WordPress SEO agency Manchester
Signal Marketing specialises in SEO, Paid Media and websites. WordPress SEO for Manchester businesses — technical audits, Core Web Vitals, schema markup, on-page optimisation, ethical link building. £400/month, rolling.
Why most WordPress SEO agencies are terrible at WordPress
Most “WordPress SEO” agencies install Yoast or Rank Math, tick a few green lights, and call it a day. WordPress SEO done properly is much more than that — theme code, page builder overhead, plugin conflicts, hosting configuration, image pipeline, structured data, database bloat.
Our own site signal.marketing runs WordPress with three custom plugins we built — Signal SEO Command Center, Signal Redirects, Signal Cleanup. We know WordPress deeply, not just as end-users.
The result: our WordPress SEO gets real Core Web Vitals scores, real schema depth, real rankings.
What we work on for WordPress sites
- Technical audit. Full crawl, indexation review, canonical audit, redirect chains, orphan pages, thin content, duplicate content.
- Core Web Vitals. LCP, CLS, INP fixes. Often WordPress sites tank here due to page builders and unoptimised images.
- Schema markup. Full JSON-LD implementation with @graph structure. Organization, WebSite, LocalBusiness, Article, FAQPage, BreadcrumbList — all connected properly.
- Page builder removal (where appropriate). Elementor/Divi bloat can tank speed. We migrate to lean custom themes when it makes ranking sense.
- On-page SEO. Titles, meta descriptions, H1/H2 structure, internal linking, image alt text, content depth.
- Ethical link building. Digital PR, editorial mentions, relevant directories. No PBN nonsense.
Plugins we recommend (and don’t)
Recommended: Yoast or Rank Math (either fine as base), WP Rocket (caching), Perfmatters (bloat removal), Imagify or ShortPixel (image compression), Redirection or a proper redirect manager.
Avoid or replace: WP Bakery, Divi (page builders that hurt performance), most “SEO score” plugins, aggressive optimiser plugins that break rendering.
FAQs
How long until WordPress SEO works?
3-6 months for movement. Technical wins can show in 4-8 weeks.
Will you touch our theme code?
Yes when needed — child theme with git version control. No live edits.
Do you handle WordPress development?
What if our site is on shared hosting?
We’ll usually recommend a move to Cloudways or VPS. Shared hosting kills speed.
Can you migrate from WordPress?
Yes — to Shopify, or across WordPress hosts. Full redirect mapping and SEO preservation.
Do you fix broken Yoast setups?
Yes — common issue. Wrong canonicals and noindex on wrong pages are frequent.
“Before I met Oliver we were getting 2/3 leads a day. Their strategy led us to 10 leads a day.”
— Caroll, verified Trustpilot review
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