I cant rank well on google or bing
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hi guys, I hope I can make some sense to you guys with what is occuring with my website. I am an absolute novice here.
I used a drag and drop website 3 or 4 years ago, not sure exactly at the moment when i purchased the domain. however I did pretty well using paid search on both google and bing for quite some time and fairly descent in my area long beach, ca for organic for some of my keywords ( tv install, tv wall mount installation , and tv mounting service). At some point I noticed a drop last year and so this year I decided to try and do a better job on my website by making it mobile friendly and the whole https thing. I basically had to redo it and then after I was finished, the company I use for my website then transferred my website over to original domain. www.coastlinetvinstalls.com
Now, If i do a search for some of the keywords im trying to rank for on google , I show up on the first page in my area on some days, and on the google maps for my local business in my area.
On bing, however, Im nowhere to be found for any keywords I used to rank for. It use to be the opposite before I did this whole website fix up or whatever you want to call it. I would be on the first page for anything related to my keywords.
Wat happened with bing ? any insight would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
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Hi Matt,
Apologise for the long time since the delay, I didn't get a notification or at least didn't see a notification telling me you had replied.
Has anything changed?
If not then let's arrange to do a call or give me access to your bing, and I will take a look.
Steve
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Hey did you get anywhere with this or did you want to set up a call?
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No Problem,
Apologies I ended up having a really busy day yesterday.
So I have run a backlink check and cant actually find that many broken backlinks with the tools i have.
I have also compared the indexed pages on Bing against your sitemap and they match so all your pages are in there.
Do you still have a copy of the old site?
I have run a site crawl and that looks to be reasonable. no crawl issues. there are a few meta issues which we can look at afterwards, if you like.
We may need to get on and have a look at your Analytics to see if we can see anything there.
Just as a side thought i have just run a speed test
and the results are pretty slow, that may/will be having a level of impact i would think.
If you want to do have a chat/remote session to look at things my email is in my profile and one of us can keep this thread up to date so others can see where we are up to.
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I appreciate you. I figured that was the issue. I wonder if there is anything possible to do to recover that link juice for bing? re-publishing the files from old site? if tat is even possible, I dont know. I would have to ask my website host/website builder. Im afraid to do anything they recommend at this point.
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Hi Matt,
We will get to the bottom of this.
It sounds like you have lost some link juice potentially through the URL changes and also with the Bing issues.
I will carry out some further checks today.
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When I first uploaded the website. I didnt have the exact same website pages. Less pages than before and I named them differently. The company I use (homestead) were no help at all. Just said when your ready to show new website we will switch everything to your original domain. A week or so later I realized the drop. Found an option on the website builder to point original pages to new pages instead of everything going to home page only of new site.
I used a few SEO sites to see if u had issues and it kept saying duplicate pages,ec. And some other issue about slash and trailing slash. Called the website builder(homestead) and they advised that if they unpublished the original site with different URLs that would solve my duplicate issue.
Fast forward to now, I dont get any errors on google and am slowly getting indexed. I also submitted on search console https, and www, and non www. Set preferred domain as www.
For bing. I cant submit my site as https. It never allows verification. So I have the original site as http. Can I let someone go int ok my bing webmaster and see what's going on?
I'm more concerned with bing at the moment.
Tha ke again for any time you guys spend on this issue. I know you probably have larger issues to focus on. But my business is struggling immensely since this whole debacle
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Hi Matt16,
We will probably need more information to figure this out, but lets get started and see if I can help.
First thing that pops to mind, when you did the new website and uploaded it did you use the same URL's as you were previously? If not did you redirect the old URL's to the new UR's? using a 301 redirect (dont worry if you dont know what this is we can get to it).
it seems strange that you maintained the traffic in Google but not in Bing. Did you make any other changes apart from the site design. Did you rewrite the content? anything else?
Have you got the same number of pages now as before?
When you say some days you show up in google and others you don't, I assume this is for the same search term?
Have you tried searching in private browser mode, do you see the same results?
Are you searching from the same location when you see different results?
Cheers,
Steve
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