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Your 5.0 stars from 86 reviews appear nowhere on your own website

This review is about who your website brings in. We went through the site, your search rankings and your reviews. The main findings: three Dublin suburb pages you built, Blackrock, Sandyford and Dundrum, don't rank for a single search between them. Your real commercial page, the cost and quotation page, ranks for a wide spread of buying searches but never inside the top 8. And your 86 Google reviews at 5.0 stars, a better record than most Dublin installers, are never shown on the site itself. It's all detailed below, with what to do about each one.

Google reviews
5.0
From 86 reviews. Never shown on the website.
Dublin suburb pages built
0 ranking
Blackrock, Sandyford, Dundrum, none rank for anything.
Best commercial ranking
8th
"Solar panel quotation", 170 searches a month.
Monthly Google visits
86
Semrush, Ireland, July 4th.
01 The rankings

One page carries almost all of your real traffic

Your site ranks for 88 searches in Ireland, and most of them are informational, people researching, not people ready to buy. The cost and quotation page is the one page doing commercial work, and it ranks for a wide spread of buying searches without breaking into the top 8 on any of them.

What people GooglePeople / monthYour situation
solar panels dublin480Shows in Google's map-style results, no confirmed clean ranking on the standard list.Unclear
solar panels6.6K22nd, from the homepage.22nd
solar panels ireland cost1.6K12th, from the cost page.12th
solar panel installers ireland720Map-style result only, no confirmed clean ranking.Unclear
solar panel quotation1708th, from the cost page. Your closest thing to a real win.8th

The pattern is consistent: your cost and quotation page (/solar-panel-cost-ireland/) picks up traffic across a dozen near-identical searches about price, quotes and installation cost, but never clears the top 8 on any of them. Meanwhile you built three dedicated pages for Blackrock, Sandyford and Dundrum, real Dublin suburbs where a homeowner would search by name, and none of the three rank for a single tracked search. The pages exist. They just aren't aimed well enough yet to be found.

02 The specifics

Four things holding the numbers down

The site itself is in good shape. These are the specific gaps between what you've built and what shows up in someone's search results.

Hidden
Your 5.0 rating from 86 reviews is nowhere on the site
We looked through the homepage, the about page and the case study page. Nowhere does the site say how many reviews you have or what they average. A visitor who hasn't already found you on Google has no way to see this from the website itself.
Weak
Three Dublin suburb pages rank for nothing
Blackrock, Sandyford and Dundrum each have their own page, built and live, and not one of them shows up for a single tracked search, including their own suburb name. Building the pages was the right instinct. They need the same treatment as the cost page: real content aimed at what someone in that suburb actually types into Google.
Weak
The one working page never quite reaches page one
The cost and quotation page ranks for a genuinely wide spread of buying searches, quotation, price, cost, installation cost, and its best position is 8th. It is close on several of these, close enough that focused work would move a few of them onto page one within weeks.
Missing
No page is aimed at Dublin as a whole
"solar panels dublin", 480 searches a month, is your single biggest local search. The site shows up for it in Google's map-style results, but there's no clean, confirmed page ranking beneath that. Nothing else on the site targets Dublin by name either.
Worth noticing

This is not a design problem. You have a real case study, a 16-question FAQ and genuine project photos already on the site. The gap is aim and proof: pages that exist but aren't pointed at the exact searches people use, and a review record that's real but never shown. Both are 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 IDEAL Solar and Electrical comes up on Google today, next to what it should say.
What Google shows now
https://idealsolarandelectrical.ie
Solar Panels Dublin | SEAI Grants & Installation | Ideal Solar & Electrical
Get solar panels installed by local SEAI-registered experts in Dublin. Battery storage, EV chargers, hot water diverters and grant support included. Free quote today.
What it should show
https://idealsolarandelectrical.ie
Solar Panels Dublin | 5.0 Stars, 86 Reviews | IDEAL Solar
SEAI-registered solar panel installers in Dublin. Rated 5.0 from 86 Google reviews. Battery storage, EV chargers and hot water diverters included. Free quote today.
Fix 2 · Finish the page that's already close
The cost and quotation page already ranks for these. Small, focused work moves it, not a rebuild.
solar panel quotation , you're 8th. Add the 5.0/86 rating and a real price range near the top, this is your closest search to page one.

solar panels ireland cost , you're 12th on 1.6K searches a month. Expand with a clear cost breakdown and the current SEAI grant figure.
Fix 3 · Aim the pages you already built
These pages exist. None of them currently rank for anything. Ordered by what to tackle first.
/solar-panels-blackrock/ → owner: add real content naming Blackrock, not a copy of the homepage
/solar-panels-sandyford/ → owner: same treatment, Sandyford by name
/solar-panels-dundrum/ → owner: same treatment, Dundrum by name
Homepage or a new /solar-panels-dublin/ page → owner: aim directly at the 480-search Dublin term, currently unclaimed by a clean ranking
04 The plan

What to do and when

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

Today
about 30 minutes total
Swap in the new Google listing text from Fix 1.
10 min
Put "5.0 stars from 86 Google reviews" in the first screen of the homepage.
15 min
Add the same line to the about page, next to the accreditation logos.
5 min
This week
about half a day
Expand the cost and quotation page per Fix 2, it's the closest thing on the site to page one.
2 hrs
Pull a fresh price range and current SEAI grant figure into that page.
1 hr
This month
the growth work
Rebuild the Blackrock, Sandyford and Dundrum pages. Real local content for each, not a template with the name swapped.
1-2 days
Build or aim a page at "solar panels dublin" directly. 480 searches a month, your single biggest local term, currently unclaimed.
half day
Keep the case study going. One more real client story a month, tied to a place name, feeds both trust and the suburb pages.
ongoing
05 What it adds up to

Run your own numbers on it

The searches in this report add up to roughly 10,000 people a month typing these words into Google: solar panels, solar panels ireland cost, solar panel installers ireland, solar power and solar panels dublin. Right now you show up for a small, uncertain slice of that, mostly through one page and one map-style result. 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 tracked traffic slipped 2.27% and your traffic cost value dropped 3.15% over the last month, on a site that's already only pulling 86 visits. Rankings this thin move backward without upkeep just as easily as they move forward.

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.
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.