Looking for SEO in Corby? Meet Corby Wenzelbach.
My name is Corby Wenzelbach. I'm a full stack web developer in Belleville, Ontario who handles technical SEO, site speed, structured data, and search-focused website improvements. If the name is what brought you here, I do the SEO work too: I find what's holding a site back in search and fix it in the code myself.
For technical SEO, location matters far less than the work itself. Crawl errors, slow pages, weak internal linking, poor metadata, thin content, and missing structured data are all diagnosed and fixed the same way from anywhere.
That's the work I do: improving the parts of a website that search engines and visitors rely on. If you want a developer who can find the problem and then fix it, rather than hand the list to someone else, that's where I'm most useful.
What you get
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I make the technical changes myself
Most SEO audits end at a list of problems and a polite suggestion that you find a developer. I write the code, so the audit and the fix are the same engagement: markup, redirects, page speed, structured data, internal linking, and whatever is generating the errors underneath.
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Speed work is included
A slow page loses visitors before it ever loses a ranking. I work on Core Web Vitals, asset weight, image handling, caching, and render-blocking resources, because those are development problems that happen to have search consequences.
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You'll hear it when something isn't worth doing
You get a plan, the reasoning behind it, and changes you can check yourself in your own analytics and Search Console. If something on the list isn't worth the money, I'll say so rather than bill for it.
Where the problems usually turn out to be
After enough audits, the same handful of causes come up again and again. Very little of it is exotic, and almost none of it is fixed by adding keywords to a page:
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The site is slow on a phone.
Oversized images, a stack of plugins each loading its own scripts, and render-blocking resources in the head. This is the single most common finding and usually the most fixable.
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Pages compete with each other.
Several near-identical pages targeting the same search, so none of them wins. Consolidating them into one strong page routinely beats publishing another.
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Nothing links to the page that matters.
The most important page on the site is reachable only from the footer, while a dozen thin pages get linked from everywhere.
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Metadata written for nobody.
Duplicate titles, missing descriptions, or a homepage title that says nothing more than the company name.
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Structured data that's absent, wrong, or lying.
Broken markup is worse than none, and invented review ratings are a good way to lose rich results permanently.
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Crawl waste.
Search engines burning their time on filter URLs, staging copies, parameter duplicates, and redirect chains rather than on your content.
What working with me looks like
We start with your site and your goals. I go through your rankings, your load times, your structure, and the competitors currently sitting above you. Then you get a clear read on where you stand and what's worth fixing first, without scare tactics or a padded hundred-page report.
From there I focus on the work most likely to move visibility: technical fixes, stronger page structure, content built around what people search for, internal linking, and clearer calls to action. Because I do the development myself, the plan doesn't sit in a queue waiting for another team to implement it, which is where a lot of SEO plans stall.
How you'll know whether it worked
SEO attracts vague reporting because vague reporting is hard to argue with. I'd rather agree up front on what we're watching:
- Impressions and clicks in Search Console for the queries you care about
- Average position on those specific terms
- Core Web Vitals passing on data from your own visitors
- Enquiries arriving in your inbox
All of that lives in your own accounts, not in a dashboard I control. As for timing, expect roughly this:
The rest of what I do
SEO is one part of the job rather than the whole of it. I design and build websites, ecommerce stores, membership platforms, and custom web applications, which is why the search side tends to be handled properly from the start. If you want more detail on the SEO work specifically, the SEO service page goes deeper. The full service list covers everything else, and the portfolio shows what has come out of it.
Local to Eastern Ontario? I'm also a web designer and developer in Belleville, and work with businesses in Kingston, Oshawa and Durham Region, Whitby, and Toronto and the GTA.
Common questions
Are you an SEO agency based in Corby, England?
No. Corby is my first name, not my location. I'm Corby Wenzelbach, a web developer based in Belleville, Ontario, Canada, and I work with clients remotely. If you specifically need an agency with an office in Northamptonshire you can visit, I'm not the right fit, and I'd rather say so up front than waste your time.
What does technical SEO cover?
The parts of a website that determine whether search engines can find, crawl, understand, and trust your pages. In practice that means site speed and Core Web Vitals, mobile rendering, crawlability and indexing, redirects and broken links, canonical tags, page titles and descriptions, heading structure, internal linking, structured data, and XML sitemaps. It's the foundation everything else sits on. Excellent content on a site search engines struggle to crawl will underperform, and no amount of keyword work fixes that.
How long before I see results?
Technical and performance fixes often show up within a few weeks, because speed and crawl improvements register quickly. Ranking movement on competitive commercial terms is a matter of months, not days, and depends heavily on how entrenched the sites above you are. Anyone promising you page one by a specific date is guessing, and usually guessing in whichever direction closes the sale.
Do you guarantee first page rankings?
No, and I'd be careful with anyone who does. Nobody controls Google's ranking systems, so a guarantee is either meaningless or is quietly attached to a search term so obscure that ranking for it brings you no business. What I'll commit to is doing the work properly, explaining what I'm doing and why, and telling you when something isn't worth the money.
Can you work on a WordPress, Shopify, or Wix site?
WordPress and Shopify, yes, routinely, including theme-level code changes rather than just plugin settings. Hosted builders like Wix and Squarespace are more limited: I can improve content, structure, metadata, and internal linking, but the platform controls the underlying code, so there's a ceiling on what any developer can fix. I'll tell you where that ceiling is before you spend anything.
Do you do link building?
Not as a service, and I'd be cautious about buying it. Bought links from link farms are a well-documented way to damage a site that was doing fine. What I do instead is make sure the site deserves and can hold onto the links it earns, and advise on the legitimate routes: industry directories, local citations, partner and supplier pages, and content worth referencing.
What does SEO work cost?
It depends entirely on the state of the site and what you're trying to rank for, so I quote per project rather than publishing a monthly retainer figure. A technical audit and a round of fixes on a small business site is a defined piece of work with a fixed price. Ongoing work on a competitive term is a different conversation. Either way you get the scope and the number before anything starts.
Will you tell me if I don't need SEO work?
Yes, and it happens. Sometimes a site is technically sound and the problem is that the business has no reviews, or is targeting a search term nobody uses, or is competing for national traffic when its customers are all within twenty minutes. I'd rather point that out and lose the sale than take money for work that won't change your outcome.