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Thanks all for your responses, much appreciated. Really grateful for your very in depth response too, Thomas.

Thanks for confirming the loading and code issue. As I say, I didn't make this site. I've worked with WP for years but there's only so much I can do within the price I charge for SEO - I will of course make this recommendation as chargeable work.

I've noticed that some of the directory listings have added 'www.' in front of the link. The website is without www. So I guess that could be affecting this. I've submitted to at least three directories which have links to the site.

Thanks again.

Hi all, would really appreciate some input on this one. I've been given the task of optimising a website which was built by another company. It's a Wordpress site using Jigoshop. It wasn't in the best of states, and I don't claim that it is now, though we've done quite a bit of work on it. However, after months of work on it, I feel it's not going anywhere. Naturally my customer wants to see results, and they're not getting much.

I've submitted the website to a couple of highly regarded directories, and I believe it's listed on some speciality directories (Asian clothing directories).

I've also started them on the task of blogging, and I'm trying to get them involved with guest blogging.

There's a DA of 1, OSE reports No Data Available for this URL. The Competitive Domain Analysis shows no links at all. I could understand if I started the campaign last week, but we got going in around January this year.

One thing that's crossed my mind is that it's quite a slow-loading website. It's with GoDaddy on some cheap hosting plan (not my doing!!). I understand loading times can affect results - could this be the case?

It's a bit disheartening really, because we've had really good success with a lot of local businesses' websites but with this one we just can't seem to get it anywhere!

If anyone could shine a bit of light I'd really appreciate it. The URL is bangle-box.co.uk.

Thanks in advance!

Thanks all for your responses, much appreciated. Really grateful for your very in depth response too, Thomas.

Thanks for confirming the loading and code issue. As I say, I didn't make this site. I've worked with WP for years but there's only so much I can do within the price I charge for SEO - I will of course make this recommendation as chargeable work.

I've noticed that some of the directory listings have added 'www.' in front of the link. The website is without www. So I guess that could be affecting this. I've submitted to at least three directories which have links to the site.

Thanks again.