When you think you are doing it right but the results are quite the opposite.
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I have a website that just doesn't rank well against what at first glance appears to be a lower quality competitor site. So far - I, and "no one" else can work out why they sit above me in search. I have to concede and respect that they must be doing something right, but what? I just can't get to the bottom of it, and I've been trying for two years!....
Sometimes we can't see the wood for the trees and right now that seems to be me. I genuinely just want to know what I'm missing.
Two sites: bristolpest.co.uk and waspkilluk.co.uk
Key words: bristol pest control or pest control bristol
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Hi Simon
A couple of things I found...
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You have duplicate content issues:
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Both www. and non www. versions of the site work
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Both http and https versions of the site work
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I also found this site - is this yours or someone else? Reason being, this is the exact content that lives on your bee removal page.
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Your robots.txt is an accident waiting to happen - check out Moz's best practices
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I would also use Open Site Explorer and Majestic to take a look at your backlink profile
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It looks like random domains (some irrelevant and others stuffed with keywords) are redirecting to your site
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This could look potentially spammy
I would take care of all duplicate content and technical issues first. Then, I would look at my backlink profile - what can be cleaned up? Removed? Disavowed? So on and so forth.
Then I would look at my competitor's backlink profile. What is it about their content that other (RELEVANT) websites like and are linking to? Am I doing that on my site? What do I need to change?
Hopefully this helps, if I find anything else I will let you know - this was just a quick skim.
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I presume your site is waspkilluk.co.uk. When I went to your site, the content doesn't load immediately, but rather only when you scroll. Can you just double check what Google actually sees when the page loads - in webmaster tools try fetching and rendering the homepage.
Everything may be fine, but there is something niggling me that maybe google doesn't actually see your site properly.
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