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Your site has very little “content” and is just product listings which looks like a million other garbage sites google sees. Great for ux to have the product listings users want, but the crawlers need some plain text to read to understand what you’re site is about.

I’d add a paragraph, hero image image, cta/etc at the very top explaining what your site is. Additionally you need a menu at the top and footer at the bottom with links to additional content-only (not products) pages - IE an about us, where do we source data, etc. Even 2 blog posts would help a ton. Do not stuff them with keywords but be sure to use the words that are common in your niche of the industry so your site gets associated with industry sites.

From googles eyes the difference between a scammy online ecom site and your site is hard to see! (Even if your site provides legitimate value to users).

You can try posting a link to it on various digital Marketing subreddits (not the like “rate my website” ones) to see if you can get more feedback - I haven’t done that in years though.

Edit - also didn’t realize clicking product links takes you to external sites. That’s a tough site for google to ever understand correctly since you have so little content and the best possible outcome of a user visiting your site is that they leave it. Maybe set it up to have each product link to your own page for it, maybe with price history from camelcamelcamel, links to the product in tiger sites, generic info about what site it’s listed on, or just crawl the description at the vendors site.



Thank you for this extremely helpful response




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