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Technical SEO services
Technical SEO services from Muhammad Zubair Akhtar are implementation work: website structure, which URLs belong in the index, and how the public site is organized for crawlers.
He is a Senior Software Engineer in Lahore with 5+ years of experience, and he takes freelance technical SEO alongside the rest of his stack. A technical SEO audit on a live site looks at structure and at URLs that should leave the index.
People searching for a technical SEO consultant or a technical SEO expert can reach him directly. The service description on this site is technical SEO implementation and website structure optimization, carried through deployment and maintenance.
Muhammad Zubair Akhtar · Senior Software Engineer · Lahore, Pakistan · 5+ years
What he does
Technical SEO implementation
Changes in the site itself: structure, canonicals, the sitemap, and the response a crawler gets for a URL.
Website structure optimization
Clear public pages, internal links, and a sitemap that lists the pages that should be indexed.
Technical SEO audit
A review of indexing and structure, followed by the implementation. Technical SEO audit services here are engineering work, not a score with no follow-through.
Process
A technical SEO engagement follows the same lifecycle as his other software work: Requirements, Architecture, Development, Integration, Testing, Deployment, Optimization and Maintenance.
- 1Requirements
- 2Architecture
- 3Development
- 4Integration
- 5Testing
- 6Deployment
- 7Optimization
- 8Maintenance
Tech stack
- Next.js
- WordPress
- PHP
- XML sitemap
- Canonical URLs
- Cloud infrastructure
October 2026 indexing cleanup on this site
In October 2026, zubairakhtar.com had spam URLs in Google's index. A Google Search Console export listed 249 indexed URLs. The legitimate sitemap at that time contained 7 portfolio pages.
The extra URLs were not pages he meant to publish. Patterns included /shopdetail/ paths, junk queries on the homepage such as ?b= and ?m=, and old slugs that do not belong on this domain.
The fix lives in the Next.js proxy and the index policy. A request that is not on the allowlist is answered with HTTP 410 Gone and an X-Robots-Tag: noindex header, before a trailing-slash redirect can turn it into an ordinary redirect. The allowlist is the same set of URLs the sitemap publishes. This page does not claim a count of URLs Google has dropped since the change.
- Search Console export: 249 indexed URLs
- Legitimate sitemap at the time: 7 portfolio pages
- Patterns: /shopdetail/, junk ?b= and ?m= queries, old slugs
- Response: 410 Gone and X-Robots-Tag noindex
Questions
- What do technical SEO services include?
- Technical SEO implementation and website structure optimization. On a site he maintains, that includes the sitemap, canonical URLs, and a 410 Gone plus noindex response for URLs that should not be indexed.
- Do you offer technical SEO audit services?
- Yes. A technical SEO audit reviews structure and indexing, then he implements the changes. This site does not publish invented audit scores, traffic totals, or ranking promises.
- What changed in the October 2026 cleanup?
- A Search Console export listed 249 indexed URLs while the legitimate sitemap had 7 portfolio pages. Spam patterns were /shopdetail/ URLs, junk homepage queries such as ?b= and ?m=, and old slugs. Those requests now receive 410 Gone and X-Robots-Tag noindex from the Next.js proxy.
- Can I hire a freelance technical SEO consultant?
- Yes. Muhammad Zubair Akhtar is based in Lahore, Pakistan, and works remotely. Start from the contact page or WhatsApp.
- Do you guarantee search rankings?
- No ranking or traffic outcome is offered on this page. The published work is the technical implementation.
Discuss a technical SEO audit
Message Muhammad Zubair Akhtar on WhatsApp or email [email protected].