Richard M.

Technical SEO consultant with 15 years of SEO experience across agency, freelance and large-scale websites. I spent seven years at a UK SEO agency, supporting about 1,500 client accounts across a wide range of industries and website types. My main focus is technical SEO, particularly identifying and resolving issues affecting crawling, indexing, site structure, and organic search performance. Areas I regularly work on include: • Technical SEO audits • Crawl and indexing issues • Google Search Console investigations • Internal linking and site architecture • Canonicals, redirects, robots directives and sitemap issues • Website migrations and migration QA • On-page SEO and keyword targeting • Ecommerce, local and international SEO • GA4 and GSC analysis • Competitor and keyword research • Content gap analysis and SEO content briefs • Working with developers to implement and verify technical fixes I have also worked on very large websites, including a directory containing more than 10 million pages, an image platform that grew from around 10,000 to 500,000 pages, and a company intelligence platform containing millions of URLs. Human review & implementation for AI and automated SEO workflows I can serve as a human escalation point when an AI agent or automated SEO process needs specialist judgement, implementation, account or CMS access, troubleshooting, or independent verification. This can include investigating ambiguous indexing problems, reviewing AI-generated SEO recommendations or change sets, implementing approved technical fixes, and checking changes before or after deployment. Tools Google Search Console, GA4, Google Tag Manager, Screaming Frog, Ahrefs, Semrush, Sitebulb, Siteliner, GTmetrix, WordPress, Shopify, Squarespace and Yoast. I don't write long-form content from scratch. I can review existing content, identify gaps, conduct keyword research, create SEO briefs, and provide optimisation guidance for writers. Available for one-off technical investigations, audits, implementation work and ongoing SEO support.