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    What is happening to our website ??? Not getting RANKING but Competitors do RANK well???

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    • Aman_123
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      • ofw12387
        ofw12387 last edited by

        Difficult to say in a message, could be many reasons why your competitors are ranking better than you, you should check:

        • Content: Maybe they have better and more optimized content than you?

        • Domain authority: It also could be their domains have more authority && age.

        • Link profile: You should definetly check their link profile, maybe they have really good links that your domaint doesnt.

        • SEO ON PAGE: Analyze the SEO ON PAGE of your competitors and compare it with yours.

        • Social media: It may they are working this area better than you?

        etc..........

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        • Keszi
          Keszi last edited by

          I would advise you to make an SEO audit for your website. There are quite some issues, that could be resolved easily.

          For example you are blocking www. version of your website in robots.txt, instead of redirecting it to the preferred version. If anybody would like to the www. version of your website, you wouldn't benefit from it, at all.

          Try to create a full audit, then make a priority list for implementation. Results will come in time.

          Keszi

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          • Aman_123
            Aman_123 @ofw12387 last edited by

            We have and done all very good job than our competitors in terms of all what above you suggested.

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            • ofw12387
              ofw12387 @Aman_123 last edited by

              So be patient my friend, very important for SEO 🙂

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              • Aman_123
                Aman_123 @Keszi last edited by

                Thanks Keszi

                Taking your advise to work on Complete SEO Audit may be good suggestion. I will be going to do this from start to end every corner of our website.

                What about moz.com audiences, wouldn't they get benefit without having www. version pages website. I don't think, it's right to consider & work on this, 301 redirection works perfect here, even we also made preferred in GWT to tell Google treat our domain without www. prior.

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                • Keszi
                  Keszi @Aman_123 last edited by

                  Hi,

                  Try to fetch the www. version in Google webmaster tools. You should get a Blocked status instead of Redirected.

                  You are basically blocking their bot on the redirect. So let's say I will create a link towards your www. version (which should be redirecting). Any bot that would try to analyze it, but they are not allowed.

                  This is just my personal idea, but I do believe that if you have implemented a redirect, you shouldn't block it from the www versions robots.txt.

                  Keszi

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                  • Keszi
                    Keszi @Keszi last edited by

                    BTW: you can read more about this here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6066472?hl=en

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                    • Aman_123
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                      • Keszi
                        Keszi @Aman_123 last edited by

                        Oh, sorry. My eyes run over the site: search. You have only blocked the emailer. My bad 🙂

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                        • Aman_123
                          Aman_123 @Keszi last edited by

                          yup. . could you please help us to audit our website from your end. It would be great if you tell the EXACT problem our website suffers from.

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                          • Keszi
                            Keszi @Aman_123 last edited by

                            Sure, I've sent you a PM.

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                            • MattRoney
                              MattRoney last edited by

                              Hi Aman!

                              This won't necessarily solve your problem, and I sort of hate just plugging a Moz tool, but have you ever tried running a Full SERP Analysis Report in the Keyword Difficulty tool? It can let you know what factors are helping your top 10 SERP competitors rank.

                              There's a great video on using it here.

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