Why will a Page not rank or improve on a website?
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My website is performing well, but I have a couple of popular Brand pages that no matter what I do will not rank organically, they are being indexed, but will just not perform or improve. The rest of the pages throughout the website all seem to be fine, can anyone advise if they have experienced a similar problem or advise why this would happen or even suggest what I should do to fix the problem, we have even gone as far to create a new page and delete the old one, and it still hasn't worked.
I have used various tools to test the page and variations of search terms and although it is appearing in Google it is not ranked, although it is ranking and visible in Yahoo and Bing.
Any help and advise would be appreciated.
Jacqui
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I would provide an example of one of the underperforming pages, and one of your pages that does well so we can analyze the differences and potential issues.
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It really needs to be a rule that you're not allowed to ask questions specific to your site unless you post the URL.
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Hi Jacqui, Can you provide an example of one of the pages? There can be many reasons why a page is not ranking and without taking a look at the page it is impossible to tell.
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