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You rank first for Mayo, and two broken sections are hiding the proof behind it

This review is about who your website brings in. We went through the site, your search rankings and your reviews. The main findings: you rank first in Ireland for "solar panels mayo" and it carries almost all of your traffic, a genuinely strong result. But your own dedicated Mayo installation page ranks 24th for the identical phrase, behind your homepage and behind four other pages of your own. And two sections on the homepage load broken: your "Google Client Reviews" heading shows no reviews underneath it, and your client-logo carousel displays your own logo six times over instead of real client names. It's all detailed below, with what to do about each one.

"Solar panels mayo"
1st
3,600 searches a month, homepage. Your biggest genuine strength.
Your dedicated Mayo install page
24th
Behind your own homepage, for the identical search.
"Google Client Reviews" section
Empty
Heading loads, no reviews appear underneath.
Client-logo carousel
Broken
Shows "Solar West" six times, not real client names.
01 The rankings

One search wins the county, and six of your pages are chasing it

Your site ranks for 18 searches in Ireland and pulls in roughly 1,900 visits a month, by far the strongest of any site we've reviewed this month. Almost every one of those visits comes from a single search, and instead of one page owning it cleanly, six different pages on your own site are all trying to rank for it.

What people GooglePeople / monthYour situation
solar panels mayo (homepage)3.6K1st. Carries nearly all your traffic.1st
solar panels mayo (dedicated install page)3.6K24th. This is the page that should own the term.24th
solar panels mayo (three further pages)3.6K44th, 80th and 92nd. All competing for the same phrase.44th+
solar panels wexford21070th, one of the counties you list as served.70th
solar panels westmeath39027th and 56th, two pages, neither close.27th

Ranking first for your home county is a real result, and the site earns it fairly, real trust badges, an established date, SEAI approval, all in the first screen. The pattern underneath is what needs attention: six of your own pages target the identical phrase, "solar panels mayo", and the site has never repeated that formula anywhere else. Wexford, Kerry, Dundalk and Westmeath all appear in your rankings, and none of them are close to a usable position.

02 The specifics

Four things holding the numbers down

The Mayo win proves the formula works. These are the specific gaps stopping it from repeating elsewhere, and from converting visitors once they land.

Broken
Your Google reviews section shows no reviews
The homepage has a heading, "Google Client Reviews", and nothing renders underneath it. Your 4.9 rating from 38 reviews is real and confirmed, it just isn't visible to anyone landing on the page.
Broken
Your client-logo carousel shows your own logo, six times
The section headed "Our Solar PV Clients" is built to showcase who you've worked for. Instead it cycles through six copies of your own "Solar West" logo. Whatever real client names or logos were meant to load here aren't showing.
Duplicate
Six pages target the identical Mayo search
Your homepage, your residential installation page, your news page, your commercial page and your about page all rank for "solar panels mayo". Consolidating this into one clear winning page frees the others to target the searches you're missing entirely.
Missing
Zero real footprint outside Mayo
Your own homepage names Belmullet, Castlebar, Sligo and Roscommon as areas you serve. Wexford, Kerry, Dundalk and Westmeath all show up in your tracked keywords too, and every single one sits far outside page one. The Mayo formula has never been repeated for any of them.
Worth noticing

This is not a design problem. The homepage already has real trust badges, a map, a genuine address and an established date shown clearly. These are two broken widgets and a page-consolidation job, steady monthly work, not a redesign.

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 Solar West comes up on Google today, next to what it should say.
What Google shows now
https://solarwest.ie
Solar Panels Mayo | Solar West | SEAI Approved Installers
SEAI-approved solar panel installers in Mayo for homes, farms & businesses. Serving Belmullet, Castlebar, Sligo, Roscommon & beyond.
What it should show
https://solarwest.ie
Solar Panels Mayo | 4.9 Stars, SEAI Approved | Solar West
Solar panel installers in Mayo, established 2005. Rated 4.9 from 38 Google reviews. Serving Belmullet, Castlebar, Sligo, Roscommon and beyond.
Fix 2 · Fix the two broken sections
Both of these are widgets that should be showing real proof, and currently show nothing or the wrong thing.
"Google Client Reviews" section , reconnect the widget so your 4.9 rating and real reviews actually display underneath the heading

"Our Solar PV Clients" carousel , replace the six repeats of your own logo with real client names or project photos
Fix 3 · One page per search
Pick the page listed as the owner, and have the other pages link to it instead of repeating the same content.
solar panels mayo → owner: the homepage, it already ranks 1st. The install, news, commercial and about pages should link into it, not repeat it.
04 The plan

What to do and when

Start at the top. The bottom block is the monthly work that repeats the Mayo formula elsewhere.

Today
about 20 minutes total
Swap in the new Google listing text from Fix 1.
10 min
Flag the two broken widgets to whoever built the site, both are quick fixes once found.
10 min
This week
about half a day
Fix the Google reviews section per Fix 2.
2 hrs
Fix the client-logo carousel per Fix 2.
2 hrs
This month
the monthly work
Consolidate the six "solar panels mayo" pages. One clear winning page, the rest linking into it.
1 day
Build a real Westmeath page. 390 searches a month and the closest of the outlying counties to being usable.
half day
Repeat the Mayo formula for Sligo and Roscommon. You already claim to serve them. One county page at a time, built the way the Mayo page was.
ongoing
05 What it adds up to

Run your own numbers on it

Wexford, Kerry, Dundalk and Westmeath add up to around 940 people a month typing solar searches for their own county into Google, on top of the 3,600 a month you already win in Mayo. Right now you capture almost none of that 940. You know how many of those searches turn into a job for you, and what a job is worth. That's the sum worth doing on your side.

Why sooner beats later

Your keyword count fell 5.3% over the last month. You're winning the biggest prize on the board right now, Mayo, but a site this reliant on one search is more exposed than it looks if a competitor decides to properly contest it.

Want to walk through it? 15 minutes, on a screen share.
We'll go through this page together, show you exactly what's worth doing first, and answer whatever you want to ask. 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.
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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.