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Thomas

Thank you again!

I'll follow your advice. I sure did not want to continue paying for the poor service they offer, the only problem I found was this "façadier bastogne" keyword which they somehow managed to rank high. I'll keep working on my new website and let go off theirs.

Your answers were very helpful and comprehensive.

I wish you a good day.

Thomas

Thank you!

You've been really helpful indeed. I know it's very risky to remove our website out of the listing, but the thing is we currently pay a 8,000 euros a year just for being in their listings and they're supposed to do SEO, write articles but you cannot see one article on it.

I've recently started a carrer in SEO and created this wordpress website facadesetpeintures.be. Don't you think I could do better and maybe regain that #1 position by creating valuable content.

And when you look at the search results of "facadier bastogne", you have like 4 adwords results, the local results and only then the website yell made for us.

In this case, even in the first position I would think that we lose a lot of click-through rate opportunities being so low under Adwords and Google my Business.

Plus we summed up the number of client emails coming from Yell in 2016. The number adds up to 8 and we did not even get the contract for all the clients.

At this point, I was thinking of optimizing my wordpress website and making my own Adwords campaigns.

What would you be your recommendation now that I have told you more about our website?

My search query is "façadier bastogne" in google.be which in English would translate as "plasterer" and bastogne being the local city I am targeting. I can't seem to understand why my site peintre-plafonneur-facadier-bastogne.be/fr would rank higher than our local directory "Pages d'or" (Yellow Pages) which has a high DA and almost always ranks first for similar searches as "peintre bastogne" (painter)?

Not to mention my site was created by Pages d'Or. How did they manage to rank this so high whereas if you look at it you'll see that they have not made any SEO work on it whatsoever.

Could anyone help me understand this or tell me which way to look in order to get that information?

I really need this as I am paying a lot to this directory for my site and was planning to launch my own WordPress website.