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    • DragonSearch
      DragonSearch @wishmedia last edited by

      Happy to help! ^Caitlin

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      • spencerhjustice
        spencerhjustice @wishmedia last edited by

        This also needs to be redirected. http://precision-greens.com/index.php to http://precision-greens.com/

        I'm not seeing any other major issues.

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        • benjaminmarcinc
          benjaminmarcinc last edited by

          Im not sure if this will help but maybe move your homepage copy content a little higher on the page, theres a lot of pictures examples of your work then the content.

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          • wishmedia
            wishmedia @benjaminmarcinc last edited by

            Thanks for your reply - We're actually working on a small redesign of the homepage as well, I will try to incorporate the text higher up to see if it helps at all!

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            • wishmedia
              wishmedia @spencerhjustice last edited by

              Thanks for your help! I made that change as well - We'll see if any of these fix the issues!

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              • JaneCopland
                JaneCopland last edited by

                Hi Corey,

                Do you know anything about the history of the domain beyond your involvement with it? Any chance the domain might have had issues in the past that you're not aware of that could cause it to struggle with rankings?

                I would not say that "moving text up" alone is necessary, but rather the manner in which you use text should done in a way that makes it look less like the text has been included for SEO purposes and more like that text is a natural part of the page. Unfortunately, grey-ish text on a white background in small font towards the bottom of the page gives off that impression.

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                • wishmedia
                  wishmedia @JaneCopland last edited by

                  I do know they were getting SEO through a company a long time ago that was using Black-Hat Tactics to gain them rank - but I haven't seen the black-hat website in a long time and don't even know if it exists. The text on the home page did drive them up significantly, but not to where I'd expect. I can definitely make the text darker and more readable.

                  Thanks!!!

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                  • TimHolmes
                    TimHolmes last edited by

                    If like you said an independent agency was doing the SEO work, could they have added a lot of dodgy links to both your homepage and deeper links. These may be holding you back to their irrelevent nature. Take a look on opensiteexplorer to see if that is the case.

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                    • wishmedia
                      wishmedia @TimHolmes last edited by

                      The independent agency used a second site to build its rank - it was just a website with a bunch of big picture links to their website and a ton of textual links below.

                      The website since then has been redeveloped and we implemented all of the 301 redirects, etc. to ensure no page rank would be lost, so there isn't any bad links from their website. The links in OpenSiteExplorer also seem to be legit.

                      Still haven't figured out why they are ranking so poorly tho, it was put aside for now. All of the help has been greatly appreciated.

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