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Google Ranking Generally in Germany - Keywords & Umlauts
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Hi Mozzers,
I was hoping i could get some advice/opinions on a website ranking problem i have been working on, in particular one of the pages.
This is our German language website which is hosted from Germany and a flaunt German speaking member of staff from our German office moderates the text content of the website for us.Our website seems to get good traffic ,visitor navigation and conversions.
One of the keywords i focus building around is Schallpegelmessgerät which is one way of basically saying Sound level meter in German. The keyword uses an umlaut which i cannot use in the URL, but google is picking up and putting into the snippets, but apart from that our on-page optimization is good according to the moz tool.
I have been trying to improve our content and we post many blog articles around the topic/keyword but google.de seems to choose not to even display this on the first couple of pages and sometimes ranks our blog articles around the third page. We are even been outranked by some low quality cheap online shop websites some of which with low quality content and low page and domain authorities.
I had accepted this but after looking at bing.de and doing a search i find our page in the top 5 results, i understand that google and bing's algorhythms are different but just struggling to get my head around it all.
Here is our website & page - http://www.cirrusresearch.de/produkte/schallpegelmessgerat/
Any advice on this situation would be greatly appreciated, thank you very much for reading this
James
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Thank you,
i did look at this particularly how the competition was typing the keyword on the page and they all still use the umlaut, but as for the url structure it could be an idea for me to make changes so it would be http://www.cirrusresearch.de/produkte/schallpegelmessgeraet/ yea thanks, i may look at changing this structure slightly, but i am still not quite sure that would be a reason for my current ranking to be so poor
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Have you tried to spell it with "ae" rather than with the umlaut? So it will read Schallpegelmessgeraet. Not sure if Google Germany can read umlauts and I'm guessing with the problems you are having, they may not be able to.
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