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WordPress SEO services from one senior consultant

WordPress SEO is the work of getting a WordPress site found in Google and in AI search, from plugin settings and page speed to the pages themselves. It's for businesses whose site should bring in enquiries and doesn't yet. I'm Will Sibley, one consultant, and I do all of it myself, from £1,000 a month ($1,500).

Send me your site

I reply myself, usually within one working day.

Proof

WordPress SEO results from sites I've worked on

Two numbers and a quote, each from work I did myself. The method behind all three is the same audit-first process I'd use on your site.

220%

year-on-year search growth for The Telegraph's Money section, where I was Senior SEO Manager

£42,658

raised by Bristol Community Sauna's crowdfunder, run from the WordPress site I rebuilt in May 2026

“Will got us online in the first place, then rebuilt the site from the ground up ahead of our expansion crowdfunder. It tells our story far better now, clear, warm and really easy to follow, and it did exactly what we needed going into the campaign. He's been brilliant to work with from day one.”

Costas Hadjipateras

Director, Bristol Community Sauna

Read the Bristol Community Sauna case study

What's included

What WordPress SEO with me includes

Every engagement starts with an audit, so the work happens in the order that should bring traffic soonest. From there it covers whichever of these six your site needs. It sits within my wider SEO services.
  1. 01

    A WordPress SEO audit

    I crawl the whole site with Screaming Frog, read your Search Console data and check the theme, plugins and hosting. You get every fix ranked by the traffic it should bring. The detail is on my SEO audit page.

  2. 02

    Technical fixes in your WordPress admin

    Redirects, XML sitemaps, structured data and canonical tags, which are the lines that tell Google which address is the real one. I make the changes myself or write them up for your developer. See technical SEO.

  3. 03

    Yoast or Rank Math, set up properly

    Title templates, schema settings, breadcrumbs and indexing rules, set around how your business works. On the sites I review, the plugin is usually installed and still on its defaults.

  4. 04

    Speed and Core Web Vitals

    Core Web Vitals are Google's measurements of how fast a page loads for real visitors. I audit plugins, images, caching and scripts, and I'll tell you plainly if Elementor, Divi or WPBakery is the bottleneck.

  5. 05

    Pages nobody meant to publish

    Tag pages, author archives, date archives and media attachment pages pile up on older WordPress sites. I take them out of Google's index so its attention goes to the pages that sell.

  6. 06

    On-page SEO and content

    Keyword research, rewrites of pages that get impressions but few clicks, and a plan built from the searches buyers make. Each page gets one main search to answer. See content and on-page SEO.

How it runs

How WordPress SEO runs, from first look to monthly report

  1. 01

    Day 1

    A first look

    Send me your address. I check what Google has indexed, how fast the site is on a phone and how your SEO plugin is set up. Then I reply with what I found.

  2. 02

    Weeks 1 to 3

    Audit and plan

    A full audit with every fix ranked by traffic gained against effort. You approve the order before anything changes on the site.

  3. 03

    Month 2 onwards

    Fixes and content

    I work through the list each month, in your WordPress admin or through your developer. Nothing changes on the live site without a backup and a test first.

  4. 04

    Every month

    A report you can read

    One page on traffic, enquiries and revenue from search, what I did and what comes next. Technical fixes usually show in Search Console within a few weeks.

Price

What WordPress SEO costs

Monthly work starts at £1,000 a month ($1,500). Audits and migrations are quoted on scope, because a ten-page brochure site and a publisher with 5,000 posts need very different amounts of work. You get a fixed price before anything starts.

WhatPriceWhat it covers
Monthly WordPress SEOFrom £1,000 a month ($1,500)Technical fixes, plugin setup, speed work, content and a monthly report.
WordPress SEO auditQuoted on scopeA full crawl, Search Console review, theme, plugin and hosting checks, and a ranked list of fixes.
Migration or redesignQuoted on scopeA redirect map, checks before and after launch, and four weeks of monitoring in Search Console.

How to choose

Should you hire a WordPress SEO agency or a consultant?

Hire an agency if you need a team, and a consultant if you need one senior person doing the work. Sibley Digital is one consultant, me, so this table sets out when each is the better fit.
An agency is the better choice whenOne consultant is the better choice when
You need 20 or more articles a month, written to a schedule.You want the person who audits the site to be the person who fixes it.
You want paid search, social media and SEO under one contract.Your WordPress site needs repairing more than it needs monthly reports.
You need someone on call every day across several sites.You already have a developer or a writer and need someone senior to direct them.
Your buying process requires a supplier with a team behind it.You want to email the person doing the work and get a reply from them.

Whoever you choose, ask who will log in to your WordPress admin and do the work, and ask to see a sample audit before you sign. If you run an agency that builds on WordPress, I deliver SEO under your brand through my white-label service.

Questions

WordPress SEO questions

Is WordPress good for SEO?

Yes. WordPress gives you full control over URLs, titles, redirects and structured data, and Google crawls it without trouble. Where WordPress sites struggle, the cause is usually what was added on top, such as heavy page builders, too many plugins and SEO settings left on their defaults.

How much does WordPress SEO cost?

Monthly WordPress SEO with me starts at £1,000 a month ($1,500). Audits and migrations are quoted on scope, and I send a fixed price before any work starts.

Are you a WordPress SEO agency or a consultant?

A consultant. Sibley Digital is me, Will Sibley, and I do the audit, the fixes and the reporting myself. I spent ten years in search before this, including as Senior SEO Manager at The Telegraph.

Should I use Yoast or Rank Math?

Either is fine, and I work with whichever you already have. Switching from one to the other rarely moves rankings on its own. How the plugin is configured matters far more, and on the sites I review that's where the problems are.

Do I need to rebuild my WordPress site to rank?

Usually not. Most WordPress sites can be fixed in place. If your theme or page builder is the main thing holding the site back, I'll set out what a rebuild would cost against what it would gain, and I can build the new site as well.

How long does WordPress SEO take to work?

Technical fixes on an established site often show in Search Console within a few weeks, once Google has recrawled the pages. Content work takes longer, typically three to six months before it shows in traffic and enquiries.

Will you need access to my WordPress admin?

For hands-on work, yes, ideally through an admin account of my own, plus access to Search Console and Google Analytics. If you'd prefer to keep all changes with your developer, I write specifications they can work from.

Can you handle a WordPress migration?

Yes. I plan the redirect map, check the new site before launch and watch Search Console afterwards. The process is on my site migrations page.

Guides

Guides on WordPress SEO

Written from client work. All guides

Get in touch

Send me your WordPress site

Send me the address and a line or two on what you'd like search to do for the business. I'll reply with what I'd fix first and what it would cost.

  1. 1I reply myself, usually within one working day.
  2. 2I look at your site and its search visibility before we speak.
  3. 3If I can help, I send a scope and a price. If I can't, I say so.

Or email will@sibleydigital.com. I work UK afternoons and the full US working day.

All four fields are needed. I read every message myself and there is no mailing list.