This page should be ranking but it's not even in top 50

[Andrew-SEO]

Please help! Ive been trying to rank this page

https://www.visitmanchester.com/where-to-stay/hotels

It appeared on age 2 for a day and disappeared again. It's like it's being algorithmically kicked out. Can anyone see why?

[MiriamEllis]

Good morning, Andrew!

Is any of the content of this page unique to the page and to your business? I'm seeing that quite a bit of the page is TripAdvisor's content. Is this an affiliate site?

[Andrew-SEO]

The reviews are powered by tripadvisor but the products are owned by visit manchester. Are you seeing trip advisors content in the product descriptions?

[Smileworks_Liverpool]

The content is a bit thin.  There is no real substance and all google (and users) see is basically a list of places to stay and then a load of tripadvisor reviews.  There's almost more outbound links than words on the page.  You need to beef up the content if you want it to rank.  Why do you say 'it should be ranking' have similar pages like it ranked before?

There has recently been a great deal of 'quality updates' all throughout the first part of 2018 that could potentially be affecting a page like this.

[MiriamEllis]

Hi Andrew,

I'm looking at the page again trying to make sure what you mean by product descriptions. Looking at the page you've linked to, I see an accommodation search, followed by a brief area of text, followed by TripAdvisor content.

When you mention products, do you mean the accommodation search?

What is the main term you are hoping to rank the page for?

Are other pages like this on the website ranking well for their most important term?

When did you publish this page?

[Andrew-SEO]

Hi Thanks for your response.

When you mention products, do you mean the accommodation search?

Yes that's correct. The products are unique to the site but they also exist on trip advisor and pull through the reviews. Do you think all the external links make it look like trip advisors content?

What is the main term you are hoping to rank the page for?

Hotels in Manchetser

Are other pages like this on the website ranking well for their most important term?

Yes, Things to do in Manchester and whats on in Manchester are all fine. There is something wrong with this page. The mobile view isn't very user friendly - i'm having this changed to a list view to see if it helps - but it is not flagged as non mobile friendly so I'm just doing this as a test

When did you publish this page?

Over a year ago.

Thanks again. Any help would be most welcome

Andrew