No matter what we seem to do, we can never get higher up on Googles ranks. What gives?
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We are in independent car dealer in a small(ish) town in Arkansas. No matter what we do, we can never seem to get past the second or third page on Google's ranks. We have a blog, we pay for SEO help from dealer vendors, we have consistent information on our site, etc. etc. . I'm at a loss. I don't know what else to do.
Based on our Moz Site Crawl report, we have 185 pages that have duplicate content. However, these are pages that publish our auto check reports for inventory that potential customers request from our site. I guess these auto check reports expire because when I click on the link from the Moz report it says it can no longer be displayed and to contact the dealer (http://www.rathautoresources.com/autocheck.aspx?vin=1C6RR7KT4DS539140)
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Thank you! I will look into that!
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Try taking a look at some of your more technical SEO pieces, if you believe that your content is buttoned up them it may be your site's technical infrastructure that is holding you back. As for your duplicate content, add in a noindex meta tag onto those pages when they are generated.
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