Hi all,
So I spent a good few months at the end of 2012 into 2013 putting together a site that was aiming to bring together pet carers in the UK - catteries, kennels, dog sitters/walkers etc - in one place. The idea is that when people search for a cattery they come to my site, then leave a review on the cattery when done. The end ideal was a site full of reviews that would be a first stop for anyone looking for this pet care services.
So once finished, I spent another month loading about 1500 business, by hand, into the directory on the site. Google started to index the pages. So far so good.
So then I put together a blog attached to the site where I put up a few articles about pets in general, and started commenting on pet forums, hopefully creating backlinks to the site. I also set up a twitter account, following other pet businesses, catteries, kennels, etc.
This seemed to being ok, by August, I had about 1600 pages indexed by Google, but still only 10 visits or so a week. I had earned about 3 pounds in ad-sense clicks at this point!!
Then suddenly my site dropped off the radar. In about 3 months I went from 1600 indexed pages to under a hundred, and it's still dropping. My only thought is that as I got the addresses of the businesses from around the web, that Google is flagging my pages as duplicate content...
Anyway, after being disheartened and setting it aside for months I've decide to have another look. The site is -
petcarerated.co.uk
Any thoughts from anyone here will be greatly appreciated. Does this site deserve another last blast, or should I dust myself down, forget about it and move on to something new?
Cheers!
Steve
So I spent a good few months at the end of 2012 into 2013 putting together a site that was aiming to bring together pet carers in the UK - catteries, kennels, dog sitters/walkers etc - in one place. The idea is that when people search for a cattery they come to my site, then leave a review on the cattery when done. The end ideal was a site full of reviews that would be a first stop for anyone looking for this pet care services.
So once finished, I spent another month loading about 1500 business, by hand, into the directory on the site. Google started to index the pages. So far so good.
So then I put together a blog attached to the site where I put up a few articles about pets in general, and started commenting on pet forums, hopefully creating backlinks to the site. I also set up a twitter account, following other pet businesses, catteries, kennels, etc.
This seemed to being ok, by August, I had about 1600 pages indexed by Google, but still only 10 visits or so a week. I had earned about 3 pounds in ad-sense clicks at this point!!
Then suddenly my site dropped off the radar. In about 3 months I went from 1600 indexed pages to under a hundred, and it's still dropping. My only thought is that as I got the addresses of the businesses from around the web, that Google is flagging my pages as duplicate content...
Anyway, after being disheartened and setting it aside for months I've decide to have another look. The site is -
petcarerated.co.uk
Any thoughts from anyone here will be greatly appreciated. Does this site deserve another last blast, or should I dust myself down, forget about it and move on to something new?
Cheers!
Steve
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