Hey folks, I'm at my wit's end here... let me try to explain the situation:
We are a service company, let's say plumbers.
Our main website is headquartered in XXX city. All of our SEO on that site was driven to our main site only. All is good, rank well, etc.
Now, we've expanded into multiple cities.
So I've made website/locations/city and dropped all the new city pages for each new city.
ALL the new cities rank well already EXCEPT for the main city (where we are headquartered in) is not ranking at all.
Now, remember we were driving all the traffic from this main city to our main page, we are local here, headquartered here, etc. So we took all the SEO for this 'city' off the main page, to try and localize it onto it's own city page.
In GMB, we have the business address associated to each location. We've stripped the local city SEO content from the main page so it doesn't rank or compete with the new city page for our headquartered location.
So the main page is very generic/broad/welcoming to our services.
But we cannot get the 1 new city page to rank at all. It only shows up when we click 'see ommitted results'. There is no duplicate content, it stands on it's own fine. Proper backlinking, even SEMRush says it's SEO-wise better than the other city locations.
I think it is competing with our main page still, since our main page was specifically for this city. Our main page is still ranking for local searches for this city, even though we have no mention of the city name at all on the main page.
It has been 4 weeks now and while the 3 other cities are climbing the ranks nicely, this one is still ommitted in the search results and not ranking.
Any ideas? Each city has it's own address/location, we have a nav bar at the top, footers at the bottom, cross linking, back linking and no duplicate content. Can't wrap my head around it.
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