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Hi Shaun,

Thanks for having a look it's very much appreciated, i'm currently aware of the server speed and it's something that i need to sort out sooner rather than later!

I do take you point about there domain authority however if you look at some of the other sites DIY.com, wickes.com, bathstore.com have a huge domain authority compared to the link of the site i sent you.

But they still persist to be there on page one for short tail and long tail, it's not so much me i'm worried about however we are slowing increasing our domain authority and moving up the ranks.

Do you think it's because it's a niche site?

Tim.

yes, but we are talking very little amount i would have thought the sites are just not optimised either and another couple of sites that have been setup with site wide links to there main domain.

Main site has 500 back links 20000 crawled pages, however most of these are down to filters and parameters and 30 referring domains

3 other linked sites

• 1 providing 160 back links
• 2 providing 5 each

Absolutely chuff all! They have recently have gained 1000 facebook likes but very very little social signals as far as sharing and RT's go nothing

They have a couple of other domains but again nothing special that but to do carry links through, I have checked there is no T1, T2 or Tier 3 Links.

There is nothing untoward about it, we just can't find out why google would rank it better.

Tim.

Hi Shaun,

You happy for me to PM you the address?

Tim.

Hi Guys,

Bit of an odd one we have recently undertaken our SEO in house (6-7 Months) and since doing this have had some great results, we have identified our competitors utilising Ahrefs, Moz and other tools that we have selected. However we have come up against something that we really cannot work out.

1. One of our competitors ranks for everything related to there term on their website and industry at position #1

2. They are not actively doing SEO, Poor backlink structure from the research that we have carried out

3. No fresh content being generate

I was wondering if someone would perhaps mind spending 5 mins having a quick look to see what you think as i can't think what we might have missed.

Tim.