Sandbox

[SEOwins]

Hi Guys

I know there is doubt as to reality of Google and the sand box.  However, we have a client site that is now 9 months old and still does not even appear under its own name within Google.  The site is very simple in a very normal market place. We have carried out some high quality white hat SEO but to no avail.  The site ranks well with the other search engines.  I am not looking for a SEO review.  In short all I would like to achieve is to get the site to rank for its own name.  The site is www.playgrounddevelopments.co.uk  As you can see nothing dramatic about that.  I cannot understand why Google will not rank the site for the keyword Playground Developments.  Should be pretty straight forward but nine months in nothing.  We have indexed and even carried out a PPC campaign on behalf of the client to prove to Google the site was real and not a spamming portal.

I would love to speak with someone at Google but that avenue seems impossible.  Any tips, help, advice, ideas......

thanks

pete

[stubby]

I should have added that they should open and fulfill a Google Places account

[stubby]

Let me know how it turns out.

[SEOwins]

Feedback very much appreciated.  I will get these changes made.

thanks

[stubby]

Hi,

The first thing I would do is remove the double titles on all your pages.  Most of the pages have a duplicate of the title, but the home page has "Playground developments" in one title element, and "Home" in the other.  You are just confusing the search engine with this.

Plus, beef up that "Contact Us" Page and use the company identifiers in Schema.org to send a clear signal to the search engines.

I would also change the copyright to be copyright of the company name rather than the copyright of the website address.

Also, maybe an Alt tag for your logo image would be appropriate.  Something like "Playground Developments Logo Image" or whatever so that you are describing the image, and sending a message about the company name again.