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  • BrianJGomez
    BrianJGomez last edited by Jul 19, 2016, 9:29 PM

    I have a client site that I am beating my head against the wall for right now. Three months into a 100% white hat campaign, we can't get him ranking in the top 150. Here's the cliffsnotes:

    • Built a new wordpress website
    • All on page SEO has been done and score an A+ for his primary kws
    • Robots.txt is setup correctly
    • .htaccess is setup correctly
    • new domain
    • multiple 95 DA, 50 PA links from reputable, national sites.
    • Yext Local listings
    • SSL, CDN, Speed optimized
    • Has 19 pages indexed by Google
    • Posting one blog a week for him

    Granted his primary keyword is a hyper competitive kw, but still, I've been doing this for 8 years and never seen a guy be stuck on the 16th page for so long for the sort of links we are building him. I'm genuinely stumped here and could use some help.

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    • davebuts
      davebuts last edited by Jul 20, 2016, 11:20 PM Jul 20, 2016, 11:20 PM

      Not a problem Brian.

      I'm interested to see what sort of impact these changes make!

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      • BrianJGomez
        BrianJGomez @GastonRiera last edited by Jul 20, 2016, 12:16 PM Jul 20, 2016, 12:16 PM

        So David was kind enough to look at the site and found some potential issues. In short, the home page had 57 heading tags which is excessive, there are some heading tags missing from some interior pages and there's a few pages that should be no indexed that aren't

        I'm going to fix all of these, give it some time and see if this fixes the issues. I'll keep this thread updated.

        Thanks David for your time!

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        • GastonRiera
          Gaston Riera @davebuts last edited by Jul 20, 2016, 11:06 AM Jul 20, 2016, 11:06 AM

          Can you post what was the issue? (without telling the web)

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          • davebuts
            davebuts last edited by Jul 20, 2016, 12:13 PM Jul 20, 2016, 7:30 AM

            PM replied 🙂

            GastonRiera 1 Reply Last reply Jul 20, 2016, 11:06 AM Reply Quote 1
            • BrianJGomez
              BrianJGomez last edited by Jul 20, 2016, 2:43 AM Jul 20, 2016, 2:43 AM

              Thanks David - I PM'd you the info

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              • davebuts
                davebuts last edited by Jul 20, 2016, 1:24 AM Jul 20, 2016, 1:24 AM

                Hi Brian,

                This is a really tough one to respond to without knowing the domain and being able to have a look at it.

                If you PM me the domain, I'd be happy to take a look and see if I can find anything (I won't mention the domain publicly).

                Cheers,

                David

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