How do you find a truely knowledgable SEO person to analyze are large site?
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We are a large site, 5600 pages with local pages in almost every city across the US. We are struggling with page rank on some pages and I dont think its as simple as backlinks and its definitely not poor on-page SEO.
I think we might have some truly technical issues that is causing us to get penalized in SERP's.
Any agencies which analyze sites? This is NOT a job posting so please don't send me messages...I truly want to know how/where to find a solution to our problem.
Thanks
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5600 pages with local pages in almost every city across the US
If you find a smart person the first things that they will do are....
-- look at those 5600 pages to see if they are cookie cutter, duplicate content, or thin content
-- then they will check for adequate linkjuice to index 5600 pages, hold them in the index, make them competitive
You can check some of that yourself.
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