[Paul H Coulthard]

Hi all had my new website done around 11 weeks ago. Can any 1 tell me why it's not ranking when I search for carpet cleaners were I live ect. My website designer  has gone missing I have full access  to my website ect . www.coulthardcleaningservicescumbria.co.uk. 

[CleanerCarpets]

You are optimised for Cumbria - and not all that well for that on the homepage any way

Who searches for a cleaner by County? People search for a cleaner by town/city

[Paul H Coulthard]

You are optimised for Cumbria - and not all that well for that on the homepage any way

Who searches for a cleaner by County? People search for a cleaner by town/city

I'm no website designer mate hence why I'm asking. The person who built my site I can't get hold of him.

[David_Annable]

Hi

You say you have access, do you know how to change things?

You want to have local content ie the town you live in, the towns closest with in traveling distance.

Thanks

[David_Annable]

Hi

Looking at it again, can you add your address as google would pick up on that.

Of course you may not want to have your address on there.

Thanks

[davep]

It's a legal requirement to have your address on there

[Paul H Coulthard]

Hi

Looking at it again, can you add your address as google would pick up on that.

I do have full access to my website but not sure how to change things ect.

Of course you may not want to have your address on there.

Thanks

[Michael H Jones]

There are a few ropey bits on the site ("contact us" runs off the end of the end of the header, and the site does not seem set to fit any screen), but it generally looks fine. It is not set up very well for optimization and needs some more pages added with specific town names (http://www.coulthardcleaningservicescumbria.co.uk/carpet-cleaning/lancaster   for example) or at the very least a list of place and post codes that you cover on the home page. If you have access to the web building software, this would be your best route - add every area and post code that you cover to the bottom of the page for each service that you offer. This will start the ranking process.......it can take quite a while though before you start charting on the first page, but a professionally set up website should definitely have ranked by now. Poor show from your web designer really......there are so many sharks. 

[Michael H Jones]

From the site source code, it looks like he's bunged up a basic Wix website.....are you paying him monthly, or have you set up a payment plan with Wix? That would be the most pressing issue.....

[Paul H Coulthard]

Hi he built my website and I paid Wix for 1 year. Now the designer has gone of the world but I do have full access to the website ect

[Michael H Jones]

That's great news for you then. There is a certain scam I've seen where the web designer suddenly asks you for a load more money or the site gets deleted. I've not personally used Wix but it should be relatively straightforward to access each page and amend the text (most site builders are the same). I'm not sure on here how to contact you directly as I'm pretty new but my email is mike@conwyovencleaning.co.uk
I'm quite savvy on these matters so if you need some advice etc, drop me a line.

[Mike Halliday]

It looks like I'm showing favouritism towards Mark at DP design as whenever anyone ask about websites I mention his name but I would contact him and see if he will give you a hourly rate to fix your website, I would think if you give him administration access he will be able to go into the code and make the changes you need.

The fact you had to start this post asking for help suggest you don't have the knowledge to make the correct changes yourself and you might make things worse.

[Deep Cleaning Solutions]

I have only had quick look and will have a better look when I have time to give you a more detailed reply.

The two things that stand out right away are that their is virtually no text on your home page which will result in your secondary pages being ranked higher which is not what you want.

The other thing that stands out like a sore thumb is the website is not responsive. In other words the website is not re-sizing for different sized PC monitors. I have tested it on a few monitors and sometimes some of the text is even missing because the website is not designed as responsive.

I will take another look later to let you know any other issues.

[Deep Cleaning Solutions]

I have just had another look and their are too many issues for me to mention but the site is saveable. Wix will have loads of YT video tutorials so you could get some info from these.

You will notice that the footer on a few pages is not at the bottom of the page. This can be fixed by adding more text. If you were to add more text on the home page between the image slider and the footer then the footer should drop down to the foot of the page as it should. You get this problem with the MoonFruit website design platform and Wix will be very similar.

The title headings, desriptions are all a mess. There are validation errors. There is no Twitter page linked to your site. It's not optimised for mobile. I'm struggling to find incoming links but it's a fairly new site. The average words per page is borderline and the homepage needs a lot more text.  The site has a load of code issues but that's more likely an issue with the Wix platform so not much you can do about that. The text is showing as an image and not text which is worrying! There are virtually no relevent heading tags ect. I could go on all day 

I mentioned that it's not a responsive site in my previous post and Wix like many of these types of companies will probably not support responsive websites so the re-sizing issue you have will be hard to change. I have noticed it's mainly the header and footer that's affected by this so you could redesign it slightly and have a bleed line around your header and footer and bring the text further in so it doesn't cut get cut off on some PC monitors.

The amount of likes and positive Facebook reviews is brilliant so that's something to build on.

I would do some research on Wix and you will soon become an expert at it. Like I said, their will be loads of info and videos about Wix.

I also own a website design company and although I mainly use wordpress, css ect now I do have previous experience with platforms similar to Wix in the past so if you need any free advice then call me on 07969072578. Thanks Dave.

[Paul H Coulthard]

Thank you all for great advice as always.  Il call u tommorow dave regards

[John Higgins]

It looks like I'm showing favouritism towards Mark at DP design as whenever anyone ask about websites I mention his name but I would contact him and see if he will give you a hourly rate to fix your website, I would think if you give him administration access he will be able to go into the code and make the changes you need.

The fact you had to start this post asking for help suggest you don't have the knowledge to make the correct changes yourself and you might make things worse.

Thanks for recommend mike

[Ian Harper]

Paul

the way google works is it will spider your site when it finds it or your tell them with google webmaster. but what most dont understand it that google only compiles every 3 months. what that means is that it looks at all the factors it uses to rank and then comes up with the new list.

I think they also are now doing the mobile separate now.   

your site is far to broad, if you silos where deeper you would be ok but they are only one page deep.

its easy to find out which keywords relate to each one and how to get deeper with each silo. just type in the keyword you want in google. then look at the bottom of the results it will have "related seaches"  now click on anyone of these again look at the bottom of the search page and you see more this is a keyword silo the way google sees related keywords group them and google understand more about that part of your site. do this with all your silos and you have a much deeper site that google understands more.

Make sure that you dont cross link any silos and it waters down what your doing.  you can just link one page to next to the next etc or have one index page with links to all the a pages in one silo. make sure that each page is useful and informative. you need just one page in all your site to get popular and it will lift your page to page one and above the fold. that first page needs to be optimised for your town.

I would not pay anyone to do this for you learn it yourself. you also need more than one site. three at least. one for adwords, one for local and one seo.  that way you dont run the risk of google deciding you have too much of its property and you losing you seo place. google does not want 3 of one person site above the fold it does not give the searcher options. 

or you could just get listed in local or use adwords and be done with it. seo is a risky business

PS use and learn wordpress that way you can do it all. no html code. most web space provides have it as a easy install on the control panel.