Why do I have 7 URLs from the same domain ranking on the 1st page?
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I have a client that has individual pages for authorized dealers of their product (say "Car Dealers"). When you search for "brand name + location", Google returns 7 "dealership" pages from the parent company's domain as the first 7 results, but there is one that gets pushed off to the 5th page of the SERPs. The formatting of content, geo-targeting, and meta data on the page is identical on every single one. None of them have external links and there is not one extremely distinguishable thing to assess why the one page doesn't get placed on that first SERP.
Why is the one getting pushed so far down?
I know this may be a bit confusing, but any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
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What are the cities?
Costa Mesa, CA is the only city we're dealing with at the moment
How many links are going TO each of these pages (external and internal)?
None of them have any external links pointing to them. The ones ranking on the first page have this many internal links pointing to them (1st to Last):
1, 5, 3, 4, 4, 5, 2
The page that's being left out has 2 internal links pointing to it.
What is the anchor text coming into these pages?
All have their company name as anchor text. The first one ranking happens to have "Costa Mesa" in their anchor text.
Are they all listed in your sitemap.xml?
All are listed in xml sitemap except for 1 and that particular page is ranking on the 1st page.
When you do a "brand name + location" search, are you changing your browser's location settings?
Yes, but the SERPs don't change when trying multiple locations. It's always the same listings.
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What are the cities?
How many links are going TO each of these pages (external and internal)?
What is the anchor text coming into these pages?
Are they all listed in your sitemap.xml?
When you do a "brand name + location" search, are you changing your browser's location settings?
Example: http://scott.offord.me/NiQD
Scott O.
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