[markpowell]

http://www.carpetcleanplus.co.uk/Special-Offers(2337653).htm

My competitors new site,
"2 carpets for the price of 3"
And he has knocked me off the top of Google
 

[Phil Taylor]

Good for him, that's what you call solid competition. Now it's down to you to compete accordingly 

[Shaun_Ashmore]

How did he get there so quick?

Shaun

[robert meldrum]

No clues about the site and the first two links I clicked are dead ends.

[wynne jones]

http://www.carpetcleanplus.co.uk/Special-Offers(2337653).htm

My competitors new site,
"2 carpets for the price of 3"
And he has knocked me off the top of Google
 

The way I like to think of it is smooth seas do not make a skillful sailor, it will up your game. On the other hand you could go round and torch his van. 

[Simon Gerrard]

I wouldn't worry about it, the website is crap and people won't stay on it for long.

Simon

[wynne jones]

I wouldn't worry about it, the website is crap and people won't stay on it for long.

Simon

Yeah, he's the first on Google and with those prices they will be straight on the phone. 

[Simon Gerrard]

People aren't always attracted by low prices, far from.

Simon

[davep]

He's bottom of page 1 for carpet cleaners Halifax on my iPhone

Maybe it's your browsing history affecting what you see mark?

[wynne jones]

His site isn't easy on the eye that's for sure. Getting no1 again for all your key phrases is important especially if they don't trigger maps.

[Simon Gerrard]

Wynne,
How do you get key phrase to trigger maps?
Simon

[wynne jones]

It's the other way around Simon.

Google decide which phrases trigger maps. Most reasonably populated areas trigger a map, but it depends on competition density and lots of other factors we are not party to. So there's little point putting in a lot of time on google maps if your main phrases don't trigger one (but most do now).

[Shaun_Ashmore]

PR3? my son has a PS3 will that help?

actually how do you know or find out what your own PR is?

Shaun

PS you're a good un Paul

[AshWhite]

Now do me, now do me!

[AshWhite]

Cheers for the info, have to work on getting that up!

[AshWhite]

http://www.carpetcleanplus.co.uk/Special-Offers(2337653).htm

My competitors new site,
"2 carpets for the price of 3"
And he has knocked me off the top of Google
 

I must say, that is the kind of deal I could get used to doing, sod Groupon!!

[Carpet Dawg]

To increase page rank you need to A) constantly update your site, and B) increase the amount of incoming backlinks.

PR is mainly a measure of "linkback worthy-ness". For example a PR5 site owner would think twice about exchanging links with another site that has a PR2.

[from edge2edge]

Morning Mark I looked at his Gallery picture and i dont think most people would know what they were looking at as it is pants............Alan

[Linds Russell]

I think his site has too much process naming which most customers are not interested in. They are buying clean carpets not carpet cleaning.

[garry22]

Mark,

I've looked at this with a "clean" pc today and it looks like as DaveP said, that you are getting false results.

You need to clear all of your cookies and browsing history.

Presuming we are talking about Halifax, I've got you at no.1 and the other down at the bottom (same as Dave).

You've both got poor backlinks (his are slightly more varied) but your on page optimisation is much better (which seems to be doing the trick).