WordPress SEO consultant
SEO problems look alike: bloated themes, conflicting plugins, duplicate archives, misconfigured cache. Rate for a WordPress SEO consultant: from €800 per day excl. VAT, first 30-minute consultation at €50, first results within three months: agency comparison, rates, method and FAQ below.
1. WordPress SEO consultant or WordPress SEO agency: the comparison
Describe your need, the AI suggests 3 providers
Example: Shopify store in London, tight budget, need link building.
2. Client reviews of my work as a WordPress SEO consultant
Excellent, based on 8 recommendations from clients and partners. Founders and managers I have worked with: measured results, a method that is explained and kept.
Alban joined to push SEO R&D on niches everyone fights for. Within months he industrialised what others still do by hand.
- Large-scale automation of domain and site creation
- Automated link building and worldwide multi-language competitive monitoring
- Repetitive team tasks replaced with AI pipelines
Alban is the peer I call when a project goes off the beaten track: saturated market, large-scale link building, automation. He puts numbers on things before acting and says plainly when an idea is not worth its cost.
- Consultant-to-consultant exchanges on competitive projects
- Shared link-building and automation methods
- Quantified recommendations, no empty promises
Alban took the French market in hand end to end. He built his team, launched a parasite SEO department from scratch and kept results climbing against competitors with far bigger budgets.
- French market run end to end, team grown from 8 to 20
- Parasite SEO department launched from scratch
- Monthly buyers multiplied by four in eighteen months
An SEO who speaks the developers’ language. Alban specifies, tests and measures: his processes plug straight into our stack.
- Documented scripts and pipelines, integrated into our tools
- Every experiment measured before being generalised
- Autonomous with Python, APIs and infrastructure
Alban took over organic acquisition for both our products, a course platform and a sports events app. He puts a figure on what he suggests and explains his trade-offs before anything is launched.
- Site architecture and landing pages reworked on the SaaS side
- Pages generated from our event data, sport by sport and city by city
- Priorities reviewed every month, with rank tracking to back it up
Our market is regulated: you cannot write anything you like about a health product. Alban found the angles that clear the regulatory bar and still bring buyers, not just readers.
- Product and category pages reworked for search
- Content kept inside the regulatory frame, with no health claims
- Long tail worked through range by range
My brunch site was ranking for nothing. Alban targeted searches by city and by type of venue, and weekend visits finally come from Google.
- Structured pages by city and by neighbourhood
- Venue pages optimised for local search
- A publishing schedule that holds, with no wasted production
Alban took over my website and made me visible on coaching searches in my area. Enquiries now come in every week through Google.
- WordPress site taken over and sped up
- Ranked on local coaching searches
- Business profile optimised and review flow in place
WordPress SEO consultant: contents
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3. The essentials in 30 seconds
Five pointers to see in 30 seconds whether your WordPress SEO consultant fits your needs, before you read the details:
Full page: 10 min read
- Problems: bloated theme, conflicting plugins, duplicate archives
- Method: measure, strip, measure again, then monitor
- Deliverable: plugin audit, trimmed sitemap, performance plan
- Rates: audit €800/day, retainer from €1,200/month, excl. VAT
- Timeline: plugins in 2 to 4 weeks, speed in 1 to 2 months
4. WordPress SEO consultant rates
Three formats, one base rate: the consultation to decide, the audit to plan, the retainer to execute:
| 🧰 Service | ▪️ Rate | 📦 What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Consultation | €50 · 30 min on video | A straight opinion on feasibility, cost and timeline. |
| Audit | On quote, base €800 per day excl. VAT | Action plan ranked by impact and cost, delivered in 10 to 15 days. |
| Retainer | From €1,200 per month excl. VAT | Quarterly commitment, weekly video check-in, shared dashboard. |
5. How much a WordPress SEO consultant can earn you for your budget
Six questions on your business, your traffic and your budget to estimate the return on organic search, which the audit then refines with your data:
6. How a WordPress SEO consultant reads your site
I have built and taken over dozens of WordPress sites. As a WordPress SEO consultant: plugin and script cleanup, Core Web Vitals (Google’s speed and comfort indicators), internal linking, publishing procedure:
1. For whom
- Editorial sites that grew faster than their structure.
- Brochure sites that are heavy on mobile.
- Multisites and networks to maintain without spending your days on it.
- Non-technical teams who want to publish without breaking SEO.
2. Deliverables
- Plugin and script cleanup, page by page.
- Core Web Vitals reworked: LCP, CLS, INP measured before and after.
- Structure and internal linking reviewed, parasitic taxonomies included.
- Publishing procedure so the team keeps the result.
7. The blockers a WordPress SEO consultant removes
The WordPress SEO blockers in order of gain: performance, theme and plugins, structure and archives, security and multilingual:
1. Performance
2. Theme and plugins
3. Structure and archives
4. Security and hygiene
5. Multilingual
6. Migration and redesign
8. The method of a WordPress SEO consultant, in order
A WordPress SEO consultant’s method: measure first, strip second, measure again, through scoping, diagnosis, execution, consolidation:
Scoping
Diagnosis
Execution
Consolidation
9. The mistakes a WordPress SEO consultant fixes first
Four mistakes that come up in most WordPress SEO projects, all fixable though some cost months, each with symptom and fix:
1. Stacked plugins
- ⚠️ Symptom: weak mobile score despite good hosting
- 🛠️ Fix: audit of the plugins actually in use
2. Two SEO plugins
- ⚠️ Symptom: duplicate tags or inconsistent canonicals
- 🛠️ Fix: settings migrated, then the second plugin deactivated
3. Worthless indexed archives
- ⚠️ Symptom: sitemap bloated with pages lacking their own content
- 🛠️ Fix: sitemap limited to the pages that deserve indexing (a page being listed in Google)
4. Heavy theme
- ⚠️ Symptom: homepage weighing several megabytes
- 🛠️ Fix: lighter theme, or components disabled one by one
10. Test your product page with your WordPress SEO consultant
Paste the address of a product page: your WordPress SEO consultant checks 5 criteria in a few seconds:
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First 30-min consultation: €50.
11. The deliverables of a WordPress SEO consultant
A freelance WordPress SEO delivers usable documents: plugin audit, consolidated SEO settings, trimmed sitemap (list of a site’s pages given to Google), performance plan and update procedure:
| 📦 Deliverable | 🧰 Format | ▪️ What it is for |
|---|---|---|
| Plugin audit | keep or remove table | regaining speed without breaking anything |
| Consolidated SEO settings | documentation | a single plugin controls the tags |
| Trimmed sitemap | specification | exposing only what deserves indexing |
| Performance plan | thresholds and fixes | holding the score after updates |
| Update procedure | checklist | so maintenance does not break SEO |
12. How long before rankings move, according to a WordPress SEO consultant?
WordPress SEO timelines vary with the domain’s history: 2 to 4 weeks for plugin clean-up, 1 to 2 months for speed, 3 to 6 for content:
What it depends on
- 2 to 4 weeksPlugin clean-up
number of plugins
- 1 to 2 monthsSpeed
theme weight
- 3 to 8 weeksSitemap and indexing
site size
- 3 to 6 monthsContent overhaul
volume of old content
13. Other pages worth reading, according to a WordPress SEO consultant
These neighbouring workstreams connect WordPress SEO to a complete plan, from the first diagnosis to the monthly follow-up.
14. 5 situations to test your instincts with an WordPress SEO consultant
Five real cases, each corrected and explained by your WordPress SEO consultant, to test your instincts before starting a project:
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1/5 Yoast and Rank Math are both active and your tags look duplicated. What to do?
Two plugins on the same tags contradict each other: migrate the settings, then deactivate one. Learn more
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2/5 Good hosting, but a weak mobile score on your older WordPress. First suspect?
Every plugin adds its own scripts and queries: the main cause of slowness on an older WordPress. Learn more
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3/5 Your sitemap lists hundreds of tags, dates and authors. Should they be indexed?
These archives produce empty pages that use up crawl budget: the sitemap keeps the useful pages. Learn more
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4/5 Twenty plugins: your provider wants to remove half on principle. Right criterion?
It is not the count but duplicates and conflicts: twenty clean plugins beat eight bad ones. Learn more
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5/5 Your old posts are slipping. How long before a content overhaul shows an effect?
Allow 3 to 6 months for a content overhaul, depending on the volume of old content to rework. Learn more
15. WordPress SEO consultant FAQ
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Instant answer, drawn only from the content of this page.
Which SEO plugin do you recommend on WordPress?
Rank Math or Yoast both do the job. Settings and site structure matter more than the plugin. Everything is put in writing, with the pages concerned and their priority.
Do page builders hurt SEO on WordPress?
Indirectly: they bloat the code and slow pages down. Well-used Gutenberg is enough in most cases. The exact steps for your site are in the action plan handed over after the audit.
How many plugins is too many in WordPress SEO?
It is not the count but the duplicates and conflicts. Twenty clean plugins beat eight bad ones. The method stays the same on any WordPress SEO project, only the dose changes.
Which plugin should you choose for WordPress SEO?
Any of them, as long as there is only one. Two active plugins contradict each other on tags. On any WordPress SEO project, this is what separates pages that climb from pages that stall.
Should tags and archives be indexed for WordPress SEO?
Almost never. They produce empty pages that use up crawl budget (time Google spends exploring a site). I confirm it on your site during the initial audit, with data to back it up. Every recommendation comes with its expected impact and estimated cost.
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