WordPress SEO Services

Plugin configuration, theme weight, permalinks, and schema, handled at code level, so the most-used CMS on the web actually ranks like it should.

WordPress SEO services get a WordPress website ranking in Google and cited in AI answers: one SEO plugin configured instead of three installed, a caching stack matched to your host, permalinks and redirects handled with a 301 map, schema validated against the visible page, and an image and database cleanup that moves Core Web Vitals for real. Egochi runs this work for business sites, blogs, WooCommerce stores, and multisite networks. WordPress powers 43% of all websites, and its defaults are not its ceiling; what stalls most sites is configuration debt, not the platform. The next step costs nothing: a free audit that names what is actually slowing yours down.

Get Your Free WordPress SEO Audit Call (888) 644-7795

How a plugin-stack audit reads your site

The audit that starts a WordPress engagement usually ends with fewer active plugins, not more. Two plugins doing the same job hurt both, and every script you keep loads on pages that never use it.

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How much does WordPress SEO cost?

WordPress SEO at Egochi runs inside monthly programs from $1,500 to $15,000, scoped by site size, competition, and how much content the work needs. A lean business site sits near the floor; WooCommerce stores, multisite networks, and contested verticals sit higher. A one-time audit runs $2,500 to $10,000 and prices the full program before you commit to anything.

Egochi has been doing search engine optimization since 2014, from offices in New York, Miami, Milwaukee, and Madison, with 250+ Google reviews and 190+ Clutch reviews at a 5.0 rating behind the work. WordPress engagements here run at code level: our developers work in child themes, functions.php, and wp-config, not just plugin settings screens, so the durable fixes ship where app-only setups stop.

What is WordPress SEO?

WordPress SEO is search ranking work shaped around how WordPress actually behaves: an SEO plugin configured rather than installed, a caching stack matched to the host, permalinks and redirects handled with a 301 map, schema shipped through the plugin or the theme, image and database cleanup, and content built on the block editor. Same discipline as any search program, different levers.

What Our WordPress SEO Services Cover

Eight pieces of work, all shaped by how WordPress actually behaves. The audit decides which ones your site needs first.

  • SEO Plugin Configuration

    Yoast, Rank Math, AIOSEO, or SEOPress, one of them, configured for your site structure: title templates per post type, XML sitemap rules, canonical handling, breadcrumbs, schema output, and Open Graph tags, with conflicting features disabled instead of doubled.

  • WordPress Speed and Core Web Vitals

    The caching stack in the right order, image compression and lazy loading, render-blocking cleanup at child-theme level, PHP upgrades, and database pruning, measured against Core Web Vitals rather than a plugin scorecard.

  • Technical WordPress SEO

    Permalink decisions with full 301 maps, robots.txt and .htaccess rules, SSL and www canonicalization, media-attachment page cleanup, and crawl errors cleared in Search Console, at the file level where settings screens stop.

  • On-Page and Blog SEO

    Existing pages and posts rebuilt with clean heading hierarchy, direct answer formatting, and internal linking that routes authority to money pages, held to the same standards as our on-page SEO services.

  • Keyword Mapping for WordPress

    Service terms mapped to pages, question queries to posts, category terms to taxonomy archives, one keyword to one URL, built with the discipline of our keyword research services applied to a CMS full of post types.

  • Schema in Theme and Plugin

    Article, Organization, LocalBusiness, FAQPage, and BreadcrumbList markup shipped through the SEO plugin where it does the job and as custom JSON-LD in the theme where it does not, validated and matched to the visible page.

  • Local WordPress SEO

    Location pages, LocalBusiness schema, map embeds, and NAP consistency across multi-location WordPress builds, wired into Google Business Profiles with the playbook of our local SEO services.

  • WordPress Link Building

    Guest placements, broken-link reclamation, resource pages, and digital PR earned with the standards of our link building services, with the Redirection plugin preserving equity whenever URLs change.

Six WordPress SEO Problems, and the Honest Fix for Each

WordPress powers 43% of all websites, which means most SEO problems we audit are WordPress problems. Six show up on nearly every site, and none of them is the platform's fault.

  • Theme and plugin bloat drags speed

    Page builders and multipurpose themes ship JavaScript and CSS for features the page never uses, and every plugin adds its own scripts on top. The site fails Core Web Vitals not because WordPress is slow but because forty things load where twelve are needed. Speed work here starts by removing, then caching what remains.

  • Permalinks set wrong, or changed wrong

    Date and ID permalinks make long URLs nobody needs, and the greater damage comes from fixing them badly: change the structure on an aged site without a full 301 map and every earned link and ranking points at a 404. Permalink structure is a one-time decision executed like a migration, never a settings toggle.

  • SEO plugins installed, not configured

    Yoast and Rank Math are capable tools that most sites run on defaults: sitemaps listing noindexed pages, schema emitting half-empty JSON-LD, canonicals pointing at the wrong variant, title templates never edited. The plugin exposes the fields; someone still has to make the decisions the fields exist for.

  • Images uploaded at full resolution

    The media library accepts whatever the camera produced, and themes render it whether or not it fits. Uncompressed files slow the largest paint, and missing width and height attributes shift the layout as they load. The fix is a pipeline, compression, modern formats, lazy loading below the fold, not a one-time cleanup.

  • Database bloat slows every response

    Post revisions, auto-drafts, spam comments, expired transients, and tables left behind by deleted plugins pile up in wp_options and wp_posts. The server answers every request a little slower, TTFB climbs, and no front-end fix can recover time lost before the page starts. Scheduled cleanup keeps it from coming back.

  • Security problems that turn into indexing problems

    Hacked WordPress sites get injected spam pages, warning labels in search results, and in bad cases removal from the index. Outdated plugins are the usual door in. This page does not sell security services; it does make sure updates, SSL, and file permissions are not quietly costing you rankings.

These six are the platform layer. The crawl-and-performance discipline underneath them, log analysis, index management, JavaScript rendering, works the same on any stack and lives in our technical SEO services. This page covers what changes when the site runs on WordPress.

Why Choose Egochi as Your WordPress SEO Company

Not every SEO agency opens functions.php, and the difference shows up in what actually ships. Six things WordPress sites hire us for specifically.

  • Core and plugin fluency

    Yoast, Rank Math, AIOSEO, and SEOPress configured for the site you actually run, with conflicting features disabled and the plugin count challenged before it grows. We know which settings matter, which are noise, and which combinations quietly break each other.

  • Core Web Vitals in the green

    Caching matched to your hosting, image compression, render-blocking cleanup in a child theme, PHP version upgrades, and database pruning. The target is the metrics Google measures and the conversions slow pages cost, not a perfect score in a speed plugin dashboard.

  • Page builders, without the folklore

    Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder, WPBakery, and the block editor (Gutenberg) each output different HTML, and we work in all of them. The call between keeping a builder, slimming it, or rebuilding a template is made from measurements, not preference.

  • WooCommerce depth, honestly scoped

    Product page SEO, category taxonomy work, variation canonicals, and feed setup for stores that run on WordPress. Catalog-scale discipline, faceted navigation, out-of-stock rules, revenue reporting, lives in our ecommerce SEO services; this page keeps the WordPress-specific layer.

  • Custom post types and taxonomies

    Portfolios, locations, events, practice areas: custom post types get their own permalink logic, archive page decisions, and schema, with ACF field data included in markup where it earns rich results. Most agencies never open the register_post_type call.

  • Multisite and migration SEO

    Domain mapping and cross-site linking on multisite networks, and migrations into or out of WordPress that keep rankings alive: full URL inventories, one-hop 301 maps, internal link updates, and Search Console change-of-address handled as one project.

The Plugin Stack, Read Honestly

The plugin directory sells an answer for everything, and SEO plugins sell reassurance: a green light per post, a score out of one hundred. The trap is treating the green light as the finish line. Plugins expose fields; they do not rank pages. Before any new install is discussed, our audits sort a site’s SEO-adjacent plugins into three buckets.

  • Plugins doing real work

    One SEO plugin as the single source of titles, sitemaps, and schema. A page cache matched to the host. Image compression that re-encodes files rather than renaming them. A redirect manager on sites with URL churn. These earn their weight, and we configure them properly.

  • Plugins duplicating each other

    Two SEO plugins emitting two sets of meta tags and two sitemaps hurt both. Three analytics plugins fire three trackers. A caching plugin fights the host’s built-in cache. Overlap is worse than absence here: search engines get conflicting signals and visitors pay the load time. One tool per job, the rest deactivated.

  • Plugins that cost more than they give

    Popups, sliders, badge widgets, and bundled builder addons bill the site twice: the subscription, and the script weight on every page that converts. The audit measures weight per plugin and removes before it adds. Some of our best audits end with a shorter plugin list and a faster site, and nothing new installed.

WordPress SEO Plugins We Configure

The stack we configure most, and what the configuration actually covers. One SEO plugin per site; the rest are picked to match the hosting and the catalog, not stacked.

  • Yoast SEO

    Title templates per post type, XML sitemap rules, breadcrumbs, schema output, Open Graph, and cornerstone internal-link tracking.

  • Rank Math

    Schema generator, 404 monitor, redirect module, local SEO fields, and per-taxonomy settings, with the overlapping modules turned off.

  • All in One SEO

    Title and meta templates, smart sitemaps, LocalBusiness schema, and WooCommerce fields where the store lives on WordPress.

  • SEOPress

    The lean option: content analysis, XML and HTML sitemaps, redirects, and broken-link checks without the upsell surface.

  • WP Rocket

    Page caching, GZIP, lazy loading, and file minification, tuned to the host so it neither fights server caching nor breaks the theme.

  • LiteSpeed Cache

    Server-level caching on LiteSpeed hosts, plus image work and CSS/JS handling, the strongest option where the hosting supports it.

  • ShortPixel

    Lossy and lossless compression, WebP and AVIF conversion, and bulk passes over the existing media library, not just new uploads.

  • Redirection

    301 management with 404 logging and regex rules, so every changed permalink and deleted page keeps its earned equity.

The Honest Read on Elementor, Divi, and the Block Editor

Elementor and Divi render more DOM nodes and ship more scripts than the block editor produces for the same layout. That is a measurable cost, not a moral one, and the right response depends on the site.

The call When it applies Why
Keep the builder Non-developers maintain the site, Core Web Vitals are green or close, and the builder is why pages ship at all A maintained site that publishes beats a fast site nobody can edit. The builder is a trade, not a penalty; we manage its weight and move on.
Slim it Core Web Vitals fail and the waterfall shows builder addons, global scripts, and widgets loading sitewide for features one page uses Unused widgets off, addon bundles replaced with native blocks, assets loaded per page. Most builder sites recover their scores without a rebuild.
Rebuild the template The money templates themselves are the LCP problem after slimming, and the site is heading into a redesign anyway Rebuilding on the block editor or a lean theme pays off when it rides work already planned. As a standalone SEO project, it rarely returns its cost.

The test is a measurement, not an opinion: profile the template, count what loads, and price the fix against the traffic it unlocks. Anyone prescribing a rebuild before profiling the theme is selling the rebuild.

The Caching Stack, in Order

Caching advice fails when it treats three different layers as one product. They stack in a fixed order, each fixes a different delay, and the last line matters most: none of them fixes a heavy front end.

  1. First

    Page cache

    Serves finished HTML instead of running PHP and MySQL per visit. The single biggest TTFB win on most WordPress sites, whether it comes from WP Rocket, LiteSpeed, or the managed host itself. Set this before touching anything else, and only one of them.

  2. Second

    CDN

    Moves images, CSS, and scripts to servers near the visitor and absorbs traffic spikes. It multiplies a working page cache and hides a broken one, which is why it comes second: measure after the page cache lands, then add edge delivery.

  3. Third

    Object cache

    Redis or Memcached holding query results in memory. It earns its keep on WooCommerce carts, membership sites, and logged-in traffic that page caching cannot serve, and does close to nothing for a brochure site. Add it when the site serves logged-in visitors, not by default.

  4. The limit

    What caching cannot fix

    LCP mostly lives in the front end: the hero image, render-blocking CSS, and theme scripts. A cached page that ships four megabytes still paints slow. This is why our speed work starts in the theme and the plugin list, and treats caching as the multiplier, not the fix.

Permalink Changes, Run Like Migrations

Permalink advice is where WordPress folklore gets expensive. The structure setting looks like a preference; on an aged site it is a mass URL migration wearing a dropdown’s clothes.

Change structures for readers, not for folklore

Moving keywords around a URL does not re-rank a page, so structure changes only earn their risk when the current URLs are genuinely bad: dated blog permalinks on an evergreen library, or ID strings nobody can read. "Postname" is the right answer for most sites, decided once.

Every change ships with a full 301 map

Change the structure and every earned link, bookmark, and ranking points at the old address. The job is a complete URL inventory, one-hop redirects for every page, and post-launch 404 monitoring. This is the same redirect discipline we run on full migrations, because it is one.

Old URLs are equity, not clutter

An aged post with links deserves its address for life. We treat redirect maps as permanent infrastructure: never expired, never chained, checked after every replatform or permalink decision. Sites that let old redirects lapse donate their authority back to the SERP.

Should You Even Stay on WordPress?

Somebody will eventually pitch you off WordPress, and the honest answer a WordPress SEO agency owes you is a decision framework, not a side. We can offer it with a straight face: we rebuilt egochi.com itself from WordPress to a static stack, and we still sell WordPress SEO, because the platform was never the problem our rebuild solved.

WordPress keeps being the right call when

  • Non-developers publish weekly: posts, locations, landing pages. The editing experience is the product, and it is still the best one at this price.
  • The site leans on the plugin ecosystem: memberships, bookings, WooCommerce, forms, multilingual. Rebuilding those behaviors elsewhere costs more than tuning them here.
  • The real complaints are speed and maintenance debt. Those are configuration problems with known fixes, the fixes this page describes, at a fraction of a replatform budget.

Static or headless earns a look when

  • The site is a publishing endpoint, not a workspace: content changes come through a developer anyway, and the CMS is overhead nobody uses.
  • Performance and attack surface are business requirements the current stack keeps failing after real remediation, not before it.
  • A redesign is funded and scheduled regardless, so the migration cost is already being paid once. Changing stacks mid-life, on its own, rarely returns it.

Either way, rankings survive on redirect discipline, not platform choice, and we have run that map in both directions. Selling a catalog rather than content? If your store runs on Shopify, our Shopify SEO services are this page’s platform sibling.

How long does WordPress SEO take to work?

Technical and speed fixes, caching, canonicals, schema, register within weeks of a recrawl. Content work on an established site usually moves in three to six months. New domains and contested niches take longer, and link authority compounds over six to twelve months. Anyone promising page one in days is selling something other than SEO.

Our WordPress SEO Process, Built on VERTEX Search™

WordPress work runs inside the same 18-step framework as our full SEO programs. The eight moves below are its platform core, feeding the stages around them: Discover, Structure, Create, Validate, Amplify.

  1. WordPress Site Audit

    A full crawl, Search Console and GA4 history, and a read of the installation itself: active plugins and their script weight, theme output, caching layers, database state, and Core Web Vitals per template, documented as a fix list priced by impact.

  2. SEO Plugin Configuration

    One SEO plugin set up for your structure: title templates per post type, sitemap rules, canonical handling, breadcrumbs, schema output, and Open Graph tags, with duplicate features in other plugins disabled rather than left to fight.

  3. Speed and the Caching Stack

    Removals first, then the stack in order: page cache matched to the host, CDN, object cache where logged-in traffic needs it. Image compression and lazy loading, render-blocking cleanup in a child theme, PHP upgrades, database pruning.

  4. Technical WordPress Fixes

    Permalink decisions executed with full 301 maps, robots.txt and .htaccess rules, SSL and www canonicals, media-attachment cleanup, custom post type and taxonomy handling, and crawl errors cleared in Search Console.

  5. Content and On-Page Work

    Existing pages and posts rebuilt with clean heading hierarchy, direct answers under question headings, internal links routed to money pages, and new content mapped one keyword to one URL across pages, posts, and archives.

  6. Schema Markup Setup

    Article, Organization, LocalBusiness, FAQPage, and BreadcrumbList types shipped through the SEO plugin where it does the job and as custom JSON-LD in theme files where it does not, validated and matched to the visible page.

  7. Link Building and Digital PR

    Guest placements, broken-link reclamation, resource page pitches, and data-led PR, with the Redirection plugin logging 404s and preserving equity whenever URLs move.

  8. Analytics and Reporting

    GA4 events verified end to end, Search Console wired to the right property, and a monthly report in plain numbers: what ranked, what it earned, and what gets fixed next, feeding the following cycle.

VERTEX Search™ is the search discipline inside the EGOCHI VERTEX™ Growth System, the operating system behind every Egochi engagement.

Is WordPress SEO Right for You?

Who this is for

  • You run a business site, blog, or WooCommerce store on WordPress with real traffic to protect, and the site has accumulated plugins, themes, and URLs faster than anyone has audited them.
  • Your rankings stalled while the content kept coming, which usually means configuration debt: speed, duplication, or plugin defaults are capping pages that deserve better.
  • You are migrating into or out of WordPress, or changing permalinks or domains, and need the redirect discipline that keeps equity alive through the move.
  • You want the site cited in AI answers as well as ranked, and nobody has ever checked what your theme and plugins actually emit to the systems doing the citing.

When this may not be the right fit

  • Five-page brochure sites with no publishing plans. A monthly program is overkill there; a one-time configuration pass, plugin setup, speed, schema, covers it, and honestly, a careful owner with a weekend and a checklist can get most of the way.
  • Sites about to replatform. SEO investment in a stack you are leaving mostly evaporates at the switch. Do the migration first with a proper redirect map, then point the program at the site that will live with the results.

Fair Questions Before You Buy WordPress SEO

Yoast shows all green. Is the SEO done?

No, and this is the most expensive misunderstanding in WordPress SEO. The green light means the fields are filled against the plugin’s checklist: keyword present, meta written, sentences short. It does not know whether the keyword is worth ranking for, whether another of your pages already targets it, whether the page answers the query, or whether anyone links to it. Plugins expose fields; they do not rank pages. Strategy is the part with no progress bar.

Is WordPress bad for SEO?

No. It is the most-used CMS on the web, powering 43% of all websites, and it holds top rankings in every vertical we work in. What WordPress has is dependence on configuration: out of the box, the permalinks, schema, speed, and plugin choices are all unmade decisions, and unmade decisions accumulate as debt. Sites that stall on WordPress almost always have configuration problems wearing a platform costume.

Do more plugins mean better SEO?

The opposite, past a small number. Every active plugin adds scripts, styles, database queries, or all three, to every page load, and speed is a ranking input with a number attached. Two SEO plugins are worse than one configured well, because they emit competing signals. Our audits remove plugins more often than they add them, and the site gets faster and simpler at the same time.

Should I switch themes for better SEO?

Usually not first. Most of what a new theme promises, speed, clean markup, schema, can be measured on your current one, and the gap is usually configuration: unminified assets, an unpruned plugin stack, oversized images, no caching. Fix those and remeasure before pricing a redesign. When a rebuild does make sense, it is because the template itself fails after that work, and it should ride a redesign the business already wants.

The WordPress Engagements Behind This Page

Platforms are named only where the engagement ran on WordPress; the rest are labeled as what they are. Every number below is register-fed and covers the whole engagement, honestly.

  • Culbertson Law SEO case study

    Culbertson Law

    Trial Attorneys | WordPress

    A law practice on WordPress where a handful of high-intent searches carry the caseload. Key pages rebuilt, plugin and schema work, and content aimed at the terms that sign cases. Six-month engagement numbers, tracked in CallRail and GA4.

    • +91% Qualified Calls
    • 7,200 → 18,400 Organic Sessions
    • 8 → 41 monthly Signed Cases
  • Daniels Health SEO case study

    Daniels Health

    Medical Waste | WordPress + WooCommerce

    A rebuilt WordPress and WooCommerce platform for a medical waste company, with technical fixes and an authority program layered on it. The numbers cover the search engagement as tracked.

    • +520 Referring Domains
    • +73% Search Visibility
    • DR 58 Domain Rating
  • Cozy Art Land SEO case study

    Cozy Art Land

    Art Studio | WordPress

    A local studio on WordPress competing for searches that end in bookings. Location page work, GBP wiring, and on-page fixes moved the tracked keyword from buried to first. Engagement numbers as published.

    • +120% Organic Sessions
    • +85% GBP Calls
    • 17 → 1 Tracked Keyword
  • Antoinette Realtors SEO case study

    Antoinette Realtors

    Real Estate | WordPress

    A realty site on WordPress where refreshed neighborhood pages and Google Business Profile updates turned quiet pages into a steady lead source within a quarter. Numbers from GA4 and GBP insights.

    • 4 → 24 monthly Organic Leads
    • 70% Organic Traffic Growth
    • 60% Local Visibility
  • NY Endodontics Studio SEO case study

    NY Endodontics Studio

    Dental Specialty | WordPress

    A specialty dental practice on WordPress in the hardest local market there is. Practice pages, schema, and profile work grew discovery on both the site and the map. Engagement numbers as published.

    • 110% Organic Sessions Lift
    • 96% New Users
    • 132% GBP Discovery Views
  • LUGZ Footwear SEO case study

    LUGZ Footwear

    Footwear Brand | WordPress

    A heritage footwear brand publishing on WordPress, with search work that lifted brand visibility and fed the marketplace channel where the sales close. Numbers as published, covering the engagement whole.

    • +92% Organic Visibility
    • +150K New Amazon Visitors
  • Pitchfork Media SEO case study

    Pitchfork Media

    Music Publisher | Editorial Scale

    A publisher where archive depth and template speed decide everything, the same levers this page describes. Load time work and search fixes ran inside the wider engagement; numbers cover it whole.

    • 2.6M Monthly Visitors
    • +40% Organic Traffic
    • -60% Load Time
  • Toshiba Lifestyle SEO case study

    Toshiba Lifestyle

    Consumer Appliances | Enterprise CMS

    An enterprise catalog where template-level fixes multiply across thousands of URLs. Rankings and revenue moved together; figures confirmed and covering the engagement whole.

    • +185% Organic Traffic
    • 2,400+ Rankings Improved
    • +67% Revenue Growth

The full set of engagements on this platform lives in our WordPress case studies.

Meet Your WordPress SEO Team

The strategists, WordPress developers, content writers, and analysts who work in your theme and your plugin stack, and then answer for the traffic.

  • Jobin John

    Chief Executive Officer

  • Justin Brown

    Head of Search Engine Optimization

  • Bryan Thomson

    Head of Web Design & Development

  • Ina Komins

    Head of Social Media Marketing

  • Kierra Pita

    Head of Advertising & Content Marketing

  • Patricia Turner

    Chief Creative Officer

  • William Carter

    Chief Digital Strategy Officer

  • Andrew Miller

    Senior SEO Strategist

  • Amy Robinson

    Content Marketing Manager

  • Betty Harrison

    PPC Campaign Specialist

  • Anthony Carter

    Lead Digital Account Executive

  • Amanda Cooper

    Social Media Director

  • Carol Parker

    Senior Client Success Manager

  • Barbara Bennett

    Email Marketing Lead

  • Charles Turner

    Technical SEO Analyst

  • Brian Sullivan

    Creative Director

  • Christine Walker

    Director of Project Management

  • Christopher Brooks

    Digital Marketing Strategist

  • Daniel Wright

    Senior Analytics Specialist

  • David Henderson

    Lead Content Strategist

  • Donna Mitchell

    Client Communications Manager

  • Elizabeth Foster

    Director of Paid Advertising

  • Supriya J. John

    Brand Experience Specialist

  • Emma Scott

    Social Media Content Creator

  • George Crawford

    Technical Solutions Architect

  • Jacob Evans

    Digital Content Coordinator

  • James Anderson

    Marketing Automation Specialist

  • Jason Palmer

    Junior Copywriter

  • Jeffrey Reynolds

    Paid Media Analyst

  • Jennifer Lewis

    Community Engagement Specialist

  • Jonathan Murphy

    SEO Reporting Specialist

  • Joseph Morgan

    Influencer Marketing Coordinator

  • Kenneth Stevens

    Digital PR Manager

  • Kimberly Harper

    Digital Marketing Intern

  • Kevin Morris

    SEO Outreach Specialist

  • Lee Dawson

    Junior Web Developer

  • Linda Peterson

    Email Campaign Coordinator

  • Lisa Thompson

    Social Media Ads Specialist

  • Margaret Bradley

    Marketing Operations Lead

  • Mark Richards

    Data & Insights Analyst

  • Mary Kennedy

    Senior Copyeditor

  • Matthew Clark

    Growth Marketing Manager

  • Michelle Sanders

    Junior Marketing Designer

  • Michael Foster

    Senior Conversion Rate Specialist

  • Nancy Wheeler

    Digital Analytics Manager

  • Nicholas Pierce

    Affiliate Marketing Specialist

  • Nicole Adams

    Outreach Program Coordinator

  • Paul Franklin

    Paid Social Campaign Manager

  • Richard Barnes

    Reputation Management Specialist

  • Robert Murphy

    Lead Solutions Architect

  • Ronald Davis

    Marketing Technology Analyst

  • Ryan Bell

    Paid Media Buyer

  • Sandra Gregory

    Digital Account Coordinator

  • Scott Hopkins

    CRM Implementation Specialist

  • Shirley Ellis

    Customer Insights Manager

  • Stephanie Cross

    Brand Content Designer

  • Steven Greene

    Web Analytics Specialist

  • Susan Price

    Affiliate Campaign Manager

  • Thomas Fisher

    Lead Technical Architect

  • Timothy Nash

    Mobile Marketing Strategist

WordPress SEO FAQs

What does a WordPress SEO company actually do?

The platform-shaped version of search work: one SEO plugin configured for your structure, a caching stack matched to the host, permalink and redirect discipline, schema validated in the theme, image and database cleanup, content mapped one keyword to one URL, and link earning. The deliverable is organic traffic and leads you can trace in GA4, not a plugin scorecard.

Which SEO plugin is best: Yoast or Rank Math?

Either, configured; neither, stacked. Yoast has the longest track record and the cleanest defaults; Rank Math bundles more, redirects, schema, 404 logs, in one install. The choice matters less than the setup: title templates edited, sitemap rules set, schema completed, overlapping modules off. Running both at once is the one clearly wrong answer.

How do you speed up a WordPress site?

Removals first: the plugin audit usually cuts more load time than any addition. Then the stack in order, page cache, CDN, object cache if the site serves logged-in traffic, plus image compression, lazy loading, render-blocking cleanup in a child theme, a current PHP version, and database pruning. Measured against Core Web Vitals, per template, not against a plugin score.

Can I do WordPress SEO myself?

The basics, genuinely yes: install one SEO plugin, write titles and meta descriptions, add alt text, pick postname permalinks on a new site. Where owners get hurt is the irreversible middle: permalink changes without redirect maps, theme edits without a child theme, plugin stacking, schema left on defaults. Do the basics yourself and price a WordPress SEO agency for the parts that break things.

Does hosting affect WordPress SEO?

Yes, through page speed and uptime. Cheap shared hosting means slow server response, which drags every metric that follows it, and downtime during crawls costs coverage. Managed WordPress hosts bundle server-level caching and current PHP, which is why we set the caching stack per host instead of prescribing one plugin. We work on whatever host you have and tell you honestly when it is the bottleneck.

Do you work with WooCommerce stores?

Yes. WooCommerce runs on WordPress, so this program covers product page SEO, category taxonomy work, variation canonicals, checkout speed, and feed setup for Google Merchant Center. Stores whose main problems are catalog-scale, faceted navigation, out-of-stock policy, non-brand revenue reporting, get routed to our ecommerce SEO program, and the audit will say which one you need.

Do you work with Elementor and Divi sites?

Yes, without prescribing a rebuild first. Builders add measurable script and DOM weight, and most of it is manageable: unused widgets off, addon bundles replaced, assets loaded per page, heading hierarchy fixed inside the builder. We profile the template before recommending anything, and a rebuild only comes up when the measurements say slimming cannot get there.

Can you migrate my site to WordPress without losing rankings?

Yes, and the method is the answer: a full URL inventory of the old site, a one-hop 301 map for every address, internal links updated rather than redirected, metadata carried over, Search Console change-of-address, and post-launch 404 monitoring until the index settles. Rankings survive migrations that respect URLs; they die in migrations that improvise them.

Ready to Rank Your WordPress Site Higher?

WordPress SEO is a specialty inside our full search engine optimization services, so the research, the theme work, the content, and the links run as one program with one owner. Tell us about your site and we will send back a plan with real findings in it: what your plugin stack costs you in speed, what your theme does with schema, and what we would fix first.

Get Your Free WordPress SEO Plan

What services can we provide you?

Questions? Call (888) 644-7795 or email care@egochi.com

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