Issues with Google Search Results.

  • mronayne

    (@mronayne)


    11 years ago

    for months and I’ve tried a number of different tactics to see if anything helps and to date no success.

    The details: A WordPress 3.8.1 site using the Ximenia for WordPress V1.0 theme from RocketTheme and the dsIDXpress widget from Diverse Solutions to display real-time MLS real estate information.

    I’ve tried the following SEO Plugins (waiting weeks after configuring each to allow time for indexing)
    * Stallion WordPress SEO Plugin
    * WordPress SEO by Yoast
    * Greg’s High Performance SEO

    The symptoms in a nutshell are – the site is indexed and ranks well in both Yahoo and Bing – page 1 for an appropriate search term – the company name “Brin Realty Group”. However the same search term used in Google does not produce results on page 1 – in fact if lucky the site shows on page 12 or 13.

    The site looks perfect using all the Google Webmaster tools. It is actually indexed by Google (According to entering this in the Google search bar -> site:www.brinrealtygroup.com) in more than 1,000 entries.

    So why won’t Google show results. I’ve never had this issue with any other WordPress (or Joomla) site that I manage? Nothing makes any sense. Obviously Yahoo and Bing find the site atttractive and relevant enough to return the expected search results?

    Is this an issue with WordPress? I doubt it. Is this an issue with the theme? I am very suspicious of this possibility. Or does the dsIDXpress widget get in the way somehow?

    This is driving me crazy – anybody else have similar issues? Anybody smart enough to come up with a possible reason/solution?

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  • webbrewers

    (@webbrewers)

    I’d start with site speed – your site is very slow. Could be related to the idx widget?

    Thread Starter mronayne

    (@mronayne)

    I too am beginning to think it might have something to do with speed. I think the main culprit is the RocketTheme template and more specifically their RokSprocket widget. The IDX listing loads are sometimes very fast but often they too are slow loading. I just wish I knew why the search results for Yahoo and Bing are so different (and much better) than Google. Is it that Google just has higher standards when it comes to page load speeds?

    I wish I knew for certain before I totally revamp the site and replace the template.

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