Rank not improving despite best practises

[16seo]

Hi there,

I have a photobooth hire company in and have been working on getting our site onto the top page for keywords relating to our service and location for almost a year now, but am really struggling to see rank improvement despite my best efforts.

After a major penguin update back in mid 2014 I noticed that due to some bad practises from a company that we previously hired, our rank began to plummet. So in the aftermath of that, I found myself having to clean up and disavow a lot of spammy and broken links. This was back towards August last year and despite trying to "clean the slate" and continue to build better backlinks (mostly through reputable directories) I'm still getting little to know rank increases.

Is there a possibility that the site is still being black listed by Google in some way and thus all my best practises for the last 6 months haven't really helped at all?

Thanks

[BlueprintMarketing]

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Sincerely,

Thomas

[eyepaq]

Hello,

You are looking in the wrong direction. There is no Penguin filter on viplane.com.au.

I don't know what you've "clean" from your link profile but you might have shoot yourself in the foot with that session - no headshot though ...

There are so many other issues with the site but yes, links are important but it's not the only thing you should focus on.

Cheers.

[BlueprintMarketing]

You have a 9 MB homepage with 199 request the server that is way too big of a page for anyone on a mobile device and extremely slow for people even on the fastest connections.

You are not blacklisted and you will want to evaluate the amount of links that you have as you normally do not rank immediately with 10 back links from directories with exact match anchor text.

I have put together a list of problems with your site and ways to fix them.

“despite trying to "clean the slate" and continue to build better backlinks (mostly through reputable directories) I'm still getting little to know rank increases.”

Just directories for back links with what Google does not want people creating anchor text that's “exact match” not a good sign to Google.

Yes relevant and high-quality directories that add something to the web may be worth something. But that is where you got all 10 of your back links so it means very little in the eyes of Google.

https://majestic.com/reports/site-explorer?q=viplane.com.au&oq=http://viplane.com.au/&IndexDataSource=F

Would you be kind enough to explain how you went about moving the domain?If you had back links from other places it would show up in less you swap domains less than a week ago.

You have a domain authority of 15 out of 100 that combined with 10 total low-quality directory back links.

What you need to do is a whole lot of work to build this into a site that is flat-out better than everything else in your niche. That includes essentially taking the best site you know of in your industry and topping it.

You do not have  not a lot of content plus lack of exceptional content (e.g.X10 content) See https://moz.com/blog/why-good-unique-content-needs-to-die-whiteboard-friday

When changing the domain you should expect a drop in traffic for at least 3 to 4 months after if you did every single thing right with your domain migration.

May I ask you how you went about the migration? I do not see the old domain redirecting anywhere.

These are the reasons you site is not ranking well.

What you can do about it is start by opening a Google Webmaster tools account if your site was blacklisted you would know it. as long as you have a Google Webmaster account if you do not get one below using the links provided.

https://www.google.com/webmasters/

http://www.bing.com/toolbox/webmaster

If you're talking about Being actually blacklisted I ran a check

https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/viplane.com.au/

I found one reason the site is extremely slow when checked out of Australia using pingdom here

http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/ekOK16/http://viplane.com.au/  Australia

http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/uAw1A/http://viplane.com.au/    New York

Out of New York you're about 15 seconds it appears that the time I got in Australia is the fastest your site has performed according to its history.   cloudflare is a inexpensive /free CDN I found an agency that specializes in WordPress in Australia that has a deal with WP engine based out of Australia I would ask them if you can purchase hosting from them. As well as get them to fix your site if you feel you need help.

You Need to use a plug-in to combined your JavaScript and your site will be faster.

A quality host out of Australia

https://www.conetix.com.au/

http://www.anchor.com.au/managed/wordpress-hosting/

http://www.quora.com/Are-there-any-Wordpress-only-hosts-with-data-centre-s-in-Australia

because WP engine offers only a enterprise-level offering in Australia I would ask this company how much they charge to host one site. They look like they can help with the development issues as well.

http://thedma.com.au/wordpress-hosting-and-maintenance/

• https://wordpress.org/plugins/autoptimize/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/assetsminify/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/rs-head-cleaner/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/jch-optimize/

for images you need to crop them appropriately then run them through JPEGmini in http://www.jpegmini.com/ addition to a tool like https://kraken.io/

that will take care of the PNG's & GIF's

afterwards keep a plug-in installed I recommend

1. https://wordpress.org/plugins/kraken-image-optimizer/
2. https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortpixel-image-optimiser/
3. https://wordpress.org/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/

• https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/jpegmini
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/tiny-compress-images/

you may prefer something with more or less options I would look at the plug-ins that are updated to WordPress 4.2.2 and do some trial and error here is where you would look

https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/minify

I hope this helps,

Tom

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[ClaytonJ]

In short yes, you maybe still blacklisted.  So when is the next Penguin update? And you website "unblacklisted"?  No-one knows except is should be sometime this year.

Hence it sounds like you need a Penguin re-fresh. You need to wait till the next Penguin update to get the full benefit of all your disavows.  If you google "next penguin update" and you will see alot of people in exactly the same position...

A new site would not help, as if you do a permanent re-direct google associates the new URL with the old URL.

I am not sure if much help, but hope I clarified a few queries.