05SEO foundation
SEO built into the structure, not added afterward.
Search work bolted on after a site is finished spends most of its budget compensating for decisions already made. On this build the structure and the search work were the same job.
What was built in
- Technical foundations
- Clean markup, sensible heading structure and pages a crawler can read without working around the design.
- Metadata
- Titles and descriptions written per page for the search that page answers, rather than one line repeated across the site.
- Internal linking
- Services connected to each other and back to the hub, so both customers and crawlers can move between related work.
- Service page targeting
- One page per service, aimed at the way that specific job is searched for, instead of competing pages aimed at the same thing.
- Local relevance
- The service area expressed in the content and structure, not implied by an address in the footer.
- Structured content
- A consistent pattern, what the service is, who it is for, what happens next, so every page carries the same useful shape.
- Sitemap and indexing
- A sitemap and indexing foundations in place from launch, so new pages are discoverable as they are added.
No ranking claims are made here. Where a site appears depends on competition, market and time. What a build controls is the structure search engines assess, and that is what was delivered.