Freelance SEO consultant who also writes the code

A freelance SEO consultant works out why your pages are not being found, chosen or clicked in search, decides what to change first, and makes sure those changes happen. In my case that last part is literal: I edit the templates, write the redirects and publish the content myself, or I brief your developer in the detail they need.

I work as a freelance SEO consultant in India with clients across India and overseas. The people I help most are usually in one of these situations:

• A business website that looks fine but brings in few enquiries from Google
• A startup or SaaS team with no in-house SEO and a developer queue that is always full
• A company about to redesign or replatform, and worried about losing its rankings
• An agency that needs a technical SEO freelancer for client sites it cannot staff
• Owners who have paid for an audit before and still have a list of unfixed issues

If you want guaranteed first-page rankings in 30 days, bulk link packages or hundreds of unedited AI articles, I am the wrong person. Those shortcuts tend to break against Google's spam policies, and the clean-up costs more than doing it properly the first time.

Very large sites that need a link-building team, digital PR and a dozen writers every month are also better served by an agency. I am one person, and I would rather tell you that on the first call than discover it in month three.

The usual story goes like this: an agency sends a 90-page audit, the developer says half of it cannot be done in the current theme, nobody owns the rest, and six months later the same issues are still in Search Console. The problem was never the advice. It was that nobody on the project could turn it into code.

Because I write PHP every day, I can trace a symptom in Search Console back to the line that causes it. These are the kinds of issues I find and fix:

• A noindex tag carried over from staging to the live site after a launch
• Every page canonicalized to the homepage by a misconfigured SEO plugin or layout file
• Filter and sort URLs creating thousands of thin pages stuck in ‘Crawled, currently not indexed’
• Navigation built with click handlers instead of real links, so Google cannot follow it
• Slow Interaction to Next Paint (INP) caused by chat widgets and tag manager scripts
• Redirect chains and 404s left behind by an old redesign, wasting links you already earned

What you get is a freelance web developer and SEO expert in India whom clients and overseas agencies work with directly. There is no account manager between us: you talk to the engineer who reads your code, runs the crawl and makes the change.

If you are a local business looking for an SEO freelancer in Ahmedabad, we can also meet in person, and the web developer in Ahmedabad page covers the build side of local work. For everyone else, I work remotely with clients in different time zones, and we agree on update times at the start. Any freelance SEO expert in India or abroad should be able to show how they build, so judge my work directly: this website is built in Next.js and scores 100 in Lighthouse for SEO, accessibility and best practices, with a layout shift (CLS) of 0. My engineering work on production systems such as a Laravel brokerage back office is in the portfolio too.

Each service has its own page with the scope, process and FAQs. Most projects combine two or three of them.

• Technical SEO audit services: crawling, indexing, Core Web Vitals and a prioritized fix list
• On-page SEO services: titles, headings, internal links and content updates on the pages that matter
• Keyword research and mapping: one clear target query per page, plus topic clusters
• SEO content writing: blog posts, service pages and technical articles
• WordPress SEO and schema markup done at the theme and plugin level
• Local SEO for businesses that serve a city or region
• SEO website migration for redesigns, domain moves and new platforms
• AI search optimization for visibility in AI Overviews and chat assistants

Technical fixes such as removing a stray noindex or repairing canonicals can show up within days to a few weeks, once Google recrawls the pages. On-page changes to pages that already rank on page two or three often move within one to three months. New content on a young domain usually needs six to twelve months to build steady traffic, and some competitive terms take longer than that. No one can honestly guarantee first-page rankings, because Google decides, and your competitors are working too.

Cost depends on the size of the site, the platform, how much I implement versus recommend, how much content is involved and how competitive your market is. I do not publish rates. After a short call or a written brief I send a fixed quote for a defined scope, or a monthly arrangement if you need ongoing work. If you are comparing consultants, these questions to ask an SEO consultant are worth putting to me as well.