Members of the forum, Thank you in advance for looking at my issue. We have been working on our website for the last 1 year with an SEO and they are now out of answers. For whatever reason the needle on the rankings will not move. This site did have a Google manual links penalty that was released in November of 2012. We have added all unique content. We have spent a lot of time developing videos for our customers We have spent a large amount of time researching and writing specfic information on our niche such as state guides in the resources box. We have a blog with all unique content we post to often. We have been utilizing Google + ,FaceBook, Twitter on an almost daily basis for the last month straight. When looking at our Facebook page we can see over 1,000 people talking about us. 3 weeks ago we checked the home page, landing pages, and product pages for duplicate content. We found several instances of our conent on other sites. We rewrote all of that content and loaded it 2 weeks ago. We then had Google fetch those pages. They have all been recrawled. At the same time we pruned links and sent in a new dissavow file to make sure only relevant links are showing. But the main problem is no matter what we do. The website will not move off of page 2 or 3 for some of our main keywords. I am at a loss and really dont know where to go next. So I decided to reach out to the Forum here as I know there are plenty of experts here who may just go this is your issue. Any advice you can give we would most definately be apprecaited. Our Website:http://www.911signalusa.com Thank you in advance, Chris
Chris, What's your backlink profile like? Other than social signals, have you been performing any offsite SEO? Finally, do you have a budget set aside for your SEO goals, and are you at least ranking within say, the top 100, for your target keywords as of today? WebDev
We have been scared to death to do off site SEO due to the penalty we had a year ago and the beating we have taken ever since. We just cleaned up the link profile again and had some removed and submitted a new dissavow for the rest. We do have a budget yes. We are ranking in the top 30 for a majority of the keywords. Just not sure where to go from here. Thank you, Chris
Chris, Since the updates from Google including both Panda and Penguin (most recently Penguin 2.1) I understand your reluctance to dive straight back into extending your link profile. The reality remains however, that unless you have a truly viral product/service/brand, or truly high quality content (which people want to share - again, niche/viral specific) - you will struggle to break into the first page without offpage linking - this is true for any niches which are moderately competitive, despite what some people may lead you to believe, social & onpage optimization is often not enough in it's own merit. Have you attempted any off page techniques (social signals aside) this year, and/or been gaining any natural links as far as you're aware? WebDev
We have been doing social signals every single day for the last month straight. We have over 1,000 people now talking about us on Facebook. As for Building Links no we have not as they are almost impossible to find for our niche. There are a few magazines that publish in our industry and we did manage to get them to put up some press releases and link back to us.
If you would like to contact me via private message here on Digitalpoint with your target keywords I would happily take a look and give my honest assessment, with no obligation. Should I consider any of our services that we offer suitable, I'd forward you my opinion. WebDev
To me it is the not right path to go and try to build thousands of anchor text links to our site. That is what we did a couple of years ago and it truly backfired. I am more looking for someone with the technical abilities to say OH my God your missing this piece in your on page. Like big duh how did that get missed Maybe it truly is the Offpage that is holding us back. Not so sure. If it is the offpage how does one naturally build niche specific backlinks that mean anything. We have been down the Forum, Bookmark, and Article postings in the past and they only lead to trouble.
I'm not suggesting that- far from it. Especially since Penguin 2.1 this would be an extremely poor strategy to adopt, especially if you're pointing these links at your main site as opposed to using tiered linking. Diverse link sources and diverse anchor texts including naked URLS, branded terms, target keywords and generic anchors is essential. If you're truly looking for somebody to point out an onpage flaw or two to magically make your site hit the first page for your target terms, you're going to be left disappointed. As I said above, social signals and on page optimization is rarely enough unless you're in an extremely low competition niche and/or you have something that's naturally viral-like. Obtaining high quality, niche related links is not always easy and for the vast majority of sites it will require some investment. All the best, WebDev
Yes and we are prepared to do that. However we actually have a competitor in our Niche who ranks extremely well with little to no links.
Again, if you'd like to contact me with your competitors URL I would happily review their on page optimization & link profile to see if this is something we can replicate. It's often possible to mimic a competitors link profile dependent on the link types they have obtained. WebDev
WebDev thank you for taking the time to reply to me. I am new to posting here can you please tell me how to PM you. Anyone else have anything else to add please do.
Not a problem at all, happy to help. If you go ahead and click my username to the left of this post <----- you should be given an option to "Start a Conversation". If nothing else I should be able to confirm exactly which link types are driving the most juice to your competitor(s). WebDev
I suggest you look at some of you h tags as 1 is farrrr toooo long and the other matters might be down to your sites poor loading and inactivity for mobile users, but your SEO company should have mentioned this already, if not then ask for your money back and look elsewhere. You have a <-- <h2 information on it which does not show on the webpage, looks like hidden text, ouch with approx 300 characters placed, correct h2 tags should have far less than this but be shown, what are these guys trying to do, or are they using Black hat SEO.