Advice Needed: Why Is My Site Not Ranking Despite All The White Hat I Have Done?
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Hi all,
I have tried all white hat ways to make my local business website rank well in Google.
We have done:
1.) Good quality content for our site on regular basis
2.) Submit to Google sitemap
3.) Link in an ethical way
4.) Post on social media sitesNo Google Panda content farming
No Google Penguin unnatural linkingIn fact, we have more quality articles to share compared to other laundry dry cleaning websites in Singapore.
Can anyone advice me on why my site is my ranking well?
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You have an eagle eye.
Thanks for pointing that out
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I know that I'm not directly addressing the question, however, you should really proof read your website!
There are countless grammatical / spelling errors on the homepage alone. This is on your testimonial:
| "I was searching online and found Singapore Dry Cleaning. Their price are very reasonable and also very efficient service. I am using them for quite awhile and i am very pleased and impressed with their service. Will recommend them to nayone who needs laundry and dry cleaning service." |
| Miss Cathy (Ang Mo kio)" |I'm not saying that spelling is a big part of Google's algorithm, but it will make you look far more professional to your customers.
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I really thank you for your help.
I have changed many things on my website.
I will think go study and do research on what is GWT.
You are very helpful. Thank you!
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I wouldn't worry about being scraped. My sites get scraped. SEOmoz gets scraped all the time. I your case, I would do two things. 1) Build the table and immediately resubmit that page in GWT. 2) Insert a row at the bottom of the table and put anchor text so if anyone does scrape your site, they point a link back to you. Or another approach is to insert a top row in the table and make an image saying something generic like "Singapore Dry Cleaning Services". Have the image on "your" server and/or make it link to your home page with the alt tags like alt="Singapore Dry Cleaning".
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I got it on the rates images.
The reason why i am using images for the rates instead of table is because if that is a table, i will be copied by competitor sooner or later and i will be hit by Google panda because duplicate content.
I will add more words above the image.
Thanks for your help!
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I thank you for your advice Rob!
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Thank you Mossa!
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Whoa, there are way too many images above the content. This image should be a table http://www.drycleaning.com.sg/images/Laundry-Dry-Cleaning-Rates.jpg. If I remember correctly, Google looks at the l x w of images of ads and
s and may think there is not enough content above the fold. Your content is way too far down the page.
Just a question, why Copyright 2004-2014 in the footer and not Copyright 2004-2013?
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There are too many images IMO - the page is massive - the only text based content is in the middle of the page which isn't ideal. To be brutally honestly I'd scrap it and rebuild the site using a content management system.. break the home page down into sperate relavent pages..
Again this is only my opinion - but with my experience in the UK a site like this really wont rank well..
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There can be many ideas… I guess you should focus on some press links.. as they are always high quality and some links from magazine sites as they contain lot of traffic. Infographic to your researches can be a great idea!
You can also try guest blogging in your niche and some related niches… also if you have budget try some videos as this will get your links, traffic and business leads at the same time!
Hope this helps!
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Thanks, do you have any recommendation on how i can build link in a whitehat way?
I am posting it on social media such as Facebook and twitter now.
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I guess you need to focus more on is your link profile… I am not saying its bad but in terms of quantity its less… you need to have more links in order to outrank your competitors…
The strategy is fine but you need to accelerate it a bit more so that things can walk in your favor!
Hope this helps!
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This recent blog post may help you out: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/going-beyond-moz-metrics-to-answer-why-is-this-site-outranking-me
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