Ryan Mitchell
Head of SEO
12 years in organic searchLeads strategy across technical SEO, content and link acquisition. Has run campaigns in legal, finance and eCommerce, and sets the standard every audit at Webranko is measured against.
The people behind the work
The specialist who audits your site is the one who does the work
Our team covers SEO, WordPress development, design, security, mobile and marketplace growth. Every account is run by a senior specialist, with no juniors learning on your budget, no outsourcing to third parties, and no account manager sitting between you and the person making the decisions.
Proof of work
Google penalty recovery
Real diagnosis to reconsideration workflow, run in-house
Based in London and Manchester, our team of ten senior specialists brings over 65 years of combined hands-on experience across eight in-house disciplines. We have delivered more than 120 client projects for UK businesses, and every one of them was run by the specialist you speak to, not passed down to a junior or sent offshore.
10
Senior specialists on the team
65+
Combined years of experience
8
Disciplines covered in-house
120+
UK client projects delivered
Meet the team
Who you will actually be working with
Every specialist below owns their discipline end to end. The tags under each profile link to the services that person delivers, so you know exactly whose hands your project is in before you enquire.
Jacob Quinn
Head of Client Strategy
8+ years in software and strategySenior software engineer by background. Translates commercial goals into technical roadmaps and keeps every engagement anchored to outcomes you can measure rather than activity you can only read about.
Umar Haroon
Senior Full Stack Developer
7+ years in development and SEOBuilds every custom WordPress theme and plugin in-house, with no page builders involved. Holds a 90+ PageSpeed record across builds and handles the technical SEO architecture underneath each site.
Shahbaz Khan
Local SEO & Content Strategist
Specialist in regulated sectorsBuilds topical authority for businesses where trust signals carry real weight, including health and legal. Owns local search visibility, Google Business Profile work and E-E-A-T led content planning.
Maaz Khan
Senior Shopify Developer & Inventory Management Specialist
Shopify and stock systemsBuilds and maintains Shopify stores end to end, from custom theme work through to the inventory and fulfilment systems behind them. Handles stock syncing, product data structure and the operational side most developers leave to someone else.
Will Smith
Senior UI/UX Designer
6+ years in interface designDesigns the interfaces that turn traffic into enquiries. User research, wireframing and conversion focused layouts for websites, landing pages and eCommerce stores.
Edward Carr
Senior Android & iOS Developer
6+ years in native mobileTakes mobile projects from concept through to App Store and Play Store launch. Also advises on mobile performance and cross-device experience for clients whose traffic is mostly on a phone.
Henry Wells
Amazon Marketplace Specialist
7 years in marketplace growthGrows marketplace revenue through listing optimisation, Amazon PPC and storefront strategy for UK and international sellers, alongside the organic work happening on their own store.
Freya Bennett
Security & Technical Analyst
SOC monitoring backgroundFirst line of defence for site security and technical health. Threat triage and incident investigation experience applied to keeping client sites secure, stable and fully operational.
Ben Carter
Account Manager
Single point of contactHandles scheduling, reporting and updates so specialists stay on the work rather than in the inbox. Never sits between you and the person doing the work, only alongside it.
In-house expertise
Eight disciplines, all under one roof
Nothing is subcontracted. When a project needs technical SEO, a rebuild and a security review at the same time, three people in the same team handle it rather than three suppliers who have never spoken.
Technical SEO
Crawl health, indexation, structured data and Core Web Vitals, handled by the same people who write the code.
Local & National Search
Map pack visibility for single-location businesses through to multi-region campaigns across the UK.
Content & Authority
Topical maps, content briefs and outreach that build authority rather than chase individual keywords.
WordPress Development
Custom themes written from scratch, no page builders, with SEO architecture built in from the first commit.
Design & Conversion
Research-led interface design so the traffic you earn actually converts into enquiries and orders.
Performance
Core Web Vitals remediation and server-level tuning, benchmarked before launch rather than after a ranking drop.
Website Security
Vulnerability assessment, hardening and incident response run by an analyst with a monitoring background.
AEO & AI Search
Structured content and entity work aimed at being cited inside AI Overviews and answer engines, not just ranked.
eCommerce Growth
Shopify and WooCommerce builds, inventory systems and product visibility, plus marketplace strategy where the revenue sits.
How the team works
Senior-only is a structure, not a slogan
A small team can only work this way if everyone in it is genuinely experienced. That is the trade we made, and it shapes how every engagement runs.
More on the reasoning behind it in why Webranko and the mechanics in our process.
You brief the person doing the work
No handoff from the specialist who scoped your project to somebody cheaper who executes it.
Every recommendation is evidenced
Crawl data, Search Console exports and competitor analysis sit behind each suggestion. If we cannot show why, we do not suggest it.
Honest about what will not work
If a keyword is out of reach for your current authority, you hear it in the first call rather than in month six.
Disciplines that overlap, deliberately
The developer understands SEO, the strategist reads crawl data, the designer knows what page speed costs. Fewer gaps between handovers.
Work with us
Talk to the specialist, not a salesperson
Send us your site and a senior specialist reviews it within 48 hours. You get findings, not a pitch deck. See the results this team has produced in our case studies.