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[Pet Nanny]

I will apologise for this being a long post, but need to explain.

As you all know, I am really pleased with my funky new website, but the strange thing is that this page http://www.ninasnanniesforpets.co.uk/petvisiting.html is not doing as well on google as my old farty page.

I thought that I would take a look at this page on the way back machine to see what was so different about it. Trouble is I can't :| It will not give me access to this page at all.

All the areas listed on that old page would come up on the first page of google if you searched for pet sitters in hemel hempstead etc. I just cannot figure it out.

Does anyone know how I can find out what was so different on my old page please?

 

[SFD]

Hi,

Waybackmachine doesn't cache all sites, mines a year old and has never been cached.

Do you or your developer not have the old site on backup somewhere?

The site seems to rank well for all the terms targetted by the seperate subdomains listed at the bottom of the page, around 4th for some searches.

These rank better than the page you posted as the location is in the <title> and <h1> whereas Hemel Hempstead is not mentioned in the <title> or <h1> on the page you posted.

An easy fix would be to add the words to the title and H1 or setup another sub-domain for hemel hempstead.

 

[david64]

Your old URLs seem to all have ended in .asp, but the new ones dont.

If you have changed your site, you need all the old pages redirected to the new ones using something known as a 301 redirect. If you had any links going to the old pages they won't be counted to the new pages unless the URLs are the same or you get the pages redirected. You will probably need to get a tech-SEO to do this.

 

[Pet Nanny]

Unfortunately, my old site was done my someone else, who I have been out of touch with for some time.

My current website designer would obviously not have this information, so I could be stuffed.

I have no idea why all the areas listed on that page came up on google. It was amazing, but I never figured it out. I now have a fantastic new website that does really well on google, just accept for that one particular page.

 

[david64]

You can find all your pages from the all site like this:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://ninasnanniesforpets.co.uk/*

I can't see any that seem to be the old version of this though.

Anyway, all the new URLs on your site are different and there are no redirects from the old site, so any links you had to the sub-pages on the old site are now not helping your site in the search engines.

For example, you have over 700 links to this page from 13 different domains:

http://www.ninasnanniesforpets.co.uk/blog.asp

There are numerous other pages like:

http://www.ninasnanniesforpets.co.uk/areascovered.asp
http://www.ninasnanniesforpets.co.uk/Hampshire.html
http://www.ninasnanniesforpets.co.uk/recruitment.asp
http://www.ninasnanniesforpets.co.uk/index.asp

All of which have external links that aren't contributing to your site's rankings because the pages have been discarded. As mentioned, you will need an SEO to sort this out.

David

 

[SFD]

Hi Nina, just been looking through your site.

It's very nice but has a tiny glitch in the navigation.

If you go to 'links' then click on 'home' it brinks up an error as it points to a subdomain on your web developers server.

I'm sure your developer can have it sorted in 2 mins.