We already run Yoast. What would you actually do?

Yoast writes metadata. It can't shrink a 4MB page-builder homepage, resolve three plugins emitting conflicting schema, or fix hosting that buckles when Google crawls hard. The green light measures configuration, not competitiveness. Our work starts where the plugin's remit ends.

Is our page builder killing our SEO?

It's costing you — the question is how much. Elementor and Divi trade build speed for DOM weight, and Core Web Vitals collects that debt. Usually the fix is surgical: rebuild the handful of money pages, keep the builder everywhere else. A full-site rebuild is rarely the answer, whatever a rebuild-selling agency tells you.

Do we need to change themes or replatform?

Almost never — and be suspicious of anyone who opens with that. Most WordPress sites need cleanup, not demolition: schema consolidation, speed work at the theme layer, redirect hygiene. The free audit tells us which category you're in, and it's yours to keep either way.

Can you handle WooCommerce?

Yes — and it deserves ecommerce-grade treatment: product schema that earns rich results, faceted-navigation control, and caching that doesn't break carts. A checkout plugin does none of that by itself.

How long until results?

Technical cleanup shows in weeks — crawl stats and Core Web Vitals move first, rankings follow. Competitive content targets take months. The audit gives you the sequenced plan with honest timelines before any retainer starts.

What does WordPress SEO cost?

Scoped on the call, in writing, before any spend. It depends on the state of the install — plugin count, builder usage, hosting — and how contested your keywords are. A tidy site needing content strategy and a decade of accumulated plugins are very different projects.

Client retention rate. WordPress businesses stay because the system compounds.

Retention

94%

No Contracts

Month-to-Month

WordPress SEO Agency built for revenue, not rankings reports.

Yoast's green light is not a ranking. WordPress SEO problems live below the plugin layer — a 4MB page-builder homepage, three plugins each emitting their own schema, hosting that chokes when Google crawls hard. That's the layer we work at. See our flagship SEO programme or our documented results.

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Sound familiar?

You've paid for wordpress seo agency before. You got a PDF.

“Forty pages of 'brand visibility.' Zero calls with a name and a number.”

“Month nine: 'it takes time.' Same answer as month three. Same invoice, too.”

“Their case studies were all from other industries, other cities, other decades.”

It wasn't you — it was a model that bills the same whether you grow or not. Here's the version with the incentives pointed the right way.

The offer

The WordPress SEO Agency Page-One Build

WordPress SEO Agency built on the system we published in two books — with the guarantee in writing.

The guarantee — in writing

Measurable movement by day 90 — or that month is free.

Movement means your tracked rankings or organic impressions against the keyword set we agree at kickoff. Most clients see first shifts around day 60. If day 90 arrives and the needle hasn't moved, that month is on us.

Qualifying terms: tracked keyword set agreed at kickoff · technical recommendations implemented within the window.

Joel House

Founder · Xpand Digital

Receipt: 2,414% organic growth — e-commerce, 8 months

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We onboard four new builds a month — boutique team, on purpose. When the month is full, it's full.

Everything you get

The free senior audit comes first

4–6 hours of senior analysis — the full fix plan is yours to keep even if you never hire us.

Money pages before blog filler

We rebuild the pages that sell, kill the content that cannibalises, then defend the rankings.

Authority links from digital PR

Earned editorial links — the same engine behind our own rankings.

Revenue reporting, not vanity reporting

Revenue traced to the work, monthly, in dollars.

The other door

Never hired a specialist SEO agency before?

Then you haven't been burned yet — let's keep it that way. Three things that separate a real operator from a pitch deck:

A real audit before any retainer — yours to keep either way.

Money pages first, blog volume later. Revenue before vanity metrics.

Month-to-month terms — confidence looks like an easy exit.

Start with the free audit Or read the playbook first — books free, you cover shipping

The Problem

Why WordPress businesses need specialized SEO.

01

A green Yoast light on a 4MB Elementor page is a participation trophy. The plugin grades your metadata, not your site.

02

Three plugins each emitting their own schema means Google receives contradictory structured data and trusts none of it.

03

Page builders trade build speed for DOM bloat — and Core Web Vitals collects that debt every month.

04

Theme swaps and rebuilds that change URL structures without redirects quietly torch years of rankings.

05

Managed WordPress hosts cap the server-level controls that real technical SEO sometimes needs.

Technical Depth

The WordPress challenges most agencies miss.

Core Web Vitals work at the theme and server layer — not another optimization plugin on the pile.

Schema consolidation: one source of truth, plugin conflicts removed.

Yoast or RankMath configured for your site rather than the defaults — then judged by rankings, not green lights.

robots.txt, .htaccess, and crawl control tuned by hand.

WooCommerce product and review schema that actually qualifies for rich results.

Redirect mapping for theme changes, rebuilds, and migrations.

Our Approach

How we build WordPress SEO that compounds.

We work below the plugin layer — theme code, database, server config — where WordPress SEO problems actually live.

Page-builder triage: keep the builder, cut the bloat, or rebuild the money pages — decided by evidence, not ideology.

One schema strategy instead of three plugins arguing about it.

WooCommerce treated as ecommerce, not as a plugin: product schema, faceted-nav control, cart-aware caching.

Services

What's included.

WordPress SEO Agency Audit

Comprehensive technical and competitive audit tailored to WordPress businesses.

Keyword & Content Strategy

Research and content plan targeting how WordPress buyers actually search.

Technical SEO

Site speed, schema markup, crawlability, and platform-specific optimizations.

Link Building & Digital PR

Authority building through earned media and strategic outreach in WordPress publications.

Ongoing Optimization

Monthly reporting, strategy adjustments, and continuous improvement based on real performance data.

Competitor Intelligence

Track what your competitors are doing, where they're gaining, and how to outmaneuver them.

Common questions.

Joel House

Founder, Xpand Digital

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