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Technical SEO audits for Fort Erie and Niagara businesses — a ranked fix list, not a 200-page report. Covers GSC, Core Web Vitals, structured data, and crawl architecture.

Technical SEO audits that produce a ranked, actionable fix list — not a 200-page report that sits in a folder.

Background: Technical SEO at Postmedia network scale (dozens of properties, national news traffic) · EEAT-first approach with verified schema · Familiar with Google Search Console, Core Web Vitals, structured data, crawl architecture · WordPress-native and CMS-agnostic audits

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What usually brings someone here

  • Traffic dropped after a site migration or redesign and nobody knows which change caused it.
  • The site ranks for branded terms but not for what its customers are actually searching.
  • Rich results stopped appearing after a theme update, or were never there despite the content.
  • A developer added noindex to a set of pages and nobody is sure which ones, or a redirect chain grew from a one-step fix into a five-hop loop.
  • An SEO report arrived recommending keyword-optimized content on a site that has a technical floor problem. Content will not move the numbers until the floor is fixed.

What I do

  • Audit ladder ($500 / $1,000 / $2,200 fixed scope): Pre-check (2 pages), mid-tier (10–15 pages), or deep-dive (30–50 pages, procurement/board-ready). All three produce a ranked fix list and credit forward against any build or retainer engagement that follows.
  • Audit + implementation (rate-card): Audit hours credit against the implementation hours that fix the findings. Right when the internal team does not have the WordPress access or the time.
  • SEO retainer ($1,200 / $3,000 / $5,000 per month): Audit-Light for oversight only, Standard for audit-plus-implementation, Enterprise for multi-property coordination with executive reporting.
  • Migration SEO (project-scoped): Redirect mapping, canonical architecture, structured-data migration plan, and post-migration monitoring. Sits inside the deep-dive audit or runs as a standalone engagement scoped against the build.

Who this is for

  • ✅ Sites where organic traffic is a meaningful part of the revenue model and something has gone wrong with it.
  • ✅ Organizations about to do a migration, redesign, or CMS change who want to protect the traffic they have earned.
  • ✅ Content teams that publish well but are not seeing the ranking results their content quality should produce.
  • ❌ New sites expecting SEO to replace a product problem. The audit will say so; there is no ranking shortcut for a product that does not yet have demand.
  • ❌ Buyers expecting page-one results in thirty days for competitive queries. Technical SEO removes floors; it does not manufacture authority.

What it costs

The senior-developer rate is $275 CAD/hr. Audits are fixed-fee at $500, $1,000, or $2,200 depending on depth, and every audit dollar credits forward against build or retainer work that follows. SEO retainers run from $1,200/mo for oversight, $3,000/mo for audit-plus-implementation, or $5,000/mo for multi-property with executive reporting. See the audit-ladder service page for the full deliverables and the credit-against-build policy.

Two-part comparison visual. Top: a compact strip summarising the three-tier audit ladder (pre-check $500, mid-tier $1,000, deep-dive $2,200) with the question each tier answers. Bottom: a four-column engagement-model table covering rate-card audit-and-implement at $275/hr, Audit-Light retainer at $1,200/mo, Standard retainer at $3,000/mo, and Enterprise retainer at $5,000/mo, compared across cadence, scope, who implements, reporting format, audit refresh, and right-fit signal. A subtle gold left-border marks the row where each model is the best fit for its named buyer-shape, not a winner ranking.
Maturity-fit, not quality-ranked. Pick the engagement model that matches your stage. Audit-Light is the right answer for buyers whose internal team implements; it is not a worse Standard.

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Christopher Ross

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Christopher Ross

I lead the work personally, from discovery and architecture through delivery and handoff.

  • Twenty-two years delivering training and nineteen years building with WordPress.
  • Direct delivery for media, education, and federal government programs.

Sectors covered: Media · Education · Government