The 17 Best WordPress SEO Agencies of 2026

Editor’s note: This post was originally published in January 2024 and was updated in February 2026 for accuracy and comprehensiveness.

WordPress powers a huge portion of the web, but SEO on WordPress is rarely as simple as installing a plugin and calling it done.

Many SEO problems on WordPress sites live below the surface. Bloated page builders, misconfigured SEO plugins, competing category and tag pages, pagination issues, and caching setups that interfere with structured data are all common. A generic SEO audit might flag symptoms, but miss the underlying cause.

That’s why WordPress experience matters. Agencies that work extensively with WordPress understand how themes, plugins, taxonomies, page builders, and performance settings interact. They know where issues tend to hide and how to fix them without breaking the site or creating new problems.

To help you find the right partner, we reviewed dozens of agencies with a focus on WordPress SEO. The 17 companies below stood out for their technical understanding of the platform, their ability to solve real WordPress-specific challenges, and their track record of driving sustainable organic growth in 2026.

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Best WordPress SEO Agencies

Listed below are the 15 best WordPress SEO agencies in 2026:

• HigherVisibility – Best Overall
• Thrive Internet Marketing Agency
• WebFX
• SEOBrand
• Intero Digital
• Straight North
• Coalition Technologies
• IgniteVisibility
• Sure Oak
• SmartSites
• Victorious SEO
• Agreed Technologies
• The SEO Works
• GoFish Digital
• ROI Minds
• OuterBox
• Searchbloom

HigherVisibility – Best Overall

Best for: Full-service WordPress SEO and search engine marketing 

Headquartered in: Memphis, Tennessee 

Clients They’ve Worked With: Allied, Ziebart, Evolve Bank & Trust, NewRoads, Lawn Doctor, Scrip Hessco 

Industries Serviced: B2B, B2C, FinTech, automotive, franchise, legal, real estate 

Length in Business: 18 years (founded 2008) 

Accolades: 

• 6X (2020-2025) SEO Agency of the Year from US Agency Awards 
• 2024 SEO Agency of the Year by Search Engine Land, 
• 2023 Best Full-Service SEO and SEM Agency by Forbes Advisor, 
• 2020 SEO Agency of the Year by Search Engine Land. 

We’re a full-service WordPress SEO and search engine marketing agency that’s won SEO Agency of the Year six times because we connect WordPress SEO to revenue. 

We use a Targeted Growth System that focuses on keywords with commercial intent—keywords that attract buyers and filter out browsers who aren’t ready to purchase. 

Our framework starts with understanding your actual users: who they are, what problems trigger their searches, and what makes them convert or leave. This shapes how we think about keyword strategy, content priorities, and the conversion paths we can map for them. 

We then identify opportunities: which keywords target your ideal customers, what keyword gaps our competitors haven’t spotted, and which pages have traffic but low conversion rates. We use all these to figure out content topics that align with how your customers actually search to prevent wasted effort on content that ranks but doesn’t achieve any actual business results. 

We execute across SEO, PPC, and CRO so each channel reinforces the others. For example, when we run PPC ads, we look for the high-performing keywords and optimize blog posts or service pages with those same keywords to build long-term SEO value. This way, PPC ads bring in users now while SEO keeps working for as long as possible. 

For WordPress specifically, we handle technical audits, address plugin conflicts and page speed issues, build custom themes, and implement proper URL structures that avoid duplicate content issues. 

Other services include web design and development, link building, and local SEO. 

Thrive Internet Marketing Agency 

Best for: Multi-location and franchise businesses 

Headquartered in: Arlington, Texas 

Clients They’ve Worked With: Nationwide Construction, Farah Law, Aisle Planner Pro, Unique Safaris, CP Networks 

Industries Serviced: Franchise, legal, real estate, home services, healthcare, B2B 

Length in Business: 21 years (founded 2005) 

Accolades: 

• Top SEO Companies by Clutch (2024)
• Winner National Excellence United States (2024)
• Top 10 Agency by Influencer Marketing Hub (2024)

Thrive is a marketing agency that serves different industries because of their volume of expertise. If you’re a local business, they can create geo-targeted content, optimize your Google Business Profiles (GBPs) and location pages to rank for city-specific queries. 

They’ve also  developed proprietary tracking tools, Thrive Score and Thrive Stats, to monitor performance across locations. These supplement Google Analytics with franchise-specific metrics: which locations rank for target keywords, how each location’s organic traffic converts, and where there is a decline in local search visibility. 

They also have a methodology to optimize content for AI search engines, to help WordPress sites appear in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google’s AI Overviews. 

WebFX

Best for: Companies wanting marketing technology integrated with SEO 

Headquartered in: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 

Clients They’ve Worked With: KOA, Merrimack Valley Psychological Associates, Bruni & Campisi, Thompson Tractor 

Industries Serviced: Home services, healthcare, B2B, eCommerce, SaaS 

Length in Business: 28+ years (founded 1996) 

Accolades: 

• SEO agency recognized by Clutch
• 2025 Netty Award for Best SEO Innovation for their OmniSEO product 
• Web Excellence Excellence award, 
• UpCity National Excellence award
• Google Premier Partner

WebFX is a renowned marketing agency that provides SEO, PPC and other marketing services. They use IBM Watson and Google Cloud Platform to track which WordPress pages generate leads, automate bid adjustments in paid campaigns, and monitor competitor keyword movements. 

For WordPress specifically, their MarketingCloudFX platform connects organic traffic to conversion events: think submitted forms, phone calls, transactions. This eliminates the gap between “traffic increased” and “revenue” that most SEO reporting leaves unresolved. 

They also offer services like technical auditing, on-page optimization, and web design and development. 

SEO Brand 

Best for: Small businesses building WordPress SEO from scratch 

Headquartered in: Boca Raton, Florida 

Clients They’ve Worked With: Mont Blanc, New Hope Fertility, McGill University, Stone Source Hawaii, Allegra, PeopleCore, Uniden, Wills Eye Hospital, Ceridian 

Industries Serviced: Finance, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, consumer goods, construction 

Length in Business: 18 years (founded 2008) 

Accolades: 

• Clutch Top SEO Firm

SEO Brand is a boutique agency that helps businesses who are either yet to invest in SEO or are struggling with growth. They start with what they call a discovery process to analyze your SEO, know where you are, and understand your target demographic to see what consumers are searching online so they can optimize for it. 

They also rebuild site architecture for long-term SEO success and fix URL structures, implement proper internal linking hierarchies, and resolve WordPress-specific issues like duplicate content from taxonomy pages or pagination problems. 

Beyond SEO, they handle UI/UX design, security integrations, and custom software development. This makes them suitable for businesses that want a single vendor to manage their entire WordPress presence. 

Intero Digital 

Best for: Integrated search and social media campaigns 

Headquartered in: Colorado Springs, Colorado (offices in Denver, Austin, Raleigh, Naples, Charleston) 

Clients They’ve Worked With: Seatbelt Planet, Tracom Group, Tamron, Jaguar, Land Rover, Don Julio, GAIAM, Learning RX, Ace Hardware 

Industries Serviced: Automotive, consumer goods, retail, healthcare 

Length in Business: 30 years (founded 1996) 

Accolades: 

• Inc. 5000 List (2018) 
• Top U.S. Digital Marketing Company by Clutch (2024) 

Intero Digital focuses on omnichannel marketing strategies for small-to-medium businesses. They use proprietary technology InteroBOT®  and Intero GRO to analyze sites the way search engines do and optimize for AI-driven search results. 

Their approach integrates SEO with paid media, content marketing, and social channels so each touchpoint reinforces the others. They repurpose content created for organic search across social media platforms, then use engagement data to refine keyword priorities and content strategies. This works for businesses that want search and social marketing channels to be in sync rather than in silos. 

Other services include PPC advertising, web design and CRO, and email marketing. 

Straight North 

Best for: B2B lead generation through WordPress 

Headquartered in: Downers Grove, Illinois (with Chicago office) 

Clients They’ve Worked With: SeaCa, Lamar Dental, Ariat Roofing, Steadfast Sprints, Grove Dental Associates, Pro Stock Hockey, Clover, Fiserv, Conduent 

Industries Serviced: B2B, manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, eCommerce 

Length in Business: 28 years (founded 1997, rebranded 2008) 

Accolades: N/A

Straight North is a digital marketing agency that can help you use a medley of web design, PPC, and SEO to “stand out from the crowd.” 

As part of their industrial SEO process, Straight North uses call tracking and form analytics to measure which SEO efforts generate actual inquiries, not just traffic or rankings. They then optimize campaigns based on lead quality, not just lead volume, by validating which leads are real sales opportunities versus spam or low‑intent contacts. 

Their WordPress development process integrates SEO and conversion rate optimization from the start. This includes strategic placement of lead capture forms, click‑to‑call functionality tied to specific keywords and campaigns, and conversion paths designed around typical B2B sales cycles.

Coalition Technologies 

Best for: eCommerce WordPress sites with WooCommerce 

Headquartered in: Los Angeles, California (with Seattle office and global team) 

Clients They’ve Worked With: Pink Lily, Wiring Specialties, Rogue Origin, Spiceology, Tumbl Trak 

Industries Serviced: eCommerce, fashion, beauty, B2B, legal 

Length in Business: 17 years (founded 2009) 

Accolades: 

• Google Premier Partner, 
• Klaviyo Master Platinum Partner

Multiple awards from Clutch including

• 2025 Clutch Best in Digital Marketing,
• 2025 Clutch Best in WordPress SEO agency. 

Coalition Technologies handles WordPress SEO alongside WooCommerce development. They build custom WordPress sites with WooCommerce, integrating SEO requirements into the site architecture: mega menus for product categories, schema markup for product pages, and admin tools for managing large inventories. 

They also have an email marketing integration that sets them apart: they’re a Klaviyo Master Platinum Partner, so they understand how to connect organic traffic to email nurture sequences. A customer who finds a product through organic search but doesn’t convert can get automatically added to targeted email campaigns based on browsing behavior. 

The team also offers AI-focused SEO services so your content is optimized for AI search engines. 

Ignite Visibility 

Best for: International SEO and digital PR 

Headquartered in: San Diego, California 

Clients They’ve Worked With: DoorDash, Fix Auto, The General, CARSTAR, WeddingWire, Experian Health 

Industries Serviced: Franchise, healthcare, finance, eCommerce 

Length in Business: 13 years (founded 2013) 

Accolades: 

• Mentioned 6x on Inc. 5000 list, 
• Google Impact Award, 
• Sandie Silver award for SEO/SEM
• W3 Gold Award for Best Use of Emerging Technology

Ignite Visibility specializes in international SEO and digital PR for businesses operating across multiple countries. They provide multichannel marketing strategy (SEO, paid media, social media) to connect your brand voice and ensure every buyer’s touchpoint nudges them to conversion. 

They also offer language translation services and they conduct region-specific keyword research, adapt content for cultural context, and optimize WordPress sites for search behavior patterns that vary by country. All these help them combine international SEO, traditional PR outreach with typical SEO efforts to achieve significant results for your business. 

Sure Oak 

Best for: Link building and backlink profile development

Headquartered in: Brooklyn, New York 

Clients They’ve Worked With: GuidePoint Security, United Van Lines, Novarad, STACK Construction Technologies, TurboDebt, United Van Lines 

Industries Serviced: SaaS, e-commerce, fintech, healthcare IT, cybersecurity, construction software 

Length in Business: 11 years (founded 2015) 

Accolades: Clutch top SEO agency, FindBestSEO recognized agency

Sure Oak specializes in link building for businesses. They analyze competitor backlink profiles to identify where your competitors are getting links, then execute outreach campaigns to secure placements on similar high-authority domains. 

They also distinguish themselves with their proprietary “High RES” (Results, Experience, and Strategy) framework. The goal is to deliver SEO solutions that lead to revenue and help businesses build domain authority through quality, relevant backlinks. 

SmartSites 

Best for: Email and SMS marketing integration with SEO 

Headquartered in: Paramus, New Jersey 

Clients They’ve Worked With: Shades Studio, Air-Con International INC., Pilonidal Treatment Center, AGA Truck Parts, Wisa Solution, BBQ Cleaner, Agape Health and Wellness, etc. 

Industries Serviced: Healthcare, logistics, eCommerce, local services 

Length in Business: 15 years (founded 2011) 

Accolades: 

• #1 Best in Digital Marketing by GoodFirms, 
• Top 3 Advertising Agency by Upcity
• Google Premier Partner, 
• Facebook Marketing Partner

SmartSites helps small B2C companies increase visibility on Google through local search and lead capture forms. 

They have a process that captures visitors through forms and uses an automated email sequence (based on the pages visitors view) to warm them up and see if they’re likely to buy. This helps you decide later whether those types of visitors are a good fit to invest more in. 

Other services include WordPress design and development, PPC management, and conversion rate optimization. They’re a strong fit for small B2C companies that want more organic visibility and simple lead capture without a large marketing budget. 

Victorious SEO 

Best for: SEO-exclusive strategy for enterprise WordPress sites 

Headquartered in: San Francisco, California 

Clients They’ve Worked With: Salesforce, SoFi, GoFundMe, Wayfair, GE Digital, Spotify, Yahoo 

Industries Serviced: Enterprise, SaaS, finance, eCommerce 

Length in Business: 10+ years 

Accolades: 

• 2025 US Search Awards finalist for Best SEO Campaign (and other categories), 
• 2024 US Agency Awards Winner for Best SEO Campaign (and other categories) 
• Global Agency Awards recognition 

Victorious SEO is a search performance-focused agency that focuses on high-conversion keywords for long-term ROI. Unlike other agencies, they don’t provide PPC or social media services: just SEO. Instead, they help clients attract high-conversion traffic and long-term return on investment (ROI). They achieve this by using organic search data (online search activities) to create marketing strategies that align with your business goals and generate leads. 

Their keyword strategy prioritizes commercial intent, which indicates buying intent rather than general curiosity. 

They also provide technical SEO services to audit site speed, fix crawl errors, and implement schema markup, among others. 

Agreed Technologies 

Best for: Small and medium-sized business owners 

Headquartered in: New York, U.S. 

Clients They’ve Worked With: RolladMedia, GEM Find, Berkeley Dental, True North Social, BM Watch 

Industries Serviced: eCommerce, B2B, B2C, SaaS 

Length in Business: 14 years 

Accolades: 

• Ranked among Best SEO Companies 2023

Agreed Technologies provides local SEO, e‑commerce SEO, and link‑building services tailored to SMEs. They also handle technical SEO, social media marketing, and WordPress development services, so you get a complete set of services — from fixing site issues to growing traffic and protecting your rankings. 

Their local SEO activities focus on helping you build local trust, traffic, and increase revenue, using mobile‑first optimization and strategies. 

The SEO Works 

Best for: UK businesses needing PPC alongside organic SEO 

Headquartered in: Sheffield, United Kingdom (with offices in London and Leeds) 

Clients They’ve Worked With: NHS, Denby Pottery, Rab Equipment, University of Manchester, Paragon Skills, Canonbury Healthcare 

Industries Serviced: Healthcare, education, eCommerce, manufacturing, legal 

Length in Business: 17 years (founded 2009) 

Accolades: 

• Integrated Search Agency of the Year of the Global Agency Awards 2023, 
• PPC campaign of the Year – B2C UK Digital Excellence Awards 2023
• Drum Search Awards Best B2C Marketing Campaign, 
• AVA Digital Awards Platinum Award for B2C

SEO Works is a popular digital agency in the U.K., well known for its PPC management services. They’ve been doing this for over ten years and help hundreds of businesses optimize their sites in SERPs. The major WordPress SEO services they offer include: 

• Organic SEO
• Local SEO
• Technical SEO
• Digital PR
• Content marketing

They also use paid search performance data (including which keywords and campaigns convert well) to help shape SEO keyword targeting and content strategy. If certain terms or messages perform strongly in paid campaigns, they often prioritize those opportunities in organic content and landing page optimization. 

Overall, they integrate SEO, digital PR, and paid social strategy to help clients reach their target audience on the web. 

Go Fish Digital 

Best for: Content strategy and AI search optimization 

Headquartered in: Raleigh, North Carolina (with Washington D.C. office) 

Clients They’ve Worked With: GEICO, The New York Times, Marriott, Airbnb, Joybird, Chicco, SimpleTexting 

Industries Serviced: B2B, B2C, retail, eCommerce, hospitality 

Length in Business: 21 years (founded 2005) 

Accolades: 

• 4X “Agency of the Year” Award Winner, 
• Best Use of Content Marketing (US Search Awards.) 

Go Fish Digital develops strategies that optimize content to appear in AI‑driven search platforms like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google’s AI Overviews. Their process structures content with answer‑focused formats, entity‑based schema markup, and conversational language patterns that AI systems extract for responses. 

They also combine SEO with digital PR to secure media placements and high‑quality backlinks. This means they create original research (think industry reports, consumer behavior studies) that attract coverage from journalists and industry publications. They then use this type of content to build backlink authority and also increase ROI from local SEO. 

ROI Minds 

Best for: Social media marketing integrated with SEO 

Headquartered in: Punjab, India 

Clients They’ve Worked With: Ambrai, ISUZU, League Outfitters, LETI Home Decor 

Industries Serviced: D2C, eCommerce, fashion, jewelry, B2B, automotive 

Length in Business: 7 years (founded 2019) 

Accolades: 

• Recognized Digital Marketing Agency on Clutch, Glassdoor, and Design Rush.

ROI Minds focuses on Facebook Ads, Google Ads, and SEO, with a strong emphasis on scaling D2C and e‑commerce brands that need high return on ad spend (ROAS). Their SEO and content services are designed to connect with broader paid campaigns by using organic content to warm up audiences before retargeting them with ads. 

They specialize in D2C brands that need high ROAS. Their process includes optimizing product pages for conversion, creating blog content that ranks for product‑focused keywords, and using SEO insights to inform paid campaign targeting. The goal is to get each marketing dollar to generate multiple dollars in revenue whether through Facebook Ads, Google Ads, or organic search. 

OuterBox 

Best for: eCommerce WordPress and WooCommerce SEO 

Headquartered in: Akron, Ohio (with offices in Houston, TX, and Rochester, MN) 

Clients They’ve Worked With: Anchor Hocking, Oneida, Morton Salt, Romeo’s Pizza, Matco Tools, Spartan Tool, Atlas Oil 

Industries Serviced: eCommerce, B2B, manufacturing, retail 

Length in Business: 22 years (founded 2004) 

Accolades: OuterBox Design Awards, Google Premier Partner, Inc. 5000, Clutch top agency

OuterBox primarily specializes in eCommerce businesses, particularly those using WooCommerce, with a focus on scaling product‑based stores. 

Their process optimizes product pages, category structures, and faceted navigation, managing WooCommerce SEO with hundreds of categories and thousands of products. They handle common eCommerce issues like duplicate content from filters and pagination, optimize site speed on product‑heavy pages, and implement schema markup for products, reviews, and pricing to improve visibility in search and shopping feeds. 

Their recent focus includes optimizing product content to appear in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI‑driven shopping assistants, as part of their Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) approach. This involves structuring product descriptions with answer‑focused language and entity‑based markup to increase chances of being surfaced and cited in AI responses.

Searchbloom 

Best for: Technical SEO and WordPress performance optimization 

Headquartered in: Utah 

Clients They’ve Worked With: Sun & Ski Sports, corporate gift companies, eCommerce retailers 

Industries Serviced: eCommerce, retail, local services, enterprise 

Length in Business: 12 years (founded 2014) 

Accolades: 

• Clutch Top WordPress SEO Company United States 2025, 
• DesignRush Top SEO Company, 
• UpCity National Excellence Award
• Search Engine Land Award Winner (2021)  
• GoodFirms Top Digital Marketing Company 

Searchbloom provides technical SEO and WordPress optimization focused on site speed, Core Web Vitals, and mobile optimization. Their audits identify WordPress‑specific performance issues like poorly coded themes and unoptimized images that affect page load times and hurt rankings. 

They work with eCommerce sites, enterprise WordPress installations, and multi‑site networks. Their technical optimization includes implementing caching strategies, optimizing database queries, and configuring CDNs to ensure fast, reliable content delivery. 

Their approach also covers landing page optimization and conversion rate improvements, so they’re not just getting traffic to WordPress sites, but ensuring that pages are designed to convert visitors into leads or customers. 

Why WordPress Experience Matters in SEO

WordPress SEO is not just “regular SEO” with a plugin installed.

WordPress has its own technical quirks that can directly impact rankings, including how themes handle code, how page builders affect performance, how taxonomies create duplicate content, and how caching and plugin conflicts interfere with structured data. These issues are easy to miss if an agency is treating WordPress like just another CMS.

Agencies that specialize in WordPress SEO understand how these pieces work together. They know how to diagnose problems without breaking the site, how to optimize performance without sacrificing flexibility, and how to structure content so it scales cleanly over time.

That depth of experience becomes especially important during Google updates, site migrations, theme changes, or major content expansions, when small technical missteps can have outsized consequences.

How to Choose the Right WordPress SEO Agency

When evaluating WordPress SEO agencies, focus less on broad promises and more on how well they understand the platform itself.

Start by clarifying your goals. Whether you are trying to grow organic traffic, increase qualified leads, or improve visibility for specific services, clear objectives make it easier to assess whether an agency’s approach fits your needs.

Next, look closely at their WordPress experience. Ask how they handle technical SEO within WordPress, how they approach site speed and performance, and how they manage issues related to plugins, themes, and content structure. Strong agencies should be able to explain these topics clearly, not hide behind vague terminology.

Review case studies and past results, especially for WordPress sites similar in size or complexity to yours. Pay attention to outcomes, not just rankings, and look for evidence that improvements were sustainable over time.

Finally, be cautious of pricing that feels too good to be true. Effective WordPress SEO requires ongoing technical oversight, content strategy, and performance optimization. That level of work rarely comes from bargain solutions.

Wrapping Up

WordPress gives businesses enormous flexibility, but that flexibility also introduces complexity. SEO success on WordPress depends on understanding how the platform actually behaves under the hood, not just following generic best practices.

The agencies featured in this list stood out because they combine SEO expertise with a deep understanding of WordPress itself. If your site runs on WordPress and organic search is an important growth channel, choosing a partner with proven WordPress experience can make a meaningful difference in 2026 and beyond.