Why i my site not ranking
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I have been building my website www.ubodo.com ( its a property portal ) I have feeds coming in from nearly 200 estate agents and I have just over 26k properties listed all over the world. I have tried to make the site fast, mobile friendly and followed several SEO tutorials but I am looky If I get 10 new visitors a day !!!
I have managed to get 1st page ranking for terms like " Property for sale in Hambye" ( less competitve than " Property for Sale in France " )
Can any one see anything obvious I have done wrong, I feel like there is a switch to turn on the traffic and I cant find it. Any help would be greatly appreciated
Barry
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The site looks nice on the whole, from just quickly clicking on the link. I can see the Meta Title is the company name and then the search term. Personally I would feature the search term at the start and then the company name after.
I would also suggest having some content on the home page above the fold utilising the search term you feel it most important. Using the SEO Moz, Page Grader is a great way of going through and optimising page by page.
The main problem personally that I think your going to be faced with is competition. I have this issue a lot when a customer purchases a new website from us. Some people think it's like opening a shop and your going to get a lot of footfall. Once the site is finished, you need to market it like crazy. Or it will be a very slow burn.
If I was you, I would add more content through out of the website. Optimise the meta data and important tags across the site, as you have already dealt with speed.
Then run some Adwords to get more traffic to the website while the Organic listings build up naturally. It will be very difficult in this type of industry without investing money in a variety of methods of marketing is my personal opinion.
I hope it goes well for you.
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