I'm currently trying to get a friends small business website to rank. I have a decent understanding of SEO, doing more technically correct things and did a decent amount of hand written content specific to local areas and services provided.
Two months in, bing still hasn't crawled the fav icon. Google finally did after a month.
I'm still getting outranked by tangentially related services, garbage national lead collection sites, yelp top 10 blog spam, and even exact service providers from 300 miles away that definitely don't serve the area.
Something is definitely wrong with pagerank and crawling in general.
I don't have backlinks really. But I have a website for a real addresses business serving that exact service local people are searching for, and instead they get useless results before finding me on list item #42.
Two months in, bing still hasn't crawled the fav icon. Google finally did after a month. I'm still getting outranked by tangentially related services, garbage national lead collection sites, yelp top 10 blog spam, and even exact service providers from 300 miles away that definitely don't serve the area.
Something is definitely wrong with pagerank and crawling in general.