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SEO Help Needed, Please?
Hi all,
I've been putting off writing this post for a while now, but can't wait any longer really. I moved across to BP in July and whilst I am delighted with the improved platform, support and package, I do have a significant issue with SEO. I have waited to write this as I assumed that there would be some impact on SEO on the site but 3 months on I'm really worried.
On our previous (rubbish) platform, we had 1st page results for a very large chuck of our pages, at a time when page load times were 3-times longer than they are now. 3 months on, and since the move to BP, we have almost no pages hitting any results within Google. And I'm at a complete loss.
I put in place 301 redirects for every product, category and page which were live at the time we launched the site. Everything I have ever known to do on SEO has been implimented, various links (non automatic) have been tried and I have also checked rankings for new products in case it was something specific to previous pages - nothing.
As a couple of examples... A new product was added (http://www.themicstore.co.uk/wireles...ic-system.html) which is new to the UK and almost no-one has added this as yet. When I do a general Google search, nothing comes up. If I limit the results to UK-only results, this is the result:
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As you can see, it is picking up the sitemap not the product. The full search if you want to see it is: http://www.google.co.uk/search?clien...w=1440&bih=681
As another example, we recently launched a series of seminars across the country called TheMicTour. This is a unique term, not in existence before we launched 9 days ago, and still Google will not bring up a result on our site. Google picked up a Wordpress Blog post I did at the time within 10 minutes, abut nothing on the main site. This tour has also had multiple press releases launched pointing to the landing page (www.themictour.co.uk/themictour) and still nothing.
One of the only searches that actually ranks is on our name itself (themicstore) which comes up as the top result, which is understandable, but also shows that Google has not blacklisted the site for some reason. Incidentally, Google Webmaster results show 1010 indexed pages. Google Product Search results work ok.
I am at a complete loss of what to do, and having been involved in internet marketing for 5 years, it is frustrating the hell out of me. Is there anyone out there that can give me any suggestions as to why this might be?
Sorry for the rambling post, but wanted to make sure that anyone in a position to try to answer had sufficient information to work with.
Thanks,
Matt
I've been putting off writing this post for a while now, but can't wait any longer really. I moved across to BP in July and whilst I am delighted with the improved platform, support and package, I do have a significant issue with SEO. I have waited to write this as I assumed that there would be some impact on SEO on the site but 3 months on I'm really worried.
On our previous (rubbish) platform, we had 1st page results for a very large chuck of our pages, at a time when page load times were 3-times longer than they are now. 3 months on, and since the move to BP, we have almost no pages hitting any results within Google. And I'm at a complete loss.
I put in place 301 redirects for every product, category and page which were live at the time we launched the site. Everything I have ever known to do on SEO has been implimented, various links (non automatic) have been tried and I have also checked rankings for new products in case it was something specific to previous pages - nothing.
As a couple of examples... A new product was added (http://www.themicstore.co.uk/wireles...ic-system.html) which is new to the UK and almost no-one has added this as yet. When I do a general Google search, nothing comes up. If I limit the results to UK-only results, this is the result:
google snippet.gif
As you can see, it is picking up the sitemap not the product. The full search if you want to see it is: http://www.google.co.uk/search?clien...w=1440&bih=681
As another example, we recently launched a series of seminars across the country called TheMicTour. This is a unique term, not in existence before we launched 9 days ago, and still Google will not bring up a result on our site. Google picked up a Wordpress Blog post I did at the time within 10 minutes, abut nothing on the main site. This tour has also had multiple press releases launched pointing to the landing page (www.themictour.co.uk/themictour) and still nothing.
One of the only searches that actually ranks is on our name itself (themicstore) which comes up as the top result, which is understandable, but also shows that Google has not blacklisted the site for some reason. Incidentally, Google Webmaster results show 1010 indexed pages. Google Product Search results work ok.
I am at a complete loss of what to do, and having been involved in internet marketing for 5 years, it is frustrating the hell out of me. Is there anyone out there that can give me any suggestions as to why this might be?
Sorry for the rambling post, but wanted to make sure that anyone in a position to try to answer had sufficient information to work with.
Thanks,
Matt
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