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Technical SEO Services That Fix What Google Cannot See

Your store creates thousands of pages nobody should land on. Google spends its time there instead of on your products. We stop that, then index the filter pages that actually bring buyers.

Technical SEO results: crawl budget reclaimed and organic clicks added across two Shopify stores
Trusted by Shopify brands
Not on-page SEO

What is technical SEO, and how is it different?

Technical SEO is the work of making sure Google can find, read, and rank the pages that make you money. Not the words on them. The plumbing underneath.

Ecommerce technical SEO is a narrower job than the general version. A blog has a few hundred pages and no filters. Your store has thousands of products, each sitting in several collections, each with filters on top. The scale is what breaks things.

On a Shopify store, plumbing has one dominant problem. Every filter your customers click creates a new web address, and Google tries to read all of them. Five filter options can generate 50,000 addresses. Google only checks so many pages per visit, so it burns that budget on combinations nobody searches for, and your actual products get checked once a month instead of once a day. Fixing that is 70 to 80% of the technical SEO impact on a typical store. Everything else is tidying.

Where Google spends its crawl time: filter URL combinations versus the collection and product pages that earn traffic
The four pillars

Every engagement covers four pillars

Our technical SEO audit services start here, and each pillar has a named outcome you can check against.

01/04

Filter page strategy

Find which filter pages people actually search for, index those, block the rest. Our 3-rule framework, built in Liquid.

What changes Google spends its time on pages that can earn traffic instead of dead ends.
02/04

Crawl and indexing

Fix duplicate product addresses, variant URLs, redirect chains, sitemap bloat, canonical tags.

What changes Every page you want ranked gets found. Every page you do not, does not.
03/04

Speed and Core Web Vitals

Image compression, lazy loading, app audit, theme cleanup for LCP and CLS.

What changes Fewer people leave before your page finishes loading.
04/04

Structured data

Product, Breadcrumb, Review and FAQ markup in clean code, app conflicts removed.

What changes Prices and star ratings show in the search result, so more people click.

Every engagement includes monthly crawls, weekly Search Console reporting and a strategy call.

Common mistake

Most stores do technical SEO on their product pages

The traffic is on the filter pages.

A collection page for shoes might get 200 searches a month. The filter page for leather shoes gets 1,200. The one for trainers gets 2,400. One collection quietly generates 20 to 30 of these, and most stores have never looked at a single one.

Across 100+ ecommerce technical SEO audits, the pattern barely changes: around 52 filter pages per store are worth indexing, and they end up driving roughly 74% of the traffic gain. The other 49,000 combinations are eating the crawl budget that should be going to your products.

Common technical SEO mistakes versus what actually works on a Shopify store
Our process

The Webrex Growth Framework

1
Phase 01

Discover

Full crawl, Search Console deep dive on filter URLs, keyword research on your filter values, competitor comparison. You get an opportunity report and the technical findings.

2
Phase 02

Decide

Map which filter pages have real search demand. Apply the 3-rule framework. Fix the critical blockers first: wrongly blocked pages, server errors, missing canonicals.

3
Phase 03

Implement

We write it into your theme ourselves. Liquid snippets, structured data, image optimisation, app conflicts resolved. On non-Shopify platforms, your developer gets the code and a test checklist.

4
Phase 04

Monitor

Monthly crawls, weekly Search Console reports, Core Web Vitals tracking, filter performance reviewed and expanded.

Our framework

The 3-rule filter framework, in plain terms

Rule The page What we do
1 One filter, 5 or more products Index it, give it its own heading
2 One filter, under 5 products Block it, point it back to the collection
3 Two or more filters combined Always block it, point it back to the collection

It runs server-side in Liquid. No JavaScript, no app, no guesswork.

50–100
Pages indexed
5K–50K
Dead ends blocked
~70%
Crawl budget reclaimed
Proof, not promises

Real stores, real numbers

Fit check

Is this a fit?

Good fit if you

  • Run a Shopify or Shopify Plus store with a real catalogue and filters on your collections
  • Have products that should rank and quietly do not
  • Are seeing “discovered, currently not indexed” in Search Console
  • Want the work implemented, not handed to you as a PDF

Not a fit if you

  • Have fewer than 100 products, where there is not enough structure for this to pay off
  • Are pre-launch with no Search Console history to read
  • Want content and link building. That is our ecommerce SEO service, not this one
  • Need a report to show someone rather than changes to your store

If you are in the second list, say so on the call. We will tell you what we would do instead, even if it is not us.

Straight answers

Common questions

01What is technical SEO?
Everything that decides whether a search engine can reach, read, and trust your pages, as opposed to what those pages say. Crawling, indexing, duplicate addresses, speed, structured data. Content decides whether you deserve to rank. Technical SEO decides whether you get the chance.
02What is a technical SEO audit?
A full crawl of your store cross-referenced with Search Console, showing what Google is indexing, what it is ignoring, and where the crawl budget goes. Our technical SEO audit services hand back a prioritised roadmap, not a checklist export. On Shopify, we implement it too.
03How to fix technical SEO issues?
In the order Google meets them, not the order a tool lists them. Crawl access first, then indexing, then speed, then structured data. Audit tools sort by severity score, which buries the crawl problems under a hundred cosmetic warnings. Fixing one blocked collection beats fixing two hundred missing alt tags.
04How to choose the right technical SEO agency?
Ask three things. Do you implement or only report? Show me a fix you made on a store like mine and what happened after. What will you do in week one? Vague answers about best practices usually mean no hands-on platform experience.
05How long does it take?
Audit in 1 to 2 weeks. Implementation in 2 to 4 weeks on Shopify, 4 to 8 on custom platforms where a developer is involved. Movement shows in Search Console 2 to 4 weeks after fixes land.
06How do I know if I have technical SEO issues?
Open Search Console. A large number under “discovered, currently not indexed” means Google is finding pages and deciding they are not worth reading. That is crawl waste. Core Web Vitals showing poor is speed. Both are common, and both are fixable.
07What is the difference between technical SEO and on-page SEO?
Technical is whether Google can reach the page. On-page is whether it deserves to rank once there. You need both, in that order.
08Do I need this if I am already on Shopify?
Shopify handles the basics well and creates these specific problems by default: duplicate product paths, variant URLs, filter over-indexing, structured data conflicts between apps. Platform behaviours, not mistakes you made.
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