Case study: our own website
Fixing our own local search: 14 areas, every page findable.
Six of our finished city pages were invisible to Google, and our menus listed only 8 of the areas we serve. Here is what we found and what we changed, the same way we would do it for a client.
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What we found
We serve 13 local areas across the Fraser Valley and Metro Vancouver, plus remote clients anywhere in BC, for 14 service areas in all. A check of our own site found three problems.
- Six finished city pages had never been published, so Google got a page-not-found.
- The structured data on those six pages pointed to another page's breadcrumb, a copy-and-paste slip.
- The menu, footer, homepage and service pages listed only 8 of our 14 areas.
At a glance
- Client: us, bitlogix.tech
- Where: 14 BC service areas
- Services: Websites and eCommerce
- Tools: Odoo and Google Search Console
What we changed
Six fixes, checked live
- Published the six pages: Burnaby, New Westminster, Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody and Pitt Meadows.
- Linked them from the service areas page and from neighbouring city pages.
- Fixed the breadcrumb in the structured data on all six.
- Brought the menu, footer, homepage and six service pages to the same list of 14 areas.
- Rebuilt the sitemap and resubmitted it to Google Search Console.
- Checked every page type on both our sites for a stray noindex tag. Only the thank-you pages, which should stay out of search, have one.
Before and after
The numbers
| Before | After | |
|---|---|---|
| Service-area pages Google could reach | 8 | 14 |
| Service-area pages in the sitemap | 8 | 14 |
| Areas listed in the menu | 8 | 14 |
| Pages with the wrong breadcrumb | 6 | 0 |
How we checked it
- Fetched every page type live on both sites, bypassing caches, and read the robots tags.
- Confirmed each new page loads normally instead of returning an error.
- Confirmed the rebuilt sitemap lists all 14 areas.
What we would check on your site
- Are all your location and service pages published and in the sitemap?
- Does your structured data point to the right page?
- Do your menu, footer and homepage list the same areas?
- Is a noindex tag hiding anything from search?
It is part of the free IT assessment.
- Odoo website pages and menus
- schema.org BreadcrumbList and FAQPage structured data
- XML sitemap regeneration
- Google Search Console, through its API
- Robots meta checks on the canonical hostname and others
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