Website ranking issues
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Hi Moz,
I have a question about one of our websites that has been ranking very poorly on it's current domain (fancydoorsedmonton.com) lately, but was ranked at #1 for the search term "Edmonton Doors" until last month. The main search terms we're targeting are "Edmonton Doors" and "Doors Edmonton".
I made another post regarding the on-page SEO value and had some feedback from that, but there is another issue that seems more likely to cause an issue. There are 2 more domains set up to forward to their main domain:
fancydoors.com was their old domain but was registered by someone else and had some questionable, X-rated content put on it. The domain has now been reacquired and redirected to their main domain. There isn't any more questionable content on there anymore. Would this domain's past affect it's current ranking?
fancy-doors.com was another old domain of theirs now set up as a redirect. In the past they had another SEO provider work with this domain and did some bad SEO work for them with automated citations, etc. We changed the domain to fancydoorsedmonton.com to get away from that and also include Edmonton in the domain.
If you have any ideas or feedback to provide based on this information it would definitely be a huge help to us. Thanks!
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Hi,
Install the Moz Toolbar (Chrome Extension) this is a great indicator for the structure of your website.
The <title>for instance is too long and not to the point. The alt text behind your images is a little vague.</p> <p>15 second load time needs obliterating! Mine loads in 2 seconds when it's slow! avg 1.3 seconds.</p> <p>The homepage is returning a 403 Error too! WOW that's not good Forbidden! This could be some external code which cannot load. That would kick you right off the top!</p> <p>Then think about implementing Schema, backed by Google, Yahoo, Bing and Yandex!</p> <p>I hope this goes someway to helping you Good Luck.</p> <p> </p> <p>Dave</p> <p> </p> <p> </p></title>
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