Thank you James. We are just keeping things as they are right now and working on backlinks.
Any more ideas from others on this topic? For what it's worth I also discover a potential bad/penalty link. I asked another question about this here.
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Thank you James. We are just keeping things as they are right now and working on backlinks.
Any more ideas from others on this topic? For what it's worth I also discover a potential bad/penalty link. I asked another question about this here.
Dear mozzers,
One of our pages is not ranking (well). I wrote another question about this here on Moz.
I just discovered that there is an external website that has a banner to our page in the sidebar. The banner is on every 134+ pages of that site. It is in a banner slider and only show for a few seconds every now and then. The link is not "nofollow". It seems that our page dropped from Google slightly after this banner was added. However I am completely sure about this.
The link is over here in the banner carousel/slider in the sidebar: http://www.wierszowisko.com/
My questions are:
Dear Moz community I would like to hear your advice about our current SEO problems. Our website is www.poolsonline.nl. This is a website where people can learn the Polish language on our website. This website has been online since 2007. The website got really outdated, so we built and launched a new version on March 1st (one month ago).
We have created a salespage that we would like to rank for the keywords 'cursus Pools' (Polish course) first of all and 'pools leren' (learn Polish) secondly. The page is https://www.poolsonline.nl/cursus-pools-leren-spreken/
The old website was on rank 4-5 (roughly) for 'cursus Pools' and 'pools leren'. When we launched the new website we were on the top 5 with two of our pages. We were even on rank 1 and our salespage was also showing on the first page and often also in the top 5 (below the 'wrong' page of ours). We got quite a lot of trafic and new clients. However the problem was that the wrong page was ranking higher. We wanted our salespage to rank and not our home page (https://www.poolsonline.nl/) and not our free lesson (https://www.poolsonline.nl/lessen/groeten-en-gesprek-voeren-in-het-pools-les-1/).
So what we did:
Read/watched recourses about this problem: https://moz.com/blog/wrong-page-ranks-for-keywords-whiteboard-friday and https://moz.com/blog/wrong-page-ranking-in-the-results-6-common-causes-5-solutions and others.
Removed the keywords (cursus pools en Pools leren) from the wrong pages (home and free lesson pages).
Optimized the Salespage for these keywords
Improved internal linking with these key words to our salespage
Worked on link building for our salepage. We got about 5-10 links to our salespage in the first week of March (5 seems to be significant for this competition and we are working on more). These links are not yet in Moz OSE, but Google has indexed these pages and links. For reference, here are some of these links (not all):
http://www.iculture.nl/apps/ik-spreek-pools-taalcursus-pools-op-iphone/
http://pnkv.nl/nieuwsbericht.php?bericht=rozmowy-po-polsku-juz-po-6-miesiacach
Shared and promoted our salespage on social media
What we expected:
What happened:
Questions we have for you to help us:
Thanks so much in advance!