WordPress SEO that compounds, quietly.
A WordPress SEO agency for brands done with audits that go nowhere. Strategy, content architecture, technical SEO, internal linking and on-page work — shipped by people who edit your theme and your editorial calendar in the same week.
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What is a WordPress SEO agency?
A WordPress SEO agency runs ongoing strategy, content, technical SEO, and internal linking on a WordPress site — month over month. The retainer model exists because SEO compounds: monthly execution beats annual audits that never get shipped.
Why this exists
Most SEO agencies hand WordPress sites a deck. We ship.
We're a WordPress development studio first. SEO is the work we keep doing after launch. That means our SEO retainer doesn't stop at recommendations — we edit the theme, ship the schema, fix the internal links, write the briefs, and update the editor controls. Strategy and execution under one roof, on the platform we know best.
What we hear most
When brands move their WordPress SEO to us.
Audits without execution
Previous agency sent a 90-page audit. Engineering capacity to ship it didn't materialize. The audit is now in a Drive folder.
Rankings dropped after a redesign
New site launched, rankings dropped, and nobody owned the recovery. Redirects partial, schema thinned out, internal linking redrawn from scratch.
Content velocity without strategy
Marketing publishes weekly. None of it is mapped to a keyword cluster. Posts cannibalize each other and rank for nothing in particular.
Technical debt blocks ranking
Slow Core Web Vitals, partial schema, broken canonicals, orphan pages. The technical floor keeps the content from earning its rankings.
Editor experience makes SEO hard
Yoast or RankMath installed but ignored. Title and description fields drift. H1 logic broken in the theme. The editor doesn't help marketing ship clean SEO.
No internal linking system
Pages live in a flat list. Nothing links to nothing. Authority concentrates on the homepage and never reaches the money pages.
What we deliver
What a Haxtiv WordPress SEO retainer ships.
Strategy, content architecture, on-page, technical, internal linking, and execution — under one roof.
Strategy
- Keyword research mapped to intent and funnel stage
- Topic-cluster architecture and pillar planning
- Competitor and SERP analysis with concrete actions
- Quarterly content roadmap, monthly editorial plan
- Cannibalization audit and merge / redirect plan
Technical SEO
- Schema (Organization, Article, FAQ, Service, BreadcrumbList, HowTo)
- Core Web Vitals investigation and fixes (LCP, INP, CLS)
- Canonical, hreflang, and indexability hygiene
- XML sitemaps, robots, and crawl-budget shaping
- Server logs, GSC, and Bing Webmaster reviews
On-page & content
- Briefs that include outline, intent, semantic terms, internal links
- Editorial review and on-page optimization
- Title, description, H1, and snippet engineering
- Image alt, captions, and OG/Twitter meta
- Author and entity markup for E-E-A-T
Internal linking
- Site-wide internal linking architecture
- Hub-and-spoke wiring for cornerstone clusters
- Anchor-text plan for commercial pages
- Programmatic related-link components
- Quarterly internal-link refresh
Execution & reporting
- Theme edits, schema injection, and template fixes by us
- Monthly plain-language reporting (no vanity metrics)
- GA4, GSC, and Looker Studio dashboards
- Quarterly strategy review with a partner
- Slack channel for fast-turn questions
Process
How this service runs end to end
The same six-step shape we use across every Haxtiv project — adapted to the specifics of this scope.
01
Discover
Audit, intent, and the part nobody is saying out loud
We open with a working session — not a deck. We pull analytics, crawl the existing site, audit the brand, and interview the people closest to revenue. We surface the friction inside the team, not just the friction on the screen.
02
Define
Sitemap, story, and the metrics that actually matter
We define the audience journeys, the commercial pages we are willing to defend, the SEO architecture, and the measurable outcomes. You get a shape of the project that survives feedback because it was built on evidence.
03
Design
Editorial system, art-directed, never templated
Type, grid, motion, and tone built as a system. We design the hero, the long pages, the unloved corners, and the empty states. Every screen looks like it belongs to the same studio. Nothing is parked for later.
04
Build
Production code your team can keep
WordPress, Shopify, or page builder — we build clean, accessible, performant, and documented. Component-led, naming you'll recognize next year, and a changelog your in-house team can read.
05
Launch
Migration without losing rankings or sleep
Pre-launch crawl, redirect map, schema and metadata cutover, performance baseline, and a launch playbook. We run the deploy with you, not at you.
06
Grow
Care plan, CRO sprints, and quiet improvements
We stay involved. Monthly performance reports, security and core updates, and CRO sprints that compound. The site gets better the longer you keep us.
What this looks like in production
Numbers we earn, not numbers we round up.
Sites shipped
across 27 countries
Studio hours
delivered since 2019
Avg conversion lift
post-redesign clients
Client retention
into year two
In their words
Senior teams who chose us.
Haxtiv replatformed our marketing site without losing a single ranking. We saw organic leads up 38% inside the first quarter and the editorial team finally has a layout system they don't fight.
Mara Iglesias
VP Marketing · Lumenwave Health
Headless WordPress redesign
Our previous Shopify build was a Frankenstein of apps. The Haxtiv team simplified the stack, rebuilt the PDP and CRO patterns, and our store is faster and more profitable than it has ever been.
Daniel Korver
Founder · Northbound Goods
Shopify Plus rebuild
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Where to go next
WordPress technical SEO
One-time technical execution.
Technical SEO services
Cross-platform technical SEO.
WordPress speed optimization
Real-world Core Web Vitals.
WordPress development
Build side of SEO-led WordPress.
WooCommerce SEO
WooCommerce-specific catalog SEO.
Conversion (CRO)
Turn the traffic into revenue.
WordPress redesign
SEO-safe redesigns.
WordPress migration
Replatform without losing rankings.
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Tell us where the traffic should be coming from.
30-minute call. We'll share what we'd ship in the first 90 days and a transparent retainer quote.