Technical SEO

If Google can't read your site properly, it won't rank it.

Mode builds the technical foundations that let search engines understand, index and rank your site: from page speed to schema to crawl structure. So your content has a fighting chance.

The problem

Most sites have technical issues that quietly kill their rankings.

Slow page speed. Missing meta descriptions. Duplicate content. Broken internal links. Pages blocked from indexing by a setting nobody meant to leave on. These aren't dramatic failures. They're quiet ones. And because the site still looks fine to the human eye, they often go unfixed for months or years while the site sits on page three wondering why the content isn't ranking.

Technical SEO is invisible when it's done right. The problems only become visible when you audit what's actually there. Almost every site built on a page builder or a cheap theme has avoidable technical issues that are suppressing performance. Fixing them doesn't require writing a single word of new content. Just getting the foundations right.

The Mode approach

Technical SEO built in at the start, not retrofitted at the end.

Every Website Launch Mode builds includes technical SEO foundations as standard. Not as an add-on. Clean HTML structure, proper heading hierarchy, meta titles and descriptions per page, schema markup, canonical tags, XML sitemap, robots.txt, Google Search Console and Analytics connected and verified. These aren't optional extras. They're the baseline every site should launch with.

For sites already live, the Growth Sprint includes ongoing technical monitoring, catching issues before they damage rankings. Core Web Vitals, crawl errors, indexing status, page speed. We check it monthly and fix what needs fixing. You see the results in the monthly dashboard alongside the content and campaign numbers.

What's included

The foundations search engines need to take your site seriously.

  • Page speed optimisation (Core Web Vitals)
  • Meta titles and descriptions — every page
  • Schema markup (organisation, local business, article)
  • XML sitemap + robots.txt
  • Canonical tag setup
  • Google Search Console setup and verification
  • Crawl error monitoring
  • Internal link structure review
  • SSL verification

Standalone audit · £1,500 + VAT · One-off · Delivered within 5 working days

Standalone Service

£1,500 + VAT

One-off · Delivered within 5 working days · Prioritised action plan included

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Technical SEO foundations are included as standard in the Website Launch package — £3,500 + VAT. This standalone audit is for businesses with an existing site that needs diagnosing.

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Who this is for

Any founder who wants their site to rank, and isn't certain the technical setup is right.

If you're investing in SEO content but haven't checked the technical foundations, you might be building on sand. Technical SEO is the part of the job nobody sees. Until it's missing.

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Best fit: any founder launching a new site, or one who's been live for a while but hasn't had a technical audit. Issues are almost always present. It's a question of severity.

Not the right fit: if you're not planning to do any SEO at all and purely rely on paid ads, you can defer this. But it still affects page quality scores in Google Ads. So it matters either way.

Technical SEO is built into Website Launch and monitored in the Growth Sprint. The right order: build it right, then grow it.

Fix what's holding your rankings back, before you invest more in content.

Technical SEO is built into Website Launch as standard. Ongoing monitoring is part of Growth Sprint.

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Questions? Get in touch. We'll tell you straight whether it's the right fit.