solarpvdonegal.ie · prepared for Solar PV Donegal only

You rank 1st for Donegal solar, and six of your own pages compete against it

This review is about who your website brings in. We went through the site, your search rankings and your reviews. The main findings: "solar panels donegal" ranks 1st on your homepage and brings in every one of your site's 79 monthly visits. The identical phrase also shows up on six other pages of your own site, all of them buried past position 35. Your dedicated pages for EV chargers, SEAI grants and school solar PV don't rank for a single search. There are smaller things too. Your reviews page lives at a leftover placeholder address, and the footer still says 2023. The site itself is well built. Real photos, a genuine testimonial. This isn't a design problem. It's all detailed below, with what to do about each one.

"Solar panels donegal"
1st
Every one of your 79 monthly visits comes from this.
Your own pages competing for it
6
Contact, about, solar-pv, our-work, FAQs.
Grants / EV / schools pages ranking
0 of 3
Real pages exist. None rank for anything.
Rating shown as a number
No
5.0 from 12 reviews. Only a written quote appears.
01 The rankings

One real search, and the site fights itself over it

Semrush shows 11 keywords for this site. Two of them are other companies' names, which bring you nobody. The one real generic search is "solar panels donegal", 170 a month, and your homepage owns it at position 1. That single ranking is responsible for literally all 79 of the site's monthly Google visits.

PageSearchPosition
Homepagesolar panels donegal1st, all 79 visits1st
/contactsolar panels donegal36th, no visits36th
/aboutsolar panels donegal58th, no visits58th
/about (again)solar panels donegal62nd, no visits62nd
/solar-pvsolar panels donegal79th, no visits79th
/our-worksolar panels donegal95th, no visits95th

The same exact phrase shows up on six of your own pages, none of which were built to target it, and all of which lose to your own homepage. Your dedicated pages for EV chargers, SEAI grants and school solar PV don't appear for a single search at all, real, built pages, currently invisible to Google.

Bottom line: Your one win is real. It's just not helped by six of your own pages quietly competing against it.
02 The specifics

Four things holding the rest of the site back

None of these are design problems. The site itself is well built, with real photos and a genuine testimonial already in place.

Missing
Grants, EV chargers and school solar PV don't rank at all
You have a real page for each of these. None of them shows up for a single search in Google's results. A visitor searching for any of the three would never find you through them today.
Stale
Your reviews page lives at a leftover placeholder address
The page titled "Reviews" sits at solarpvdonegal.ie/copy-of-about, a leftover Wix draft address rather than a proper /reviews page. It still works, but it's a sign the site hasn't had a proper tidy since it was first built.
Dated
The footer copyright still says 2023
Three years out of date. A small thing, but it's the kind of detail a visitor half-notices and reads as "nobody's touched this in a while."
Hidden
Your 5.0 rating from 12 reviews never appears as a number
You already show one written testimonial on the homepage, which is good. What's missing is the actual figure, 5.0 stars from 12 Google reviews, which carries more weight at a glance than a single quote does.
Worth noticing

This is not a design problem, it is steady monthly work. The photography, layout and testimonial are already doing their job. What's missing is aim, three real pages that don't yet target anything Google shows people, and a bit of tidying up.

Bottom line: The site looks the part. It just isn't aimed at three of its own services yet.
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 PV Donegal comes up on Google today, next to what it should say. The current version is accurate but doesn't mention your review record or the counties you cover.
What Google shows now
https://solarpvdonegal.ie
Solar PV Donegal | Solar Panels Installation | Teelin
As we become more dependent on electricity to run and heat our homes, we at Solar PV Donegal can now show you how to generate and store your own energy and minimise dependence on current energy providers.
What it should show
https://solarpvdonegal.ie
Solar Panel Installers Donegal, Leitrim & Sligo | Solar PV Donegal
Solar PV, EV chargers and school solar installations across Donegal, Leitrim and Sligo. 5.0 stars from 12 Google reviews. SEAI grants handled for you.
Fix 2 · Give your existing pages somewhere to rank
These three pages already exist. Each one just needs to be built around a search, not only a service description.
/seai-grant real page, ranks for nothing today. Add the actual grant amount, who qualifies, and how you handle the paperwork.
/car-chargers real page, ranks for nothing today. Name the chargers you install and the counties you cover.
/solar-pv-schools real page, ranks for nothing today. A clear niche with far less competition than general solar searches.
Fix 3 · The remaining quick fixes
Smaller, but each one is a real, confirmed issue on the live site.
Move the Reviews page off /copy-of-about onto a proper /reviews address
Update the footer copyright from 2023 to 2026
Show "5.0 stars from 12 Google reviews" as a number next to the existing testimonial
Name Leitrim and Sligo somewhere on the site currently 0 mentions of either
04 The plan

What to do and when

Start at the top. The bottom block is the work that actually grows the numbers.

Today
about 30 minutes total
Update the footer copyright to 2026.
5 min
Add "5.0 stars from 12 Google reviews" next to the existing testimonial.
15 min
Swap in the new Google listing text from Fix 1.
10 min
This week
about half a day
Move the Reviews page onto a proper /reviews address.
30 min
Add a line naming Leitrim and Sligo alongside Donegal.
15 min
Expand the SEAI grants page with real grant figures and the paperwork you handle.
2 hrs
This month
the growth work
Build out the EV charger and school solar pages per Fix 2. Both real, both currently invisible to Google.
1-2 days
Add one new photo-led page per month from finished jobs, each aimed at one search you don't yet cover.
ongoing
05 What it adds up to

Run your own numbers on it

Right now

1 search brings in all 79 of your monthly visits.

3 real pages, grants, EV chargers, school solar, rank for nothing.

6 of your own pages compete against your one working ranking.

The site proves it can rank, your homepage is 1st for the one search it's properly aimed at. The three unranked pages aren't a gap in the site, the pages already exist. They're a gap in aim. You know your average job value on a solar, EV charger or school install, and what your close rate looks like once someone actually calls. That's the sum worth running on your side.

Bottom line: You've already proven the site can rank. The next three wins are sitting on pages you've already built.
Why sooner beats later

51 referring domains already point at solarpvdonegal.ie, and Google visits the site regularly. None of that authority has reached the grants, EV charger or schools pages yet. The longer they sit unaimed, the longer those searches keep landing on whoever else answers them instead.

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
Or just reply to the message this arrived in, or call or text me on 083 059 8065.
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.