Wrong pages ranking for keywords?
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I've just done a search using east england document storage site:ukdocumentstorage.com and found our specific east england document storage page is ranking really low down in our list of pages compared to others.
How could this happen?
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Hi There
I've taken a look around and don't see an obvious reason, but as others have said, I wouldn't be concerned about this unless that page is having trouble ranking for just a keyword search.
For example I search "Cleardata provides bespoke document storage and archive storage services to businesses operating within East England." in quotes and that page returns in the results.A search for the URL returns it #1 as well, so I don't see any issue as far as that page ranking.
-Dan
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Hi Janc, I not recommend you to get insight from the site parameter in google. Try instead of augmenting the number of results shown and with a ctrl+f find your domain the first page which appears will be the one which google consider the most important for that term.
If it's not the one you were thinking about you can always go deeper and see which is the second one and so on.
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When you search with the site search operator like that, the results usually don't indicate rank, it's more of a random sampling.
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