Advice determining what to do with site(s)-stuck in serps
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Need some input or suggestions on my issue. Im going to try and list everything I can, that may be helpful. The main issue is this site seems like it just wont budge in the serps. Im going to call this site A throughout this explanation.
I have 2 sites that are in the same niche. A city, state service. One is the main site it is specific service. So lets say site A is the main contractor company and site B is window contractors.
Site A is about 1 and a half years old. This site is only trying to rank for it service in the city, not state and for the main service, "contractors". Upon the initial launch of the site 1.5 years ago, within the seconded week, someone(no names mentioned) tossed a bunch of crap links at it and bookmarked it to death with a fiverr 10k bookmark gig. For months the site was buried past page 10. I let it just sit there and did no link building for close to a year. About 6 months ago, I figured I would start working on it when my seconded site was launched. I slowly built some link to it, niche specific and it started to appear on page ten.
The site had a blog on a sub domain which I moved directly to the site and off of a sub domain. Added some article, build some handful of links and it moved to page 5. Now for aprox. the past 3 months im building links adding content and doing all the same I do for all my sites(most rank very well) and this site will not budge what so ever at all. It will not move from page 5.
Site B: This site is targeted more towards the state and not city and is a sub service of the first site. I did next to nothing for this site, expect add a few web pages and a few back links, all low pr backlinks, nothing great. This site ranks on the first page, spot 3 for its target(sub service, state) and is showing on page 5 as well for the Sites A target(local main service).
As silly as it sounds I dont want site B outranking Site A. Heres where im confused and unsure what to do. Is site A under some type of penalty for its crap links from 1.5 years ago? Should I just ditch its domain and move the content to a new one? Should I continue my efforts? By far im not a pro but I can get most of site to rank well, this one though wont, will not move no more for me. I need some advice here on what I should do.
Both sites are on the same host, different accounts, no links between the two. They are built the same, same themes. Basically the same except site A has a blog. Site A is utilizing youtube and social sites as well and B is not.
I have 2 sites that are in the same niche. A city, state service. One is the main site it is specific service. So lets say site A is the main contractor company and site B is window contractors.
Site A is about 1 and a half years old. This site is only trying to rank for it service in the city, not state and for the main service, "contractors". Upon the initial launch of the site 1.5 years ago, within the seconded week, someone(no names mentioned) tossed a bunch of crap links at it and bookmarked it to death with a fiverr 10k bookmark gig. For months the site was buried past page 10. I let it just sit there and did no link building for close to a year. About 6 months ago, I figured I would start working on it when my seconded site was launched. I slowly built some link to it, niche specific and it started to appear on page ten.
The site had a blog on a sub domain which I moved directly to the site and off of a sub domain. Added some article, build some handful of links and it moved to page 5. Now for aprox. the past 3 months im building links adding content and doing all the same I do for all my sites(most rank very well) and this site will not budge what so ever at all. It will not move from page 5.
Site B: This site is targeted more towards the state and not city and is a sub service of the first site. I did next to nothing for this site, expect add a few web pages and a few back links, all low pr backlinks, nothing great. This site ranks on the first page, spot 3 for its target(sub service, state) and is showing on page 5 as well for the Sites A target(local main service).
As silly as it sounds I dont want site B outranking Site A. Heres where im confused and unsure what to do. Is site A under some type of penalty for its crap links from 1.5 years ago? Should I just ditch its domain and move the content to a new one? Should I continue my efforts? By far im not a pro but I can get most of site to rank well, this one though wont, will not move no more for me. I need some advice here on what I should do.
Both sites are on the same host, different accounts, no links between the two. They are built the same, same themes. Basically the same except site A has a blog. Site A is utilizing youtube and social sites as well and B is not.
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