Am I missing an issue on my website?
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Are there any glaring issues that I am missing with my site? I am building links, and growing the profile but had seen a drop in rankings a couple of months ago. Is this do to a site issue or am I just missing something?
Any help would be great.
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I found the same as Matt
Screaming Frog website shows a way more then a lot of parameters.
http://www.wallybuysell.com/signup.php?type=guest
PS get off AWS use Linode or DigitalOcean they will be faster and less $
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A Screaming Frog crawl of your website shows a LOT of parameters. If you don't handle these correctly, you run into duplicate content issues:
- http://www.wallybuysell.com/listing/edmonton/kennedale-industrial/e1019740-12907-53-street
- http://www.wallybuysell.com/listing/edmonton/kennedale-industrial/e1019740-12907-53-street**?&template=bare&printable=1**
- http://www.wallybuysell.com/listing/edmonton/kennedale-industrial/e1019740-12907-53-street**?search_id=f424dd32d939e3b87b76ec872b6c19e3**
I would suggest claiming your site in Webmasters Tools if you haven't and then setting your parameters correctly. You could also block unnecessarily indexed content in robots.txt but WMT is slightly better because it gives you more exact control, directly in Google.
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A Google Update by the name of Hummingbird came out and has been moving it's way across sites. This one isn't meant to penalize like the Penguin and Panda updates but rather change how Google displays results. Double check all your keywords and see which ones declined in traffic. Then do a search and test to see where you rank and if you dropped from when you notice a decline in traffic.
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In additional to Federico's comments....
You might like to review the Moz guide for SEO 101 and double check that you have implemented everything correctly.
Then I'd start on the keyword targets as there doesn't appear to be a clear keyword theme and the ones you are using won't do much good as they appear spammy. Here is an example:
- In my opinion title tags aren't crafted to best practice. This page (http://www.wallybuysell.com/buying_a_property.php) has a title tag of "Edmonton Homes for Sale |Homes for sale | houses for sale | Edmonton". This page is not about 'homes for sale' nor 'houses for sale', it's about the purchasing process. Your branding at the end misses the opportunity to give context. A better title tag would be "Home Purchasing Process for House Buyers - Edmonton Property".
I would also suggest getting Google Webmaster Tools. It will help you to investigate any indexing issue your site might have that could be affecting rankings.
Good luck.
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Hey Christopher,
OSE only reports 4 incoming links, that not even near to what you will need to rank for the terms you are probably targeting. The competition in the real estate business is fierce,
Anyway, there are a few things that may help that you can do now:
- Move the blog to a subfolder instead of a subdomain, That makes that any link you earn on to the blog will directly affect the other areas of your site.
- Improve your Blog. There's nothing social about it now, you MUST enter the social world, and the best way to achieve that with your site is via your Blog. Start sharing what you write, start creating discussion, engagement. If no one shares your posts, how come others will be able to find them? We live in a social world, we read what others read (usually we don't "search" for posts, they are posted in front of our eyes by our own friends and influences). Take advantage of that.
- Don't take this the wrong way, but I would probably think about redesigning the site, it looks old, outdated. You probably need more images, a wider site, better and less cluttered blog, etc.
Those are just a few enhancements I can suggest...
Hope that helps!
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