Ranking issue for new website
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Hi all, I have got a specific SEO challenge.
6 months ago, we started to build an eCommerce site (located in the UK). In order to speed up the site launch, we copied the entire site over from an existing site based in Ireland. Now, the new UK site has been running for 5 months.
Google has indexed many pages, which is good, but we can't rank high (position: between 20-30 for most pages). We thought it was because of content duplication in spite of different regions. So we tried to optimize the pages for the UK site to make them more UK-related and avoid content duplication.
I've also used schema to tell google it's a UK-based site and set up Google my business and got more local citations.
Besides, If you could give me any suggestions, it'd be perfect.
Thank you so much for your time and advice. -
@insightful_media You should take it down and start over quickly. There are millions of websites that sell the same or practically identical products and services, and all the good ones manage to create websites with unique content.
It is worth the effort, even if just internally as a refresh in perspective. Hire an agency if you cannot. you have put your first website in danger.
Look up "copy website" or "duplicate content."
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