Moritz Electrical

The Brief

Moritz Electrical is a family-run, QLD-licensed electrical contractor servicing Brisbane's south-east — Camp Hill, Carindale, Coorparoo, Carina and out toward Logan (Licence 89128). Real reviews, a genuine workmanship story, and a service mix spanning residential, commercial, switchboard upgrades, smoke alarms, EV chargers and air conditioning.

The existing site wasn't broken on the surface. It ran on WordPress with Elementor on LiteSpeed hosting — modern PHP, HTTP/3, WebP imagery already in place. The bones were genuinely solid. The problem was the SEO layer sitting on top of it was half-built, and it was quietly leaking value Google couldn't see.

The brief was a one-off overhaul — no retainer lock-in — to fix every Critical and High-priority finding from our May 2026 audit, then optionally widen the suburb catchment. What it became was a clean rebuild onto a fast static stack that Moritz controls, with a proper local-SEO foundation underneath it.

The Challenge

The audit scored the original site 52/100 — Needs Work. The interesting part was why:

• Every primary page was missing its meta description. Google was auto-generating snippets from messy page text instead of intentional copy.
• All four location pages shared one identical, incorrect meta description that only referenced "Carina" — a copy-paste bug Google reads as a duplicate-content signal across the exact pages that should win local searches.
• Almost no structured data. The only schema present was an FAQ block — with a typo ("Moriz" instead of "Moritz") that Google had already indexed. The single most important schema for a local trade business, ElectricalContractor / LocalBusiness, was missing entirely.
• The suburb pages read like the same template with the name swapped. No postcodes, no landmarks, no neighbouring suburbs — exactly the pattern Google's Helpful Content classifier penalises.

Before vs After — Audit Re-Score

We captured the WordPress site state pre-rebuild and re-ran the full 11-category audit immediately post-launch. The technical and on-page categories moved from weak to excellent.

What Was Delivered

The engagement covered the full overhaul — audit, rebuild, schema, suburb-page rewrites, deployment and DNS cutover without breaking email. Concrete deliverables:

On-page SEO

• Unique, intent-matched title + meta description on all 20 indexed pages (was missing site-wide)
• Fixed the duplicate "Carina" meta across Coorparoo, Carindale and Camp Hill — each suburb now has its own copy
• Corrected the indexed "Moriz" typo in the FAQ schema
• One H1 per page and a clean heading hierarchy (the About page had four)
• Open Graph + Twitter cards with imagery, canonical tags, and en-AU locale site-wide

Structured data

• Sitewide ElectricalContractor / LocalBusiness JSON-LD — name, address, phone, hours, Licence 89128, founder, service catalogue, geo coordinates and areaServed
• Service schema on each service page (residential, commercial, EV charger, smoke alarms, air conditioning)
• BreadcrumbList schema on inner pages
• Re-authored FAQPage schema with the typo removed and an honest AggregateRating (4.6★ / 27) replacing the old fabricated 5.0 / 100

Content & suburb pages

• Rewrote all 6 location pages with suburb-specific detail — postcodes, neighbouring suburbs and local context — to clear the Helpful Content pattern penalty
• Added two new suburbs to widen the catchment (Bulimba, Morningside)
• Restored full service-page depth (commercial capability grid, specialist sections, FAQs) lost in the templated original
• Internal linking rebuilt via shared nav and footer so suburb pages are no longer orphaned

Performance & hosting

• Replaced the WordPress/Elementor stack and dev Tailwind CDN with a precompiled 24 KB stylesheet — no render-blocking JS, no flash of unstyled content
• LCP 1.95s, CLS 0.001, TTFB 11ms; Lighthouse Best Practices 100, SEO 100, Performance 84
• Hosted on Vercel edge with auto-renewing SSL and a full security-header set (HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy)
• 301/308 redirects for every legacy WordPress path (old sitemaps, feeds, wp-admin) and www → non-www
• DNS cutover executed without touching MX/SPF — Google Workspace email preserved through the migration

AI search readiness

• robots.txt with valid sitemap reference, served on the Vercel edge
• AI crawlers welcomed so the business is eligible for citation by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Google AI Overviews
• Clean folder URLs and a single canonical sitemap (legacy WP sitemaps 301'd into it)

Key Numbers

• +29 points audit lift (52 → 81)
• 20 pages given unique titles + meta descriptions
• 6 suburb pages rewritten + 2 new suburbs added
• LCP 1.95s, CLS 0.001, TTFB 11ms
• 24 KB precompiled CSS replacing the Elementor + CDN stack
• Full schema package: ElectricalContractor + LocalBusiness + Service + Breadcrumb + FAQPage
• QLD Licence 89128 surfaced consistently as a trust signal
• Zero email downtime — apex A record changed, MX/SPF untouched

The Result

Moritz Electrical now runs on a fast static site hosted on Vercel's edge, fully structured for search and built on hosting the business controls. The on-page, technical, schema and performance categories all moved from weak to excellent in a single sprint, and the suburb pages are finally written the way Google's local algorithms want to read them.

The remaining gains — Google Business Profile, backlinks and keyword rankings — are exactly the levers an ongoing local SEO program moves, and rankings naturally lag a launch by 30–90 days. The foundation is now in place for that lift to compound.

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