Forensic SEO Consultant · USA & UK

Forensic SEO Consultant: I Find Why Your Organic Growth Stopped.

Traffic dropped, pages vanished from Google, or growth flatlined and nobody can explain why. As a forensic SEO consultant, I investigate with evidence, prove the real cause, then fix it in the order that pays back fastest. Trusted by businesses across the US and UK.

Featured in Google Search Central Office Hours · 4.9★ from 69 reviews · 12+ years · Calls in US & UK hours

I’m Raihan Islam, a CSE engineer, search engine optimization consultant and founder of SEO Service Care. For 12+ years I’ve helped businesses find and fix the SEO problems others missed: technical failures, ecommerce crawl waste, broken migrations and invisibility in AI search.

2,000+ projects delivered, including 104+ jobs and 21K+ hours on Upwork, with Top Rated Plus status, a 99% Job Success Score and a 4.9/5 rating from 69 reviews.

Whether you are a growing ecommerce brand, a SaaS company or an enterprise team in the US or UK, I help you turn organic search into a revenue channel you can rely on.

The Experience Behind Raihan's SEO Expertise

12+ years as an SEO specialist and search engine optimization expert, direct engagement with industry leaders, and a career built around solving complex search and digital growth challenges.

12+ years

Technical, ecommerce & local SEO

Top Rated Plus

Upwork's top 3% of talent

21,000+ hrs

Delivered for clients worldwide

4.9 ★

From 69 verified reviews

Google

Featured in Search Central Office Hours

12+ years

Technical, ecommerce & local SEO

Top Rated Plus

Upwork's top 3% of talent

21,000+ hrs

Delivered for clients worldwide

4.9 ★

From 69 verified reviews

Google

Featured in Google Office Hours

SEO consulting services for your next stage of growth.

Every engagement starts with the same forensic investigation. I find the problem that sounds like yours or start with an audit if you are not sure.

Not sure what’s wrong? Start with evidence, not guesses.

In-Depth Forensic SEO Audit by a Senior SEO Consultant

A forensic SEO audit investigates crawl, indexation, rendering, server logs, content and links to prove why your organic growth stopped, then ranks every fix by revenue impact. You keep the full plan, whether or not we continue working together.

From $999 · 2–4 weeks · Developer-ready tickets

Already working with me? If you choose Ecommerce SEO, Local SEO, Enterprise SEO, or any other SEO service listed on this page, your Forensic SEO Audit is included in our engagement at no additional cost.

Your store plateaued, and paid ads keep eating the margin.

Ecommerce SEO Consultant

Ecommerce is where I have spent much of my career. I investigate the issues that hold organic revenue back from faceted navigation and unindexed product pages to competing category pages, duplicate variants and ecommerce schema.

Whether you use Shopify, BigCommerce, Magento, WooCommerce or a custom platform, I focus on fixing the underlying problems, not patching the symptoms.

Three audits later, and still nobody can explain it.

Technical SEO Consultant

I look beyond automated audit scores to find what is actually preventing your website from performing. That means investigating JavaScript rendering, crawl traps, canonical conflicts, index bloat, Core Web Vitals and how Googlebot accesses your pages.

You get a clear explanation of the root cause and a prioritised technical SEO roadmap your development team can act on.

One small decision, breaking pages you didn’t touch.

Enterprise SEO Consultant

On a large website, one template, canonical rule or faceted-navigation change can affect thousands of URLs. I investigate these shared patterns to identify the source of the problem and understand its wider impact.

Then I turn the findings into an impact-prioritised enterprise SEO roadmap, with practical specifications your engineering and SEO teams can implement.

AI recommends your competitor?

Not you?

AI SEO Consultant

When people ask Google’s AI Overviews, ChatGPT or Perplexity questions your business should answer, I help investigate why competing sources may be more visible.

My approach focuses on entity clarity, structured data, useful and verifiable content, and the signals that help search and AI systems understand your business. I build a measurable AI search visibility strategy.

Nearby customers are searching and finding someone else.

Local SEO Consultant

I look beyond basic listings optimisation to understand why competitors are more visible in local search and Google Maps. My approach combines Google Business Profile optimisation, local landing pages, technical SEO, business information consistency and location-specific relevance.

For single-location and multi-location businesses, I focus on the issues that matter to local visibility and qualified customer enquiries.

Traffic dropped after a migration, redesign or update?

SEO Recovery & Website Migration

I investigate what changed before recommending what to fix. I trace organic traffic losses through redirects, indexation, canonical signals, site architecture, rendering and Search Console data to identify the most likely causes.

The goal is a clear, prioritised recovery plan based on evidence, not another round of guesswork.

Also available: AI Automation Setup · SEO & Webdesign setup with Claude AI · International SEO · Standalone technical SEO audits · Fractional SEO leadership. Tell Me What You Actually Need →

Verified client feedback

What clients say when the numbers come in.

Every review below comes from a real, completed engagement. No composites, no paraphrasing.

David Rawitch, Owner, Slimming Solutions Med Spa

Watch why David trusts Raihan with his SEO. More verified reviews on my Upwork profile (4.9★ from 69 reviews).

Featured success stories

SEO Case Studies: Real Results. Real Businesses.

Every number below comes from a completed engagement. And every case shows the problem others missed, not just the chart.

SEO Recovery

Stuck relying on paid ads. 30 days after the fix, organic became the top channel.

343%

revenue growth in the first 30 days

8 months

complete SEO roadmap

Problem
“healthy” 96 audit score hid a 40 mobile speed score and hundreds of un-indexed pages.
Action
Fixed the technical foundation first, then buyer-intent content, then authority.
Result
343% revenue growth in just 30 days without paid ads
Lone Star Mushrooms

Local SEO

From Invisible in a Crowded Local Market to the Top of the Maps Pack in One Quarter

+67%

organic traffic in 90 days

+80%

website clicks and calls

Problem
Low local visibility while nearby patients found competitors first.
Action
Optometry-specific local SEO combined with the technical work underneath it.
Result

+67% organic traffic, +80% website clicks and calls in 90 days

Bergen Optometry

Ecommerce SEO

Online Since 2015. Nearly Invisible in Search Until We Changed That.

~10x

sales, traffic and keywords

10 months

Apr 2021 → Feb 2022

Problem
Weak traffic, thin keyword coverage, and a backlink profile going nowhere.
Action
Full technical audit, indexing fixes, and a strictly white-hat authority program.
Result
Approximately 10x sales, traffic and keywords

Ecommerce & Technical SEO

A 2004 brand held back for years by technical debt nobody had diagnosed.

2,642 → 7,280

keywords ranked Nov 2022 → Apr 2023

69% → 92%

technical health score

Problem
Years of accumulated technical issues capping an otherwise established brand.
Action
Technical foundation rebuilt first, then on-page and authority work.
Result

Technical health 69% → 92%, keywords nearly tripled

Shea Terra Organics

How I work

My forensic SEO investigation framework.

Complex SEO problems do not get solved by checklists. Every engagement starts with a forensic SEO audit, solved the way an engineer solves anything. Evidence first, then action.

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Discovery

Your business model, your revenue channels and what search is actually worth to you.

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Investigation

Forensic audit across crawl, index, rendering, logs, links and content. Evidence, not assumptions.

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Prioritisation

What is broken, what it costs, and what gets fixed first for the fastest revenue impact.

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Implementation

Precise fixes implemented safely, with your dev team or hands on myself.

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Measurement

Recovery and growth proven in your own Search Console and GA4, not in a slide deck.

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Growth

Compounding improvements once the foundation holds. Content, authority and AI visibility.

Engagements & pricing

SEO consultant pricing, in plain USD.

Transparent pricing for SEO expert services. Every engagement starts with a free 30-minute call and a fixed quote. No lock-in contracts, no surprise fees.

Start here

Forensic SEO Audit

From $999

A one-time investigation with a revenue-ranked fix plan your developers can ship.

Most popular

Growth Retainer

From $2,500/mo

Ongoing SEO consulting, implementation support and revenue reporting. Month-to-month after 3 months.

Projects

Recovery & Migration

From $4,000

Traffic-drop recovery, replatforming and redesign protection, scoped as a fixed project.

Leadership

Fractional SEO Lead

From $5,000/mo

A senior SEO lead embedded with your in-house team and agencies.

Custom pricing available

Need something that doesn’t fit a package?

Every business is different. Tell me what you need and the specific problem you are facing. On a free 30-minute call we will go through your goals, your data and your budget. Then I will build a custom plan with a fixed price that fits exactly what you need, with no obligation.

About Raihan Islam

My mission is simple. Make organic search a revenue channel your business can rely on, not a line item you cannot explain.

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For 12+ years I have worked at the intersection of SEO and engineering. Enterprise sites, ecommerce platforms, local businesses, complex migrations and algorithm recoveries. Full stack development and server level experience mean I fix problems at the root, not with surface patches.

My philosophy. Evidence over opinion, root causes over quick wins and honest answers, including “you do not need me.”

Unlike most SEO consulting firms, you work directly with the specialist who finds the problem. I work remotely with companies across the United States and the United Kingdom, with calls in US Eastern, US Pacific and UK business hours. Whether you are looking for an SEO consultant in the US or a search engine optimisation consultant in the UK, the approach is the same: evidence first.

From the blog

Forensic SEO guides, straight from the investigations.

Practical, evidence-led guides on traffic drops, indexing problems and stalled organic growth, written from real client work and Google’s own documentation.

Why did my website traffic drop: forensic checklist cover showing a traffic line that falls suddenly

Why Did My Website Traffic Drop? A Forensic Checklist to Find the Real Cause

Why did my website traffic drop? In most cases, for one of six reasons: a technical or indexing problem, a Google algorithm update, a security issue, a spam issue, seasonality or falling demand, or a site migration. A seventh cause is a tracking error that only looks like a drop. The fastest way to find yours is to read the shape of the drop in Google Search Console, then rule causes out in order, starting with the ones you can prove.

Read the guide →
What is forensic SEO: cover showing six evidence sources leading to a proven root cause

What Is Forensic SEO? A Practitioner’s Guide to Finding Why Organic Growth Stopped

Forensic SEO is an evidence-led investigation into why a website lost, or never gained, organic search traffic. Instead of running a generic checklist, a forensic SEO consultant uses Google Search Console, server logs, crawl and rendering tests, analytics and change history to prove the root cause first, then fixes it in order of business impact. It answers “why did this happen?”, not just “what could be improved?”

Read the guide →
Discovered currently not indexed: cover showing a page stuck between Google discovering and crawling it

Discovered – Currently Not Indexed: What It Means and How to Fix It

“Discovered – currently not indexed” means Google knows a URL exists but has not crawled it yet. Google’s Page indexing report explains that this usually happens when crawling was expected to overload the site, so the crawl was rescheduled. On small and new sites it more often reflects low crawl priority: weak internal links, an unreliable or slow server, or sitewide quality signals. Fix the cause, request indexing once, and give Google time.

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Start the conversation

Let's discuss your challenge.

Get a free 30-minute strategy call. Bring your URL and your biggest SEO question, and leave with a clear next step, whether or not we work together. Calls available in US Eastern, US Pacific and UK hours.

If your SEO problem is difficult, if others have already tried, that is usually where my work starts. Send me your URL and tell me what is not working. I will identify the real problem and tell you exactly how to fix it. Clearly and honestly.

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SEO consultant FAQs

What does a forensic SEO consultant do?

A forensic SEO consultant investigates why a website is losing, or failing to grow, organic traffic and revenue. SEO forensics means using evidence such as server logs, crawl data, rendering tests, Search Console and analytics to prove the root cause, instead of running a generic checklist. A forensic SEO audit ends with a prioritized fix plan, and I help your team implement it.

Most agencies hand your account to whoever is free that week. I lead every engagement myself — the diagnosis and strategy stay with me from the first audit to the last fix. My team at SEO Service Care supports execution, but you are working directly with the person who actually finds the problem.

SEO consulting companies are a good fit when you need a large team for content and link building at volume. An independent SEO consultant is the better choice when you need senior diagnosis: you work directly with the SEO professional who finds the problem, without account managers in between. Many of my clients keep their agency for execution and bring me in for strategy and forensic audits.

Technical and indexing fixes can move within weeks once the real blocker is found and removed. Meaningful, compounding growth usually takes three to six months. If your situation genuinely needs longer, I will tell you that upfront, not after you have already signed on.

In the US, independent SEO consultants typically charge $100–$200 per hour, and monthly retainers commonly run $2,500–$8,000 depending on site size and scope. My forensic SEO audits start at $2,500 and retainers start at $2,500 per month. See the full pricing page for what each engagement includes.

Both. Enterprise sites, ecommerce stores, local businesses and AI search visibility. The scale changes the approach, a systems-level audit for a large site looks nothing like a Google Business Profile fix for a single location, but the same diagnose-first discipline applies either way.

I do not start with a generic checklist. I investigate including server logs, crawl data, real numbers from your own Search Console and Analytics until I know exactly what is broken, not just what the surface-level symptoms look like.

Not every site needs a consultant. If I look at yours and the fix is small enough for your own team to handle, I will say so – I would rather tell you that than take on work that does not need me.

Yes. I work remotely with companies across the United States and the United Kingdom, schedule calls in US Eastern, US Pacific and UK business hours, and work inside your tools: Search Console, GA4, Slack, Jira or whatever your team already uses.

Yes. I sign NDAs before receiving data, need only read access to start, and deliver every fix as a developer-ready ticket with acceptance criteria so your in-house team or agency can ship it.

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