WordPress Technical SEO Success Story

AM Moving Company

How we cleared 2,988 site-wide errors, repaired 893 broken JavaScript pages, and lifted the Ahrefs Health Score from 39 to a perfect 100 for a Texas moving company operating across four major metros and long-distance nationwide routes.

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AM Moving Company
WordPress Moving Services Site
Industry Moving & Relocation Services
Website Lead Generation / WordPress
Services WordPress Technical SEO, Ahrefs Error Fixing, JavaScript Rendering Repair, 4xx & Redirect Cleanup, Sitemap Optimization
The Problem

Challenges Faced

AM Moving Company had a fully built WordPress site covering four Texas metros and nationwide long-distance routes — but an Ahrefs Site Audit surfaced 4,072 issues, a Fair 39/100 Health Score, and 1,809 URLs carrying errors. Broken JavaScript, 4xx dead ends, orphan pages, and duplicated meta tags meant Googlebot could barely make sense of the site’s service and location structure.

Ahrefs Health Score Stuck at 39

An Ahrefs Site Audit returned a Health Score of 39/100 — flagged “Fair” — meaning 1,809 of 2,988 crawled URLs contained errors and only 1,179 URLs were error-free. For a lead-generation moving site, this level of technical rot was actively costing organic traffic across the exact service and location pages that drive booking calls.

893 Pages With Broken JavaScript

The site had 893 URLs flagged with broken JavaScript and 891 pages returning JS render errors — blocking Googlebot from parsing critical service, location, and CTA content. Since the site’s booking flow depends on JS-rendered components, this was a direct hit to both indexability and conversion.

903 Client Errors and 8 Hard 404s

The audit surfaced 903 URLs returning 4xx client errors, including 8 explicit 404 pages, and 43 pages linking to those broken destinations. Add 16 3xx redirects still sitting inside the XML sitemap, and Googlebot was burning crawl budget on dead ends instead of indexing the pages that generate leads.

67 Orphan Pages With No Internal Links

Sixty-seven pages had zero incoming internal links — invisible to Googlebot’s crawler and disconnected from the site’s internal PageRank flow. Combined with duplicate title tags, duplicate meta descriptions, and oversized image files, the on-page architecture needed a full technical rebuild before content improvements could move the needle.

The Solution

Our Strategy

A four-phase WordPress technical SEO rescue combining a full Ahrefs audit, JavaScript rendering fixes, 4xx & redirect cleanup, and sitemap and meta hygiene.

01
Ahrefs Audit & Error Segmentation
  • Ran a full Ahrefs Site Audit across 2,976 URLs surfacing 4,072 issues
  • Segmented findings by severity: 1,929 errors, 1,763 warnings, 380 notices
  • Mapped every 4xx URL back to its internal linking source
  • Prioritized JavaScript rendering issues by page revenue and traffic value
02
JavaScript Rendering Cleanup
  • Fixed broken JavaScript across 891 pages sitewide
  • Repaired the 893 JS-broken URLs blocking service and location page rendering
  • Validated fixes with Chrome DevTools rendering and Google’s URL Inspection tool
  • Re-tested critical booking-flow scripts across all major page templates
03
4xx, Redirects & Orphan Reconnection
  • Eliminated all 903 4xx URLs including 8 explicit 404 pages
  • Repaired 43 pages linking to broken destinations
  • Removed 16 3xx redirects from the XML sitemap for a clean canonical index
  • Reconnected 67 orphan pages with dofollow internal links from topical parents
04
Meta, Images & Sitemap Hygiene
  • Resolved duplicate title tag and duplicate meta description issues
  • Compressed oversized image files, reducing page weight sitewide
  • Rebuilt and submitted a clean XML sitemap containing only canonical URLs
  • Verified the fix with a full Ahrefs re-crawl confirming a 100 Health Score
The Impact

Results That Speak

Measurable improvements across every core technical SEO indicator — from Health Score to error volume to indexation coverage.

100 %

Ahrefs Health Score

From Fair (39) to Excellent — a full technical foundation rebuild

0 %

Errors Remaining

All 2,988 site-wide errors and warnings resolved

903 → 0

4xx URLs Fixed

Every client error and dead end eliminated sitewide

100%

URLs Error-Free

All 1,956 crawled URLs indexable and clean

Visual Proof

Before & After

Ahrefs Site Audit dashboards and Google Search Console performance improvements after the WordPress technical SEO cleanup.

Before
Ahrefs Site Audit dashboard showing a fair health score of 39 with technical SEO errors.
After
Ahrefs Site Audit dashboard showing a perfect health score of 100 after fixing website issues.
Before
Google Search Console Performance report for AM Moving Company showing baseline clicks, impressions, and average position before technical SEO work.
After
Google Search Console Performance report for AM Moving Company showing improved clicks, impressions, and coverage after the WordPress technical SEO cleanup.
“We knew traffic wasn’t behaving right, but nobody had shown us what was actually broken. Cope Business ran the Ahrefs audit, called out the JavaScript rendering issues page-by-page, and cleaned up the 4xx errors and orphan pages we didn’t even know we had. Going from a Health Score of 39 to 100 in one sprint told us the site’s technical foundation is finally ready to compete.”
AM
Operations Director
AM Moving Company
About The Client

AM Moving Company

AM Moving Company is a Dallas-headquartered moving company operating across Texas and long-distance nationwide since 2006. Their WordPress-powered lead-generation site covers residential, commercial, apartment, and corporate relocation services across Dallas, Austin, Houston, and San Antonio — plus long-distance routes from Texas to the rest of the United States. AM Moving is USDOT licensed, BBB accredited, and has completed more than 150,000 moves.

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