visit from Googlebot and other crawlers. Unlike SEO tools, which simulate a crawl, logs show what search engines actually do: which pages they crawl, how often, which status codes they receive and which sections they ignore. It is the most accurate view of how Google sees your website.
We analyze your log files to find wasted crawl activity on redirects, errors and parameter URLs, important pages Googlebot rarely visits and sudden changes in crawl behavior. We also verify that bots are genuine and not fake crawlers using a Googlebot user agent. Log file analysis is especially valuable for large websites, online stores and websites after a migration.
Googlebot crawl frequency by section
Wasted crawl and error detection
Verified bot identification
Crawl changes after migrations
{Process} How it works
Our Technical SEO process
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Technical audit
We crawl your website, review Search Console and test page speed to build a complete list of issues.
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Prioritize
Every issue is ranked by its impact on crawling, indexing and rankings, and by the effort needed to fix it.
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Fix
We implement the fixes or work with your developer, testing each change on a staging site where possible.
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Monitor
We monitor crawling, indexing and Core Web Vitals and flag new issues before they grow into bigger problems.
What you get
Full technical SEO audit report
Prioritized fix list with instructions
Clean XML sitemaps and robots.txt
Redirect map and cleanup
Core Web Vitals improvement plan
Log file analysis report
Technical SEO FAQs
Technical SEO is the work of making a website easy for search engines to crawl, render, index and understand. It covers site structure, sitemaps, robots.txt, redirects, canonical tags, page speed, Core Web Vitals, mobile usability, HTTPS and structured data.
We recommend a full audit at least once or twice a year, plus monthly monitoring in Google Search Console. Always run one before and after a redesign, platform change or migration, when technical problems are most likely to appear.
Yes, Core Web Vitals are part of Google's page experience signals, but relevance and content quality carry more weight. Their bigger impact is often on users: fast, stable pages keep visitors on your website and help more of them become customers.
Yes. We plan migrations before launch with a full URL inventory, redirect map, sitemap and robots.txt checks, then monitor crawling, indexing and traffic closely afterwards, so any problems are caught and fixed quickly.
Many fixes, such as sitemaps, redirects, robots.txt and meta tags, can be made in your CMS or with plugins, and we can handle them for you. Deeper changes to code, servers or JavaScript frameworks may need a developer, and we give them clear, prioritized instructions.
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