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        • BrianJGomez
          BrianJGomez last edited by

          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

            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

              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

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

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                • davebuts
                  davebuts last edited by

                  PM replied 🙂

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                    BrianJGomez last edited by

                    Thanks David - I PM'd you the info

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                    • davebuts
                      davebuts last edited by

                      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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