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Hi,

So, I’ve done a bit more digging:

7000+ backlinks

But only 5 high DA backlinks where the anchor text is the main keyword

All other backlinks are for other long tail keywords

Would this explain it?

Hi Gert,

Do you mean external links pointing to my homepage?

It’s an option, but I really want to get to the bottom of this.

By URL do you mean a new domain name?

Hi Chris,

Over optimisation is something I’ve looked at and it’s fine tbh.

The #1 is a EMD .co.uk and other high ranking ones are EMDs too on other extensions.

I’ve got a sister site that compliments the main site , but this site has DA of 1. I used to have a link in this sister site’s menu with the the keyword as anchor text linking straight to my main site.

(The sister site is not spammy, no adverts, just info, but no backlinks)

I think this might be a problem and I’ve removed that menu link and all links connecting the two sites and hoping when Google picks this up it might resolve this issue.

What do you think Chris?

Thanks again