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You rank third for "solar panels waterford." Five of your own pages are fighting that ranking

This review is about who your website brings in. We went through the site, your search rankings and your reviews. Two good things stand out straight away: your organic traffic grew 157% in the past year, and you hold a genuine third-place ranking for your core search, "solar panels waterford." The problem is what happens around that win. Five more pages on your own site compete for the identical phrase, and heat pump work is quietly bringing in almost twice the traffic solar is. It's all detailed below, with what to do about each one.

"Solar panels waterford"
3rd
Your one genuine top-3 win, from the homepage.
Pages competing for it
6
Homepage, solar page, a maintenance page, your shop, and more.
Real traffic that's heat pump work
61%
Solar is 33%. Heat pumps are quietly ahead.
Live test page
/test/
Still online and indexed by Google.
01 The rankings

One real win, split six ways

Your site ranks for 28 searches. Heat pump work brings in the most traffic today, but "solar panels waterford" is the search that matters most to what you actually sell, and it's the one your own pages are splitting between themselves.

What people GooglePeople / monthYour situation
daikin heat pump service390Your top search by traffic. Not solar.5th
solar panels waterford170Shows in Google's map-style results, a clean 3rd from your homepage.3rd
solar panels waterford170The same search, from your dedicated solar page.29th
solar panels waterford170Same search again, from an old product page still live on the site.53rd
solar panels waterford170Same search a third time, from your shop page.80th
air to water heat pump service170From the same heat pump page.10th
heat pump service320The general version of the same search.15th

"Solar panels waterford" is a real win. It's also the clearest example on the site of pages undermining each other. Four different addresses, your homepage, your solar page, an old product page, and your shop, all target the identical three words. Google has to decide which one to trust, and none of the losing three ever climbs past 29th.

Bottom line: Your best solar ranking works despite the competition from your own pages, not because of any help from them.
02 The specifics

Five things holding the numbers down

Duplicate
Four pages compete for "solar panels waterford"
Your homepage, your dedicated solar page, an old product page still online, and your shop page all target the identical phrase. One of them holds 3rd. The other three sit at 29th, 53rd and 80th and bring in nobody.
Wrong
Your solar page is titled "Electrical Services"
A second page about domestic solar carries the title "Electrical Services," an unrelated label. Anyone landing on it from Google, or anyone reading the page list on the back end, would have no way to tell it's about solar.
Stale
A test page is still live
cc-renewables.ie/test/ is still online and returns a normal page, meaning Google can find and index it alongside your existing content.
Wrong
Your listed county is Wexford. Your actual market is Waterford
Nothing on the site mentions Wexford. Every title, the meta description, and your named project posts (Dungarvan apartments, the Dungarvan firestation) all say Waterford. Worth confirming which county should be driving the strategy here.
Conflicting
Your live review count doesn't match what's on file
The homepage widget reads roughly 4.8 stars from over 100 reviews. The number on file for you was 4.9 from 74. Worth a quick confirm so whichever number gets used anywhere is the current one.
Worth noticing

This is not a design problem. The site has genuine project photos, a real gallery and existing case studies. These are structure problems, and they get fixed by steady monthly work on pages and internal links, not by a redesign.

Bottom line: The traffic growth is real. It's being held back by the site competing with itself.
03 Done for you

The fixes, already written out

Each fix below is ready to hand to whoever manages the site.

Fix 1 · New text for your Google listing
This is what people see when CC Renewables comes up on Google today, next to what it should say. The current version is solid, this version adds the heat pump work that's quietly carrying more of your actual traffic.
What Google shows now
https://cc-renewables.ie
Solar Panels Waterford | Expert Installation | CC Renewables
Solar panels Waterford: Save 30-50% on bills. SEAI registered experts, 20 years experience. 0% VAT, grants handled free. Domestic & commercial. Free quote.
What it should show
https://cc-renewables.ie
Solar Panels & Heat Pumps Waterford | CC Renewables
Solar panel and heat pump installation in Waterford. SEAI registered, 20 years experience. 0% VAT and grants handled free. Domestic, commercial and agricultural.
Fix 2 · One page for "solar panels waterford"
Pick the page listed as the owner, and have the others link to it instead of repeating the same content. This stops the four pages splitting the ranking between them.
solar panels waterford → owner: the homepage (3rd today, three other pages behind it splitting the same search)
Fix 3 · The remaining quick fixes
Small, concrete corrections that clean up what Google sees.
/domestic-solar-pv-2/ → retitle from "Electrical Services" to something naming solar
/test/ → take offline or block from Google, it's a leftover test page
/checkout/ and /cart/ → share an identical title, give each its own
Review count → confirm the true current number, live widget and file don't match
Bottom line: Everything above can be completed without touching a single ranking directly.
04 The plan

What to do and when

Start at the top. The first two blocks are edits. The bottom block is the monthly work that moves the numbers.

Today
about 30 minutes total
Swap in the new Google listing text from Fix 1.
10 min
Take the /test/ page offline.
10 min
This week
about 2 hours
Apply the one-page fix from Fix 2, link the losing pages to the homepage instead.
45 min
Retitle /domestic-solar-pv-2/ and give /checkout/ its own title, separate from /cart/.
30 min
Confirm the true review count and correct wherever it's quoted.
one call
This month
the monthly work
Build out the heat pump pages properly. They already outperform solar for actual traffic and deserve the same depth as the solar pages.
half day
Confirm the Waterford vs Wexford question. Decide the one county the strategy should be built around.
one call
Keep adding project posts. The Dungarvan case studies are genuine proof, one a month keeps that pattern going.
ongoing
Bottom line: The quickest gains come from strengthening pages you already have, not building new ones.
05 What it adds up to

Run your own numbers on it

"Solar panels waterford" adds up to

170 searches every month.

About 6 visits a month currently arrive from it, through your homepage.

Three other pages compete for the identical phrase and win none of that gap.

That's not lost traffic, it's traffic your own pages are splitting between themselves. Fixing which page owns the search doesn't need new content, it needs the three losing pages pointed at the one that already works. You know your average job value and your close rate on a solar enquiry. Run those numbers against a stronger single ranking instead of four competing ones. That's the sum worth doing on your side.

Bottom line: One clean page for "solar panels waterford" is worth more than four competing ones.
Why sooner beats later

Your keyword count fell 3.4% in the past month even as visits grew 157% over the year. The growth is concentrating on fewer searches, not spreading. If your top heat pump ranking dips even slightly, there's little else underneath it today.

Whether you tackle this yourself or hand it to someone else
I'm happy to spend 15 minutes walking you through the report so you know which changes will actually move the needle first. Bring whoever manages your website if you like, and if you want, we'll put the first fixes live while we're on. You keep everything in this report either way.
Book the walkthrough
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Dylan Fahy, All Day Solar Agency. I design websites and handle SEO for solar installers across Ireland. Everything above comes from your live site, your public reviews and search data from July 2026.